Find the target. Diligence it in a day. Kill the bad deals before they cost you $70K.
Acquirers spend roughly $70,000 diligencing a single STR target — and four out of five deals still die in DD. Vantory flips it: a marketplace of operators pre-qualified to your box, and a buyer-ready diligence package on any of them in 24 hours. Source better. Diligence cheaper. Waste nothing.
Sourcing is manual. Diligence is expensive. Most of the spend buys you a "no."
The economics of acquiring short-term-rental portfolios are upside down. You pay full diligence cost to discover a deal is bad — and you pay it over and over, because there's no way to know what you're walking into until the invoices are already run.
- Open AirDNA and comb market by market, by hand, looking for operators that look big enough and good enough.
- Guess at their real performance from scraped, listing-level data that was never built for underwriting.
- Cold-outreach a list of maybes — most of whom aren't sellers, aren't clean, or aren't what the data implied.
- Run $70K of diligence to find out which few were real. Repeat for every deal that dies.
A marketplace on one side. Diligence-as-a-service on the other.
Vantory already sits inside hundreds of operators' real numbers, read-only. That turns into two things no data-scraper can offer an acquirer: verified targets you can search, and true diligence you can order.
Search operators, not listings
Filter a marketplace of real operators by the boxes you actually underwrite — door count, market, ADR, margin, growth, channel mix, exit-readiness. Every profile is built from verified PMS data, not scraped guesses. You reach out already knowing the target checks your boxes.
Order a DD package, get it in 24 hours
Because the target's numbers already live in Vantory, we don't reconstruct them — we render them. Point Vantory at any target (in the marketplace or one you bring) and it produces a buyer-ready diligence package in a day: the financial, revenue, portfolio, and risk picture an acquirer needs to decide go or no-go before spending real money.
What's in the Vantory DD package.
A single, buyer-ready package — sourced from the operator's live data, not their pitch deck. Everything an investment committee needs to underwrite the number and spot the landmines, on day one.
Financial & earnings quality
- GAAP-oriented EBITDA with documented add-backs
- Trailing-12 and multi-year revenue by property and channel
- True margin per door — not what the PMS reports
- Full cost structure — cleaning, management, tech, labor
- Quality-of-earnings flags — one-offs, owner mix, recognition
Revenue & market position
- RevPAN, ADR & occupancy vs the real comp set
- Pricing-power headroom — upside left in the book
- Channel mix by gross booking value — OTA vs direct concentration
- Booking pace & forward pipeline — revenue already on the books
- Seasonality & cohort analysis — durability of demand
Portfolio & risk
- Door-by-door composition — market, type, bedroom count
- Permit & license compliance — regulatory status per door
- Owner contract terms — retention & concentration risk
- Market & booking share — position within the comp set
- Red-flag summary — what would kill the deal, surfaced early
Ready to act on
- Buyer-ready data room export — structured for your IC
- Go / no-go read — the case for and against, in plain terms
- 12-month value-creation projection — the book under Vantory post-close
- Underwriting model inputs — the verified numbers, exportable
- Delivered in 24 hours — not six weeks
Spend real diligence dollars only on the deals that survive.
Vantory doesn't replace your lawyers or your final QoE — it makes sure they're pointed at a live deal, not a corpse. Screen out the 80% that die on the fundamentals before you've run a single invoice.
Run the whole book as one asset.
The same operating system that diligenced the target runs it once you own it. Every door and every entity rolls up into one portfolio-level view — aggregate economics, the KPIs your LPs ask about, and an automatic read on which properties are carrying the book and which are dragging it. Capital and attention go where they compound, not where they're loudest.
Source
Search verified operators pre-qualified to your acquisition box — no more combing AirDNA by hand.
Diligence
Order a buyer-ready DD package on any target and get it in 24 hours, read-only, no operational risk.
Operate
Deploy across the portfolio to drive RevPAN and cut cost. The intelligence sharpens with every door.
Exit
Sell a platform with the data room already built — priced on proven, documented performance.
"We got 8.5× because the data told a credible story. The buyer didn't have to reconstruct anything. They didn't have to discount for uncertainty. That's the package Vantory hands you — for the target, before you buy it."
Read-only. Multi-entity. Yours.
Read-only by design
Vantory reads a target's data and models against it. It never writes to a PMS or moves a booking. Diligence carries zero operational risk.
Multi-entity from the start
Built to run many portfolios side by side — separate books, unified reporting. The structure a fund actually operates in.
Operator-consented data
Targets appear in the marketplace on their terms. Diligence runs on data the operator has connected — clean, current, and permissioned.
Stop paying $70K to learn a deal was never real. Start with the ones that are.
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