Mashvisor Alternative for Finding Short-Term Rental Owners

Mashvisor is a popular tool for analyzing short-term rental investments, and because its pages are full of Airbnb data, people often try it when they want to reach Airbnb owners. It is built for a different question. This page explains what Mashvisor does, what its plans cost as published, why it is not an owner contact source, and how public permit registers answer the "who owns the rentals here" question instead.

The Mashvisor facts below come from its own site, read on October 23, 2026. Confirm current terms on its pages before buying.

What Mashvisor is and who it is built for

Mashvisor's home page is titled "Short-Term Rental Data Analysis & Airbnb Data," and its headline offers "data for short-term rental analysis and investment opportunities." It lists four audiences: real estate investors, Airbnb hosts, property managers and API developers. Its tools include a Market Finder for top U.S. markets, a Property Finder, an Airbnb calculator and dynamic pricing. It claims more than 150 million properties and more than 50,000 clients.

The investor plans focus on one decision: is this property, or this market, a good short-term or long-term rental? Mashvisor estimates rental rates for both models and, on every investor plan, includes short-term rental regulatory rules for more than 500 cities. Its pricing page FAQ says its data comes from sources that include Airbnb.com. Mashvisor also sells vacation rental management software, with a channel manager, booking website and guest messaging for hosts.

For an investor deciding where to buy, or a host checking whether their nightly rate is in line with the market, that is a useful set of tools.

What Mashvisor gives you for STR owner contacts

Very little, because that is not what it is for. Mashvisor's home and pricing pages, as we read them, describe no owner contact details, no skip tracing and no lead lists of hosts. The only owner-related item is "Owner Management" in its enterprise management software, which is a feature for property managers to handle the owners they already work with.

That is not a shortcoming of the product. Mashvisor analyzes properties and markets. An investor using it learns what a home could earn, not who owns the rentals next door. If you sell services to STR operators, Mashvisor can tell you which markets have a lot of short-term rental activity and what local rules look like. It will not give you a list of the people to contact.

Mashvisor pricing as published

The Mashvisor pricing page, read on October 23, 2026, offered quarterly and yearly billing, with yearly marked "Save up to 20%."

• Lite: $49.99 a month. The page showed the same figure for yearly and quarterly billing. Includes long-term and short-term (Airbnb) rental estimates and short-term regulatory rules for 500+ cities.
• Standard: $74.99 a month billed yearly, or $99.99 a month billed quarterly. Adds 20 search exports to Excel a month and side-by-side comparison.
• Professional: $99.99 a month billed yearly, or $119.99 a month billed quarterly. Adds 60 search exports a month, property PDFs and multifamily listings for up to three cities on request.
• Enterprise: no published price. Adds API access, data dumps and up to 10 years of history.
• Management Starter: $11 a month billed annually ($132 a year), for the host management software.

The page said Mashvisor does not offer refunds, and that you can cancel at any time and keep access through the paid period. We did not see a free trial for the investor plans.

How permit-register data differs

Permit data answers the question Mashvisor does not: who is running short-term rentals in this place. When a city, county or state requires STRs to register, the applicant files their name and the property address, and sometimes a phone and email. Many agencies publish those registers. Our explainer on permit records covers every field.

The contrast is simple:

• Mashvisor estimates what a property could earn. A permit record says nothing about revenue or occupancy.
• A permit record says who registered the rental. Mashvisor's pages describe no owner identity or contact data.
• Mashvisor summarizes local rules. A register is the output of those rules: the list of homes that actually complied.

Permit data has limits of its own. Only places with a published register appear, rentals without a permit are missing, and contact details exist only where the government published them. Lead Mining Company does not verify those phones and emails.

When Mashvisor is the right tool

• You are deciding whether to buy a property as a short-term or long-term rental.
• You want to compare markets by estimated STR returns before choosing where to invest or expand.
• You want a quick summary of a city's STR rules alongside the numbers.
• You are a host who wants management software and pricing help at a low monthly cost.

When permit data is the right tool

• You need names and addresses of the people operating short-term rentals, to sell them a service or to ask whether they would sell the property.
• You want to reach new operators. PermitPulse holds 26,549 records filed in the last 12 months and 4,147 pending applications.
• You want to count how many rentals one owner holds, which the register's owner names make possible (method).
• You want a file you can load into a CRM or a mail house, not a dashboard.

Using Mashvisor and permit data together

The natural pairing is for real estate agents and investors who want to buy or list operating short-term rentals. Mashvisor tells you what the homes can earn. The register tells you who owns the ones already licensed.

A worked example in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The city publishes a vacation rental register. As of October 22, 2026, our file for the city held 842 records, and all 842 carried a phone and an email as published.

1. Use Mashvisor to estimate short-term rental returns across the city's neighborhoods and to read the local rules summary.
2. Download the Arizona permit file ($149 once, or $99 a month for the state) and filter to Lake Havasu City.
3. Group the rows by owner name to find people who hold several licensed rentals. They are the likeliest sellers of a portfolio and the likeliest buyers of another.
4. Send a short letter to each owner with a market summary for their area, then follow up by email. Because every record in this file carries an email, that follow-up is possible for the whole list. Under the FTC's CAN-SPAM guide, commercial email must not use misleading headers or subject lines, must include a valid postal address and must honor opt-out requests.

If you plan to phone those owners, remember that many are individuals and their numbers may be personal mobiles. The TCPA and the National Do Not Call Registry rules apply: scrub every number against the Registry and state lists, use no autodialers or artificial or prerecorded voices, and do not text without consent. Our TCPA and DNC guide covers this. It is general information, not legal advice. Agents and investors can see more uses of the file on our pages for agents and for investors.

Mistakes to avoid when mixing analytics and owner data

Combining a market-analysis tool with a permit list works well, but a few errors come up often.

• Treating an estimate as the owner's numbers. A revenue figure from any analytics tool is a model of what a similar home could earn. Do not tell an owner what their rental makes. Say what comparable homes in the area are estimated to earn, and name the source.
• Assuming a rules summary is current. City STR ordinances change, sometimes several times a year. Before you mention a rule to an owner, read it on the city's own page. Our state-by-state permit guide shows which level of government sets the rules in each state.
• Reading the register as the whole market. A register shows homes that are licensed. In a city with strict caps, many listings may operate without a permit, and an analytics tool will count them while the register will not. Expect the two numbers to differ.
• Mailing every row the same letter. Split the permit file by filing date and by how many rentals each owner holds. A first-year operator and a ten-property owner want different conversations.
• Calling before checking. Permit phones are whatever the owner gave the government, often a personal mobile. Scrub against the Do Not Call lists before any call.

Mashvisor and permit data compared

Where Lead Mining Company fits

PermitPulse is our permit file: 283,611 records from public short-term rental registers, 127,924 with a phone or email as published. It costs $99 a month for one state, $299 a month nationally, or $149 for a one-time state download. To see whether a specific address is on a public register, try the free STR permit lookup. State-by-state counts are on our coverage page.

Frequently asked questions

Does Mashvisor show Airbnb owner names or phone numbers?

Not according to its home and pricing pages as of October 23, 2026. They describe rental estimates, market and property search, regulatory summaries and management software, but no owner contact data, skip tracing or host lead lists.

What does Mashvisor cost?

Its pricing page listed Lite at $49.99 a month, Standard at $74.99 a month billed yearly or $99.99 quarterly, and Professional at $99.99 billed yearly or $119.99 quarterly. Enterprise is priced on request. Its management software starts at $11 a month billed annually.

Can permit data tell me what a rental earns?

No. A permit record holds the address, the applicant name, the permit number and status, the filing date and sometimes a phone and email. Revenue estimates come from listing-data tools such as Mashvisor.

Is every short-term rental on a permit register?

No. Only homes in places that require registration and publish the list appear, and only if the operator registered. Some states and cities have no register at all, and Idaho and Iowa prevent local permitting entirely.

How can a real estate agent use both?

Use Mashvisor to estimate what licensed rentals in an area can earn, and the permit register to find who owns them. Then send owners a market summary by mail. That gives the owner a reason to talk to you without a cold call.

Mashvisor is a trademark of its owner. Lead Mining Company is not affiliated with or endorsed by Mashvisor.