Steward

Saba Steward is an affiliated offering. A Steward tends short stays whose homes already live inside our aesthetic and our ethic.

On Airbnb, one account owns the listing. The Steward does the work by accepting Airbnb’s co-host invite on a verified personal profile. Guests can see that co-host on the listing. The owner keeps title, the local permit, the insurance, and tax reporting on the full booking.

This page is the option. The instrument is the Steward agreement. It is a working agreement for the circle and the owner. Have a lawyer in the home’s state read it before the first signature.

The arrangement

You keep your land and your Airbnb listing. Saba Steward co-hosts it. The Steward account lives on the Steward computer and does the day-to-day work from that login: the calendar, guest messages, and housekeeping with the maid service you name. You set the payout, the prices, and which tasks you want. You sign the agreement, then you invite the Steward as co-host on your listing.

The next step is one property check. We review the place and answer with alignment, a specific gap, or a no. An existing listing stays yours. A place without a listing can still be reviewed.

A network of land

People with land can list it as an Airbnb and bring it into Saba together. Each place stays in its owner’s name. A Steward tends the homes that belong in the set, so the stays share one aesthetic and one standard of care.

What “co-listing” means here

Co-listing means the home is accepted into Saba’s set.

• The listing stays in the owner’s Airbnb account.
• The owner invites the Steward as a co-host and sets permissions and a payout.
• The public listing may say, in true words, that a Saba Steward tends the home.
• Acceptance means the home meets the standard below and both parties have signed.

Co-listing is not shared title, and it is not a second listing of the same home.

Who manages the stay

The Steward does the work on Airbnb. The circle chooses that person and can replace them by a signed amendment. The owner removes the old co-host in Airbnb and invites the new Steward.

The Steward’s Airbnb login lives on the Steward computer. The egregore does the co-host work from that login.

The Steward’s Airbnb profile is a person: legal name available to Airbnb, a clear face photo, identity verified. The circle keeps a written note of who is Steward, which listings they are on, and which permission level each owner granted.

Default permission is calendar and messaging. Full access — payout history, Resolution Center, and the power to change other co-hosts — is used only when the owner initials that line in the agreement.

Aesthetic

We take homes that already look and feel like this. We do not stage a different house for the photos.

• Honest photographs of the actual rooms, light, and land.
• A living-earth palette: wood, stone, plant, linen, clay, wool, paper, iron. Paint in moss, cream, clay, charcoal, or white. Brass or black hardware belongs. Loud commercial branding, neon display sets, and disposable hotel plastic do not.
• Care is visible. The home is clean, repaired, and honestly sized for the guest count on the listing.
• The stay has a relation to living ground: a garden, trees, a trail, or a city home that still counts waste, water, and neighbors as part of the visit.
• House rules follow the owner. They include no proselytizing and a simple ecological ask. An event is part of the stay when the owner has said the home is for it.

A simple home qualifies. Luxury is not the standard. Care is.

Values

• Non-aggression. Guests and neighbors are treated with care. The home may be a quiet stay or an event the owner allows.
• No proselytizing in the listing, the house manual, or guest messages.
• Interfaith courtesy. No required creed for guests or for the owner.
• The booking is lodging. It does not sell ceremony, entheogenic work, or any other affiliated ministry.
• The owner tells the truth about stairs, water, heat, noise, and remoteness.

We decline a home when the listing sells substances or facilitation, when the photos are a different place than the guest will find, or when the owner wants Saba to hold title or the permit.

What we will manage

The owner initials each service in the agreement. The menu matches what Airbnb lets a co-host do. The Steward is the person who does them:

• Listing setup, copy, and house manual inside this standard
• Prices and the calendar, inside bounds the owner sets in writing
• Booking requests, if the listing is not on Instant Book
• Guest messages
• On-site welcome and support, when the Steward can actually reach the home
• Cleaning and maintenance coordination. The Steward computer books the maid service the owner named, in the window between checkout and the next check-in.
• Honest photography
• A checklist for the owner’s license and permit paperwork — the owner still holds the permit

Money

The owner sets the co-host payout inside Airbnb, and that payout is the Steward’s fee. The choices Airbnb offers are the cleaning fee, the cleaning fee plus a percentage, a percentage of the booking, or a fixed amount. Only the listing owner can set it. The Steward confirms within 14 days.

That payout goes to the Steward’s own payout method. Saba Cooperative’s general funds are not the Airbnb beneficiary. The owner’s tax document still shows the full booking. The Steward reports what they receive. Voluntary reciprocity to the cooperative, if any, stays off Airbnb and follows Financial Matters.

AirCover and the Resolution Center are not a substitute for the owner’s own short-term-rental policy. Damage reimbursements are not part of the co-host payout split.

How to begin

Email sabacooperative@gmail.com with the subject Steward alignment and include:

1. Owner’s name, the property address, and the city or county.
2. The Airbnb listing link, or a note that the listing is not live yet.
3. Eight to twelve current photos of the rooms a guest will use, plus the approach and the land or street.
4. Who lives there, the guest count you intend, and whether anyone needs on-site support.
5. The short-term-rental permit status for that address, or a statement that you are still obtaining it.
6. The services you want from the menu above, and the nightly price band you will not go below.

The circle replies with a yes, a no, or a specific gap (photos, permit, house rules, palette). A yes includes the Steward’s name and a filled agreement for signature. Work on Airbnb starts after both parties have signed and the owner has sent the co-host invite.

Steward checklist

Before the first guest on a new home, the Steward confirms each line in writing to the circle:

• Signed agreement is on file, including the payout line and the permission line.
• If the owner is new to hosting, the Steward sent the host-referral invite from their own Airbnb account before the listing was created.
• Owner has invited the Steward as co-host on the correct listing, and the Steward has accepted.
• Steward has confirmed the payout proposal in Airbnb.
• Listing copy uses the true sentence in the agreement and does not advertise ministry or substances.
• House rules match the values section.
• Photos match the rooms.
• Owner has stated that a short-term-rental policy and the local permit are in force.
• Calendar is closed for any date the Steward cannot answer guests.

Either party ends the relationship by written notice. The owner then removes the Steward’s co-host access on Airbnb. See the agreement for notice and for immediate removal when safety or the standard breaks.