DIY vs Hire in Jamestown: Independent Desk, Not a Mash

Jacob Mishalanie
15 hours ago
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Most Jamestown listings get marketed as a generic Narragansett Bay stay. That pitch could describe a dozen other towns, and it wastes what actually sets Town of Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island apart. Guests who typed Jamestown are looking for Beavertail Lighthouse, Fort Wetherill State Park, East Ferry, Mackerel Cove — not Harpswell, and not Little Compton. 92 active listings sit on this extract. Write the town you can actually walk. Keep the listing specific. A vague water caption loses the booking.

Typical listings here earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals, AirROI trailing twelve months through July 2026. The average night was $440. Occupancy was 31.4 percent. Revenue per available night was $153. Year over year is minus 9.6 percent. Active supply moved 9.5 percent. Do not average in Harpswell at $29,110 on 189 listings. That is a different town. Leave Little Compton as a different market. Do not mix those towns. Treat this as a small sample, not a blended coast.

The three strongest months are August, June, and September. August is the busiest. January is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York, then Boston. Typical stay is 4.9 nights, booked about 101 days ahead. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200. Town STR host registration $125 annual plus per-bedroom fees. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Newport is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file STAY Newport holds still show up in this sample.

Jamestown is Conanicut Island in Narragansett Bay, not a Newport listing and not a Little Compton mash. Photograph Beavertail Lighthouse, Fort Wetherill, East Ferry, and Mackerel Cove. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200 and confirm the live host registration before you advertise. Typical listings earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals. Also register with Rhode Island DBR. Do not average Harpswell at $29,110 or Little Compton at $31,744 into this town year.

Professionally Managed Share Is This Pin

That heading is the useful way to read Jamestown, not a dashboard label. Guests come for Beavertail Lighthouse. Say that in the listing. Do not bury it under a generic Narragansett Bay caption. Do not write Harpswell copy onto a Jamestown address. Do not use Little Compton as if it were this occupancy. Be specific about the walk. A vague caption loses the guest who typed this town. Keep the other town out of the title.

Read more in Complete Visitor's Guide to Jamestown — Jamestown Rhode Island Pin and What It Costs to Start a Legal Jamestown STR Stay — Jamestown Rhode Is. Typical listings earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals, at $440 a night and 31.4 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. January is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200. Town STR host registration $125 annual plus per-bedroom fees. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Newport is another municipality.

Year over year is minus 9.6 percent. Supply moved 9.5 percent. Keep Little Compton ($31,744 a year) on its own line. A 56.5-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph Beavertail Lighthouse. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year.

Label STAY Newport holds

That heading is the useful way to read Jamestown, not a dashboard label. Guests come for Fort Wetherill State Park. Say that in the listing. Do not bury it under a generic Narragansett Bay caption. Do not write Harpswell copy onto a Jamestown address. Do not use Little Compton as if it were this occupancy. Be specific about the walk. A vague caption loses the guest who typed this town. Keep the other town out of the title.

Read more in What It Costs to Start a Legal Jamestown STR Stay — Jamestown Rhode Is and Jamestown STR Report 2026. Typical listings earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals, at $440 a night and 31.4 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. January is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200. Town STR host registration $125 annual plus per-bedroom fees. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Newport is another municipality.

Year over year is minus 9.6 percent. Supply moved 9.5 percent. Keep Little Compton ($31,744 a year) on its own line. A 56.5-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph Fort Wetherill State Park. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year.

Label the Neighbor Manager as a Label Only

That heading is the useful way to read Jamestown, not a dashboard label. Guests come for East Ferry. Say that in the listing. Do not bury it under a generic Narragansett Bay caption. Do not write Harpswell copy onto a Jamestown address. Do not use Little Compton as if it were this occupancy. Be specific about the walk. A vague caption loses the guest who typed this town. Keep the other town out of the title.

Read more in Jamestown STR Report 2026 and Market a Jamestown Stay. Typical listings earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals, at $440 a night and 31.4 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. January is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200. Town STR host registration $125 annual plus per-bedroom fees. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Newport is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Year over year is minus 9.6 percent. Supply moved 9.5 percent. Keep Little Compton ($31,744 a year) on its own line. A 56.5-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph East Ferry. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year.

Do Not Hire a Narragansett Bay Mash

That heading is the useful way to read Jamestown, not a dashboard label. Guests come for Mackerel Cove. Say that in the listing. Do not bury it under a generic Narragansett Bay caption. Do not write Harpswell copy onto a Jamestown address. Do not use Little Compton as if it were this occupancy. Be specific about the walk. A vague caption loses the guest who typed this town. Keep the other town out of the title.

Read more in Market a Jamestown Stay and Jamestown STR Rules. Typical listings earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals, at $440 a night and 31.4 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. January is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200. Town STR host registration $125 annual plus per-bedroom fees. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Newport is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Year over year is minus 9.6 percent. Supply moved 9.5 percent. Keep Little Compton ($31,744 a year) on its own line. A 56.5-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph Mackerel Cove. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year.

What a Host Can Still Write

Read more in Jamestown STR Rules and Jamestown Shoulder. Typical listings earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals, at $440 a night and 31.4 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. January is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200. Town STR host registration $125 annual plus per-bedroom fees. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Newport is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

What an Agency Should Refuse

Read more in Jamestown Shoulder and Jamestown Remote Stays. Typical listings earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals, at $440 a night and 31.4 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. January is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200. Town STR host registration $125 annual plus per-bedroom fees. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Newport is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Year over year is minus 9.6 percent. Supply moved 9.5 percent. Keep Little Compton ($31,744 a year) on its own line. A 56.5-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph Fort Wetherill State Park. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year.

Fee Math on This Year, Not Leftover

Read more in Jamestown Remote Stays and Who Books a Jamestown Rental. Typical listings earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals, at $440 a night and 31.4 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. January is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200. Town STR host registration $125 annual plus per-bedroom fees. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Newport is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Year over year is minus 9.6 percent. Supply moved 9.5 percent. Keep Little Compton ($31,744 a year) on its own line. A 56.5-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph East Ferry. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year.

How to Decide Without a Costume Year

Read more in Who Books a Jamestown Rental and Buying a Jamestown Rental. Typical listings earned about $29,691 last year from 92 active rentals, at $440 a night and 31.4 percent occupancy. August is the busiest month. January is the slowest. Most guests arrive from New York. Call Town Hall at 401-423-7200. Town STR host registration $125 annual plus per-bedroom fees. Confirm live. Also register with RI DBR. Newport is another municipality. AirROI high-regulation is a scrape of listings, not the live permit file

Year over year is minus 9.6 percent. Supply moved 9.5 percent. Keep Little Compton ($31,744 a year) on its own line. A 56.5-percent share of listings uses a 30-night minimum. That is a stay rule, not occupancy. Photograph Mackerel Cove. Confirm the parcel before you advertise. Sales tax can still apply under 30 days. Call the desk. Do not underwrite another town's year. Cite the city count. Leave AirROI Low off the packet. Watch sample on this year. Confirm the driveway.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a typical Jamestown STR year on this extract?

AirROI lists typical annual revenue at about $29,691 across 92 listings for the trailing twelve months through July 2026, updated 2026-08-08. Average night was $440 with 31.4 percent occupancy, and year over year sits at minus 9.6 percent. Don't average in Harpswell's $29,110 figure or Little Compton's $31,744 figure — those are separate markets, and this is a small enough sample to treat carefully on its own.

Can I average Harpswell into this year?

No. Harpswell published $29,110 from 189 listings, a Maine Casco Bay town on a different extract, and those two figures don't cancel into one blended Narragansett Bay year. Cite $29,691 from 92 Jamestown listings only, and confirm the current town registration status before you advertise either number.

Which months are strongest in Jamestown?

The three strongest months are August, June, and September, with August the clear peak. January is the slowest month, and the market runs on 31.4 percent occupancy for the year overall. This calendar belongs to Jamestown only — don't drop a Harpswell or Little Compton season onto this town's listing.

Where do guests come from?

New York sends the most guests, followed by Boston. Typical stay length is 4.9 nights, booked about 101 days ahead — one of the longest lead times in this comparison set — and Superhost share sits at 52.2 percent. Write for the guest who actually typed Jamestown.

Does a low-regulation label mean there is no local permit?

No — a high-regulation label from a data platform is also just a scrape of listings, not the live permit file. Call Jamestown Town Hall at 401-423-7200 to confirm the town's STR host registration, which runs $125 annually plus per-bedroom fees; hosts also need to register separately with the Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation. Newport is a separate municipality with its own rules that don't apply here.

Is a 30-night minimum the same as occupancy?

No. About 56.5 percent of listings, 52 of the 92 active rentals, carry a 30-night minimum, but that's a stay-length rule a host sets, not a measure of occupancy. Typical stay length across the market is still 4.9 nights.

What should a buyer packet carry?

Cite $29,691 from 92 listings, the August-June-September strongest months, January as the slowest month, New York as the top guest origin, a 4.9-night stay, a 101-day lead, and 401-423-7200 as the confirming Town Hall number. Label Harpswell at $29,110 and Little Compton at $31,744 without averaging them into this town's figure.

Is Little Compton the same market as Jamestown?

No. Little Compton published $31,744 from 71 listings, a separate Rhode Island market on its own extract. Jamestown runs $29,691 from 92 listings with January as its slowest month — confirm the current Town Hall registration at 401-423-7200 before advertising either town's numbers as the other's.

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