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The Nomad portfolio

A portfolio we can vouch for, home by home.

Mountains or coast, depending on the vibe — privately owned homes we manage ourselves and rent to you directly. The standard for getting in is published below, and it does not move as the portfolio grows.

Browse and filter the portfolio How a home gets in

Every figure on this page is computed from the published portfolio at build time. Nothing here is a rounded marketing number, and a home being prepared is not counted.

Portfolio at a glance

The collection, counted

Four measures of what the portfolio actually is today. Each one carries the definition we used, because a statistic without a footnote is decoration.

Homes published
2
Counted from published homes only. A home being prepared is not inventory.
Destinations open
2
Evergreen and San Diego. Places with a home you can book tonight, not places we have written about.
Neighborhoods represented
1
Counted only where a published home actually sits — no coverage claims.
Booking fee
4%
Added once, to the nightly rate plus the cleaning fee. Airbnb's guest service fee runs 14.1–16.5% of the subtotal.

All four are counted from the published portfolio at build time. There is no rating and no guest-volume figure here because there have been no stays yet — when there have, those numbers will appear with the same footnotes.

Coverage

Where the portfolio is

Each marker is a market, badged with the number of published homes in it. If a market is not marked, there is nothing to book there today.

Markers show live markets and the published home count in each. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Evergreen, CO 1San Diego, CA 1

Where we are building

Colorado and California, and what each is for

The portfolio is deliberately deep in a few places rather than thin everywhere. Here is the character of each region and the markets inside it.

Colorado

1 home in 2 markets

Markets
Evergreen, Denver
Guides
Written and published

Where the plains stop and the Front Range starts — cedar and brick, wood heat, hot water outside in the cold, and a trailhead or a creek inside a five-minute walk. This corridor sits inside forty minutes of Red Rocks and inside an hour of Denver's airport, which is why one booking here tends to become two trips.

Evergreen 1Denver All Colorado homes

Evergreen, CO · Cabin

Stargazing A-Frame

A log-sided A-frame on a private wooded acre, deep in lodgepole pine at 8,957 feet.

  • 3 bedrooms
  • 3.5 bath
  • Sleeps 10
Rates on request Ask about dates and rates

California

1 home in 2 markets

Markets
San Diego, Coronado
Guides
Written and published

The southern California coast rewards one specific thing: being able to walk to sand, barefoot, carrying a chair, in under ten minutes. Everything else — the boards, the bikes, the outdoor shower, the wagon — exists so the car stays parked for the week.

San Diego 1Coronado All California homes
New to the portfolio

San Diego, CA · House

Mission Bay Coastal House

A single-story coastal house near Mission Bay with a heated saltwater pool, a spa and an outlook over the bay.

  • 4 bedrooms
  • 3 bath
  • Sleeps 14
Rates on request Ask about dates and rates

Where do you want to be?

Start with the ground under the house

The portfolio is grouped by where you actually want to wake up. Each one opens on the homes that qualify for it and the written test they had to pass to get there.

All 2 collections
Layered Front Range ridges seen through ponderosa pines from the A-frame's deck Mountains Ponderosa pine, a private hot tub and 8,957 feet of elevation. Twenty-five minutes from the Red Rocks stage. Mountain Escapes Evening outlook over Mission Bay from the coastal house Coast A heated saltwater pool, a spa and an outlook over Mission Bay. The plan is to leave the car parked. Coastal & Beach Walk

The standard

What has to be true before a home is published

This is a rule we keep, not a ratio we measured. It applies to the first home exactly as it will to the hundredth.

  1. It is a home we manage

    Nomad is not a listing site. A home appears here only when we hold the management agreement for it, so the person answering your message is the person responsible for the house.

  2. The page is checked before it goes up

    Bedroom count, bed configuration, bathrooms, parking, the road in, the things that are awkward about the place. A home stays unpublished until every one of those is confirmed rather than assumed.

  3. The price on the page is the price

    One nightly rate, the cleaning fee, tax, and one 4% booking fee instead of the 14.1–16.5% a marketplace adds. No resort fee, and nothing that appears for the first time on the last screen.

  4. The policy is published with it

    Cancellation terms, payment schedule and house rules are on the page before you book, in full, not summarized into a tier name.

  5. It comes down if it stops being true

    If something changes at a house and we cannot describe it accurately, the home is unpublished until we can. An unpublished home is not counted anywhere on this site.

A home that no longer meets the standard is unpublished until it does. Owners can read the same standard from the other side.

The owner's view of this process Who is accountable

Meet your host

Hi, I’m Sean

I design and develop these homes myself, and I host them myself. When you book here you are dealing with the person who built the house and who answers for it — the rate, the condition and the policy you are held to.

Sean Normoyle, founder · based in San Diego, California

  • I designed and developed each of these homes myself
  • You are dealing with me or someone I work with directly, not an agency
  • I formed Nomad Vacation Rentals LLC in 2026 to rent them directly
More about Sean and why Nomad exists

Own a home in a Nomad market?

The portfolio is being built now

We are a new company taking on homes in Evergreen, Denver, San Diego and Coronado. What we can offer an owner today is full management, a direct-booking page for the home that does not pay a marketplace commission, and a management fee quoted only after we have seen the property. What we will not offer is a revenue projection before that visit.

If your market is not one of ours yet, tell us anyway — owners are usually how a market opens.

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