Sun Mountain Stays
Boutique short-term rental management in Colorado Springs
The person setting your nightly rate is the person you can call.
Founder-led in Colorado Springs. The same property care team does the turnovers and linens every time, working to our checklist.
What are you actually paying for?
Look at last month’s statement: a management fee, then charges for cleaning, restocking and every maintenance visit. Now look at the reviews: a comment about a dirty kitchen, a repair nobody made, a rating that slips. Owners here tell me the same thing. The fees go up while the care goes down.
- Does anyone check the cleaning before a guest arrives?
- Who walks the home when it sits empty?
- When did someone last service the furnace?
- Do you know why your rate is where it is?
- Does anyone answer when you reach out?
A note from the founder
Most owners who come to me tell the same story. They're paying a big manager more every month, getting nickel-and-dimed on fees, and watching their reviews slip because the cleaning is cheap and the maintenance never gets done. Many live out of state and can't see any of it.
I learned this business here in Colorado Springs, and after hundreds of rentals I'm convinced the hard part is paying attention. So Sun Mountain Stays stays small: a hand-picked set of homes, cared for by property care teams I've worked with for years.
Jake Lee
Founder, Sun Mountain Stays
The operating record
- 297+
- short-term rentals operated
- 120+
- listings launched
- 17,000+
- reservations operated
- 31+
- markets worked
Cumulative experience across companies founded, operated, or advised by Jake Lee.
The choice
Most owners end up doing the job or managing the manager.
01 / Run it yourself
You set the rates. You handle the turnovers. You answer the late message.
Result: you own a rental and another job
02 / Hire a high-volume manager
The work gets distributed across departments, vendors and queues. When something slips, you are often the person connecting the dots.
Result: you hired management and still have to manage
03 / Put one operator on the outcome
Pricing, guests, turnovers, property care and reporting run on one system, and one person answers for all of it.
Result: you read the statement and make the decisions that are yours
See how we work →Who we take on
We do not take every home.
Most properties we manage come to us in one of three situations.
01 / Situation
You are still running it yourself.
The rental works. The problem is that you still work for it. Rates, cleaners, guest issues, supplies, maintenance and weekends away still run through you.
02 / Situation
You already have a manager.
Nothing is catastrophically wrong. It just takes too much of your attention. You are chasing answers, watching the pricing, catching turnover issues, or wondering whether anyone is looking closely enough.
03 / Situation
You are about to put a home on the market.
A new purchase, a former primary residence, or a rental being converted. Before spending money you want to know what the property can realistically earn, what needs to change, and whether we are the right operator for it. Photography, staging and design partners are part of that conversation when the house needs them.
The operating system
Six jobs, one team, none of them yours.
01 / Revenue
Your rate does not sit still.
Rates move daily against demand, seasonality, events and what the market is actually booking. Calendar rules, minimum stays and promotional pricing get worked the same way.
Repriced daily
02 / Guests
Guests come to us first.
Pre-arrival questions, access issues and stay support run through our guest operation, staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
7 days
03 / Distribution
Airbnb is one channel, not the business.
Listed and synced across booking channels, with availability managed in one place.
One calendar
04 / Turnovers
The four hours between guests decide the review.
Cleaning, laundry, staging, supply levels and guest-readiness follow one checklist we can inspect and correct. The people who reset the home are the same property care team every time.
One standard
05 / Property
Someone walks the house after every stay.
Damage, maintenance needs, missing inventory and presentation issues are documented and routed before they become the next guest's problem. Replacements come through group purchasing and trade accounts, so linens, appliances, hot tubs and furnishings cost less than retail.
Every stay
06 / Owner
You should not need a spreadsheet to understand your manager.
One statement each month: what the home earned, what it spent, what happened, and what needs deciding.
Monthly
A portfolio kept small on purpose
Attention is the thing that does not scale.
Managing more homes makes a management company bigger. It does not necessarily make the management better.
We keep the portfolio deliberately limited because the work that protects a rental is stubbornly physical. Somebody has to notice the loose handle, walk the turnover, question the soft month, catch the missing towels, and know whether that mark on the wall was there last week.
The cleaning team
The people resetting the home work inside our operating system, on our schedule and our checklist.
Linens
Laundry is done by the same property care team that cleans the home, to the same checklist.
Field quality control
Homes are physically walked, checked and documented.
One property record
Guest issues, maintenance, cleaning and owner decisions stay attached to the same home.
One person answers
You do not have to work out which department owns the problem before it gets solved.
The bench behind it
Group purchasing and trade accounts on linens, supplies, appliances and hot tubs, plus a short-term-rental tax strategist, an interior designer, and drone and photography partners you can use without hiring them yourself.
Somebody should know which door sticks.
What owners say
Three owners, in their own words.
“What had felt overwhelming turned into something I could handle confidently. More than a year later, the property is a Top 1% Guest Favorite on Airbnb with an unbroken streak of over 100 five-star reviews.”
JeffColorado Springs, CO “Within a month, the difference was unbelievable. My business became more profitable and so much easier to manage. Working with Jake did more than fix my business. It brought calm back into my life.”
MichalManitou Springs, CO “Jake exceeded every expectation. Professional photos, smart pricing, perfect staging, guests and platform communication handled with total ease. Truly exceptional at what he does.”
NancyBreckenridge, CO
Revenue is operated too
Better management should show up in the numbers.
We work four levers from live market data.
Rate
What the night should sell for.
Occupancy
Which nights are worth filling, and at what price.
Distribution
Where the property is available.
Cost of sale
How much revenue disappears before it reaches you.
Start here
Let’s see if the property is a fit.
Start with an inquiry. If there is a reason to keep talking, we’ll schedule a walkthrough, review the property, and give you a clear recommendation. If we are not the right operator, we will tell you.
90-day minimum, then month to month.
15% management fee · Colorado Springs · Portfolio intentionally limited
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