Sun Mountain Stays
Boutique short-term rental management in Colorado Springs
One operator. One standard.
One name that answers.
Founder-led in Colorado Springs, with the turnover and the linens run inside our own operating system rather than a rotating crew. The person setting your nightly rate is the same person you can call.
The operating record
- 273+
- short-term rentals operated
- 120
- listings launched
- 16,900+
- reservations operated
- 28
- markets worked
Cumulative experience across companies founded, operated, or advised by Jake Lee. The team behind it carries 26 years of short-term rental operations.
Sun Mountain Stays is deliberately different: one Colorado Springs portfolio, kept small enough to operate closely.
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 sit under one operating system.
Result: the work is handled
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.
The work that makes a rental perform stays connected instead of being passed from vendor to vendor.
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
The guest problem does not become your problem.
Pre-arrival questions, access issues and stay support run through our guest operation, staffed 6am to 10pm Mountain, seven days a week.
7 days
03 / Distribution
Airbnb is one channel, not the business.
Listed and synced across ten or more booking channels, with availability managed in one place.
10+ channels
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 work inside our operating system, not a rotating list of whoever was free.
One standard
05 / Property
The house is checked, not merely cleaned.
Every stay gets a physical check. 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.
Software scales. Attention doesn’t.
The cleaning team
The people resetting the home work inside our operating system, on our schedule and our checklist.
Linens
Laundry comes back through the same standard instead of disappearing into a rotating network of vendors.
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
The result should be visible in the property and felt by the owner.
“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 continuously, from live market data rather than last year’s guess.
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.
A note from the founder
I have run short-term rentals. Not watched them from a dashboard. Run them.
The 11am back-to-back with a cleaner still inside. The lock that dies before a late arrival. The vendor who does not show. The guest who needs an answer now.
After operating hundreds of rentals I became convinced that the hardest part of this business is not software or pricing. It is maintaining attention.
That is why Sun Mountain Stays stays deliberately small, operates the physical side of the stay closely, and puts one person against the outcome.
I want to know the homes we manage well enough to notice when something changes.
Jake Lee
Founder, Sun Mountain Stays
Start here
Let’s see if the property is a fit.
Start with a 20-minute call. 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.
Month to month, no multi-year agreement.
15% management fee · Colorado Springs · Portfolio intentionally limited