Short bio
Shalom Kaiser is the founder and managing broker of Covest, a Denver brokerage that helps investors buy short-term rentals in Colorado. He has underwritten more than 900 properties, designed and launched over 30 Airbnbs, owns short-term rentals himself, has managed 150 rental units and co-founded a short-term rental management company.
Longer bio
Shalom has worked in Colorado real estate for more than 12 years across short, mid and long-term rentals. He has priced and run revenue management on his own rentals since his first one, and later co-founded a short-term rental management company.
He founded Covest to give investors one accountable person from search to first booking: finding the property, checking that it can be licensed, pricing it and handing it off to management. He also built his own software that pairs Colorado listing data with rental performance and local regulations, so he can screen deals faster than he could by hand. He lives in Denver.
Topics I can cover
Why most short-term rental deals die before the offer
Licensing, HOAs and town lines decide more Airbnb deals than the house does. Stories from Colorado on how investors get burned after closing, and why the address matters more than the listing photos.
What 900 underwritings taught me about STR numbers
Why the data tools disagree with each other, where projections usually go wrong, and the gut checks I run before I trust a revenue estimate.
Owner, manager, broker: seeing an STR from every seat
What I learned running a management company, pricing my own rentals and now representing buyers. What managers wish owners knew, and what owners wish they had asked before they bought.
Design is a revenue decision
Lessons from launching more than 30 homes: what guests actually pay more for, where owners overspend, and why setup decides whether a listing stands out in its first season.
Mountain towns are closing the door. Now what?
Caps, waitlists and new taxes across Colorado ski towns, and what that shift means for anyone who still wants to own a vacation rental in the mountains.
Good to know
- Based in Denver, on Mountain Time.
- Want more background first? See my story, how I work with investors and the Colorado STR rules guide.
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Shalom Kaiser, Covest LLC
444 Lowell Blvd, Denver, CO 80204
720-770-1928 · shalom@getcovest.com
Covest LLC is a licensed Colorado real estate brokerage, license IC.100112047. Shalom Kaiser, Independent Broker, license IR.100066325. Podcast conversations are general information, not tax, legal or investment advice.