Short Term Rental Rules in Evergreen, Colorado

1. Send the address

   That is all we need to start. We look at the house, the block, what comparable properties we already run are earning, and what the licensing position is.

2. We come back with numbers

   What it should earn, what the licensing will cost and take, and what we would change before it goes live. If the answer is that you are better off as you are, we say so.

3. We set it up under your account

   Your listing, your reviews, your Superhost status. We take co-host access rather than ownership. Photography, copy, pricing and the licensing chain get sorted in this step.

4. We run it

   Pricing, messaging, turnovers, maintenance, compliance dates and the two in the morning phone call. You get paid and you get left alone.

We quote 15 to 20 percent depending on the size and scope of the house, plus a one time $500 licensing fee at onboarding. The percentage is negotiable and we will not name one before walking the property.

We are not publishing a nightly rate for Evergreen. Our own property there is off the calendar for renovations, the licensing regime is eight months old, and quoting Florida numbers for a Colorado mountain market would be worse than saying nothing. What we can tell you is what the rules allow, which in this county is the part that decides whether a purchase makes sense at all.

Most pages about this are vague because whoever wrote them has never filed one. We have a property in Evergreen that is off the calendar at the moment, so this is read straight off the regulation and the application forms rather than off a live renewal tracker.

You may hold one investment short term rental in the whole county

This is the rule that decides whether a plan is possible. An owner may have an ownership interest in a short term rental at no more than one property that is not their primary residence, at any time, across the whole of unincorporated Jefferson County. Not one per area. One.

One licence per property, and one party at a time

Only one short term rental licence is issued for a property at any time, and a licensed rental may not be let to more than one party under separate contracts at once. If you were thinking of letting a main house and a lower unit to two different groups on the same weekend, the county does not license that.

A cap on how many licences exist at all

Up to one percent of the dwelling units within a Fire Protection District may be short term rentals, and applications are reviewed first come, first served. A district already at its cap means no new licence at any price, which makes the queue itself part of the decision. Your property also has to be inside a Fire Protection District to qualify in the first place.

Seven hundred and fifty feet from the next one

An investment property cannot be within 750 feet of another property holding a permitted short term rental. That is measured at the initial application and not at renewal, so a neighbour licensing after you does not unseat you. Properties that already held a valid permit on 16 December 2025 keep an exemption from this, but only for as long as they renew before their existing approval expires. Let one lapse and you come back in as new.

Both of those disappear if you live there

A primary residence licence, for an owner in the property at least nine months of the year, is exempt from the 750 foot separation and from the one percent district cap. It is a materially easier licence and it is worth knowing which one you are applying for before you start.

Somebody has to be thirty minutes away

The application must name a Local Representative who is no more than thirty minutes from the property. That is a real constraint on managing an Evergreen house from anywhere that is not the Front Range, and it is the requirement most likely to be quietly ignored until something goes wrong at midnight.

Ten people, whatever the house

Occupancy is two per bedroom, or whatever the septic system allows, whichever is more restrictive, and no short term rental may exceed ten occupants regardless of bedrooms or septic capacity. You also need one off-street parking space per bedroom, which in mountain terrain is not always a formality.

Insurance with a real number on it

Fire, hazard and liability cover of at least five hundred thousand dollars, either as separate short term rental liability cover or a homeowner's rider that specifically names short term rental use. A standard policy will not do it, and the county asks.

Mountain conditions are written into the rules

Bear resistant bins are required in the Mountain Areas. Outdoor fires using wood, pellets or charcoal are prohibited outright, and propane or gas fire features need a shut-off timer. Guests have to be told about any fire restrictions in force. If the property is on a septic system it needs an inspection every year.

Your listing has to carry the licence number

Every advertisement must clearly show the county licence number and the approved occupancy limits, and a copy of the licence and the local representative's contact details must be displayed inside the property. That is a change to the listing copy on every channel, not a document in a drawer.

Renewal, and what happens if it goes wrong

The licence lasts one year and the renewal is due at least thirty days before it expires. It is issued only to the owner and it is not transferable, so buying a licensed house does not buy the licence. And if a licence is revoked, both the property and the owner are ineligible for five years. That is the hardest penalty in any market we operate in.

The county sets its application and renewal fees by resolution on a separate schedule rather than in the regulation, so we are not going to quote a figure we have not verified. Ask Planning and Zoning for the current one. The costs that will not appear on that page are the insurance minimum, the annual septic inspection and having somebody within thirty minutes. Fees and dates are what we hold as current and the city does change them, so treat this as the shape of the year rather than the last word, and confirm anything you are about to pay.