Why Cayo Investments

Why Invest with Cayo Investments?

Cayo Investments, led by Laura Hoff, operates with a clear objective: to strategically acquire hotels in prime locations and reposition them for their most lucrative use, resulting in enhanced cash flow. Laura’s expertise and strategic vision form the foundation of the company’s operations, ensuring the identification and realization of the highest and most profitable use for each property acquired. This unwavering commitment to the goal sets Cayo Investments apart in the realm of hotel investment and management.

Highly Selective & Conservative Underwriting

We are highly selective in the projects we work on. We don’t invest unless the project can make at least a 30% Internal Rate of Return. Why? Because anything less and we subject our money and that of our investors to too much risk. If apartment cap rates decompress by 50-100 basis points, projects with less than 30% IRR will likely result in investor losses.

Buying In The Right Location

Because of our scale and strategic joint venture partners, we can buy hotels and apartments across the United States. We focus on tier 1 and 2 cities with growing population, diversified and growing employment base and declining crime rate. We also analyze the availability of demand drivers to ensure we can increase both occupancy and rents (ADR for hotels).

Backed By Hotel Investing Experience

We are backed by extensive hotel investing experience by virtue of our partners, hotel operators and advisors. As a group we have over $1.5B worth of hotels under ownership and management.

$ 1 B

Hotel Keys Owned & Managed

1 %

Internal Rate of Return

Our Team

Meet Our Leadership Team

Founder & CEO

Laura Hoff

With 20+ years in construction and real estate, Laura Hoff's journey spans from laborer to project management. Her unique ability to envision both the project and the team dynamics sets her apart. Laura's tenacity, creativity, and passion for collaboration drive success..

Real Estate Capitalist

Mike Ealy

Mr. Michael Ealy, real estate mogul whose group owns and manages $1.5B worth of hotels (he personally owns 4 hotels and is building a $110M hotel/condo development project in Sarasota FL) was so impressed by Laura Hoff that he agreed to become Ms. Hoff's advisor.

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Our Track Record

Experience: Over 5,000 hotel keys worth over $1.5 BILLION – are being managed by our hotel operator-partner Expertise: value-add and turning non-performing hotels into money-making assets

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Most Recent Successes

We aim to get projects with a minimum IRR of 30%. How do we get extremely profitable projects? We get off-market hotel and apartment deals and we implement our value-add strategies cost-effectively.