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Seller Guide
Off-Market and Delayed Marketing: Selling in Boulder County
Three options sellers ask for as quiet, three answers to one question: who can see the house. IRES has a seller form for one, the office exclusive: filed with the MLS, not disseminated to other brokers. A delayed marketing listing stays in the MLS. Page 4 of the contract decides the rest.
Answer Brief
Colorado's 2% Nonresident Withholding on a Home Sale
Colorado's 2 percent nonresident withholding is not decided by where you live. It is triggered by the address on two documents in your closing file. Nothing is withheld at $100,000 or less, and it comes off when one of five affirmations on form DR 1083 applies.
Move-Up Guide
Keeping Your Boulder Home as a Rental When You Move Up
Fannie Mae's rule for the home you're leaving says it in one line: lease agreements are not permitted for any departing residence. It's dated 2 September 2026 and mandatory from 1 December, and it caps the rent at erasing that home's own payment. Here's what that does to a Boulder move-up.
Answer Brief
Winter Home Inspection Colorado: Objecting to an Unknown
A January inspection comes back with blanks on some systems, not findings. Colorado's objection form asks what you require the seller to correct, and nobody can correct an untested system. So the ask has to change shape before you file it, and what it turns into is what's left to enforce.
Buyer Guide
Buying a House From an Estate in Colorado: What to Know
Nothing about the rules changes when an estate is selling, and that is the problem. Both of a buyer's standard protections are keyed to a seller, and page one of Colorado's 2026 disclosure form now asks whether that seller ever lived in the house.
Answer Brief
Does the Ditch Share Come With the House?
Water rights run with the land, everybody says. A mutual ditch company share is personal property, and Colorado hands the transfer rules to each company's own bylaws, so two Front Range companies answer it in opposite ways. The standard contract reflects that with a blank and no default rule.
POV Note
Who Else Has a Say in the House You Just Bought
The deed settles what you own and goes quiet on a second question: who else can change the rules you just bought under. In this corridor that answer sits with a covenant board, a public board, a city charter or a private business, and they are not interchangeable.
Move-Up Guide
Selling a Boulder Townhome to Buy a House: What to Pull
When you sell a Boulder townhome to buy a house, your buyer's lender reviews the borrower and, if what you own is legally a condominium, the project too. That standard changed for loan applications dated on or after 3 August 2026. What to pull before you list, and the three moves open to you.
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