Colorado Law
Seller Guide
Pre-Listing Inspection in Colorado: What It Buys a Seller
Colorado's Seller's Property Disclosure puts no duty on you to inspect, but what you already know goes on it whether you inspect or not, and a report you commission joins that. A pre-listing inspection won't replace the buyer's or move their dates. It buys time to repair or price what it finds.
Answer Brief
Who Pays to Repave Subdivision Roads in Boulder County?
Boulder County plows and patches the subdivision streets it maintains but resurfaces only a short list. Owners pay for the rest, usually through a district they vote in, so on most county-side Gunbarrel parcels the road is already a tax-bill line or a cost no district has been voted to cover.
Answer Brief
Is There an Attorney Review Period in Colorado?
A buyer used to handing a signed contract to a lawyer for approval will find no such step in Colorado's standard residential contract. It binds once both sides sign and acceptance is delivered, and a banner on its first page says to get legal advice before signing. Here's where a lawyer fits.
Boulder
Buying a Chautauqua Cottage in Boulder: The Land Is Leased
You can buy a Chautauqua cottage but not its land. It sits on a City-land sublease that ends with the City's lease, now running to December 31, 2035. A sale needs Association approval (not to be unreasonably withheld); one to an unrelated buyer, as the sublease defines it, triggers a first refusal.
Answer Brief
Boulder All-Electric Remodel Requirement: What Triggers It
Size alone doesn't trigger the City of Boulder's all-electric remodel rule. It takes three things at once: work on over half the floor area, half the envelope altered, and heating, cooling or water-heating equipment replaced. Replace none of it in existing living space and the rule doesn't apply.
Answer Brief
Colorado Wildfire Risk Score Appeal: What Survives the Sale
Colorado insurers that price on wildfire risk owe you a score, in notices from October 1, 2026, and an appeal backed by mitigation evidence. Before you sell: the score belongs to your insurer's model, and the statute says so. What a buyer can use is proof of the work done on the house.
Seller Guide
Selling a Home With an Unpermitted Basement in Colorado
Colorado's disclosure form asks about permitted and unpermitted work on two different lines. For a finished basement the costly question is the permit: which building department reviews it, against which code, and what a permit does and doesn't change at appraisal.
Buyer Guide
Mortgage Rate Went Up While Under Contract in Colorado
On Colorado's current contract, a higher rate on its own can end the deal only on or before the New Loan Terms Deadline, if your contract dates that row. The contract never mentions a rate lock and never holds the rate: only your lender's lock does, and it has to reach the Closing Date.
Answer Brief
How Big Can You Build? Boulder County's Home Size Limit
Since May 13, 2025, most of unincorporated Boulder County caps a house at the larger of its neighborhood's median floor area or its 2025 size plus an allowance for houses up to 3,500 square feet. Basements, garages and shops count, and the listing's square footage isn't the county's number.