New Construction
Buyer Guide
Buying New Construction in Colorado: The Builder's Form
Colorado exempts homebuilders from the state's contract, and the Real Estate Commission's Commission Position 1 bars your broker from advising you on the legalities of a form that isn't one. So the protections you assume are automatic were negotiated in before you signed, or they are not there.
First-Time Buyer
Buying Newer Versus Older Homes In Longmont
Trying to choose between a newer home and an older one in Longmont? You are not just comparing age. You are comparing different eras of city growth, different construction standards, different maintenance profiles, and often very different day-to-day living experiences. If you understand how Longmont’s housing stock
Loveland
Centerra, Loveland: The Toll You Pay Three Ways
Centerra isn't a neighborhood, it's McWhinney's integrated shopping-and-living machine, and it tolls a move-up buyer three ways: a metro-district mill on the tax bill, a 1.25% retail PIF on every receipt at its own shops, and the urban-renewal financing beneath both.
Berthoud
TPC Colorado, Berthoud: The Golf-Club Carry to Price
At Heron Lakes / TPC Colorado, a golf-community lot carries three obligations, not one: the negotiable price, the fixed metro-district mill, and a private PGA-TOUR golf club whose optional dues sit on neither the tax bill nor the HOA statement. Total the stack before you tour.
Berthoud
Living in Berthoud, Colorado? The Mill Levy Decides
Most new builds in Berthoud's move-up band sit inside a metro district, and its debt mill levy — not the sticker — decides the deal. But it turns on the parcel's tax area, not the age of the street: four in ten Berthoud parcels pay no district mill.