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  • Buying a Mountain Home in Colorado: 10 Things to Check

    Buying a Mountain Home in Colorado: 10 Things to Check

    If you’re weighing a second home or investment property in the Colorado mountains, the questions that matter most are how you’ll use it, how the short-term rental rules work where you’re looking, and what it really costs to maintain. My husband and I own a home in Grand Lake that we use ourselves and also…

  • 5 Steps to Building Wealth Through Real Estate

    5 Steps to Building Wealth Through Real Estate

    Building a real estate portfolio doesn’t require buying multiple properties at once. The most common path starts with a single home and a strategy called house hacking. Here’s the basic framework. This strategy isn’t the right fit for everyone, but it offers possibly the easiest path towards building a portfolio of properties and typically provides…

  • Selling Your Rental Property? What Every Landlord Needs to Know About Tenants and Timing

    Selling Your Rental Property? What Every Landlord Needs to Know About Tenants and Timing

    If you own a rental property and you’re thinking about selling, the timing question comes up fast: do you wait for the tenant to move out, or do you list while they’re still living there? The honest answer is that selling vacant is almost always better. A clean, empty, freshly prepared home photographs better, shows…