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What Happens to a Mortgage When a Homeowner Dies in Colorado?
The mortgage doesn’t disappear when a borrower dies, but that doesn’t mean the family has to pay it off or sell right away. How to work with the servicer, whether an heir can keep the existing loan, what’s different about a reverse mortgage, and why carrying costs matter more than most families expect.
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Selling a Home After an Owner Has Passed Away: A Colorado Guide
If a home is part of an estate in Colorado, you don’t have to figure everything out at once. A step-by-step guide to protecting the property, determining who legally owns it and has authority to act, and deciding whether to sell as-is or prepare it for market.
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The Best Time to Sell a Home in Denver: A Month-by-Month Guide
If you are wondering when to sell your Denver home, the traditional answer is “spring.” The more accurate answer is: it depends on your property, neighborhood, competition, financial position, and plans after the sale. Denver’s market follows a recognizable annual rhythm. Buyer activity generally begins building early in the year, competition intensifies during spring, inventory…
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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…
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Solar Panels and Your Denver Home: What to Know Before You Install (and Before You List)
Solar panels are one of those features that sounds like an obvious win, especially in Colorado, where we enjoy more than 300 days of sunshine a year. But in more than a decade of working with Denver-area buyers and sellers, I’ve seen solar go from selling point to sticking point more times than you’d expect.…
Marla Doughty
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