The cost of housing has increased dramatically in Colorado. The average cost of buying a house has gone up 49% in the last 5 years (10% per year). The average rent rate has increased 18% over that same period of time (3.6% per year). Perhaps because many people own houses, the increased cost of... Continue Reading
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) forced the United States Supreme Court to legally slap the agency (and the Biden Administration) exceptionally hard in Alabama Association of Realtors, et al. v. Department of Health and Human Services. The Court had performed legal backflips to allow the CDC... Continue Reading
The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had imposed a nationwide moratorium on evictions of any tenants who make certain declarations of financial need. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has issued an Order overturning the CDC eviction order on the... Continue Reading
In a million years would we have ever imagined living through the last 18 months? A global pandemic touching and impacting every area of our lives; where we work, live, how we shop, how we dine out, nothing left untouched. We stretched in ways we could have never imagined. And so here we are -... Continue Reading
The order applies to counties with high COVID-19 cases. While the Order is "new," it is essentially an extension of the previous CDC Order that has been in place since September 2020. Continue Reading
The following companies have maintained theirMembership to AAMD for consecutive years and we want to recognize and congratulate them! This year, there are 130 members celebrating a membership milestone, with 37 of them being members for more than 35 years! Click here to see the full spread of... Continue Reading
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Earlier this year, AAMD launched a new initiative and committee committed to inclusion and... Continue Reading
There Were Many Milestones Despite Pandemic Who would have thought back in June of 2020 that nearly the entire last 12 months would have been spent on Zoom? Taking that into consideration and looking back at what we accomplished over this last year,it is truly remarkable. To say it has been a... Continue Reading
Recapping the most challenging legislative session for housing providers in Colorado history The most challenging legislative session for housing providers in Colorado history has now ended. This was the Year of The Crisis. The sheer number of anti-landlord bills, coupled with the erratic nature... Continue Reading
Today, Governor Polis announced Executive Order 120, extending for the third time the requirement for landlords to serve 30-day rent demands instead of 10-day rent demands. In addition, the new order keeps EO-110 in effect, which requires landlords to serve the DOLA FAQs with every type of... Continue Reading
Data Suggests an Increase of Pet Owners in Apartments Many apartment operators have worked diligently to improve their pet-friendliness levels. And if pet friendliness wasn’t already a primary focus, it definitely should be now. New data indicates that the well-documented spike in pet... Continue Reading
