Legal / Legislative

Colorado landlords who are not adequately informed about the state’s complex regulatory landscape face significant challenges and potential liability. Tenant Advocacy Groups (TAGs) began imposing new regulations on landlords when they gained control of the Colorado General Assembly. Since... Continue Reading

There’s a growing misconception that large residential property management companies charge above market-rate rent by using computerized pricing algorithms. This claim is the basis of both a highly publicized class action lawsuit and a US Department of Justice probe/ PR campaign. The... Continue Reading

The ever changing legal landscape for property owners and property managers underwent a major shift in 2024. There were more proposed bills in 2024 impacting property management than gun control. It can be difficult to sort through all of the noise of the session, so the goal here is to make you... Continue Reading

A record number of bills were proposed in the Colorado Legislature this year. Of the 705 bills introduced this session, the Colorado Apartment Association (CAA) identified more than a dozen that would have been harmful to rental housing providers. CAA and its lobbyist team HBS minimized the... Continue Reading

This is a big question! We think it needs to start with perception. Homelessness needs to be understood as a problem driven by a lack of access to housing. It is a market failure. People are forced out of stable housing or are unable to access it when housing markets don’t provide... Continue Reading

This past summer, millions of people added the term “Atmospheric River,” to their meteorological lexicon. Just one of these flowing columns of condensed water vapor, gliding 10,000 feet overhead and extending over 2,000 miles long, can have an average flow rate 15 times greater... Continue Reading

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 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

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 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

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

You may recall that last summer, our Colorado legislature passed two bills which made “source of income” and “immigration status” protected classes statewide. We want to remind you that these laws have now taken effect as of Jan 1, 2021. If you have not already done so, you... Continue Reading