All Forum Posts by: Kelly Sennholz

This legislative session introduced a lot of changes besides this one. All together, things are far worse than this thread makes them appear, and honestly, I don't think I could summarize all of the impacts if I tried. Procedural errors will now be catastrophically expensive.

What's going to happen is that many landlords and nearly all tenants won't know about the changes, so only a few landlords will get burned at first, and that amount will grow over time. The law also established a slush fund for "legal services for tenants", meaning that we can be sued with our own tax dollars. In practice, the landlording equivalent of "ambulance chasers" will proactively market to renters, offering to sue their landlords over trivialties so that they can collect this funding and profit.

Get out of Colorado. You could easily be one of the lucky ones whose tenants obliviously continue life as before, but the risk is terrible.

This is a huge overreach on the part of the government. As a property owner one of the few rights I enjoy is to do with the property that I pay for, maintain, and pay property taxes on is to choose to whom I rent the property. If I have had a negative tenant experience (late payments, hostility, drug use, damaging property, etc) one of the options available is for me not to release. I incentivize my tenant to be a better tenant as they know I have the right to not release to them and they generally don’t want to go through the hassle of relocating. I really cannot figure out what the state here in Colorado is trying to achieve in stripping property owners of that right. 

“Their line of questioning quickly pivoted to my daughter, where she goes to school, where i sleep”

this line of questioning for renting out your house to someone…sounds like nazi Germany when they went around to houses looking for Jewish people. 

You could go to a place like home depot and ask them. They often have referrals. Ask at the service counter.