What must an out-of-state owner disclose when selling a Colorado house?
LIVING ELSEWHERE DOES NOT REMOVE THE SELLER'S DISCLOSURE DUTIES ON A COLORADO HOUSE.
Colorado puts several duties on the seller, wherever the seller lives. The special taxing district disclosure sits on the seller and must be in every residential contract, with damages if it is missing (C.R.S. 38-35.7-101, VERIFIED). HOA documents, the water source and a metropolitan district's website follow, and federal law requires a lead paint disclosure for older housing (40 CFR 745.107, VERIFIED). No source read exempts an absentee seller.OUT OF STATE · SHOWN
Five disclosures the seller owes, and what to gather from a distance before the listing goes live.
- 01DISTRICT
Special taxing districts
The disclosure is the seller's duty and is in every residential contract; failure gives the buyer a damages claim (C.R.S. 38-35.7-101, VERIFIED).
- 02HOA
Governing and financial documents
In a common interest community the seller provides them, or authorizes the association to provide them, on request (C.R.S. 38-35.7-102, VERIFIED).
- 03WATER
The source of the water
The seller states the source of potable water and provides the current well permit if the source is a well and one is available (C.R.S. 38-35.7-104, VERIFIED).
- 04LEAD
Older housing
A seller of target housing gives the EPA pamphlet, discloses known lead-based paint and hands over available reports before the buyer is obligated (40 CFR 745.107, VERIFIED).
What the Colorado statutes put on the seller.
The obligation to provide the special taxing district disclosure sits on the seller, the disclosure must appear in every residential purchase contract, and a seller who fails to provide it faces a claim for all resulting damages plus court costs (C.R.S. 38-35.7-101, VERIFIED). For a home in a common interest community, the seller must provide the buyer with the association's governing and financial documents or authorize the association to provide them on request (C.R.S. 38-35.7-102, VERIFIED).
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The seller must state the source of potable water, and provide the current well permit if the source is a well and one is available (C.R.S. 38-35.7-104, VERIFIED). An owner selling a home inside a metropolitan district organized on or after January 1, 2000 must give the buyer the district's official website (C.R.S. 38-35.7-111, VERIFIED).
The federal lead paint rule.
A seller of target housing must give the buyer the EPA lead hazard pamphlet, disclose known lead-based paint and lead-based paint hazards, and provide available reports before the buyer is obligated under the contract (40 CFR 745.107, VERIFIED). Target housing generally means housing built before 1978, though the definition sits in a different section that was not read here (PROBABLE).
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Colorado also has statutory disclosures for methamphetamine lab use, transportation projects, oil and gas activity and elevated radon, in addition to those above (PROBABLE, from a third-party summary; section numbers were not confirmed on the statute pages).
What an absentee seller should gather from a distance.
The Seller's Property Disclosure form is completed to the seller's actual knowledge as of the disclosure deadline, by the seller and not by the broker (PROBABLE, from the form's description; the Division's site returned an error when read). An owner who never lived in the house still answers from what they know, and can say so on the form. What to write is a question for the seller's attorney.
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Before the listing, gather the deed, any HOA contact and document authorization, the district name if one exists, the water source, the year built, past repair records and any permit records. Robert coordinates with the people on the ground, so the disclosures match what the inspector will find, and nothing surprises the buyer.
THE RECEIPT
Every number and every section, with its source.
VERIFIED means the text was fetched and read on the date shown. PROBABLE means a snippet or a secondary page carried it, and the primary text or an attorney confirms it.- SOURCE · VERIFIED
- C.R.S. 38-35.7-101, special taxing district disclosure
Read 2026-09-24.
OPEN THE SOURCE ↗ - SOURCE · VERIFIED
- C.R.S. 38-35.7-102, common interest community documents
Read 2026-09-24.
OPEN THE SOURCE ↗ - SOURCE · VERIFIED
- C.R.S. 38-35.7-104, source of potable water
Read 2026-09-24.
OPEN THE SOURCE ↗ - SOURCE · VERIFIED
- C.R.S. 38-35.7-111, metropolitan district website
Read 2026-09-24.
OPEN THE SOURCE ↗ - SOURCE · VERIFIED
- 40 CFR 745.107, lead-based paint disclosure requirements for sellers, Cornell LII
Read 2026-09-24.
OPEN THE SOURCE ↗ - SOURCE · PROBABLE
- A third-party summary of other Colorado seller disclosures (section numbers not confirmed)
Read 2026-09-24.
OPEN THE SOURCE ↗ - AS OF
- September 2026
- GEOGRAPHY
- Colorado; federal rule where cited
- DOES NOT PROVE
- What you must write on the Seller's Property Disclosure for your house, or whether every other disclosure applies. The pre-1978 threshold and the other disclosures were not read on their own pages.
WHERE ROBERT STOPS
What a particular seller must disclose about known defects is a legal question for the seller's attorney. Robert supplies the forms and gathers the documents.
THE RECORD, PUBLICLY CHECKABLE
5.0 across 32 Zillow reviews · 54 recorded sales, 18 in the last twelve months.
Robert S. An, broker associate at Compass, Colorado license 100084328. Checked on the public Zillow profile September 24, 2026; a public profile changes, so read it yourself rather than taking this line for it. Those sales are residential, across the Denver metro.READ THE CLIENT ACCOUNTS WHOLE →THE OUT-OF-STATE FILE
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