THE LEASE OUTLIVES THE OWNER. PRICE THE SALE BOTH WAYS BEFORE YOU LIST.

The second reading is the lease. An existing lease is a contract that outlives the owner. What it says about term, rent, deposit and assignment governs what a buyer takes on, and what the estate can and cannot do before it ends is a legal question. The estate attorney leads probate and inheritance questions, and Colorado landlord-tenant notice rules are the attorney's question. This page cites no notice periods on purpose; that answer belongs to the attorney, on your lease.

The third reading is the house itself. A tenant-occupied house is harder to inspect and harder to show, so the inspection checklist on /buy/read-the-house and the HOA document tracker on /data/condos are run early, while the estate still controls the calendar.

Both paths go into the net sheet on /tools/net-sheet on the same value, so the gap is in dollars, not in opinion. The rent-vs-sell tool on /tools/rent-vs-sell adds the third path, holding the house as a rental for a chosen period before selling, which some heirs prefer when the estate has time and the rent covers the carry (PROBABLE, the result depends on your inputs).

The market clock matters to the vacant path. Denver metro median days on market was 57 days in August 2026, and that runs to contract, not to closing (VERIFIED, FRED MEDAONMAMSA19740). A lease that ends in the spring and a 57-day median clock together set the earliest realistic closing on the vacant path (VERIFIED as to the median; PROBABLE as applied to your house).

The boundary is fixed. The estate attorney leads the estate, the lease and any notice question. The CPA leads tax on the gain and the basis. The title company leads its premium, closing fee and the personal representative's deed. The inspector leads what the showing cannot show: sewer line, roof condition, crawlspace, grade against the foundation.

The evidence is public. Robert An is a broker associate at Compass, Colorado license 100084328, licensed since 2019, with a record of 5.0 across 32 Zillow reviews and 54 recorded sales, 18 in the last twelve months (VERIFIED, Zillow profile, read 2026-09-24). The probate guide's handout is at /handouts/probate. Send Robert the date Letters issued or are expected, the lease end date, and whether the rent is current, and the pricing starts from authority instead of from a number.