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Coronavirus Update #3 - May 9, 2020

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Dear Friends, Happy Saturday evening – and Happy Mother’s Day (in advance) to all those wonderful moms out there! As most of you know, today launched the official “Safer at Home” phase of Denver’s Coronavirus response.  Since late March, we have essentially been under a series of rotating/adjusted/realigned/new-and-improved “Stay at Home” orders that either did-or-did-not allow buyers to view homes, did-or-did-not allow under contract homes to proceed to closing, did-or-did-not allow inspections and appraisals, and did-or-did-not allow agents to do anything other than order takeout, do lots of yardwork and facilitate occasional Zoom calls.   It's been clear as mud with more twists than the Mind Eraser (gratuitous Elitch Gardens reference for those of you old enough to remember when theme parks were a thing).  Coming out of the “Stay at Home” order, we now have Covid-19 Buyer Addendums, Covid-19 Seller Addendums, and Covid-19 Contract Addendums.  If ...
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Coronavirus Update #2 - April 18, 2020

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Dear Friends, Three weeks ago, I sent out some initial thoughts about the Coronavirus and how it was impacting our housing market here in Denver. Since then, there have been many new developments and we remain in a very fluid situation.  In fact, as I write this on Saturday morning, the Governor’s first “stay at home” order is set to expire in eight days.  My personal opinion is that the order is more likely to be modified than lifted, but I do think we will start taking steps to re-start the Colorado economy soon.  On the front lines, we’ve had nurses, doctors and first responders acting heroically.  But we’ve also seen a different kind of heroism from shelf stockers, truck drivers and cashiers.  It takes courage to get up and face the public every day when we’re being told the world is full of carriers, both symptomatic and asymptomatic, and that we’re one sneeze or cough away from catching a virus with no effective treatment and no...
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Coronavirus Update #1 - March 28, 2020

Dear Friends, I hope this note finds you well. What a month… seriously, what a month.  In my 26 years as a real estate broker (and 53 years as a human), there simply is no “comp” for what we are living through right now. I have been wanting to get an update out as I know many of you are on pins and needles about where things are headed.  What’s unique about this particular moment is that we aren’t dealing with one serious challenge… we’re dealing with two direct hits at the same time – one to our collective health and one to our entire economy.  Over the past several weeks, the government has had a choice – save lives or save the economy.  For a long time, we tried to walk some imaginary tightrope between the two.  That wasn’t going to work.  Although I am not necessarily a huge fan of Governor Polis politically, I do think he has acted forcefully and decisively in putting lives first.  Colorado’s response to the Coronavirus has made ...
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