by Glen Weinberg | Aug 17, 2026 | Colorado hard money lender, Colorado Private Lending, Colorado ski lender, Colorado Ski real estate, Colorado Wildfire property impacts, Ski lending/ investing, Steamboat hard money
My wife and I were out for a longer day hike when we crest the hill and got a dead-on view of a new wildfire. We knew immediately it was in the direction of our house, and it was growing rapidly. The evacuation notices immediately go out, giving some folks less than...
by Glen Weinberg | Aug 10, 2026 | Breckenridge hard money, Breckenridge real estate, Colorado Hard Money, Colorado hard money lender, Colorado hard money loans, Vail Hard Money, Vail real estate trends, Vail real estate values
Take a look at the stock chart of Vail Resorts, which has lost almost 60% of its value in the last five years while the S&P has returned an approximately 90% gain. The vultures are circling with a Utah billionaire proposing a sale of Park City to stop the...
by Glen Weinberg | Aug 3, 2026 | Aspen hard money, Basalt hard money, Breckenridge hard money, Breckenridge real estate, Colorado Affordable housing proposals, Colorado building laws, Colorado condo prices, Colorado condo real estate, Colorado hard money lender, Colorado hard money loans, Colorado residential property values, Colorado Short Term Rental lending, Colorado ski lender, Colorado Ski real estate, Colorado Ski towns, Copper Mountain Hard Money, Crested butte hard money, Denver Hard Money, Glenwood Springs Hard money, Keystone hard money, Ski lending/ investing, Steamboat hard money, Steamboat springs real estaste, Summit county hard money lender, Telluride hard money, Vail Hard Money, Vail real estate trends
Over the last 30 years I continue to hear about the “affordable housing crisis”. Do we really have an affordable housing crisis or a leadership crisis within the ski towns. A recent proposal in Steamboat pegs the build cost of one affordable housing unit over 1.7m....
by Glen Weinberg | Jul 27, 2026 | 2026 Colorado legislative real estate bills, Colorado hard money lender, Colorado hard money loans, Colorado income tax, Colorado private lender, Colorado Private Lending, Colorado real estate prices, Colorado taxes, Colorado Taxpayer Bill of Rights (Tabor)
The Colorado legislature just voted for the largest tax increase in Colorado’s history. As you suspect they are framing this as a tax increase “without increasing taxes”. Essentially the new ballot initiative will allow the state to eliminate the taxpayer...
by Glen Weinberg | Jul 13, 2026 | 2026 Colorado legislative real estate bills, Colorado commercial real estate, Colorado Hard Money, Colorado hard money lender, Denver Hard Money, Denver hard money Lenders
It has been an interesting year for the Colorado Legislature. After a brutal year for property owners last year, this year was not as bad with no huge bills impacting property owners. We can thank Governor Polis for putting business interests back at the...
by Glen Weinberg | Jul 6, 2026 | Colorado fire insurance, Colorado Hard Money, Colorado hard money lender, Colorado hard money loans, Colorado real estate prices, Colorado real estate trends, Colorado Wildfire property impacts, Denver Hard Money, Denver hard money Lenders
The Pueblo wildfire grew from 40 acres to 30 thousand acres in one day at the same time fire weather watches are up and winds are howling throughout the state. Two fires start near Campgrounds/lakes and yet the fire chiefs proclaim they have no idea how the fires...