FOREWORD TO THE 2024 EDITION Since 2019, the Colorado general assembly has enacted a virtual avalanche of new laws affecting landlord tenant relations in Colorado. These new laws cover a wide swath of the landlord tenant spectrum in Colorado. In 2023,...
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FOREWORD TO THE 2024 EDITION Since 2019, the Colorado general assembly has enacted a virtual avalanche of new laws affecting landlord tenant relations in Colorado. These new laws cover a wide swath of the landlord tenant spectrum in Colorado. In 2023, fundamental changes were made to the tenant application process making what was once a simple process problematic for all landlords. These new laws have created a host of tenant rights and placed many new restrictions on landlords in general and specifically on the freedom of landlords to contract and operate their properties. By design, legal changes have also fueled the rise of the class action lawsuit against Colorado’s landlords. Prior to 2022, class action lawsuits against landlords were nonexistent. Since then, one state legislator who is both an attorney and state legislator responsible for passing many pro-tenant and anti-landlord laws (including a law making class action waivers in leases void) has filed over ten class action law
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