Sell your investment property in Colorado Springs, CO: single rentals and small portfolios, tenant-occupied closings, depreciation recapture, 1031 exchange deadlines, Colorado withholding for out-of-state owners, and how a cash buyer prices a property by its stabilized value. Written offer within 24 hours of our visit.
Investment property in Colorado Springs made sense on the assumptions of 2019: rising rents, cheap insurance, easy turnover and appreciation. In 2026 the assumptions have shifted. Rents have flattened, insurance has risen after years of hail claims, the 2026 reassessment raised tax bills, HB24-1098 changed how and when a tenancy can end, and the buildings bought a decade ago need roofs, furnaces and sewer lines. Owners who held one house in Security-Widefield after a PCS, a few units in the Southeast, or a portfolio built over twenty years are asking whether to keep holding, and many are deciding not to.
Colorado Springs Cash Buyers buys investment properties across Colorado Springs and El Paso County, single-family rentals, condos, duplexes and small multifamily, individually or as a portfolio. We buy as-is and occupied, close on your exchange timeline, and need no financing. This page covers how we price investment property, the tenant and Colorado-law mechanics of an occupied sale, the tax points, portfolio sales, and why a cash buyer suits an owner who is done.
How we price investment property
For a single-family rental, the price starts from the renovated resale value of the house in its neighborhood. For multifamily, it starts from the stabilized value at market rents. From either we subtract the repairs and turnover the property needs, our carrying and resale costs and a margin, with modest adjustments for arrears, below-market leases or pending evictions. We ask for the rent roll, leases and a year of expenses if available, visit once with notice to the tenants, and deliver a written offer within 24 hours. There is no financing contingency and no inspection period.
Occupied sales under Colorado law
Leases survive the sale and transfer to us at closing, along with deposits and written notice to the tenants. HB24-1098's for-cause rules, the 10-day nonpayment demand, deposit return deadlines and habitability obligations become ours. We do not ask you to deliver vacant units or to give any notices. A property with a non-paying tenant or a pending county court eviction sells to us with that situation disclosed and priced.
Tax points: recapture, gains, 1031 and withholding
A sale triggers depreciation recapture at up to 25 percent federally on depreciation taken, capital gains on the appreciation, and Colorado income tax on the gain. A 1031 exchange defers all of it if you identify a replacement within 45 days of closing and close on it within 180; a cash buyer who will close on a chosen date, or hold a contract open to fit a reverse exchange, makes those windows workable. Out-of-state owners face Colorado's withholding at closing, reconciled on the state return. A tax professional should model the sale before you commit, and we are glad to time the closing around their advice.
Portfolio sales
Owners exiting several properties can sell them to us together, with one closing or staggered closings to manage tax timing and tenant notices. We price each property on its own and the package as a whole, and a single transaction removes the months of listing each one, the repeated inspections and the risk that one sale falls through and breaks an exchange.
Deferred maintenance is expected
Investment properties carry the deferrals of ownership: roofs paid at actual cash value and never replaced, furnaces nursed along, carpet on its fourth tenant, a sewer line that backs up each spring, unpermitted basement units. We price all of it and complete the work after closing, usually as units turn. Colorado requires disclosure of known defects; tell us what you know and it goes into the price once.
Next step
Send the addresses, the rent roll and any deadlines you are working against. We arrange visits with notice to the tenants, deliver written offers within 24 hours, and close on the dates that fit. We pay the customary closing costs and there is no commission.
Selling to us vs. a traditional listing in Colorado Springs, CO
| Comparison | Traditional agent | For sale by owner | Colorado Springs Cash Buyers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash offer | Rarely | Rarely | Yes |
| Sell as-is | Repairs expected | Repairs expected | Yes |
| Time to a contract | roughly two months in Colorado Springs now | Often longer | 24 hours after the visit |
| Agent commission | About 6% | Buyer's agent usually paid | None |
| Closing costs | Paid by seller | Paid by seller | Customary costs paid by us |
| Showings | Yes | Yes | One visit |
| Financing fall-through | Possible | Possible | None, we fund it |
| Price cut after inspection | Common | Common | No inspection period |
| Closing date | Lender's schedule | Buyer's schedule | Yours |
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