Absentee owners in Boulder and Larimer counties

• Wholesaler: owners whose mail goes elsewhere, held 10+ years, bought for under half of today’s value. Top 12 checked by hand against Boulder County’s own records on Oct 16, 2026: sale, value and mailing all match, 12 of 12.
• STR investor: mountain-town homes whose owner’s mail goes elsewhere. Top 10 checked by hand on Oct 16, 2026: the owner’s mail goes elsewhere per Larimer County, 10 of 10; no sale in the county’s seven-year record, 8 of 8; the Big Thompson River within 150 m, 6 of the 6 the USGS answered for. Ten Boulder County rows: mailing and value match, 10 of 10.
• Realtor: long-held homes on the county’s tax lien sale list, with an estate on title or a recent estate record, a county code violation, or a stalled building permit. Checked by hand on Oct 16, 2026 against the counties’ live records: the 22 estates (an estate is the owner of record, the purchase, the latest recorded document, 22 of 22 each), the 10 code cases (the case outline holds the home, its type, status and date, and the purchase, 10 of 10 each), 12 of the 68 stalled permits (the permit holds the home with its kind and month, and the purchase, 12 of 12 each), and 12 of the 383 estate records (on the county’s live sales layer the document is on the account that day without a price and nothing priced follows it, 12 of 12; 4 of them on the Clerk and Recorder’s index: 3 named as the card says, 1 death record indexed as a supplemental affidavit). The top 12 of the 67 homes on Larimer County’s tax lien sale list, Oct 16, 2026: on the list for the amount the card says, the county’s address, and no sale of its own in the county’s seven-year record, 12 of 12 each. The owner of record as an estate or its heirs in every county, Oct 18, 2026: 12 drawn in Jefferson, Weld, Broomfield and Adams read so on the state’s live parcel record (each county’s owner of record as sent to the state, March and April 2026), 12 of 12.
• Flipper: dated homes where updated ones nearby sold for 30%+ more per square foot. Top 12 checked by hand on Oct 16, 2026 against Boulder County’s live records: year built, size, county value and purchase, 12 of 12; all 65 sales next door found with the same date and price, and the median recomputed from them, 12 of 12. Adams County, Oct 18, 2026, 12 drawn: land and total value on the county’s live value layer 12 of 12, the purchase on its live sales layer 12 of 12, year built and size on its live improvements layer 12 of 12, and the first five sales next door of each, 60 of 60, found as deeds on those dates. 3,266 Adams homes on Oct 18, 2026.
• Developer: lots where the county says the land is 70%+ of the value. Top 12 checked by hand on Oct 16, 2026 against Boulder County’s live records: land and house values, year built and size, lot acreage, the purchase, and the zone at the lot’s center, 12 of 12 each. Other counties, Oct 18, 2026: 12 drawn per county (all of them where fewer) against the county’s live record, land value, total value, year built and size: Weld 9 of 9, Adams 10 of 12 (2 a dollar apart), Jefferson 11 of 12 (one lot’s larger house is its second structure), Broomfield 1 of 1. Larimer’s and Eagle’s live records sit behind a disclaimer or a sign-in page, so they were not checked live.
• Cash investor: homes where a year of the area’s median rent is 8% to 15% of the county’s value. Top 12 checked by hand on Oct 16, 2026: the Census Bureau’s own geocoder puts each home’s point in the census tract on its card, and the rent on the card is that tract’s in the survey’s published table, 12 of 12. 13,367 homes on Oct 16, 2026.
• Fix and rent: dated homes, ranked by the area’s median rent against the county’s value. Top 12 checked by hand on Oct 16, 2026: the Census Bureau’s own geocoder puts each home’s point in the census tract on its card, and the rent on the card is that tract’s in the survey’s published table, 12 of 12 (the dated-home facts as checked for the Flipper door). 1,025 homes on Oct 16, 2026.
• Land: empty residential lots and acreage, with no house on the county’s record. Top 12 checked by hand on Oct 16, 2026: the 8 Weld lots against the state’s public parcel composite (acreage, value and “Vacant Land”), 8 of 8; the 4 Boulder lots against Boulder County’s live assessor record (no building, the same land value and acreage), 4 of 4.
• Family compound: room for two families without building new: two homes, a duplex to fourplex, a garage, barn or shop to convert, a walk-out basement. Checked Oct 17, 2026 against Boulder County’s buildings file: 86% of the aerial’s second buildings on home lots (9,010 of 10,458) are on the county’s record as a garage or another building; the other 14% are buildings the record doesn’t list. The aerial finds 67% of the county’s detached garages of 400+ sq ft; the rest come from the record itself.

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• Why the owner lives elsewhere: a rental, a second home, a family cabin or an estate all look the same in the record.
• Phone numbers or email addresses: none are in shinnslist.
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