Damon L. Chavez

Meet Damon L. Chavez

REALTOR® · Certified Residential Appraiser · Certified Real Estate Divorce Specialist · Collaborative Divorce Professional · Certified Negotiation Expert · Co-founder, Divorce Advice Colorado · RE/MAX Professionals, Littleton · Affiliate partner, The Kenna Real Estate Group

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Damon is a REALTOR®, a Colorado Certified Residential Appraiser and a Certified Real Estate Divorce Specialist, and a co-founder of Divorce Advice Colorado. He founded the Colorado House Finders Team at RE/MAX Professionals and has spent more than a decade on the real estate side of divorce: neutral listings, court-ordered sales, buyout valuations and collaborative-divorce cases. His own handbook for divorcing homeowners and his workshop talks alongside family-law attorneys, financial analysts and counselors are the backbone of the real estate material on this site.

He leads the divorce practice for The Kenna Real Estate Group as an affiliate partner. When a divorce sale or a buyout valuation comes to Kenna, Damon runs the file with the Kenna team behind him, and both brokerages are disclosed to both spouses in writing. His goal, in his words, is unbundled real estate help: the house handled cleanly, with the legal, financial and emotional questions routed to the right professional.

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The certificate

Certified Real Estate Divorce Specialist

Issued by the Financial Divorce Association, Inc. of Longmont, Colorado, in April 2016, after training in the legal and tax aspects of the divorce process as they apply to real estate: equitable distribution, the automatic injunction, maintenance and child support in mortgage qualifying, capital gains, pensions, bankruptcy and the mechanics of a buyout or a sale.

We show the certificate because “divorce specialist” is a phrase anyone can type. This is the one designation held on our team, and it is his.

What Damon handles

Divorce Advice Colorado and the Second Saturday bootcamp

Long before this site existed, Damon was already teaching divorcing homeowners for free. He co-founded and holds the real estate seat on the Divorce Advice Colorado team in Littleton, a panel of family-law attorneys, mediators, Certified Divorce Financial Analysts, divorce coaches and divorce-trained mortgage lenders that runs the free Second Saturday Divorce Bootcamp on the second Saturday of every month, in person at 4 West Dry Creek Circle in Littleton and online. His segment there is the one you will find on this site: keep, sell, buy out, the number both attorneys can rely on, and the mistakes that cost people the house.

That is why we asked him to lead the Kenna divorce real estate team and the real estate seat on our own panel. Two free workshops a month in the south metro, the same specialist at both, and no sales pitch at either. If the second Saturday works better for you than the first, go; you will see the same face. The Colorado Divorce Decisions Panel.

Damon’s five-step divorce file

1. One call, both spouses welcome. Where the case is, who wants to stay, what the attorneys need first. Book it on Damon’s calendar or call (303) 748-8009.
2. The number. A written Smart Pricing Report to both spouses and both attorneys at the same time; an appraisal from a licensed appraiser when either side wants one.
3. The terms. Stipulation-ready listing terms: price rule, reductions, repairs, access, carrying costs, disbursement.
4. The listing. Nothing about the divorce in the marketing, a log of every showing and offer, separate signings if needed.
5. The closing. Proceeds disbursed exactly as the stipulation or decree says; the title company has the order before the contract.

Credentials, and who issued them

Homes Damon has sold

Where Damon works

Licensed since 2000, about 40 homes sold a year, ranked in the top 1 percent of agents nationally, and more than 12 years of divorce work: Damon has helped people in every situation on this site sell the house, keep the house, or buy the next one. Tap a pin for that city’s divorce real estate page. Damon is based in Littleton and covers the south metro personally; the Kenna team covers the rest of the Front Range with him.

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Damon’s framework: equity, affordability, desirability

Every divorce-home decision Damon works comes down to three questions, in this order. Equity: positive (split it or buy it out), break-even, or negative (short sale, hold, or convert to a rental). Affordability: can either spouse carry the house alone, and can the keeping spouse qualify for the current balance plus the buyout? Desirability: does anyone actually want it, or is a fresh start the thing that lets both of you heal? The four options, with Denver numbers.

Disclosure

Damon L. Chavez is a REALTOR® licensed with RE/MAX Professionals, 10135 W San Juan Way, Suite 100, Littleton, CO 80127 (office 303-649-6767). He is an affiliate partner of The Kenna Real Estate Group at Keller Williams DTC and not a Kenna employee. Designations are as issued by their sponsoring organizations; the Certified Real Estate Divorce Specialist certificate is shown above. Nothing on this page is legal, tax or financial advice.