For attorneys, mediators and financial neutrals
A neutral real estate professional for the marital home
You need the house handled without it becoming another motion. We provide a Certified Real Estate Divorce Specialist, one set of numbers to both parties, terms you can drop into a stipulation or an order, and a written record of everything that happens between listing and closing.
Next free Zoom: second Saturday, 9:00 AM Mountain · in a few days · Divorce and the House: sell it, keep it or buy out?
Call or text 303-955-4220. A live person answers. Not a robot, not a phone tree.
Brian Lee Burke, with Damon L. Chavez
Brian: licensed Colorado broker since 2003, founder of Colorado Divorce Decisions. Damon: Certified Real Estate Divorce Specialist, Collaborative Divorce Professional I and II, Certified Residential Appraiser.
Same documents, both parties
Valuation, listing draft, net sheet, log and closing statement to both counsel at the same time.
Written for the stipulation
Price rule, reduction schedule, repair cap, access, disbursement. Written for the order.
Nothing changes hands
No fees paid or received for referrals in either direction. RESPA-clean, and we put it in writing.
As a transaction broker for the sale, or as a neutral valuation source for a buyout, we send identical materials to both parties and both attorneys at the same time, escalate impasses to counsel instead of resolving them ourselves, and keep a dated log of showings, feedback, offers and any deviation from the stipulation or order. Damon Chavez, a Certified Real Estate Divorce Specialist and Level I and II Collaborative Divorce Professional, runs the file; he is also a Colorado Certified Residential Appraiser, which matters when value is contested.
What we provide
Valuation for the estate
A written Smart Pricing Report with comparables, adjustments, a range and a condition note, delivered to both parties simultaneously. Coordination of an independent appraisal when value is contested, and a written explanation of the difference between a CMA, an appraisal and an automated estimate for the file.
Stipulation and order language
A term sheet covering broker and relationship, list price or price rule, automatic reductions, minimum acceptable offer, repair cap, carrying costs and credits, access and showing rules, and disbursement, including the later escrow refund and HOA reserve items that are usually missed.
Execution under the order
Staging of a half-occupied home, showings around the parenting schedule, no divorce language in any marketing, offers answered with the appraisal, reductions on the schedule.
The record
A dated log of every showing, feedback note, offer, counter and price change, available to either side on request, in a form you can attach to a motion.
Closing and disbursement
Closing statement and disbursement instructions matched to the stipulation or decree; proceeds to the title company or your trust account when the case is not final.
The keeping spouse
Coordination with the lender on refinance and buyout feasibility before a deadline is written into the agreement, so the deadline is real. Mike Oswald at Rate, or any lender the party chooses.
Collaborative and mediated cases
Damon is trained as a collaborative-divorce real estate professional and is listed with Colorado Collaborative Divorce Professionals and South Denver Collaborative Divorce. On a collaborative team he works alongside the attorneys and the financial neutral; in mediation he provides the valuation and the term sheet before the session so the house is decided on numbers in the room.
What we do not do
- Represent one spouse against the other in a joint sale.
- Carry messages between the parties.
- Give legal or tax advice, or predict what a judge will do.
- Pay or accept anything for a referral, or trade referrals.
- Use “divorce,” “motivated” or a deadline in any marketing.
For your clients
The free Colorado divorce workshop is the monthly Zoom, Divorce and the House, the second Saturday of every month, 9:00 to 10:00 AM Mountain, with a real estate professional, a mortgage professional and a title professional, focused on what to do with the house; we refer you to family-law attorneys, financial analysts, mediators and counselors when you need one, and the whole program is online at no cost. Attorneys are welcome to present. Join the panel. The site itself is built to answer the house questions your clients ask you at $400 an hour: the four options, the buyout math, the $250,000 / $500,000 timing rule, why a quitclaim is not a release.
Disclosure
Damon L. Chavez is licensed with RE/MAX Professionals and works with The Kenna Real Estate Group at Keller Williams DTC as an affiliate partner. Both brokerages are disclosed to both parties in writing. Mike Oswald (NMLS 261003) is an independent loan officer with Rate; parties may use any lender, and no fees are exchanged for referrals.
Where to go next
- Divorce real estate specialists (the hub)
- Brian Lee Burke
- Damon L. Chavez, Certified Real Estate Divorce Specialist
- For divorce attorneys and mediators
- Court-ordered home sales in Colorado
- What if one spouse refuses to sell
- Highlands Ranch divorce realtor
- Littleton divorce realtor
- Centennial divorce realtor
- Denver divorce realtor
- The free Colorado divorce-home guide
- All six free guides (PDF)
- Sell the house
- Keep the house
- What is the house worth
- CFPB: what happens to a mortgage in a divorce
- Colorado Judicial Branch: divorce self-help
- IRS Publication 523: selling your home
- Fannie Mae Selling Guide B3-6-05: debts paid by others
- Register for the free monthly Zoom: Divorce and the House
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Questions about the house, the deed or the decree?
Call us today to talk through your situation and how we can help. A live person answers. Not a robot, not a phone tree.
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Send us the file
Property address, county, where the case stands, and both attorneys' contact details if you want them copied. We reply the same business day.
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Divorce Decisions™: Colorado divorce workshops and education. Real estate services provided by The Kenna Real Estate Group at Keller Williams DTC. Not legal, tax, lending or financial advice.
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