Old Town is the reason a lot of people move to Fort Collins. Brick and stone, real porches, mature trees, houses built when craftsmen expected their work to outlive them. A significant share of the housing stock west and north of College predates 1940. We love these...
Finished Basement Water Damage: Why It Costs So Much More to Dry
A finished basement is usually the best value in a Northern Colorado house. It's also, by a wide margin, the most expensive room to dry out. Two identical Loveland homes take on the same two inches of water. The one with an unfinished basement is a three-day drying...
Living Near the Big Thompson: Flood, Snowmelt and Basement Water in Loveland
Loveland has a relationship with the Big Thompson that most cities don't have with their river. In 1976, a wall of water came down the canyon in one of the deadliest floods in Colorado history. In September 2013 it happened again — less catastrophic, still enormous....
Loveland Hail Damage: Why the Roof Leak Shows Up Six Months Later
Here's a conversation we have several times a year in Loveland. It's January. There's a brown ring on a bedroom ceiling. The homeowner is certain it's a plumbing problem, because the last storm was six months ago and the roof looked completely fine afterward. It's...
Greeley Flood Risk and the Insurance Gap Nobody Finds Out About Until It’s Too Late
In September 2013, the South Platte and the Poudre came up together and Greeley and Evans took the worst of it in Weld County. County officials estimated roughly 2,900 residential properties were impacted. Hundreds of residents were displaced. It was described at the...
Older Greeley Homes: The Plumbing and Foundation Problems We Find Most
The homes around Glenmere Park, Hillside and the older streets near UNC are some of the best-built houses in Northern Colorado. Real lumber, plaster walls, mature trees, and character that nobody is building anymore. They also have plumbing and foundations that were...







