Denver's Ghost Tax

[theGinsue]

Vacant or not, the landlord is still paying annual property tax on that property. So long as that exists, and is paid, it's no ones business what you do with it.

My vacant apartment is not vacant.

It's not vacant, it's your Shangri-La oasis for extra-marital affairs (just inform your wife ahead of time that this is the argument you'll use or you'll have other issues to content with).



I've known a few landlords through the last few years and what I've been told is that there is an increasing number of renters who cause so much damage to rental property that it's cheaper to leave the property vacant than to fix it up between each renter. What I saw with my own eyes on a friends rental home is it is doubly worse when the renters are government subsidized. The home was trashed and any appliance that could be stole, was stolen.

Then too is the double-edged sword of leaving a property vacant. We've all heard the horror stories of squatters coming into vacant homes, sometimes even "occupied" homes of those who've been out of town for a couple of days. In CO, getting them out is near impossible. What CSPD told me a year ago, to establish official residence someplace, all you have to do is list the address someplace as simple as a King Soopers loyalty card application as your residence - never even stepping into the residence.



As to the Denver "Ghost Tax", if a bureaucrat can tax something, they will.

[Firehaus]

I've known a few landlords through the last few years and what I've been told is that there is an increasing number of renters who cause so much damage to rental property that it's cheaper to leave the property vacant than to fix it up between each renter. What I saw with my own eyes on a friends rental home is it is doubly worse when the renters are government subsidized. The home was trashed and any appliance that could be stole, was stolen.

Then too is the double-edged sword of leaving a property vacant. We've all heard the horror stories of squatters coming into vacant homes, sometimes even "occupied" homes of those who've been out of town for a couple of days. In CO, getting them out is near impossible. What CSPD told me a year ago, to establish official residence someplace, all you have to do is list the address someplace as simple as a King Soopers loyalty card application as your residence - never even stepping into the residence.



As to the Denver "Ghost Tax", if a bureaucrat can tax something, they will.

Leaving it empty is worse. Meth remediation is not cheap and sometimes a stolen stove is better than this.




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