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Real Estate Agent - Coldwell Banker Colorado Rockies Real Estate
The Colorado mountains, real estate, ski resorts, lifestyle and vacation homes is my focus. I am a resource for people who want to know more about buying, selling and renting their vacation homes in all of Summit County; Breckenridge, Frisco, Copper Mountain, Keystone, Dillon and Silverthorne.
RECENT BLOG POSTS
Allen Hainge and Agency Logic recently ran a contest for a "best website".  On a whim, I entered mine, and I am sure lots of other people did too.  The winners were just announced, and Active Rain bloggers,   Diane Szoke & Carolyn Dubrofsky of http://www.charlestonyourhome.com/, were the grand pr...
10/12/2007
How does a real estate closing work where you live?  Do you have attorneys involved?  Do the Buyer and Seller both meet at the closing, hand over keys, talk about the strange characteristics that only this house has that the Buyer needs to know about, and wish each other luck? It doesn't  work th...
10/12/2007
The Center Village at Copper Mountain is the newest base area closest to the American Flyer and the American Eagle lifts.  The majority of the Village was built in 1999 and 2000, with Passage Point built a little later, in 2001. It is a part of what was heralded as the "rennaisance" of Copper Mou...
10/07/2007
For the last few weeks I have had a survey running on my Summit County real estate blog, asking people which is their favorite Summit County Ski Resort.  Copper Mountain took the lead early on (I only voted once!) and is now way ahead of all the other resorts. Today my SKI magazine came in the ma...
09/24/2007
An AR friend called me today asking about 1031 exchanges.  She knew that we do a lot of them as we are in an area with a lot of rental properties.  Her call reminded me that I had written a couple of posts about them on my outside blog, and thought that I should post them here too.  When buying o...
09/21/2007
Many websites are now devoted to helping people who want to exchange homes, almost anywhere in the world. The idea is that if you want to go to France, and someone in France wants to go where you live, you connect on the web and trade houses. Sounds easy, and perhaps it is.I was born in New Zeala...
09/17/2007
When you want to put your Colorado vacation home on a rental program, how do you know which management company you should hire to take care of it for you?  You have many options, from renting it yourself using the internet with some local assistance, to being very hands off and doing no more than...
09/12/2007
Our Summit County, Colorado real estate market continues to be strong.  It is a topic of conversation everywhere I go these days.  A couple of days ago I met with some Realtor friends for lunch and some client friends for dinner, and the market conditions were discussed in both places. When the r...
09/11/2007
 This is a contest entry to the Active Rain Buyer Challenge:  Dear Miss Hilton,I understand that you would like more information about the possible purchase of a vacation home here in the mountains of Colorado.  I am a little unclear as to what your use of that home will be, so am attaching sever...
09/10/2007
Not only is September Emergency Preparedness month, it is also ski preparedness month! It is time to buy season passes to Breckenridge, Keystone, Copper Mountain and Arapahoe Basin.  It is also a time when we anxiously await the equipment reviews in Ski magazine, the ski swap announcements, the L...
09/07/2007
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Joanne Hanson

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The Colorado mountains, real estate, ski resorts, lifestyle and vacation homes is my focus. We talk about buying and selling ski condos in Breckenridge, Keystone and Copper Mountain. Homes and land in Frisco, Dillon and Silverthorne are also in our market area