Alex Saldana

10/25/2026

Most desperate sellers never say it out loud, but the listing usually does.

Every listing has a private remarks section buyers never see, and that's where "motivated seller" and "bring all offers" show up. I also watch for a big price drop 10 to 14 days in, which tells me more than a house that sat for 4 or 5 months with one small cut. And when a deal falls apart, I ask for the inspection report and see what they do.

One California couple I'm working with is already 25 grand under the asking price just by being patient. I walk through all five signs in this video.

What's the biggest discount you've ever gotten on a house?

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10/25/2026

If I could only check one room on a house tour, it wouldn't be the kitchen.

It'd be the mechanical room, and it's the first place I walk with every buyer. I've flipped hundreds of homes, and the furnace and water heater area tells me how the whole house was looked after. Clean and cared for is a great sign, while rust, dust down the pipes, and filters nobody's changed tell me a different story.

Everybody gets drawn in by the kitchens and bathrooms, and I totally get it, but the stuff that costs you real money is behind the walls and down in the basement.

What's the first thing you check when you walk into a house?

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10/24/2026

My buddy in Chicago, who's an agent too, told me he'd love to move to Denver but it's just way too expensive.

So I looked it up, and according to the Forbes cost of living calculator, Denver is about 8% cheaper than Chicago on average. The main reason is property taxes. I pulled a $679,000 Denver listing and the taxes were about $296 a month, around $3,600 a year, which is roughly half a percent of the home's value, while Chicago's rate is more like 2 to 2.2%.

I grew up there, so I know the instinct that anywhere with mountains must cost a fortune, and sometimes the monthly math says otherwise.

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10/23/2026

People ask me all the time how bad traffic is in Denver, and I'm from Chicago, so I took the question seriously and pulled up the map.

At 3:20 on a Thursday afternoon, the drive from South Denver to downtown, about five and a half miles, was 23 minutes. All the way across town to the airport was 48 minutes, and from South Denver clear up to Northglenn, the opposite side of the metro, was 41 minutes for 16 and a half miles. If you've lived in Chicago or LA you know that's nothing.

I'll tell you straight that you do need a car here, because public transportation is pretty weak, but the traffic itself is better than you probably think.

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10/23/2026

Lakewood, Colorado explained: what it's really like to live there.

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10/23/2026

Moving to Denver and want mountain views, foothills access, and light rail to downtown? Lakewood keeps coming up with my relocation clients, and I get why.

It's got more than 80 parks, a 2,600 acre lake park on the west side, Belmar for walkable shopping, and you're 15 to 20 minutes from Red Rocks. You can hike on a weeknight and catch a concert on the weekend, and the W Line gets you to Union Station in 20 to 25 minutes.

The catch is that it's huge, 44 square miles, so a commute to DTC can easily hit 30 minutes plus, and school assignments change block by block.

If you've lived in Lakewood, what side of town would you tell a newcomer to look at first?

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10/22/2026

Everybody loves a mid-century modern until the first roof bill comes in.

I had a couple move here from the West Coast who just had to have the clean lines, and I tried to talk them through it, but the house was gorgeous and they fell for it. Within the first year it cost them about $40,000. A flat roof can run two to three times what a regular roof costs, and since there's no attic, putting up a ceiling fan means tearing into the ceiling.

Then there's the part nobody mentions, which is that if the house has an architect's name on it you really can't add on without wrecking the value, so when the kids show up you're stuck in a 1,200 to 1,600 square foot time capsule.

If you know what you're getting into, they're great. I'm just a guy who'd rather have the attic. Do you own one, and would you do it again?

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10/22/2026

Everybody asks me who pays my fee now that the rules changed, and the answer is the same person as before.

The media made it sound like buyers were suddenly on the hook for thousands, but in almost every deal I write, the seller still covers it, because they want buyers' agents showing up with offers. The only real difference is that it's written into the contract now. I put in 2.8% with a 2% floor, so if the seller counters at 2.5 or 2, I just take it, and only below 2 would I ask my buyer to make up the difference.

Anyone been confused by what you read about this?

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10/21/2026

My buyers almost walked away from a house in Summit County because a stucco inspection said it needed over $100,000 in repairs.

It was a 5,000 square foot home with EIFS stucco, and the inspector was a respected old timer who'd inspected that same house 15 or 20 years ago, so everybody trusted him. The stucco inspection alone ran about $1,800, and the report was so technical none of us could make sense of it. So I called a contractor friend who builds up there, and he said you could tear off the whole thing and redo it for roughly $50,000 to $75,000, which made a $100,000 repair list sound pretty off.

We brought in a third opinion, got it all in writing, and the stucco turned out to be in great shape for its age. My clients bought the house and they love it.

Has an inspection report ever scared you off something that turned out fine?

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10/21/2026

What is it really like to live in the Denver Tech Center? Let's explore it.

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