Alex Saldana

Alex Saldana Where Real Estate Investors, Homeowners, and Buyers Get Their Questions Answered

By focusing on the relationships in Real Estate, together, we can accomplish a lot. Always being open and transparent in every relationship creates an environment where everyone is comfortable to speak their mind. I love technology and believe that leveraging everything available to us creates the best possible success rates! Call me, email me, messenger me, text me or write me a letter and I'll respond each and every time.

06/09/2026

Most Denver buyers walk past their best deal because the listing has been sitting for two months and they assume something's wrong with it.

I had a listing this spring at $375,000 that sat for two months. Three doors down, a worse house, smaller, rougher condition, hit the market and went under contract in a week at $5,000 over my asking price. Same block. Same buyers. Mine was cheaper, in better shape, and in a slightly better location.

The difference was timing. April hit, the spring buyer wave came off the fence, and the buyers ran toward the freshest listing on their auto-search emails without ever clicking on mine three doors down at $5,000 less.

That's how a Denver buyer overpays by $15,000 to $20,000.

The move nobody tells you: sort your search by oldest active first. The seller of the oldest listing in your neighborhood is mentally past the original number and waiting for somebody to write a real offer. The newest listings are where buyers compete for nothing.

Which are you, oldest-first or newest-first?

06/08/2026

Country Club's median closed price is up 85% year-over-year, and that number is almost meaningless.

Country Club sells maybe 3 to 6 houses a month. One $5M sale and the median goes haywire. April was $3M, March was $582K, both true, both useless on their own.

If you're shopping that part of town, you're not buying it to negotiate. You're buying because that's where you want to be.

06/07/2026

One Thing You Wish You Knew

06/07/2026

37% of Denver homes did NOT get bought by institutional investors last month, even though that's the headline going around.

Real math: about 5,200 single-family sales in April, 434 of them to corporations or LLCs. That's 8.3%, not 37. And the biggest 'investor' on their list is actually a wholesaler flipping houses right back to families.

Don't let bad math scare you out of buying.

06/07/2026

"It feels like we live in a StairMaster."

My client said that to me about six months into owning a tri-level she'd bought against my soft warning. Three kids, dogs, decent lot in Centennial. The price was right. The square footage was right on paper. The house never stopped reminding her she lived on five levels.

Tri-levels and split-levels show up all over the south Denver metro and they're consistently the best deal per square foot. There's a reason. They're an acquired taste. If you didn't grow up in one, the layout fights you for years.

Done well, they can work. North of 2,800 square feet with real light on the family room level. Done small without proper windows, you'll be tired of it in a year.

For retirees, single-level living predicts how long you actually stay in a house. Tri-levels are the opposite of single-level.

Spend an hour in one before you buy. Walk all the levels twice.

What house layout fought you the hardest?

06/06/2026

Is It A Good Time To Buy

06/06/2026

If you're in your 20s or 30s and you want real estate to actually build wealth for you by 40, buy what you don't want, where you don't want.

I know how that sounds, and I wish someone had told me this when I was younger.

The most inexpensive pockets of any metro have the lowest barrier to entry and the best path to becoming a cash-flowing rental later. Buy a three-bed two-bath ranch or a small condo in a sub-$400K corner of Denver, live in it 5 to 7 years, then when life pushes you to the neighborhood you actually want, don't sell the first place. Rent it out.

If it cash flows even a few hundred a month after you move, never sell it. It becomes a retirement asset that pays you for decades.

The trap I watch young buyers fall into is wanting their first house to be their dream house. That move costs you a decade of compounding.

06/06/2026

Denver doesn't have a traffic problem. It has a perception problem.

I ran the actual drive times on a Thursday at the start of rush hour. Downtown to the south end of town: 23 minutes, six miles. Far south Denver to DIA, which is basically halfway to Kansas: 48 minutes. South Denver to Northglenn, clear across the metro: 41 minutes for 16 miles.

If you live in DC, Houston, LA, Chicago, or New York, you read those and laugh. Those are not traffic numbers. They're roughly mid-day, mid-sized-city numbers we happen to see at the peak of our rush hour.

The people who complain about Denver traffic grew up here. They mean traffic moved slower than they wanted. A relocator from Houston hearing the same complaint pictures a two-hour commute. Different definitions of the same word.

The locals are right about one thing: ski Saturdays on I-70 are brutal if you leave after 6 a.m. Leave by 5:30 or stay overnight near the resort.

What city did you move to Denver from, and was the traffic better or worse than you expected?

06/05/2026

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