Most people assume Colorado short-term rentals are a mountain-town game: Breckenridge, Estes Park, Steamboat. What surprises buyers is that the rules 25 minutes south of Denver are tighter than the rules in most ski towns.

Of the five markets I get asked about most (Castle Rock, Castle Pines, Parker, …

Parker gets described as "the family town" of Douglas County so often that the phrase has stopped meaning much. What people are actually reacting to is more specific than that: Parker is one of the few places in the south metro that has a real downtown, and that changes how …