Question 1

Why does a blanket loan fit a Fort Collins rental portfolio in particular?

Accepted Answer

Because the per-door economics near Colorado State University changed in mid-2024. A portfolio built for the new rules scales differently than one underwritten for the old ones. Colorado's HOME Act (HB24-1007) preempted local occupancy caps based on familial relationship, and Fort Collins repealed its own "U+2" unrelated-occupant limit on second reading July 2, 2024. CSU enrolled 34,412 students in fall 2025, an all-time high. Whole-house rent still only clears about a 4.1% gross yield on a Fort Collins mid-tier home ($1,938 a month on $569,102, June 2026 Zillow data), so the case for a multi-property Fort Collins book runs through per-bedroom student leases, not single whole-house rents. One blanket loan with a single payment gets simpler than reconciling a separate mortgage on every door as that kind of portfolio scales. See DSCR loans if you would rather finance doors one at a time. Subject to underwriting.

Question 2

My portfolio spans Fort Collins and the surrounding towns. Does that mean juggling multiple counties?

Accepted Answer

Often yes, and the two counties are not even on the same appeal calendar. Fort Collins, Loveland, Timnath, Wellington and Berthoud sit in Larimer County, while Greeley and most of Windsor sit in Weld County, each with its own assessor and certified levies. Larimer also uses the alternate protest procedure, so its Notices of Determination went out August 15, 2025, well after the ordinary late-June timing elsewhere in the state. A blanket loan across both counties needs each parcel's own assessor and appeal date tracked separately, not a single metro-wide assumption.

Question 3

Does every door in a Fort Collins portfolio carry roughly the same tax line?

Accepted Answer

No, and metro districts are the reason. The Larimer County base rate on an unexempt rental works out to about 0.65% of value on the certified Fort Collins levy stack, but Larimer's metropolitan districts collected $50.9 million in property tax in tax year 2024, nearly as much as every city and town in the county combined, and individual district levies run from single digits into the triple digits. A 60-mill district on a $500,000 rental adds roughly $1,875 a year on its own. Pull each parcel's tax area from the county assessor before you size a blanket loan across several addresses; do not blend a portfolio-wide average.

Question 4

Does the city's rental registration rule add up across a multi-property Fort Collins portfolio?

Accepted Answer

It is a real line item, but it scales gently. Since January 1, 2025, most Fort Collins long-term rentals of 30 days or more must register with the city for $37 per property plus $10 for each additional unit on that property, with no inspection required as part of registration. On a portfolio of single-family rentals that is $37 per door; a multi-unit building adds the per-unit fee on top. It is a closing-checklist item on every Fort Collins property in the file, not a cost that changes the underwriting.

Question 5

If I have to foreclose on one property in a Fort Collins blanket loan, does that hold up the rest of the portfolio?

Accepted Answer

No, the release structure keeps the rest of the portfolio financed while one property works through its own process. Colorado forecloses through the public trustee system rather than the courts, with a Notice of Election and Demand that runs 110 to 125 days to sale and only a limited Rule 120 court check, and there is no owner redemption period after the sale, only a junior-lienor redemption window. That process attaches to the individual property in question, and our portfolio loans are structured with the option to release individual properties as they're resolved, so one door's process doesn't force a refinance or default event across the whole file. Anything involving how a specific release interacts with your loan documents is a question for us at underwriting.

Question 6

Are closing costs on a multi-property Fort Collins closing going to add up?

Accepted Answer

Conveyance costs here are genuinely small, whatever the size of the file. Colorado's documentary fee is $0.01 per $100 of the purchase price, and recording went flat statewide on 2025-07-01 at $40 per document plus a $3 technology surcharge, or $43 per document, regardless of page count. Rolling several Fort Collins-area properties into one blanket loan does not multiply those costs the way separately recording each one can start to.

Question 7

How many Fort Collins doors do I need before a portfolio loan makes sense?

Accepted Answer

Five or more properties. That is the entry point for a blanket structure: one consolidated payment across the book instead of a separate mortgage on every door, with individual property release as you sell. Under five, financing them one at a time on a DSCR loan is usually the cleaner path. A student-rental book near Colorado State tends to cross that line quickly once the per-bedroom model is doing the work. Subject to underwriting.

Question 8

Is there a minimum loan size for a Fort Collins portfolio loan?

Accepted Answer

Yes, $500,000 and up across the whole book. That is the combined loan, not a per-door figure, so a handful of ring-town rentals in Loveland, Greeley or Windsor can clear it together even where no single door would on its own. The term is custom, built around the book rather than a standard product sheet, which is where crossing the Larimer and Weld county line, with two assessors and two appeal calendars, gets handled. Subject to underwriting.

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