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You cannot bid on a HUD home yourself. Every offer on hudhomestore.gov has to be placed by a broker HUD has registered and approved. The Kenna Real Estate Group at Keller Williams DTC (KWDTC) is one of those brokerages, and this page explains what that means, what a HUD agent actually does for you, and what it costs you. The short version: nothing.
Call or text 303-955-4220 and a live person answers. Not a robot, not a phone tree.
Only a registered broker can bid
HUD issues each brokerage a NAID number and recertifies it every year. No NAID, no bid. That is federal policy, not a sales pitch.
HUD pays your agent, not you
HUD pays the buyer-side commission out of the sale, up to 3% of the price. Your agent works for you and HUD covers the bill.
Owner-occupants get 15 days
On an insured home you have a 15-day window before investors can bid at all. Five days on an uninsured one. An agent who watches the site daily is the whole advantage.
Kenna Real Estate Group
A Colorado brokerage that works HUD, foreclosure and short-sale inventory every week, with a live person on the phone at 303-955-4220.
Why HUD makes you use a registered agent to buy a HUD home
HUD does not sell houses the way a normal seller does. It lists every home on one government website, takes sealed bids during a fixed window, and reviews them all at once. To keep that process clean, HUD only accepts bids from brokerages it has vetted and issued a NAID, a Name and Address Identifier. The principal broker registers first, then each agent registers under that broker with their own license number, and the whole thing is recertified yearly. If a brokerage has let that lapse, its agents cannot place your bid no matter how good they are.
So the first question to ask any agent is not “have you sold HUD homes” but “is your NAID active right now.” Ours is, and we will show you.
What a HUD home agent in Colorado actually does
- Watches the inventory every day. There are usually only a few dozen HUD homes for sale in the whole state at any moment, and the good ones draw bids inside the first owner-occupant window. Someone has to be checking daily, and it should not have to be you.
- Reads the listing the way HUD writes it. Insured, insured with escrow, uninsured. Each one changes what financing works and whether an FHA appraiser will sign off. The letters on the listing matter more than the photos.
- Gets you inside before the window closes. HUD homes are sold as-is and you are expected to inspect before you bid, not after. That means keys, utilities on, and an inspector lined up fast.
- Builds the bid so it survives HUD’s math. HUD looks at its net after commissions and closing-cost help, not your headline number. An agent who knows that structures the offer so the net is strong and the closing help is still there.
- Submits it correctly on hudhomestore.gov. Bids placed Monday through Thursday reach the asset manager the next business day. Weekend bids are grouped and reviewed Monday. Missing a field or a deadline is the most common way to lose a home you would have won.
- Runs the paperwork clock after you win. HUD gives you a fixed number of days to return the signed contract package and a fixed number to close. Late is the same as never.
What it costs you
Nothing out of pocket. HUD pays the selling agent’s commission from the sale proceeds, up to 3% of the purchase price. That is written into the HUD sales contract. You get an agent whose whole job is your side of the deal, and HUD picks up the fee. There is no scenario where a HUD buyer is better off without one, because there is no scenario where a HUD buyer can bid without one.
Why the Kenna Real Estate Group
We are a Colorado brokerage, HUD-registered, that works the hard inventory: HUD homes, foreclosures, and short sales. This site exists because the information buyers find about HUD homes is mostly thin, national, and years out of date. Every guide here is written for Colorado, by people who submit these bids.
Three things you will notice working with us. A live person answers the phone. We will tell you when a HUD home is the wrong move, which is often. And we do not charge you for any of it.
Why Colorado buyers trust the Kenna Real Estate Group with HUD homes
Trust is the whole product here. HUD does not care who your agent is; you should. This is who we are, verified by people who do not work for us.
BBB Accredited, A+Better Business Bureau profile5.0★283 reviews on Google, 5.0 ratingRead them, or leave one
Zillow Premier AgentReviews and sales on ZillowSixteen-plus years in Colorado, HUD-registered, and the only brokerage in the state that built a site to explain HUD homes instead of hiding them. About the Kenna Real Estate Group.
The hardest working team in real estate: Kenna’s HUD-registered agents
Every bid we place goes through the brokerage’s HUD registration, so any of these agents can write your offer on a HUD home in Colorado. Each face opens that agent’s HUD page: bio, direct line, what is available now, and a link to their profile and listings on kennarealestate.com. Pick the one you know, or call 303-955-4220 and the person who answers will match you with the agent who works your city.
Richelle DumasLicensed transaction coordinator, REALTOR®, In Your BusinessHUD pagekennarealestate.com
Why buyers pick the Kenna Real Estate Group at Keller Williams DTC
We are the hardest working team in real estate, and HUD homes are the part of the market we know cold. Here is what you get for the nothing you pay.
Our brokerage holds HUD registration and our agents file HUD bids every week. We know what wins in each county because we watch the results.
Kenna operates under Keller Williams Realty DTC, LLC in the Denver Tech Center, part of the largest real estate franchise in the world by agent count. Big network, big referral reach, real compliance.
Team leader Brian Lee Burke is our employing broker, a REALTOR® since 2002, and the author of two real estate books. Meet Brian.
BBB Accredited with an A+ rating, 283 five-star Google reviews, Zillow Premier Agents. And HUD pays our commission, so you pay us nothing.
Each Keller Williams office is independently owned and operated.
What to do next
- Call or text 303-955-4220 and tell us which city you are looking in and roughly what you can spend.
- Get pre-approved if you are not already. Here is why it matters more on a HUD home than on a normal one.
- Read how to buy a HUD home so the process is not a surprise when it starts moving fast.
Where to go next
- HUD homes for sale by city
- Search current HUD listings on our main site
- How the bidding really works
- From bid to closing, step by step
- Common HUD buyer mistakes
- Financing a HUD home
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Ready to talk to someone?
Call or text 303-955-4220. A live person answers. Tell us what you are working with and we will tell you honestly whether a HUD home is the way to get there.
What clients say about working with the Kenna Real Estate Group
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Every Kenna Real Estate Group listing on one map
For sale now (15)Sold by the Kenna Real Estate Group (6)One group, one inventory: any Kenna Real Estate Group agent can show you any of these homes.
Kenna Real Estate Group listings, active now
Every home the Kenna Real Estate Group currently has on the market, from the Keller Williams DTC MLS feed. Refreshed twice a day.
Recently sold by the Kenna Real Estate Group
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Listing data from REcolorado via kennarealestate.com, updated Sep 19. HUD homes are listed separately below.
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The Colorado HUD Home Buyer's Playbook
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Find every home available, not just HUD homes
Advanced home search: every listing on the Colorado MLS, with the full filters, on kennarealestate.com.
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Ask us about working with a HUD agent
Tell us what you are working with and we will tell you honestly whether a HUD home is the way to get there. No cost, no obligation, and nobody sells you anything.
Call or text 303-955-4220
A live person answers. Not a robot, not a phone tree.
