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Free HUD home guides for Colorado buyers
The Buyer’s Playbook, the $100 Down Financing Guide, the Good Neighbor Next Door Guide and the Teacher’s Guide. Written by the team that places HUD bids every month, with the Colorado numbers and the catches included. Download in ten seconds.
Call or text 303-955-4220 and a live person answers. Not a robot, not a phone tree.
The Buyer’s Playbook
How the bidding really works, the nine ways buyers lose, the worksheet and the checklist. 18 pages.
$100 Down Financing
The $100 down rule, FHA, the repair escrow, 203(k), CHFA, and HUD paying your closing costs. 14 pages.
Good Neighbor Next Door
50% off for teachers, police, firefighters and EMTs: who qualifies, the lottery, the 36-month rule. 7 pages.
The Teacher’s Guide
Schools To Home (25%), Good Neighbor Next Door (50% off) and $100 down, compared for every Colorado school employee. 8 pages.
Four free guides, written by the people who place the bids
Every HUD home in Colorado is sold on a government calendar with a rulebook almost nobody reads. These guides are the rulebook in plain English, with Denver-metro numbers and the catches included. Pick the one that matches where you are. Each opens instantly as a PDF and we email you a copy.
Free PDF, 18 pages
The Colorado HUD Home Buyer’s Playbook
- Lottery, exclusive and extended periods, and exactly when HUD opens bids (including the weekend rule)
- IN, IE, UI and UK, and which loan closes on each
- The net-to-HUD math with a worked example, and when to ask HUD for closing-cost help
Free PDF, 14 pages
$100 Down: The HUD Home Financing Guide
- The $100 down rule and the listings it works on (and the bid price it expects)
- FHA on a HUD home: down payment, credit, mortgage insurance, and why the appraisal is less risky
- IN, IE, UI, UK: matching the loan to the code so you never win a bid you cannot close
Free PDF, 7 pages
Good Neighbor Next Door: The 50% Off Guide
- How the program works, step by step, with a worked Aurora example
- HUD’s exact job definitions and the other rules (no current home, one per lifetime, serving the area)
- Where the eligible homes have historically come up in Colorado, and how to watch for them
Free PDF, 8 pages
The Colorado Teacher’s Guide to Buying a HUD Home
- Every rule of CHFA Schools To Home in one table: who, how much, income, credit, the loan, the classes
- The shared-appreciation math (your percentage minus five) with a worked six-year example
- What changes when you use it on a HUD home: the listing code, the appraisal, the deadline
Why we give them away
Because the buyers who understand the calendar, the codes and the net-to-HUD math are the ones who win, and we would rather you win with us than lose without us. Nothing in these guides is held back for a sales call. If you read one and never call, you still got the whole thing.
What happens after you download
- The guide opens on your screen the second you tap the button, and a copy lands in your inbox.
- One of our agents calls or texts once to see if you have a question about a specific home. If you do not, that is the end of it.
- When a HUD home appears in your city, you already know what the listing means and what to do in the first 48 hours.
Questions people ask before downloading
Is it really free? Yes. No credit card, no trial, nothing to cancel.
Will you spam me? No. One call or text to see if you have questions, and the guide by email. Reply STOP to any text and we stop. We never sell or share your information.
Do I need to be working with you to use it? No. Use it with any HUD-registered agent. We hope it is us, and we tell you in the guide how to check any agent.
Where to go next
- How to buy a HUD home, step by step
- Every HUD home in Colorado, refreshed twice a day
- Financing a HUD home: IN, IE, UI and which loan fits
- Good Neighbor Next Door in Colorado
- Get pre-approved with Mike Oswald at Rate
- Find a HUD-registered agent
- HUD home FAQs
- Search HUD listings on kennarealestate.com
Find every home available, not just HUD homes
Advanced home search: every listing on the Colorado MLS, with the full filters, on kennarealestate.com.
Opens kennarealestate.com, the Kenna Real Estate Group’s full MLS search. HUD homes only? Use the tiles and the map on this site.
Ask us about any HUD home in Colorado
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.
