http://highrground.com Colorado Real Estate Blog Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:18:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fair Bear Warning This isn't one of those jokes that starts with a rabbi, a priest, and a minister walking into a bar. It does involve bears, however. Into the Wild (Kind of) When relocating to Estes Park, Boulder, Evergreen, Lyons, and other towns with lots of lurking wildlife, new ... http://highrground.com/2008/08/27/estes-park-boulder-evergreen-commonalities/ View of Estes Park looking west In the spring of 2008 Estes Park homes and property owners were thrilled to learn that the town had won four different and important honors as a top place to spend a day or a vacation. They were: The Weather Channel, Kids Pages, the Greeley ... http://highrground.com/2008/08/24/estes-park-colorado-homes/ If your bathroom, kitchen or floor tiles are looking a little rough, consider renewing the grout, especially if re-tiling an area is out of the question. Considering that grout is dramatically less expensive than tile, your main decision has to do with choosing a grout color, which was recently simplified ... http://highrground.com/2008/08/22/colorado-home-improvements/ If you've never been to South Boulder, or SoBo as Boulderites have started to call it, it's the end of Boulder off closest to Golden, and is also sometimes referred to as the smaller neighborhood components of Table Mesa, Martin Acres, Devil's Thumb, Shanahan Ridge, and others. Here's who lives ... http://highrground.com/2008/08/19/sobo-south-boulder-colorado/ The name LoHi sounds like something you eat in Hawaii, or a gambling strategy you'd use up in Black Hawk or Central City, but if you're familiar with LoDo (lower downtown), you know that LoHi is the new-new mashup neighborhood name that's gaining popularity with the Denver crowd. It's ... http://highrground.com/2008/08/17/denver-lohi-homes/ An aerial view of the 80108 zip code with active listings Today there are over one hundred listings in Castle Pines Village for sale, which makes it one of Colorado's most active neighborhoods; it's a top Colorado neighborhood with land offerings, single-family homes, patio homes, and condos/townhomes galore in sub-neighborhoods ... http://highrground.com/2008/08/15/castle-pines-village/ A photo of the Denver Botanical Gardens (Flickr--Creative Commons) Among Colorado home owners, the phrase "water, water everywhere" isn't a phrase often thrown around. With summertime lawn watering restrictions in Denver, it isn't always easy to keep things green when temperatures rise into the 90s and higher. But with ... http://highrground.com/2008/08/14/colorado-front-range/ If country club living is for you, the news is good in Boulder. Homes in Boulder's Country Club Estates are relatively plentiful, and reasonably priced. With homes starting in the mid-400s to the mid-600s, Boulder's Country Club Estates is one of the more active neighborhoods in the area's portfolio - ... http://highrground.com/2008/08/12/boulder-colorado-country-club-estates/ Between the mountains to the west of Boulder, US highway 36, Dartmouth Avenue, and Greenbriar Blvd/Lehigh Street, is a network of neighborhoods that are as varied and unique as a homebuyer's personality. It's South Boulder, otherwise known as SoBo or Table Mesa, and consists of winding roads that ... http://highrground.com/2008/08/10/south-boulder-neighborhoods/ It's not just that the Boulder Heights neighborhood, in Boulder's 80302 zip code, is perched atop the west edge of Boulder's mountainside, it's also a top Colorado neighborhood in terms of activity and popularity. Median home prices in the Boulder Heights neighborhood, which consists of all kinds of single-family homes, ... http://highrground.com/2008/08/08/boulder-heights-real-estate/