It’s a problem renters across Colorado are dealing with — Landlords taking rent money, but not taking care of basic repairs to your unit.
Now that Senate Bill 24-094 has been signed into law, the hope is that will all change. The legsilation is meant to make sure property managers actually fix the problems you report.
When Blaire Moore moved into The Felix Apartments in southeast Denver, she thought she’d found a great place to call home.
“It’s a pretty good deal on paper,” Moore said.
That’s until the problems started piling up.
“The issues come in when you don’t have heat in the winter, or you don’t have hot water,” Moore said.
She reported the problems to her property manager, but waited months for a fix.
“If you go into the office, they might give you ‘Oh, okay, we’ll put that on our work order list and get to it.’ And then they won’t,” Moore explained.
Those issues and a laundry list of others caught the attention of Eida Altman with the Denver Metro Tenants Union.
“We’ve talked to people who could see their breath in their apartments, rodents, crumbling asbestos ceilings, electrical fires,” Altman listed.