For sale by owner: Marketing your house to a wide audience just got a little easier, thanks to a partnership between eBay drop-off franchise QuikDrop and ForSaleByOwner.com.
Through nearly 100 locations nationwide, including six in metro Denver, QuikDrop stores will help customers sell their homes and what’s in them on ForSaleByOwner.com and eBay.
Colorado QuikDrop stores are at 14705 W. 64th Ave., Arvada; 2720 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver; 9579 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch; 7421 W. Bowles Ave., Littleton; 11153 S. Parker Road, Parker; and 3502 Wads worth Blvd., Wheat Ridge.
Mountain growth: A Denver law firm has tripled the size of its Aspen office to handle demand for real-estate legal work in the Roaring Fork Valley.
Lawyers Cheryl Malcolm and Jim Ellenberger of Johnson Robinson Neff & Ragonetti have moved from Denver to help Aspen partner Bart Johnson with his real-estate clients. Both will continue to work with their existing clients from the Aspen office.
Johnson has closed more than $180 million in residential and ranch deals this year and has another $300 million in the pipeline.
Aggregate venture: A Denver development and investment company has acquired the 341-acre Lupton Lakes gravel-mining and water-storage facility.
An affiliate of Southwestern Investment Group Inc. – SW-TKO LLC – paid more than $28 million for the property. The land was owned by a joint venture that included Southwestern Investment and Premier Paving, the largest asphalt contractor in Colorado.
SW-TKO includes Denver Water, FRICO, South Adams County Water and Sanitation, Henry Lynn Ditch Co. and United Water and Sanitation.
The parcel is expected to produce 32 million tons of aggregate now being mined by Lefarge Industries. After mining, the project will provide for 11,000 acre-feet of future water storage for the Fort Lupton area.
Paying it forward: Fort Collins Re/Max Advance agent Carolina Westers donates 10 percent of every commission to charity, according to the September issue of Re/Max Times.
Since 2003, Westers has given more than $56,000 to charities, including $18,000 last year.
She lets her clients pick the charities. If they don’t have a preference, she contributes to Village Earth, a Colorado nonprofit that supports communities worldwide.
Staff writer Margaret Jackson can be reached at 303-954-1473 or mjackson@denverpost.com.
