--- title: "Colorado Landlord Compliance Kit | MCC Solutions" description: "Colorado landlord kit: deposit returned within 30 days, 24-hour entry notice, $7,500 small claims limit. Checklists, notice calendar and Excel tracker." url: "https://mcc-solutionsnj.com/toolkits/colorado-landlord-compliance-kit" --- Document pack # Colorado Landlord Compliance Kit: Deposit, Notice and Eviction Checklists with an Excel Tracker The Colorado landlord-tenant rules in one package: deposit returned within 30 days; 24-hour entry notice; $7,500 small claims limit. **Coming soon** not on sale yet Why it is not on sale yet [Read the free guide](/state-rules?state=co) 🌙 The desk is asleep. The store never is. Every kit and ebook downloads the moment you pay, day or night. Questions get answered after we open in the morning. [Browse the store](/toolkits) Who it is for Landlords and property managers with rentals in Colorado, and tenants who want the same record, from move-in through move-out or a court case. Not the right fit if Your rental is outside Colorado: get that state's kit. Not legal advice, not a lawyer's review of a lease, notice or court case, and not a set of legal notice forms; city and county rules aren't covered. Why it is different - Built only from our Colorado data files, checked November 2026 against 12 official pages, among them Colorado General Assembly: HB25-1249, enrolled text; Colorado Division of Real Estate: HB25-1249 summary; Colorado Legislative Council Staff: Laws Regulating Landlords and Tenants (September 2024); Colorado Judicial Branch: Residential Evictions; Colorado Judicial Branch: Understanding the Eviction Process (FED clinic slides, November 2024); Colorado Judicial Branch: JDF 186 Information for Eviction Cases (R10/21), plus Justia (statute text) and National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel (a vetted secondary source, marked in the kit) where no official page could be read. - 4 items the official pages didn't state are left out of the rules and put on a short look-up list with the page to check, never guessed. - The workbook recalculates with zero formula errors and works out Colorado notice and deposit dates for you. What is inside - **Start here.** How to use the kit, the 19 confirmed Colorado rules at a glance and a short look-up list of 4 points to check: deposit limit, interest on the deposit, where the deposit is held, writ to lockout, each with the official page. - **Colorado landlord rules checklist.** Deposits, notice periods, the eviction case and the small claims limit, each confirmed rule with its source link and check date. What it confirms: return deadline: Within 30 days after the lease ends or the premises are surrendered, unless the lease sets a longer period of no more than 60 days; itemized list of deductions: A written statement listing the exact reasons for keeping any part of the deposit; penalty the law states: A landlord who doesn't comply forfeits the right to withhold any part of the deposit; ending month-to-month (landlord): By the length of the tenancy: 21 days for 1 month to less than 6 months; 3 days for 1 week to less than 1 month or at will; given before the end of the term; ending month-to-month (tenant): The same written notice as the landlord's, signed by the party giving it: 21 days for a tenancy of 1 month to less than 6 months; 3 days for 1 week to less than 1 month or at will; served before the end of the term; rent increase notice: Where there's no written lease, at least 60 days' notice; no more than one increase in any 12 consecutive months; unpaid rent notice: For most residential tenancies, ten days' written notice demanding payment of the rent or possession; entry notice: For repairs of a habitability condition, at least 24 hours' notice unless it threatens life, health or safety; late fee limits: Only if rent is at least 7 days overdue and the fee is in the agreement; the maximum is $50 or 5% of the past-due rent, whichever is greater; court: County court in the county where the rental is; filing fee: Depends on the amount claimed: $95 to $265 in the Jefferson County packet ($85 for county court claims under $1,000 in the clinic slides); time to answer or appear: The Answer is due by the court date on the summons; hearing after filing: The clerk sets the return (court) date 7 to 14 days after filing; judgment to writ: The writ of restitution can't issue until at least 10 days after judgment; who carries out the lockout: After the writ, the landlord sets a removal date with the sheriff; paying to stop the case: The court's clinic slides list paying the landlord the rent owed before the judge orders possession as a defense. - **Move-in and move-out deposit checklist.** A room-by-room condition checklist for both visits and the steps after move-out, with Colorado's return deadline (within 30 days). - **Notice calendar.** When each notice must go out: the lead time for every notice the state's text confirms, with a 2027 month-by-month serve-by table worked out with our notice date calculator's rules. - **Eviction timeline sheet.** The Colorado case in order from notice to lockout, with each confirmed stage, an example dated from a sample filing day where the rules give periods, and blanks for your own case dates. - **Colorado landlord workbook (Excel).** A tenant notice log that dates each notice from the Colorado rules, a deposit tracker that works out the return date for each move-out, and a rent ledger with a running balance. A look inside ## The first pages, as you will get them [![Page 1 of the Start Here (Colorado Landlord Compliance Kit)](/img/toolkits/colorado-landlord-compliance-kit/doc-1.webp)](/img/toolkits/colorado-landlord-compliance-kit/doc-1.webp) First page of Start Here [![Page 1 of the Colorado Landlord Rules Checklist (Colorado Landlord Compliance Kit)](/img/toolkits/colorado-landlord-compliance-kit/doc-2.webp)](/img/toolkits/colorado-landlord-compliance-kit/doc-2.webp) First page of Colorado Landlord Rules Checklist Get it ## Colorado Landlord Compliance Kit Coming soon This kit is being finished: every state rule in it is checked against official sources before it goes on sale. Free now: [State rules directory](/state-rules?state=co) Delivered as a zip of editable Word files and printable PDFs. For one business, your own use. General information and templates, not legal, tax or accounting advice. General information, not legal advice; we are not lawyers. The kit describes the rules for both sides of a lease and takes neither side. Cities, counties and the lease can add rules; the official pages linked in the kit have the final word. Payment is handled by Stripe. If a file will not open or something looks wrong, reply to your order email and we will make it right. Questions ## Common questions **What do I get and how is it delivered?** The Colorado Landlord Kit comes as a zip with five documents, each as an editable Word file and a printable PDF: Start Here, Colorado Landlord Rules Checklist, Move-In Move-Out Deposit Checklist, Notice Calendar 2027, and Eviction Timeline Sheet, plus an Excel workbook (Colorado Landlord Workbook). The download link arrives by email after payment. **Will it open on a Mac, Google Sheets or my phone?** The PDFs open in any PDF reader, and the Word files edit in Word, Google Docs or LibreOffice. The workbook is built for Excel and tested in LibreOffice; it should open in Google Sheets, but not every feature is tested there. If a file will not open or something looks wrong, reply to your order email and we will make it right. If it is not right for you, email us within 14 days of buying for a full refund. **Is this legal or tax advice?** General information, not legal advice; we are not lawyers. **Is it the right fit for me?** It is made for landlords and property managers with rentals in Colorado, and tenants who want the same record, from move-in through move-out or a court case. Skip it if your rental is outside Colorado: get that state's kit. Also from MCC Solutions [### Month-End Close Workbook A real month-end close in one Excel file. 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