The Mountain Village Address-Level Due-Diligence Checklist for Buyers
Before buying a specific Mountain Village property, create one address-level evidence file keyed to the exact street address, unit, lot, parcel or account number, legal description, owner record, zoning district, condominium zoning designation, permit identifiers, recorded-document references, and signed Colorado purchase contract. Reconcile Town maps and planning records, the condominium designation and density file, OpenGov plus Community Core and permit-log history, design-review and deed-restriction records, County assessor and recorder documents, title and survey evidence, and the actual title, association, survey, inspection, insurance, due-diligence, objection, resolution, and other signed deadlines before the buyer's deadline. A Mountain Village street address alone may not identify the exact unit, lot, parcel or account number, legal description, owner record, zoning district, condominium zoning designation, permit record, or recorded-document chain. Match the street address, unit, lot, parcel or account number, legal description, owner record, zoning district, condominium zoning designation, permit identifiers, and recorded-document references before joining systems. Town and County GIS resources display relative locations and are not guaranteed accurate, legal, or surveyed representations of land. Use maps only to screen and reconcile records, then obtain the applicable recorded plat and a Colorado licensed surveyor's work when boundaries, improvements, access, encroachments, or legal location matter. A zone district does not establish a Mountain Village condominium zoning designation, permitted configuration, person-equivalent density, short-term-accommodation status, deed restriction, or unit-specific right. Confirm the exact lot and unit against the current zoning designation list, recorded PUD and amendments, condominium map and declaration, density allocation, deed restrictions, and Town interpretation before relying on use or redevelopment potential. One permit portal may not show the complete Mountain Village history because new work uses OpenGov while existing issued permits can remain in Community Core until transferred. Search both systems and the Town permit-log history, then match the exact address, scope, plans, permits, inspections, corrections, certificates, and final status with Town staff and responsible professionals. A planning application, design-review path, permit, inspection entry, or code list does not prove approval finality, legal use, complete scope, passed inspections, resolved corrections, code compliance, or current condition. Review the complete address and lot file, agendas and decisions, approved plans, conditions, permits, inspection records, corrections, certificates, expiration or transfer status, and proposed-work requirements with the Town and qualified professionals. Assessor fields, recorder index results, document images, and plats do not by themselves establish title, lien priority, legal effect, restrictions, boundaries, insurability, transaction value, legal use, or property condition. Have the buyer's attorney, title professional, surveyor, appraiser, inspector, engineer, and other qualified professionals reconcile the exact legal description, chain, exceptions, liens, releases, easements, restrictions, plats, survey evidence, title coverage, value, and physical condition. Community-housing and deed-restriction program information does not mean every property has the same restriction, qualification, occupancy, transfer, appreciation, rental, or approval terms. Obtain and review the exact recorded deed restriction, amendments, compliance history, current administrative rules, qualification and occupancy evidence, transfer approvals, and association documents for the subject property. The Commission-approved contract form and public systems contain no subject-property conclusion, completed deadline, title result, survey result, zoning conclusion, designation conclusion, permit conclusion, inspection result, deed-restriction determination, insurance result, or client-specific transaction conclusion. Use the fully signed contract and current exact-property records, and do not invent any Mountain Rose Realty performance, credential, representation, transaction, or Mountain Village-specific local-experience claim.
Lock the address, unit, lot, parcel, legal description, and owner
Start this step with the exact identifiers named in the sealed checklist. Keep one dated evidence file, label the resolution of every record, and preserve any mismatch as an open question rather than forcing records together. This makes the mountain village address-level due-diligence guide for buyers usable by the buyer, attorney, title professional, inspector, and other responsible parties without inventing a property conclusion.
Verified evidence for this step
- Verified official finding: Mountain Village publishes official GIS, zoning, lot, and open-space resources for location and planning screens, while both Town and County GIS disclaimers say mapped locations are relative and are not guaranteed legal or surveyed representations. Source: Maps & GIS and Requests to Revise GIS Maps.
- Verified official finding: San Miguel County provides Property Information Online for property and valuation information, and the Clerk and Recorder provides real-property records and plats from 1875 to current, subject to index and legal-advice limitations. Source: Assessor and Recording and County Clerk & Recorder's Office Disclaimer.
Verify before moving on
Record the exact match key, official system, underlying document, displayed date or status, unresolved limitation, responsible follow-up owner, and applicable contract deadline. Ask the qualified agency or professional named by the evidence to resolve material gaps. Do not convert a public-record hit, map screen, form, or index result into a property-specific legal, physical, financial, insurance, title, or transaction conclusion.
Separate zone district from condominium zoning designation and density
Work from the exact property identifiers, signed documents, and deadlines already established in the evidence file. Open the underlying official record, save its date and identifier, and separate what the record can show from the decision it cannot make.
Verified evidence for this step
- Verified official finding: Mountain Village explains that condominium zoning designations are assigned by lot and are separate from zone districts; they can govern use, configuration, person-equivalent density, and restrictions, with unit and lot records tied to recorded PUD, map, and declaration documents. Source: Mountain Village Condominium Zoning Designations.
Verify before moving on
Record the exact match key, official system, underlying document, displayed date or status, unresolved limitation, responsible follow-up owner, and applicable contract deadline. Ask the qualified agency or professional named by the evidence to resolve material gaps. Do not convert a public-record hit, map screen, form, or index result into a property-specific legal, physical, financial, insurance, title, or transaction conclusion.
Trace planning, design review, HOA, and deed-restriction requirements
Work from the exact property identifiers, signed documents, and deadlines already established in the evidence file. Open the underlying official record, save its date and identifier, and separate what the record can show from the decision it cannot make.
Verified evidence for this step
- Verified official finding: Mountain Village Planning and Development Services enforces its Community Development Code, including zoning and design requirements, and uses OpenGov for permit and planning applications, inspections, contractor registration, and fee payment. Source: Planning Resources and Building Division.
- Verified official finding: Mountain Village publishes lot and address-based current-planning applications and identifies review paths that can include the Design Review Board and Town Council. Source: Current Planning.
- Verified official finding: Mountain Village administers community-housing and deed-restriction programs, so a buyer must inspect the exact property's recorded restriction and applicable qualification, occupancy, transfer, and approval terms rather than generalize from the program page. Source: Community Housing and Mountain Village Condominium Zoning Designations.
Verify before moving on
Record the exact match key, official system, underlying document, displayed date or status, unresolved limitation, responsible follow-up owner, and applicable contract deadline. Ask the qualified agency or professional named by the evidence to resolve material gaps. Do not convert a public-record hit, map screen, form, or index result into a property-specific legal, physical, financial, insurance, title, or transaction conclusion.
Search OpenGov, Community Core, and permit-log history
Work from the exact property identifiers, signed documents, and deadlines already established in the evidence file. Open the underlying official record, save its date and identifier, and separate what the record can show from the decision it cannot make.
Verified evidence for this step
- Verified official finding: Mountain Village says new community-development work moved to OpenGov in 2025, while existing issued permits may remain in the former Community Core system until transferred. Source: Community Development Department transitions to OpenGov permitting system and Building Division.
- Verified official finding: Mountain Village's Building Division provides permit-log history, requires approved red-lined plans, a permit card, engineered documents, and a posted address for inspection, and currently lists 2024 building and residential codes and the 2023 National Electrical Code among its adopted codes. Source: Building Division.
Verify before moving on
Record the exact match key, official system, underlying document, displayed date or status, unresolved limitation, responsible follow-up owner, and applicable contract deadline. Ask the qualified agency or professional named by the evidence to resolve material gaps. Do not convert a public-record hit, map screen, form, or index result into a property-specific legal, physical, financial, insurance, title, or transaction conclusion.
Pair assessor, recorder, title, plat, and survey evidence
Work from the exact property identifiers, signed documents, and deadlines already established in the evidence file. Open the underlying official record, save its date and identifier, and separate what the record can show from the decision it cannot make.
Verified evidence for this step
- Verified official finding: Mountain Village publishes official GIS, zoning, lot, and open-space resources for location and planning screens, while both Town and County GIS disclaimers say mapped locations are relative and are not guaranteed legal or surveyed representations. Source: Maps & GIS and Requests to Revise GIS Maps.
- Verified official finding: San Miguel County provides Property Information Online for property and valuation information, and the Clerk and Recorder provides real-property records and plats from 1875 to current, subject to index and legal-advice limitations. Source: Assessor and Recording and County Clerk & Recorder's Office Disclaimer.
Verify before moving on
Record the exact match key, official system, underlying document, displayed date or status, unresolved limitation, responsible follow-up owner, and applicable contract deadline. Ask the qualified agency or professional named by the evidence to resolve material gaps. Do not convert a public-record hit, map screen, form, or index result into a property-specific legal, physical, financial, insurance, title, or transaction conclusion.
Map every verified finding to the signed Colorado contract
Work from the exact property identifiers, signed documents, and deadlines already established in the evidence file. Open the underlying official record, save its date and identifier, and separate what the record can show from the decision it cannot make.
Verified evidence for this step
- Verified official finding: Mountain Village publishes official GIS, zoning, lot, and open-space resources for location and planning screens, while both Town and County GIS disclaimers say mapped locations are relative and are not guaranteed legal or surveyed representations. Source: Maps & GIS and Requests to Revise GIS Maps.
- Verified official finding: Mountain Village Planning and Development Services enforces its Community Development Code, including zoning and design requirements, and uses OpenGov for permit and planning applications, inspections, contractor registration, and fee payment. Source: Planning Resources and Building Division.
- Verified official finding: Mountain Village explains that condominium zoning designations are assigned by lot and are separate from zone districts; they can govern use, configuration, person-equivalent density, and restrictions, with unit and lot records tied to recorded PUD, map, and declaration documents. Source: Mountain Village Condominium Zoning Designations.
- Verified official finding: Mountain Village says new community-development work moved to OpenGov in 2025, while existing issued permits may remain in the former Community Core system until transferred. Source: Community Development Department transitions to OpenGov permitting system and Building Division.
- Verified official finding: Mountain Village's Building Division provides permit-log history, requires approved red-lined plans, a permit card, engineered documents, and a posted address for inspection, and currently lists 2024 building and residential codes and the 2023 National Electrical Code among its adopted codes. Source: Building Division.
- Verified official finding: Mountain Village publishes lot and address-based current-planning applications and identifies review paths that can include the Design Review Board and Town Council. Source: Current Planning.
- Verified official finding: Mountain Village administers community-housing and deed-restriction programs, so a buyer must inspect the exact property's recorded restriction and applicable qualification, occupancy, transfer, and approval terms rather than generalize from the program page. Source: Community Housing and Mountain Village Condominium Zoning Designations.
- Verified official finding: San Miguel County provides Property Information Online for property and valuation information, and the Clerk and Recorder provides real-property records and plats from 1875 to current, subject to index and legal-advice limitations. Source: Assessor and Recording and County Clerk & Recorder's Office Disclaimer.
- Verified official finding: The 2026 Colorado residential contract contains separate title, association, survey or ILC, inspection, insurability, due-diligence-document delivery, objection, resolution, and deadline provisions, and states that time is of the essence for its dates and deadlines. Source: Contract to Buy and Sell Real Estate (Residential), mandatory use January 1, 2026.
Verify before moving on
Record the exact match key, official system, underlying document, displayed date or status, unresolved limitation, responsible follow-up owner, and applicable contract deadline. Ask the qualified agency or professional named by the evidence to resolve material gaps. Do not convert a public-record hit, map screen, form, or index result into a property-specific legal, physical, financial, insurance, title, or transaction conclusion.
For separate transaction decisions, use Telluride comparable-evidence offer framework, Telluride initial asking-price guide, Telluride competing-offers comparison, Telluride buying-and-selling coordination guide. Those resources answer different questions and do not change this exact-address checklist, the signed contract, or its evidence limits.
Mountain Village address-level due-diligence record matrix
| Record check | Exact match key | Official system | What it can show | What it cannot prove | Follow-up owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identity and map screen | Address, unit, lot, parcel or account, legal description, owner, and recorded plat | Town maps, County GIS, and Assessor | Relative location, zoning or lot screens, property and assessment context | Legal boundaries, survey, title, legal use, or condition | Surveyor, attorney, title professional, assessor, and Town |
| Zoning and designation | Exact lot, unit, zone district, condominium zoning designation, PUD, density, maps, and declarations | Town Planning and condominium-designation records | Use, configuration, person-equivalent density, restrictions, and amendment context | Unit-specific right, approval, legal use, or redevelopment entitlement | Town planner, land-use attorney, architect, HOA, and title professional |
| Planning, design, and restriction | Address, lot, application, DRB or council record, HOA letter, deed restriction, and amendments | Town planning, current planning, and housing records | Application path, public review, design or association input, and program context | Final approval, compliance, qualification, transfer right, or unrestricted use | Town, HOA, housing administrator, attorney, architect, and title professional |
| Permit and inspection trail | Address, scope, permit number, plans, inspections, corrections, certificates, and transfer status | OpenGov, Community Core, and Town permit-log history | Applications, permits, plans, inspections, corrections, and available status | Complete history, code compliance, final completion, or absence of undocumented work | Town, inspector, architect or engineer, attorney, and seller |
| Title, survey, and contract | Legal description, deed, lien, release, easement, restriction, plat, title commitment, survey or ILC, and signed deadlines | County Recorder and 2026 Colorado contract | Recorded documents and contract title, association, survey, inspection, insurance, and due-diligence workflow | Marketable title, priority, legal effect, boundaries, insurability, condition, or completed transaction conclusion | Attorney, title professional, surveyor, insurer, lender, inspector, and broker |
Use the matrix as a routing and deadline tool. It does not supply a property-specific conclusion. Mark each row verified, unresolved, or not applicable, and preserve who is responsible for the next action. Once the exact evidence file is organized, use the contact page to request a review anchored to those records.
Official sources used in this guide
- Maps & GIS — Town of Mountain Village
- Planning Resources — Town of Mountain Village
- Mountain Village Condominium Zoning Designations — Town of Mountain Village
- Community Development Department transitions to OpenGov permitting system — Town of Mountain Village
- Building Division — Town of Mountain Village
- Current Planning — Town of Mountain Village
- Community Housing — Town of Mountain Village
- Assessor — San Miguel County Assessor
- Recording — San Miguel County Clerk and Recorder
- Requests to Revise GIS Maps — San Miguel County GIS
- County Clerk & Recorder's Office Disclaimer — San Miguel County Clerk and Recorder
- Contract to Buy and Sell Real Estate (Residential), mandatory use January 1, 2026 — Colorado Real Estate Commission
These sources establish only the claims and limitations in the sealed ledger. Their inclusion does not establish facts about a subject property or the client.
Frequently asked questions
Is a Mountain Village address enough to identify the legal property?
No. Match the unit, lot, parcel or account number, legal description, owner, zoning district, condominium zoning designation, assessor record, recorded documents, plat, and permit identifiers before joining records.
Is a Mountain Village zone district the same as a condominium zoning designation?
No. The Town describes lot-specific condominium zoning designations as separate from zone districts and capable of governing use, configuration, person-equivalent density, and restrictions.
Does an OpenGov search show every Mountain Village permit?
Not necessarily. New work uses OpenGov, but existing issued permits can remain in Community Core until transferred, so search both systems and the Town permit-log history and verify the complete file.
How should Mountain Village records connect to the Colorado purchase contract?
Map verified zoning, design, deed-restriction, permit, inspection, title, association, survey, insurance, and due-diligence findings to the actual signed contract's delivery, review, objection, resolution, and other current deadlines.