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John Runkles

Broker and co-founder, Urban Forest Property Management

John Runkles, broker and co-founder of Urban Forest Property Management

John Runkles is a broker and co-founder of Urban Forest Property Management and co-owner of Urban Forest Realty in Fort Collins. He manages rental homes in Northern Colorado and the north Denver suburbs, and writes about pricing, vacancy and what an owner can check for themselves.

John Runkles is a broker and co-founder of Urban Forest Property Management, which manages rental homes in Arvada, Westminster, Broomfield, Fort Collins, Windsor and Loveland. He is also co-owner, with his brother David, of Urban Forest Realty, a residential and commercial brokerage in Fort Collins.

Both brothers are licensed builders, commercial and residential. That background shapes how they look at a property: what it costs to keep, what a repair is worth, and what a renter or buyer will notice first.

John’s articles start from a question an owner is already asking: why a rental is sitting empty, what it should rent for, whether the vacancy headline applies to their house. Each one works through what can be checked with public data and current listings, and every figure carries its source and as-of date.

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Articles

By this author

Seen through a window at dusk, a videographer inside an empty rental aims his camera at the glass.

Managing a rental

Your Listing Is the Showing

Four in ten renters say they'd lease sight unseen. What a Colorado listing needs to carry that decision.

Students carry a box fan and wheel a mini fridge up the steps of an old house on move-in weekend, with cars and mattresses at the curb.

Managing a rental

How Long Is Too Long for an Empty Rental

In Colorado it depends on the month and on your kind of renter. Three weeks in July and three weeks in December are different signals.

A woman with a coffee mug sits on her front step with her dog while a new apartment building across the street advertises Now Leasing, One Month Free.

Colorado rental market

Which Vacancy Rate Is Yours

Colorado's apartment headline isn't a single-family number, and Fort Collins has its own.

A girl kneels on a driveway writing a lemonade price on a cardboard sign while her brother watches.

Colorado rental market

Pricing Your Colorado Rental

Current rents in five Colorado cities, and how to compare your house to listings like it.

A boy fills a water bottle at a motel spigot while a dog drinks the overflow, under a vacancy sign.

Managing a rental

Why Your Rental Is Vacant

Four checks, in order: price, vacancy, calendar, marketing.