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In Routt County, the tax notice still belongs on the owner's radar
A Porch Note from Colorado Porch — plain-English local details for all 64 Colorado counties.
Even when your mortgage company escrows property taxes, the tax notice belongs on your own checklist.
The treasurer mails that notice to the owner of record, as listed on the tax roll the assessor certifies. Mortgage companies do not receive tax notices straight from the county, even though many of them research taxes as part of the loan. The piece of paper, in other words, comes to you.
That arrangement is easy to overlook right after a purchase, refinance, payoff, mailing-address change, or escrow change. If the bill is headed to a stale address, or if both you and the lender end up sending money, the county can sort out the payment, but it is far simpler to head off the tangle in the first place.
Two offices, two jobs. The treasurer collects property taxes; the assessor handles value, ownership, and exemptions. Knowing which office owns which question saves a phone call or two.
The Routt County Treasurer and Property Tax pages let you check the tax account, see payment options, and confirm where the notice is mailed.
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