Colorado Springs, that mother was insufferable, and daughter should consider moving very far away.    Daughter also needs to find a hair dresser that won't give her mommy's hairdo.     Good luck finding anything in Colorado Springs in a decent neighborhood (there are a lot of bad areas there), for $200k or less.    An HOA isn't necessarily going to do the lawn mowing, snow removal, or outside maintenance, that all depends on the HOA, and what it includes.     That's more like a townhouse complex, with a big HOA fee.    By the way, on snowy days, being right on a major road is a great feature.     The mother's retirement plan isn't to visit a lot, it's to move in.   I loved the first condo.   I wonder if the dad and brother know that when mom retires she's moving in with the daughter? 

 The second one, with the higher price, and higher condo fee is awful.   

The third one, the single family, will be a money pit.   The easy to revive lawn (Mom's statement) is wrong for the Springs, water prices are immense, and if they have another drought, the lawn will die.   (When I left there is 2003, we were having a major drought, and in the city limits you could water twice a month).   To keep the lawn nice you need a sprinkler system, and a regular fertilizer schedule.       In Leilani's place I would find a condo on the third floor, so Mom would never move in.    To fix the third house, I would change all of the carpet, and every other room  to Luxury Vinyl Plank, and paint the kitchen cabinets.    Then paint the bathroom cabinets,  and remove that ugly shelf, and mirror, paint the bathroom, and get a nice oval wall mirror.    Paint the entire place, and you'll be finished.    By the way, I'm betting since it's a bi-level, or split level (very common there), the walls in the basement were the foundation edges.    I would wonder if the cement basement floor was painted to get rid of water marks from a leaky basement.  

The first condo was a great choice.   It just need painting, and the new flooring.       I wonder if the daughter realizes that the mother is painting the lavender room for mom to move into?      

The Broken Bow vacation couple irritated me.   When someone buys a strange choice for their family size, (like the Winery people) my guess is they will never stay there, but purchased it for an investment/short term rental.   You know they're not going to live there, but rent it all of the time.  They are not spending $375k on a home to stay in.    A one-bedroom when you already have one kid, and are planning more, is not going to be for family vacations.   I hated the green/blue kitchen cabinets.   I would have dumped the pool table, and made the game room into another bedroom.   The extra sleeping area/game room is a great feature for rentals.   The second one would be a great rental, but the husband will never go for it..    The third one is cute, but it's a 1 bed/1 bath, but the princess / wife loves everything about number three.   The wife really doesn't care about anything but dumping the kid on the grandparents does she? 

The way the first one (the one they bought) was originally set up, for a guest room, and the grandparents could have come up for a few days too.    The woman just wanted to dump the baby on the grandparents, and have a fun weekend.      

What a surprise, they bought the best one for rentals, and put in a pull out sofa in the guest nook.    

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