This site is built to a written fair housing standard, and the standard is published here.

Last revised September 4, 2026

Fair housing on a real estate website is usually treated as a logo in the footer and a sentence in the terms. On this site it is a design constraint that decides what may be written and which photographs may be used, and it was applied before a single page was drafted rather than reviewed after the fact.

Federal and Colorado law together protect fourteen classes.

The federal Fair Housing Act protects race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status, and disability. Colorado law adds creed, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, veteran or military status, and source of income, and its definition of race includes hair texture and protective hairstyles. A licensee is bound by both, and by Article 10 of the National Association of REALTORS Code of Ethics where membership applies.

Area content on this site describes places, and never the people in them.

The library and every other page that mentions a location may describe housing stock, architecture, elevation, climate, hail exposure, water and irrigation, wildfire mapping, trails and open space managed by a public agency, commute corridors and transit, utilities, permitting, and property tax treatment. Those are facts about land and buildings, and they are the facts a person actually needs before buying.

Every trail entry names its managing agency, its length, its elevation gain, its dog rules, and its parking or reservation requirements. None of them describes who uses the trail.

Several categories of language are prohibited outright, whatever the intent behind them.

• Describing, characterizing, or ranking an area by the people who live there, in any dimension.
• School ratings, test scores, or district comparisons, which function as a demographic proxy.
• Crime statistics, safety scores, or the words safe and unsafe applied to an area.
• Phrases such as family friendly, good for families, quiet neighborhood, desirable area, up and coming, exclusive, or prestigious.
• Any suggestion, direct or implied, that a buyer would be better or worse suited to one area than another.
• Photographs that pair a household with a named area, or that present a category of person as the occupant of a depicted property.

The prohibition on steering holds even where a question is asked in good faith. When a buyer asks which area would suit their family, the answer names the objective criteria they can weigh themselves, points them to the public data sources that publish school and crime figures, and leaves the judgment with them.

The standard is enforced by a check that runs before anything publishes.

The prohibited terms above exist as a written list in the repository this site is built from, and a check scans every page for them before a deployment is prepared. A match stops the deployment rather than producing a warning, on the reasoning that a fair housing failure is not a style defect and should not be possible to override with a judgment call at the end of a long day.

The photographic set carries the same rule. Every image on this site frames housing, landscape, weather, or a working process, and the imagery notes in the design specification name the excluded frames explicitly so the exclusion survives any future swap.

Equal Housing Opportunity applies to every service described on this site.

We are pledged to the letter and spirit of United States policy for the achievement of equal housing opportunity throughout the nation. We encourage and support an affirmative advertising and marketing program in which there are no barriers to obtaining housing because of any protected characteristic. Teal Apex Homes, Katrina Hill, broker associate with Real. Equal Housing Opportunity.

A concern about this site or about any conduct in a transaction can be reported directly.

Write to me at support@tealapexgroup.com and I will respond in writing within one business day. You are equally free to go straight to a regulator without contacting me first. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development accepts complaints at hud.gov/fairhousing, and the Colorado Civil Rights Division accepts them at ccrd.colorado.gov. Complaints about a licensee may also be filed with the Colorado Division of Real Estate.