Former meth home gets new lease on life, heads for sale
Children walk down the sidewalk, the bustle of downtown is heard in the distance and the postman makes his rounds Wednesday afternoon, as if the 110year-old house at 330 Collyer St. was never one to avoid.
Last year, Fort Collins house flippers Cat and Matt Gibson were lured to the classic cottage in the Historic Eastside residential neighborhood of Longmont for its infamous past as a flophouse and lesserknown early 20th century history.
Finally, after an estimated two weeks of meth remediation turned into six months, and then another delay after the birth of their twin boys in March, the house will be listed on the market Friday for $425,000 and shown off to potential buyers at an open house starting at 10 a.m. Saturday.
“We’d love to get some offers for the first day,” she said. “We’ll see. I feel like we’ve been working on it long enough and that ‘coming soon’ sign has been out there long enough.”
The couple bought the house for $210,076.97, according to the certificate of purchase from the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder’s Office.
At that time, it was wrapped in plywood and painted chocolate brown. But it’s now a slate-blue color called Caligraphy with white trim to match the white fence. Tall and wide picture windows enclose the front porch, where a round historical designation plaque hangs beside the front door.