Founders Village, Castle Rock Home Tour - HOA Only $18 a Month
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What does $565K buy in Founders Village Castle Rock? Tour this Castle Rock Colorado home and see if this neighborhood makes sense. If you are thinking about moving to Castle Rock Colorado, relocating to Colorado in 2026, or trying to figure out which Denver suburbs actually give you the most value, Founders Village is one neighborhood worth looking at closely. In this Founders Village Home Tour, we are breaking down what it is like to live in Founders Village in Castle Rock, how far your money goes here, and what a home around the mid $500Ks can look like in this part of Douglas County. This neighborhood sits on the east side of I-25 and offers something buyers are always asking for: a maintained neighborhood feel with a low HOA cost in Castle Rock. One of the biggest things we talk about in this video is the Founders Village HOA. It is not the kind of HOA with a massive clubhouse, private fitness center, or over-the-top resort amenities, but that is actually part of the appeal. The HOA fee is only about $18 a month, which can be a major difference compared with other Castle Rock neighborhoods where fees can be much higher. For buyers who want a neighborhood that still feels cared for, but do not want to pay hundreds of dollars a month for amenities they may or may not use, this is a big factor. We also look at the typical homes in Founders Village, including average size, average build year, average closed sale price, lot size, layout, landscaping, and what buyers should watch for in homes from this era. Founders Village is new enough that many homes still have modern, open layouts, but established enough that you can get mature trees, larger landscaping, and a more settled neighborhood feel than some newer communities. Inside this Castle Rock home tour, we look at updated finishes, open living spaces, the backyard, the deck, and one of the less exciting but very important buyer details: windows. In a community this age, windows can be a major hidden cost, so when they are already updated, that can make a real difference. If Founders Village is not the right fit, this video will still help you understand Castle Rock real estate, Colorado homes under $600K, and what to compare when looking at neighborhoods near Denver. Thinking about buying or selling in Castle Rock, Founders Village, or anywhere in the south Denver metro? Reach out anytime. We would love to help you compare neighborhoods, understand the tradeoffs, and find the right fit.
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Chapter 1: Founders Village Castle Rock Home Tour
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What's it like to live in Founders Village Castle Rocks? And how far does your money go? Today, I'm going to show you not only what it's like to live in
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Founders Village, but also what a $565,000 home gets you here. Founders Village is a neighborhood that sits in Castle Rock on the east side of I25.
Chapter 2: Founders Village HOA Fee and Castle Rock Value
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And I'd say its shining feature is probably its HOA. And that's not because it's some super robust HOA [music] with
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tons of amenities. It's actually because even though this neighborhood has a nice HOA feel where you can tell it's
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maintained and you can tell that there's some enforcement going on, it does not come with the typical hefty HOA fee that
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you see commonly even in neighboring neighborhoods right here in [music] Castle Rock. The HOA fee is only $18 a
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month. It's actually 110 bucks uh [music] paid out semianually, but that equals out to 18 bucks a month. And that is really big because some of these
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neighboring uh neighborhoods do not have tons of amenities [music] either provided by the HOA and you can see HOA
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fees up into the hundreds. So, that's a really nice thing here about [music] Founders Village. And so, no, you're not going to get the really big rec center
Chapter 3: Castle Rock Amenities Without High HOA Costs
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or really gorgeous clubhouse with tons of fitness center type things in it.
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You're really paired down [music] here, but there is the Castle Rock Rec Center right up the road. I mean, depending on where you are in Founders [music]
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Village, it could be a 5minute drive for you. And that has all that stuff. You can always opt into that. Uh, I kind of like that it has the ability [music] you
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can opt in or opt out and you can get all of the amenities or you can not and save the [music] money. And as far as what a typical home looks like here, you're looking at about a 3-bedroom,
Chapter 4: Castle Rock CO Homes Under $600K
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threeb on [music] average sized home with about 2,200 square ft². The build year on average is 1999 [music]
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and the average closed sale price in the last year was just under 550K.
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But let's look at an example of what your typical home looks like here. I think this one is maybe a little more
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special than typical, but let's go take a look inside. So, Founders Village was built in a few different stages. And so, because of that, you have a little bit
Chapter 5: Founders Village Homes, Layouts and Mature Trees
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of variety on the build here on the homes, but I would say none of them are old enough that you don't have a pretty
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modern layout, nice open spaces that really flow from one end to another. And this specific home is one of the older
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sections of Founders Village. What I love about that is it has all of the matured landscaping. So, in the front you're going to see mature trees and
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shrubbery and same thing out in the backyard. give you protection from your neighbors and some shade, but you're not going to have to sacrifice a lot of like
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modern features like the open layout because still Founders Village is new enough as a whole. You may find in some of these neighborhoods where some of the
Chapter 6: Updated Castle Rock Home Tour and Backyard
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finishes though are where you're going to have to sacrifice. This home that's not the case. They recently redid all of the appliances, the flooring, the
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kitchen, the bathrooms. Um, so everything still has mature landscaping with really open flow concept and all
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the upgrades. Your average lot size around here is about 5,500 square ft.
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Um, so here we have this massive deck that they've built on and it's got a really cool modern coverage and you still have room for a yard.
Chapter 7: Buyer Warning: Windows in Castle Rock Real Estate
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And then let's touch on windows really quickly because in a community this age, you're right on the border where the community is still fairly new, but it's
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getting to the point where the windows are starting to need [music] to be replaced. And here they're all already updated for you. So that's not a cost
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that you have to acrewue. And that's something I really am keeping an eye on for my buyers when we're walking through because it's an easy miss. um it's not
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something that's fun to do. It's first of all really easy to notice when a kitchen needs an upgrade or doesn't. Um
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and that's a more fun project. It's fun to be like designing your kitchen and really picking out the features and getting excited about that and that
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value ad is really obvious. Whereas paying a bunch of money for Windows is way more expensive than most people think it is and it's just not it doesn't
Chapter 8: Tour Founders Village and Compare Castle Rock Neighborhoods
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bring them as much joy. It's kind of like more a boring task. No one gets super jazzed [music] about replacing the windows. So, finding a place that
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already has that done. Really great thing. I know that these spaces can be a little hard to visualize over video.
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Always free to tour this with you. Give me a call and I'll get you into this home or any of the surrounding homes that are interesting to you. If you want more information on Castle Rock in
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general, I've got a whole video that breaks down everything about Castle Rock, including the downtown area and all the pros and cons of it. I've also
Chapter 9: Moving to Castle Rock Colorado Next Steps
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got a Castle Rock neighborhood tour. So, if Founders Village isn't exactly a fit for you, you can explore them all. And when you inevitably have questions about the area, the homes, or how to get
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inside of one, [music] that's what I'm here for. I am a full-time real estate agent, always excited to help you out.
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And here on this channel, I look to do exactly that and more. So, reach out to me here. Subscribe for [music] more videos, and I'm excited to hear from you.
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Q: Where is the Founders Village neighborhood located?
A: Founders Village is a neighborhood situated in Castle Rock on the east side of I-25 [00:20].
Q: How much is the HOA fee in Founders Village, and what does it include?
A: The HOA fee is very low, working out to only $18 a month (paid as $110 semi-annually). While the HOA doesn't provide robust amenities like a large rec center or fitness clubhouse, the neighborhood is well-maintained and has a nice HOA feel with standard enforcement [00:52].
Q: If there are no major HOA amenities, where can residents go for recreation?
A: If you want access to more amenities like fitness centers or pools, the Castle Rock Rec Center is just up the road—potentially only a 5-minute drive depending on where you live in the neighborhood. This allows residents to opt-in to paying for those amenities separately rather than being forced to pay for them via high HOA fees [01:28].
Q: What does a typical home look like in Founders Village?
A: An average home in this community is a 3-bedroom, 3-bathroom house with about 2,200 square feet, built around 1999. In the past year, the average closed sale price for a home like this was just under $550,000 [01:48]. Because they aren't too old, they generally feature modern layouts with open living spaces [02:24].
Q: What is a major maintenance cost to look out for when buying a home in a neighborhood built around 1999?
A: You need to check if the windows have been replaced. Homes of this age are right on the border of needing all-new windows, which is a surprisingly expensive and "boring" project compared to cosmetic upgrades like redoing a kitchen. Finding a home that already has updated windows is a significant financial bonus [03:41].
