Guide · Colorado Records

How to Look Up Your HOA on the Colorado DORA Registry

Updated July 2026 · 5 min read

Colorado is one of the few states with a true statewide HOA registry. Under the Colorado Common Interest Ownership Act (CCIOA), every active homeowners association must register annually with the Division of Real Estate's HOA Information and Resource Center at DORA — and the registration is public. It answers the questions owners ask most: Is my association registered? Who manages it? How do I contact them?

Here's how to find and read your association's registration.

Step 1

Open the DORA HOA search

Go to the DORA HOA Information and Resource Center and open the HOA registration search. It's free and requires no account.

Step 2

Search your association's name

Use the name from your deed, assessment notice, or declaration — for example "LAKESIDE VILLAGE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC." If the full name returns nothing, try just the first two or three words. Legal names often differ slightly from the community's marketing name.

Step 3

Check the registration status

Registrations expire annually. If your association's registration has lapsed, that matters: under CCIOA, an HOA with an expired registration can't pursue assessment collections through the courts until it renews. A lapsed registration is worth raising with your board immediately.

Step 4

Read the registration details

The registration lists the association's designated agent or management company with mailing address, phone, and email, plus the number of units and community type. If a company name appears in the agent line, that firm handles the association's day-to-day operations.

Step 5

Verify the management company

Colorado repealed its CAM licensing program in 2019, so there's no license to check — which makes due diligence on the firm itself more important. Look it up in our Colorado directory — built from the same DORA Active Roster, with each firm's full portfolio and verified Google reviews — and request references from communities of similar size.

Tip — the roster is downloadable. DORA publishes the full active-HOA roster as a spreadsheet. Our county pages are built from it, so you can also just open your county and see every registered association's management company in one place.

What the DORA registration won't tell you

The registry is a filing system, not a regulator — and since Colorado's CAM license was repealed, there's no disciplinary registry for managers either. The registration won't show reviews, portfolio size, or track record. That's what our Colorado directory adds: every DORA-registered management company with its statewide portfolio and address-verified Google ratings.

If you'd rather skip the manual lookup, browse your county to see which firms manage communities near you.