My question involves an eviction in the state of: Colorado
We were evicted from a commercial site where we had prepaid 3 months rent and took the dilapadated building as is, by the Town for code violations. We had used 2 weeks of the rent and are owed almost $8000 back. The Town wants the building brought up to like-new code, painted and landscaped before allowing anyone back in. The landlord won't do anything and we can't afford the thousands it would take to do that. He doesn't want to return the rent money from our eviction date. We contend the eviction is constructive termination of the lease. Can we win in small claims on that theory?

