Mountain Green condo owners voted in favor of a $50 million assessment to bring the building into the 21st Century, but some longtime owners said their quarterly payments will be so high they can’t afford it and they will be forced out.  An $18 million assessment was approved in 2022, and another $29 million was approved by condo owners on March 11.  Starting July, owners will pay $10,000 or more a year for the next five years, after which payments ...

The Select Board last Monday agreed to draft a warrant article for the town to assume ownership of a sewer system from the Northwoods Estates homeowners association.  Jim Dyckman, president of the homeowners association, had asked the Select Board on July 24 to sponsor a warrant article for required Town Meeting approval.   Read the article………………………..

With a ski hill, tennis courts, a swimming pool, 36 holes of golf, a clubhouse restaurant and its own private lake, Quechee Lakes has always been a pricey place to live. Now as a result of the July storms that flooded its golf course, the members-only community just got pricier.    Read the article………………………..

If your privately owned road or bridge was damaged or destroyed by Vermont’s July severe storms, flooding, landslides and mudslides, FEMA and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) may be able to provide financial assistance for replacement or repairs.   Read the article………………………..

Members of the Lyman Meadows condominium association are asking the town to review drinking water rates charged to residents of the village housing complex, arguing that they are paying the same rates for untreated water as regular users who receive treated water.   Read the article………………………..

The Burlington Police Officers’ Association, the union for Burlington officers, signed the first agreement with River Watch Condominium Association for extra police patrols in late October 2022, according to Samantha Sheehan, a spokesperson for Weinberger’s office. The contract was first reported by Seven Days. The condo association and union repeatedly renewed the agreement until January.    Read the article………………………..

The Gold Lake Wise Award is granted to homeowners associations where 15 percent of the properties surrounding a lake have received an individual Lake Wise Award for participation in the voluntary Lake Wise program. The program promotes stormwater management and erosion prevention on lakeshore properties.   Read the article………………………..

Barnard said Melone goes too far with his litigation.  “I don’t think there’s any question that in suing the neighborhood association and individual homeowners in Bennington who were adjacent to his property there, his intent was to cow them and get them to back off from engaging in the public process,” he said.    Read the entire article……………………………….

Two dozen vehicles were damaged in what authorities are calling a suspicious fire at a condo complex in Essex.   Essex police say the carport on Densmore Drive was engulfed in flames early Saturday morning. Firefighters were able to put out the fire before it could spread to nearby buildings, but 24 vehicles were damaged, including some that were destroyed. The nearby condo building also suffered some heat damage and broken windows.    Read the article…………………………….

Smugglers’ Notch Resort has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged it was overcharging homeowners for routine property maintenance.  A Vermont Superior Court judge on Tuesday approved a settlement that calls for Smuggs to change how it charges homeowners at the resort for services such as landscaping, snowplowing and security along its roads and common areas. Homeowners, who used to bear 90 percent of the costs, will pay 77.5 percent in the future.   Read the article………………………

Windham County Superior Court Judge John Treadwell ruled in favor of three would-be Garmisch Court condominium owners following a hearing on Tuesday.  According to court documents, the defendants, the Hermitage Inn Real Estate Holding Company and James R. Barnes, never responded to the three lawsuits, and didn’t appear at the hearing. Treadwell acknowledged that Barnes and the Hermitage had been sent notices regarding the action. “I assume you have not heard from the defendants?” he asked the plaintiffs’ attorney David ...

A long-simmering class action lawsuit against Stowe Mountain Lodge and Spruce Peak Realty, filed in 2011, alleged the resort was charging condo owners a far greater percentage of the lodge’s overall operating costs than it should have been, and was burying key pieces of its fee structure in reams of legalese.     Read the article………..

The old saying that the only sure things in life are death and taxes leaves out a third certainty: legislation. Across New England each year, thousands of bills get filed in state legislatures, many of them as mundane as the naming of a bridge or a new state “something”—like designating the Fluffernutter as Massachusetts’ official sandwich.   Read more……….