Try looking into buying a fixer upper duplex. I did that (fortunately not in the current market), fixed up one half of the house to rent immediately, then worked on the half I live in.

My husband, youngest kid and myself lived in Rutland for 3 years, that was too long (2017-2020). We were lucky to take over the oldest kid's lease. Then, a year later it sold. We were lucky again to find another rental on the better side of town and more expensive. I paid them what I am currently paying for a house I purchased in NW Arkansas. It got to where businesses were closing and even trying to find decent paying work was a challenge. We finally decided to go back where life was more accommodating and cheaper cost of living. And, we have improved by leaps and bounds.

Best of luck and I pray you find the place you need to be.

I'm obsessed with this MCM stunner in Cornwall https://www.redfin.com/VT/Cornwall/687-VT-30-05753/home/91204166

Airbnb!

Hey I’m a UVM grad from hartland. Good luck!

Please call GMP and let them know the names and phone numbers of elderly community members that you're concerned about. The utility really does the best it can to quickly fix the outages, but, knowing that that takes time, they also dedicate staff who normally work other roles to just doing welfare checks and making sure someone gets dispatched with food, water or a safe ride wherever it is needed.

Done, hope it helps.

It’s not Vermont, it’s your apartment

They probably spent $2M paying taxes/insurance, hiring architects and engineers to design a hotel, paying a hotel franchise fee, paying staff salaries, etc. I doubt they made money.

Property is cheaper over the bridge in NY. Plenty of people commute to Middlebury (and Vergennes and Burlington) from Port Henry/Crown Point/Ticonderoga.

This is classic reddit: guy who worked there and guy who lives there answers your question, but you’d rather blame orange man 2 years later. Wake up. Yes I live the next town over, yes Williston is full of meth heads and losers who who don’t want to work. Yes the post office is a staffing issue. You all want Donald to be the boogie man so bad.

Air BnB.

It really sucks to be in that situation, we know and most have been there a time or 2. That said the amount of clearing that would be required to prevent this would send the eco-freaks into a tizzy if it was proposed much less done.

Land value tax would solve this.

Vermont is not unique. We are a state populated by the members of the same human race that populates Montana, Texas or anywhere else.

To stay on your point: Vermont is much smaller then Montana and much closer to major urban areas such as Boston, New York and Montreal. We are much more susceptible to what you described as having happened to Montana's housing market; and we are having a huge issue with too much money buying up places that people need to live in.

I hope it works out for you folks wherever you end up.

Would be cool to have some history about when hotels were banned from residential neighborhoods in VT. In the 1950-1960s you could build up to 75 feet anywhere in Burlington and use buildings as hotels, boarding houses, .

What happened that we needed to restrict hotels so much that a parallel industry of short-term rentals has sprung up.

Mobile homes, on the other hand, were banned in Burlington as part of the first 1947 zoning code.

Is that a catamount?

Any tire, even w studs, is up against a big problem on ice. I’ve had both studded & non-, and the only way to drive on ice is extremely slowly…or better yet, don’t drive. Your first paragraph is totally right. Shoveling was great tonight. A careful hour and we were clear. Nice.

What’s your rental price range? Might be able to send you to a friend who has a rental

Seriously like OP is not the wealthy out-of-stater ruining VT.

In case you haven't looked out the window there was actually a big storm. These things happen after a storm

Honestly look down south, there’s some great areas. Fuck renting the rest of your life.

You were tired of people moving to your state so you decided to move to another state

I was in a pretty similar spot when I moved to VT 9 years ago. After looking at housing prices it seemed like we would never own, or have to move somewhere else. Then my partner found an ad from Habitat for Humanity. I didn't think we would qualify, but we did. I don't know what Habitat looks like down in Middlebury, but I would reach out to them see if they have any projects in your area.

Was in the same boat a year ago. We ended up paying too much for a POS townhouse. A year later, things are good. Might try looking for a POS that you can fix up. I think my family was in exactly the right place at the right time too.