Come on out to Malletts Bay…we have dozens of AirBnB’s ranging from $250/night for a tiny house to this ugly Tetris-piece house for $1200/night LOL. Someone just gutted this one across the street from the lake renting for $800/night. It’s nothing but MA, NY and NJ plates out here all summer.

The STR owners shot themselves in the foot on this one. They had a good thing going and then they got greedy.

We booked a small house near Barre for a family reunion in 2019 for a reasonable price, low fees, few rules. Clean, but nothing special. Full of old junk (not antique) furniture and bedding. Tried to book the same one last summer and the nightly fee had triple, cleaning fee added, water(?) fee added, internet fee added, pet fee added and there was a todo list a mile long.

And during a housing crisis. Makes no sense

And it has kept Vermont from looking like New Jersey. Mission accomplished.

We wanted to build on land we owned 5 years ago. Market was all out of whack with construction costs and it made building impossible as a house that would cost 325k to build would only be worth 200k. Bank would only give a loan on what the house would be worth, so the other 125k would need to be cash in addition to the down payment. Not sure how it is now but back then unless you had a truck full of cash to just throw into a fire, you couldn’t build in our area.

The ones that rented it?

I've talked to several realtors and they all said the same thing. I would ask about AirBnB's impact on their profession and they all said Act 250 is the real killer.

I don’t know about everyone else but I’ve got no issue with most second home owners. I get that it also represents housing stock “taken away from locals”, but generally they’re around the resorts or tourist-centric towns like Manchester, Woodstock, etc. On top of that they presumably bought a vacation home here because they love the area, plan to spend time here, and care about the community while spending money at our local businesses.

My issue is with buying single family homes, particularly those in regular-ass neighborhoods, as part of some get rich quick scheme or as “an investment”.

It was stated at a meeting, supposedly that meeting was recorded and I plan to get a copy of that.

You have a newly elected representative, Shayne Spence. He is HIGHLY dedicated to all things NVU. I would definitely reach out to him. He will help, I promise!

Who is doing this?

Is it in writing somewhere, or proposed at a meeting or just rumors?

It seems the insiders don’t know what to do either if it’s failing…

..healthcare, education, incarceration. It is almost like to secure these things governments are formed amongst men by consent of the governed. When wealth can be generated by something its hard to focus on it and not how much $ is being made.

It was more than that. Schumlin knew to an extent what he was doing. He was happy to turn a blind eye to the shit because it didn’t involve us citizens and he was getting a bunch of perks.

Second homeowner chiming in. Inherited the house.

Not a lawyer, a dentist, or from Connecticut.

When he raised the point it was not early. The VSC system has been kept alive last last couple years by some funding shenanigans which always would eventually end up where we are. The schools are no longer economically viable and will need another infusion of state money to stay afloat.

It’s really our waste water laws that hold back single family homes, but I’m with you on act 250, it needs hefty revisions to modernize it.

Bill Stenger has entered the chat...

It took about another week after this to feel better. This is the first week I’ve been able to eat full meals without issues

Yeah true. I read something recently on manhattan landlords doings this. For that reason and so they dont have to fix the rent controlled units in buildings

Still looks like a fish tank.

Affordable by Brattleboro standards for a two - three bedroom apartment would be ~$700 a month (with heat, water, no electricity) and ~$1200 a month (with all utilities included). Anything above $1500 a month is just highway robbery and really ought to be illegal.

Having worked in the Mental Health field before, I tell you right now that we’ve been BEGGING for deescalation training for decades. The major focus now though is getting properly paid mental health professionals who can respond to calls in conjunction with other Emergency Services. I REALLY wish that our State Government would stop procrastinating of the implementation of empirically proven best practices in regards to mental health crises and co-occurring substance abuse.

They probably just want to take whatever money is left in the system and run, just like Marlboro.

What you really need to do is ask the mods about the Rama-hater club that likes to keep you from seeing and reading what I post. You yourself pointed out the numbers that don't seem to make sense, and that's why they don't make sense.

All you have to do is sort posts and comments by "new", however, and the Rama-haters fail again.