I deal with many second home buyers in Frisco, Silverthorne, Dillon and Breckenridge. 
One of their commonly asked questions is what to do with their trash.  Many end up disposing of it in someone else’s dumpster, and more than a few businesses have had to resort to putting locks on their dumpsters.  When the businesses have no room […]

Just a month ago, I wrote a post called The Scoop on the Copper Mountain market. In that post I was pretty upbeat about the market, despite terrible reports from other parts of the country for more than a year now. I did express some concerns for the middle part of the price ranges, and I talked about how many Sellers have been way too optimistic, and although I didn’t use the it, greedy might have been a good word to use.

A couple of days ago, I looked at the number of sales for this year so far, and compared them to the same time last year. What I found was that sales for the first 3 1/2 months at Copper Mountain were down by 45% from the same period a year ago! That is a huge decrease, and it is double the decrease of 22% in the rest of Summit County as a whole. Projecting that decrease……

We are over it…
We have had enough snow.  When you ski or snowboard, you can’t wait for the first snowflakes to fall, but we are done!  Copper Mountain, Breckenridge and Keystone have all been closed for a month.  Arapahoe Basin is the only one still open, and they have fabulous coverage and conditions.  But the […]

If you have been thinking about building a home in Frisco,
you need to know that the town recently has enacted a new “green” building code. The code mandates sustainable building methods, and encourages builders and homeowners to do more than the minimum requirements. It is very similar to the International Energy Conservation Code. The Summit County Building Department, with jurisdiction over all parts of the county not considered to be in the towns themselves, is in the process of changing their code to a very similar one.

Just what are green building methods? I attended a meeting this week that was intended to let us all know just that. Among other things…..

A subdivsion with cabins and homes in Frisco is called Bill’s Ranch. 
I often hear from people who would love to buy a little Frisco cabin.  They like them because they are cute and funky and just the kind of place people remember spending time in as a kid.  They also assume they will be cheap.  That is far from the […]