Exactly. Not an area I know well at all but my understanding is that evictions can often take months (landlord friend went 9 months with a tenant not paying rent before the tenants could be pried out by the sheriff). For a small time landlord this can be a back breaker (1-2K/month less income) and for some just not worth the risk when you can charge a higher rate with less risk in the STR market.

Surely there are many examples, counter examples, and horror stories to this issue, but for the system to work, evicting a tenant who is not paying rent ought to be fairly seamless.

And again, I am suggesting just to incentivize long term over short term. I’m not exactly a pro landlord kind of guy by nature.

I don’t think this has been mentioned, but, as a state or municipality, I would try to make being a long term rental landlord more attractive than being a short term rental landlord.

Before the str boom, long term was the only game in town so landlords dealt with the regulations and difficulties the state imposed, now they have a more attractive solution in STRs. It’s not surprising they’d leave one game for the other. I’d suggest updating landlord rights to fit with the current landscape. Otherwise, landlords will continue to opt for short term over long term.

Looking to buy a house or looking to move?

Certainly you’re correct that you can do things to make it work. Do it more, do it better, and do it with less.

These are very cool and I definitely support the innovations… But… this article definitely skews to the point of sounding like a commercial. Performance in optimum conditions may or may not predict performance in non optimal. How many days out of the last 10 have you seen the sun in VT? Just make sure you build redundancies into your designs… Don’t rely on heat pumps exclusively, don’t expect solar to always work, and if you need work done on your house, don’t expect most contractors in rural New England to know how to do it at the original designer intended.

Das Beer House… RIP

Don’t love the weekly posts on winter temp/snow that just stir the pot. Climate change is real but no single day, week, month, or even year in itself is evidence of it. Last year’s winter was about 5 degrees colder than the average winter. This one’s warmer. That is just evidence of variability and regression to the mean - a mean which is undoubtedly very, very slowly going up.

Really good advice. Randomization is tough for this kind of thing. The best you can probably do is to preset parameters that would be your ‘ideal’ sample and do your best to capture a sample faithful to that ideal. What you don’t want is to be presenting your final data and spending more time talking about how the confounds influenced your data than the question you were actually asking.

Bot written article that fails to understand that corruption convictions is not a great metric of corruption. Vermont actually goes after people who do the dirty.

Agreed, brother!

Respectfully disagree that it’s a good idea to chalk things up to ignorance and ignore it. I hate to go down the whole ‘in a democracy… informed electorate… yada yada’ thing so we can table that… but if you want to be taken seriously and not just get an agreeing nod from buddies at the bar or at the barbershop then I’d say it’s important for respectful critique as to bend your statements closer to the accurate truth. In this case, not a climate scientist, but it’s actually a major difference (climate vs weather). Like the difference between the type of car and the specific model. I’m sure you could come up with a major difference in your specialties that appear to an outsider superficial.

I think OP was roughly making a point about the imprecision of language used here and hasn’t made any points that would call into question the realities of climate change. IMHO, precision is terribly important when we talk about this because we stand to lose people when we make statements such as ‘x weather event was caused by climate change’ or, as has been said in other words, ‘a warm snap is blamed on climate change’… Because then it’s just as easy for an ignoramus to state the inverse when it’s cold. None of those statements are data driven.

That’s how I took the post. I understand this is a sensitive issue for all of us but we could all do better in encouraging conversation about how to effectively communicate it.

Vermont is a great place and while more expensive than Ohio, still not as expensive as the coastal cities. It’s tight but doable on a grad student stipend - the nice thing is that many fun things (hiking, swimming, etc) are free and close. Pm if you want to talk grad school programs.

I live in Jeff. Sterling pond is great but I’d save that for midweek - the whole notch area will be crowded next weekend if the weather is good. Someone said Elmore, that’s a good one, I might also suggest Belvidere. You might have a little more peace at either of those.