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March 9, 2026
What is Act 250? Act 250 (10 V.S.A. Chapter 151) is Vermont’s land use and development law, enacted in 1970 at a time when Vermont was undergoing significant development pressure. The law provides a public, quasi-judicial process for ...
August 13, 2025
Vermont Property Transfer Tax (PTTR) A one-time tax hits when real estate changes ownership and the buyer pays, separate from the purchase price, at closing. The PTTR changed dramatically about a year ago on August 1st of 2024. Here’s ...
May 22, 2025
More balanced, transitional VT real estate market while still slightly favoring sellers. Rising Inventory. 1,180 single family homes, up 31.4% from a year ago. 696 New Listings, up 28.7% % of list price received: 97.1%, down 1.2...
April 2, 2025
Maple Syrup Producing more than any other state A whopping 50% of the United States' supply 3,000 sugar houses 1 million gallons in 2024 Exquisite Beer, Bread and Cheese Hill Farmstead & Lawson�...
September 4, 2024
Driving up a nearby Vermont mountain pass one day I noticed a new pond being built; adding ponds is a fantastic property improvement as almost everyone loves water and waterfront property. Pulled over, knocked on the door of the house, and got ...
December 18, 2023
You've Got the Power. EVs (electric vehicles) are everywhere. EV power stations multiply. Gasoline prices soar. Is your power bill high this month? Did your utility company really just jack the rates again? Don't the Mazda CX-90 plug ...
February 10, 2023
AI. It's all the rage. Take a deep dive by listening to this NYT podcast on the releases of artificial intelligence by Google's Bard and Microsoft's Bing and how ChatGPT has sparked a revolution you can now experiment with and that will affe...
December 26, 2022
Obsession can strike out of the blue. 30 years ago my father gave me a cuckoo clock from the Black Forest of Germany. It sang for years before falling quiet. One thing lead to another and some of its parts went missing. After decades of sepa...
November 14, 2022
Change is a coming. Landowners of 27 or more acres in Vermont have, since 1980, benefitted significantly from Vermont's Current Use Program and it's lower tax rate on land farmed or forests managed through judicious logging. It's estimated e...
April 14, 2022
Are you an epicurean? A foodie? The galloping gourmet? Here's a story. This text drops from AT&T saying I've wracked up over $100 in international calling and I may want to put on the brakes and look into it before destitution sets in. Ri...
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