Condo I – December 2024
Best Wishes for a happy, healthy and safe holiday from the Condo 1 Board of Managers!
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Welcome to Our New Neighbors!
Jennifer Maurici – 13 Birchwood Rd.
Alenia Sumpter – 89 Skyline Dr.
Helene Bartsch & Peter Contomanolis – 46 Skyline Dr.
Gutter Cleaning –Creative Gutters completed the first fall cleaning and tweaking of the gutters. They will complete the final gutter cleaning after the remaining leaves have fallen, sometime in late December. Our gutters are cleaned three times a year. Once in the spring and twice in the fall.
Slope Retention – In order to stop erosion of the slope in the common area by units 162 and 163, Kelly Brothers built a retaining wall of boulders and a created a rip rap creek to collect water runoff from the downspouts.
Tree Work – L.I. Lumberjack was hired for two days during the month of November. We will have them back again soon.
Fire Alarm Inspections – On November 4 and 11, Arrow Security inspected the fire alarms and heat sensors in our units. If you missed the first attempt, you will be notified of a make-up date and will be charged $7.00 plus tax. Those who miss both the 1st and 2nd attempts will be charged $175.00 plus tax.
Fall Tree Spraying – Red Dragon Organics applied a 100% organic horticultural oil to ornamentals, evergreens, and oak tree trunks to control scale, mites, adelgid, Spotted Lantern Fly and Gypsy Moth eggs by suffocation.
Winter Preparation
Door mats, solar lights, flower pots or any other yard accessories should be removed from the areas where snow equipment or shoveling will occur in the event of a snow storm. These items can be damaged and cause damage to the snow removal equipment. –
Keep some ice melt near your front door to use as needed.
If you are going away…please leave keys with an “emergency person” and notify the Condo/HOA Office as to who has your keys.
Before going away, park your vehicles in a less used spot and where it will not inhibit the snow removal process. Leave the prime parking spots for those staying home.
If you go away for the winter, set your thermostat at 55 degrees in order to prevent frozen pipes.
Please do not cover the handicap parking signs.
Snow – Our walkways are shoveled by the landscapers when we have 2 + inches of snow.
In order to expedite snow removal during a storm, please, adhere to the following procedure.
1. Park in a parking plaza. No parking on main roads until after they have been cleared of snow. Only after the main roads have been cleared, will plows begin to clear the parking plazas.
2. Once the main road is plowed and the plow has cleared the middle of your parking plaza you must move your car to the main road so the entire parking plaza can be plowed.
3. When enough parking spaces have been plowed, you may move your car back into the parking plaza.
Sand Bins – The bins of sand will soon be placed at the mailboxes and at the end of some walkways. The sand is for your use. Fill a container and keep it within reach of your front door so you can spread some sand as you walk if you need to go out before the walkways have been cleared of snow and ice.
Hose bibs – If you have the shut off valve to the outside hose spigot in your unit, please, turn it off, if you have not already done so. Remember the valve on the outside spigot must be kept in the open position all winter in order to prevent water from collecting, then freezing, and the pipe in the wall from breaking.
Vinyl Fences – Please, do not nail, screw, or hang anything that might damage the finish on the fence or do anything else to void the warranty.
Contractors – This is a reminder that contractors may not use our dumpsters, but instead must cart debris away.
Attic Space – Storage in the attic is not permitted. If you have anything up there, please, remove it.
Slow Down – The speed limit in Bretton Woods is 25 mph. Please, come to a full stop at the STOP signs.
Head-in Parking Only – Bretton Woods has a head-in parking only policy. Head-in parking prevents exhaust from traveling in the direction of our homes and protects the grass, bushes and other planting from being burnt by the hot tail pipe exhaust. Please inform your family members and guests of this policy. This rule is relaxed when we are expecting a big snow storm.
Vehicles – Registration and car inspections must be up to date on cars in our parking lots. Those that are not are subject to being towed. Storage of vehicles is not allowed in our parking plazas. .
Handicapped Parking – Those with disabilities and who hold a current handicapped parking permit or handicapped license plates may park in designated handicapped parking spots. These parking permits or license plates are valid only when the person with a disability who received the permit or plates is driving the vehicle or is a passenger in it. Those who illegally park in a space reserved for people with disabilities can be subject to fines and/or towing.
This is a reminder that handicapped parking spaces are not reserved. Any guest or resident with a valid handicapped placard can park in any handicapped parking space.
Reminders:
• Walk on the dedicated walkways and do not take short cuts through the woods or across the grass. This is for safety reasons.
• Your board members are volunteers if you need to contact one of them, please, submit a work order or drop off a note at the clubhouse and someone will contact you. Unless, it is an emergency, please, do not call a board member at home.