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As real estate continues to have low inventory we see properties go under contract in days or weeks if priced correctly. As well, for those purchasing property in the town of Crested Butte, the unlimited vacation rental license continues to be desirable. As of today, there are no licenses available, despite all the folks living in the homes full-time and all the transfers that have taken place recently. However, there is also not a waitlist. Remember that if you do purchase a property and want to vacation rent your home in the town of Crested Butte, you cannot apply until you have closed on your property.
In Gunnison County, the number of veterans living in our valley has decreased in numbers but the services available has gone up. According to federal data in 2016 there was a veteran population of 826 people. in 2019, the veteran population has decreased to 759. However, federal dollars for expenditures and services for those veterans have gone up by $796,000.
The recently passed Veteran’s Compact Act contains an initiative related to rural recreational and therapeutic opportunities as well as educational opportunities and research potential. The new law will create a task force to study outdoor therapeutic opportunities for military veterans to design and then design and leverage public lands for those specific uses.
“Seeing that Gunnison County houses one of the oldest adaptive therapeutic outdoor institutions in the nation we are, I dare say, at the tip of the spear for potential action and potential data sharing to these federal agencies. I know Adaptive is involved in collecting some of their own data and they have been for a while,” said Otero.
Commissioner Roland Mason inquired why our number of veterans is decreaing. “It has to do with politics, money and access to services,” Otero answered. He said he fields a number of calls from local veterans, many with passionate opinions.
For further information on any of the topics, you can click on the links to the Crested Butte News. As always, if you are considering purchasing or selling your home in this beautiful valley give me a call. Stay safe out there folks, this is your local realtor, Heather Connor, signing off on the local news.
