Travl Channel Vacation Homes Lake Placid
The travel channel today had the “young couple looking for a vacation home” on today – in Lake Placid NY.
Homes 350-550k. they talked about a 4 hr drive so thats what from NYC or Albany?
House Sizes seemed to be 2000-3500 ft2 and looked to be electric heated. They said city of L placid owned own electric company and rates are “cheap”.
questions –
whats it cost to heat a house like that in the winter there
and
do the vacation homes sit closed up in the winter?
Replies
Try a shout out to Gene Davis. He's our man in LP.
4 hrs from NYC would be makin good time and hopefull at that.
I'm an hour north of NYC and it takes me at least that long to get there. I mean, it's close to an hour to get into town from the highway, unless you don't like to look at some of the most beautiful scenery in the world.
There electric rates are 1/3 to 1/2 half what I'm paying. I looked it up. We're paying 11-12 cents per kwh.
Nice place to visit, I honeymooned there! A good place to have bought land 20 years ago too!!!
Eric
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Our electic rates range from 3.4 cents to 4.4 cents per KWH, making this one of the cheapest places to buy juice in the USA.
A new 4 BR house, all electric heat, can cost up to $200 per month to heat, in the coldest months of winter, with the t-stats turned down to 50.
Turned up to comfortable temps for regular living, this house might cost almost $400 to heat in the month of January, with a lot of night time temps going down to 20 below and lower.
We are a winter sports town, so most of the vacation homes here get occupied most weekends and a few full weeks, during the December through March ski season.
Gene
I LOVE LAKE PLACID! I went there for a couple of hockey tournaments. Stay at the Best Western, room right on the lake it's beautiful Standing on the bench in the 80 rink brought tears to my eyes, lol. I love the view you get from atop the Olympic ski jump tower! I know what you mean by the -20 deg. The rink at sarranac (sp?) was REAL COLD and it was only Nov. I have a friend from my town here in MA that has a place up there, on your way out towards sarranac you take a right at the building that's round ( is it still a coffee shop?) He will leave here around 5:30 am and go to L.P. to go snowmobiling for the day! Then he drives back home. All Things Wood!
Stephen Prunier Carpentry
what is the secret to low power rates?
Ask Gene..............
I think the local municipality owns it's own hydro plant, or leases land to the company tha does in exchange.............I Love A Hand That Meets My Own,
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No middle men or thumb-up-thier-azz executives.
Mr T
I can't afford to be affordable anymore
Some kind of a super long term deal was made with one of the hydro producers up on the St. Lawrence. It'll outlast me, so I'm OK with it.
We've no production of our own. Only a couple small substations to step it down.
I'm in Rochester, NY, and I'm only 4 hours from Lake Placid. I go to the Adirondacks every summer and that is only 3 hours. As far as the power costs, I don't know how anyboody does anything up there because there is essentially zero industry to provide jobs to even feed people.
If there is nothing here, why do you drive the three hours?
Depending on the weather and city traffic, of course, Albany is roughly 2-3 hours North of New York City and Lake Placid is 2 hours North of Albany. Very nice area. It really is a small town.