71 Needles Way #237, Durango, CO 81301

Love skiing? Want to enjoy your après-ski with a view of the slopes from your own mountainside condo? For $39,000 you can own a quarter of a slope-side studio condo, with 12 weeks to use as your year-round family getaway, or enjoy some of the 12 weeks and enter the rest of the time into the rental pool to cover your monthly expenses, or put it in the rental pool full-time as an investment. The 12 weeks are divvied up as six 2-week vacations. Twice a year one week is reserved for maintenance and cleaning. And the owners take turns getting the remaining two weeks a year, so every four years, you actually get 14 weeks, and the owner of this #2 share gets the extra two weeks this coming year (2019), and they include Christmas and New Year's. Bonus! Divided by four, the per-owner expenses are minimal: Annual taxes for the quartershare are $105; the DMMA fee is $87/year; homeowner's insurance is about $85/year; and the HOA is $115 per month, which includes water, sewer, electric, trash, phone, cable, internet, snow removal, maintenance and insurance of the exterior and common areas, firewood, and the property management fees. You also get to use the rooftop hot tub, the outdoor heated pool, tennis courts, the owners' club, game and exercise room. This studio has a living/dining area with a Murphy bed, wood-burning fireplace, a full bathroom, and a very private patio balcony with views of the base of the mountain, Purgy's, New Year's fireworks, and all the summer activities (reverse bungee, zipline, etc.). Good times!