Wednesday, May 31, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS
Sisters resident Bill Turner and his wife, Lorrie, have been living in a
portion of their townhome at Hayden Homes’ Village at Cold Springs since
water damage from roof leakage occurred last winter.
Residents struggle to
recover from damage
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
It was a very tough win-
ter all across Sisters Country.
Heavy snowfall and intense
cold combined in a perfect
storm to cause extensive
property damage as ice dams
caused roof leakage and snow
collapsed outbuildings and
fences.
As local homeowners wel-
come warm weather and sun-
shine, many are still trying
to recover from the damage
winter left behind. Residents
of the townhomes at Village
at Cold Springs at the west
end of Sisters have been par-
ticularly hard hit — and they
are growing frustrated with
developer Hayden Homes
in trying to get their homes
restored.
“I’ve been living in
my master closet for four
months,” Sean Palagyi told
The Nugget.
Palagyi, a COCC profes-
sor, lives in one of the town-
homes at Village at Cold
Springs. His bedroom and
several other rooms are still
torn up from water damage
caused when the roof leaked.
His neighbors, Bill and Lorrie
Turner, Christine Burton,
and Mike Pepples have all
reported similar conditions.
Their homeowners asso-
ciation is responsible for the
roofs and the building enve-
lopes on the townhomes.
The HOA is run by The
Management Trust on behalf
of Hayden Homes, which has
not yet transferred control of
the HOA to homeowners. The
residents are frustrated with
what they see as construc-
tion deficiencies that caused
the damage they have experi-
enced, and delays and sparse
communication about how
they will be made whole.
Representatives of Hayden
Homes and The Mangement
Trust did not respond to email
and phone messages from The
Nugget seeking comment for
this story. In a May 22 email,
Sara Beddow, vice president
of community management
for The Management Trust
wrote to residents: “Based
on the inspection report, we
have identified some areas
that need to be addressed
from both an original con-
struction and a maintenance
standpoint. We are in the pro-
cess of developing a plan to
address those areas. We’ll be
in touch with further details
the first week of June with
the hope of meeting in person
with you the following week
to discuss how best to address
these issues.”
The residents say they’ve
heard that before.
“We feel like we’ve been
put off and put off,” Bill
Turner said.
Christine Burton said she’s
consistently been told “one
more week, one more week
— and nothing’s happening.”
“I’ve made calls to Hayden
Homes directly and it’s got-
ten absolutely nowhere,” said
Mike Pepples.
A group of 11 resi-
dents commissioned CS
Construction of Bend to write
a report on the condition of
their homes. Jerry Milstead,
a 40-year veteran of the com-
mercial construction industry
participated in inspections of
the affected properties.
“What we did was look
at design drawings and then
look at the buildings and see
what was not done according
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