We’ve been slammed with snow so what does that mean for your North Idaho properties?

 Wow, the most we’ve seen since 1996:

A series of four more winter storms is likely to blow into the area through early February, National Weather Service meteorologist Kerry Jones said Monday. The first was expected to track across the area last night and early today, dropping a load of light snow, Jones said.

“This is going to be a really active weather week,” Jones said. “We’re just not getting a break.”

Each storm is predicted to unload 4 or 5 inches of snow, and with below-freezing temperatures likely to cool the air throughout the week, that snow will stay where it falls.

The intensity of last weekend’s storm, which unloaded 21 inches of heavy, wet snow in Coeur d’Alene, is unlikely to occur again this week. Cold temperatures will make the snow lighter and drier, and none of the fronts is expected to last as long as the weekend storm, which snowed 38 consecutive hours, climatologist Cliff Harris said.

Causing havoc everywhere from collapsing roofs to sinking boats.

Here’s what this means:

1. For properties managed by D&M Management LLC, snow plowing expenses will be higher, simply by virtue of the fact that we are getting 3-5″ of snow every day.
2. This amount of snow tends to slow down potential buyers and renters therefore properties very well may see low activity over the next 2-3 weeks.
3. For properties that are listed for sale through us, are vacant, are not under contract with D&M Management LLC and the owners live more than 50 miles away, we are shoveling pathways from the street to the door so that the property can continue to be shown to potential buyers.