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Initiative
to Help Maintain Tune Drive
or
How you too can
attach the Road Maintenance Agreement to your property deed!
“We all drive on the road so we should all help maintain the
road!” --Anonymous
The current annual cost of
maintaining Tune Drive exceeds the current total of dues collected at
$10/acre. In 1991 when George Tune set up the Stagecoach Hills Road Maintenance
Agreement (SHRMA), he made no provision for increasing the dues as the
years went by and costs increased.
We currently collect about $6,000 per year and that is not sufficient
to maintain, repair and improve the road. The members of the SHRMA are
asking landowners in the Tune Tract who do not have the agreement attached
to their deed to voluntarily attach the agreement and contribute by paying
dues annually. All landowners in the Tune Tract north of the iron posts
(roughly, two miles from Highway 64) have, or should have, the maintenance
agreement attached to their deed. One important ramification of having
it attached is that the agreement obligates any future owners of your
property to help pay to maintain the road. Another benefit of having the
SHRMA attached to your deed is that being a member of the road maintenance
association allows you to vote about issues concerning the road.
The following set of instructions outlines how simple it is to do this.
The sample letter can be downloaded as a (Word,
PDF or Text)
file and was created by a local attorney for Ursula Jones. (Note: If you
have any concerns about using this document, you should consult your own
attorney. Neither the webmaster, nor any SNA property owner is responsible
for any problems you incur as a result of your use of this document. Use
at your own risk.)
Ursula Jones lives in the southern two miles of Tune Drive (south of the
iron posts) and even though she did not have the RMA attached to her deed,
she wanted to become a paying member of the road association. She believes
in paying to help maintain the road that she uses. Our thanks to Ursula
for doing this and for sharing the letter that was required in order to
attach the road agreement to her property deed. She paid $100.00 to have
this letter drafted. If anyone would like to send a small contribution
of thanks to Ursula, just contact
the webmaster, who will provide you with her mailing address. We know
she would appreciate the gesture.
To Attach the Road Maintenance Agreement to your Property
Deed:
1. Create an “ACCEPTANCE AND RATIFICATION OF ROAD & UTILITY
MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT” document. You have permission from Ursula
to use the one she had prepared by a local attorney. Download links above.
2. If using Ursula’s download document, replace the items in red
with your own particulars. Print two copies.
3. Sign the agreement before a notary public. Your bank might provide
notary services for no charge. Some realtors in town do it as a courtesy
as well.
4. Take both copies of the notarized document to the County Clerk’s
office at the Taos County office complex, 105 Albright Street,
M-F, 8-5. The recording fee for a one-page document is $9.00. If your
filing has other complexities, it might cost a little more, but not much.
5. The SHRMA is now attached to your property deed, and the obligation
will be passed along to future owners.
6. The next most important part after attaching
the agreement is that you need to get into our database. Please help the
SNA road committee keep its database current. Email us your name, mailing
address, physical address, email address, and phone number, along with
the number of acres you own and any other pertinent data by clicking
here.
7. Everyone who uses Tune Drive thanks you for voluntarily helping with
the costs of roadway upkeep. MANY THANKS!
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