Villages at Norris Lake Property Owners

Nov 12, 2011 Neighborhood Update is now available

2011-11-14T15:52:00.003-06:00

The November 12, 2011 Neighborhood Update is available. If you are owner at VNL contact Pat Perry at popperry@hotmail.com with your lot number and I'll send you the link.

Thanks,
Pat
VNLCA Secretary

The Villages has a new Property Mangement Company

2011-09-29T14:27:00.001-05:00

The Villages at Norris Lake Community Association, Inc. Board is pleased to announce the September 1, 2011 appointment of Morris Property Management, Inc. as our new property management company. Joe Barletta will be our property management contact and will be present at quarterly board meetings. Joe can be reached at:
Morris Property Management, Inc.
9041 Executive Park Drive, Suite 122
Knoxville, TN 37923
phone: 865-692-0930
fax: 865-692-0950

Morris mailed an introduction package to all VNL owners recently and owners are encouraged to go the their website at http://www.morrisproperty.com/ and register by clicking OWNER LOGIN . You can also review the unique cost saving services offered free to members.

The March 15, 2011 issue of VNL Neighborhood Update is now available

2011-03-22T08:43:00.002-05:00

The March 15, 2011 issue of VNL Neighborhood Update (10 pages) is now available and has been announced via the VNL Owners email list. If you are an owner and want to receive a copy, please email Pat Perry at popperry@hotmail.com with your name and lot number and I'll send a copy to you.

Thanks,
Pat Perry
VNL Volunteer Committee Member
VNLCA Secretary

The January 6, 2011 issue of VNL Neighborhood Update is now available

2011-01-26T10:15:00.003-06:00

The January 6, 2011 issue of VNL Neighborhood Update (20 pages) is now available and has been announced via the VNL Owners email list. If you are an owner and want to receive a copy, please email Pat Perry at popperry@hotmail.com with your name and lot number and I'll send a copy to you

Thanks,
Pat Perry
VNL Volunteer Committee Member
VNLCA Secretary

2010 VNL Community Association Annual Meeting

2010-10-05T14:53:00.001-05:00

The 2010 Villages at Norris lake Community Association Annual meeting was held on October 2, 2010 at Twin Cove Marina. If you are an owner and want to receive a copy of the agenda or the meeting minutes, please email Pat Perry at popperry@hotmail.com with your name and lot number and I'll send a copy to you

Thanks,

Pat Perry

VNL Volunteer Committee Member

VNLCA Secretary

August 25, 2010 Neighborhood Update Available

2010-08-26T14:31:00.004-05:00

The Aug 25, 2010 issue of VNL Neighborhood Update (60 pages) is now available and has been announced via the VNL Owners email list. If you are an owner and want to receive a copy, please email Pat Perry at popperry@hotmail.com with your name and lot number and I'll send a copy to you
Thanks,
Pat Perry
VNL Volunteer Committee Member
VNLCA Secretary

November 6, 2009 Neighborhood Update Available

2009-12-16T16:07:00.002-06:00

The Nov 6, 2009 issue of VNL Neighborhood Update (32 pages) is now available and has been sent via the VNL Owners email list. If you are an owner and want to receive a copy, please email Pat Perry at popperry@hotmail.com with your name and lot number and I'll send a copy to you
Thanks,
Pat Perry
VNL Volunteer Committee Member
VNLCA Secretary

Sep 13, 2009 Neighborhood Update Available

2009-09-24T10:12:00.005-05:00

The Sep 13, 2009 issue of VNL Neighborhood Update (30 pages) is now available and has been sent via the VNL Owners email list. If you are an owner and want to receive a copy, please email Pat Perry at popperry@hotmail.com with your name and lot number and I'll send a copy to you

Thanks,

Pat Perry

VNL Volunteer Committee Member

VNLCA Secretary

VNL Neighborhood Update July 4, 2009

2009-08-12T16:22:00.004-05:00

This is the cover of a 30 page Neighborhood Update sent to VNL Owners in July 2009. If you are an owner and did not receive a copy, email popperry@hotmail.com with your name and lot number and I'll send a copy to you.

Thanks,
Pat Perry
VNLCA Secretary

Mirobo Breaks Gound at the Villages at Norris Lake

2009-05-28T17:23:00.004-05:00

On May 15th, 2009 about 100 people attended the Ground Breaking Ceremony for The Villages at Norris Lake. This was a proud moment for the everyone who has worked so hard to make the recovery at VNL possible.

There is no doubt that Mirobo is the Partner that we owners had hoped to find in the midst of the real estate and financial problems facing the US economy. Since Mirobo acquired the assets of Land Resource they have done more in two months than LRC did in the last two years. Since their March 7 VNL Owners Meeting, they have successfully concluded a settlement with Bond Safeguard and re-bonded the infrastructure for Campbell County, addressed the needs of over 70 Phase 2 owners, sold over $800K in properties, opened a sales office with Tom Sturm's TN Home Finders in LaFollette, filed for a permit for the Marina and moved more dirt through the Spath Brothers than you could possibly believe.

Mr. Spath hunted me down at the ceremony to give VNL owners his personal assurance that the infrastructure had problems with prior work but that he was going to make sure that when it was finished in 2009, it would be perfect. I admire and respect a man that will look you in the eye, shake your hand and make a promise like that.

Rob Williams - Mirobo Partner - has submitted for the permit for the first 250 slip phase of the marina. This phase is pretty much automatic based on the prior existence of the old Rainbow Marina permit. Filing for a marina permit is a multi-step process that weaves its way through a number of approval levels at TVA to ensure that everything is in order. You may not be aware that the recent fly ash spill at Harriman, TN has bogged the TVA down with additional workload and they have had to move legal resources toward a resolution of that problem. That simply means that they could possibly take longer to do ongoing business such as approval of permits. The good news is that as a government entity, they take the opinions of their customers seriously. I may come back to you shortly for a bit of letter writing or email support to help make sure the TVA is aware that over 330 owners at VNL are ready to have a marina ASAP. More on that later.

I retired after spending 30 years in project and program management with a Fortune 100 corporation. I managed multi-million/billion dollar projects and I have never seen the kind of enthusiasm that Mirobo has shown on this project.

Last, I want to thank Jim Bell who built the first home at VNL. He took many of us through a tour of his home and you would not believe how great it looks. I will include more pictures in the next update.

Thanks,
Pat Perry
VNL CA Secretary

The Villages at Norris Lake begins construction and announces Ground Breaking Ceremony

2009-04-16T11:02:00.001-05:00

Lafollette, TN April 9, 2009 – MIROBO LLC has successfully negotiated a settlement with the bonding company in order for construction to resume on roads and infrastructure at The Villages at Norris Lake. “It has been a long and exhausting couple of months and, with the help of the Campbell County Planning Commission, First Trust & Savings, The Villages HOA and lot owners, we are excited to announce that the vision that once was The Villages at Norris Lake will now become a reality,” said Boog Potter, partner at MIROBO. There is a ground breaking ceremony planned for May 15th, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. We hope to get all of the parties that were involved in successfully getting the project up and running to participate in the ceremony. There will be food and drinks as well as vehicles to give people tours of the community. Everyone in the community is invited to come out and participate. “We always believed in the beauty of the land, now we can work towards creating that sense of community that we all believed in as well,” said Mike Martinez, partner at MIROBO.

The Villages at Norris Lake is a lake front property and marina development on six hundred and fifteen acres on Norris Lake in Campbell County, TN. MIROBO LLC (Emerson Properties’ largest shareholder) is a management and development company based out of Knoxville, TN with offices in Caryville, TN. MIROBO currently manages The Willows Communities on Norris Lake which includes The Willows at Twin Cove, The Willows at Stardust and Mountain Lake RV Resort and Marina. Additionally, MIROBO has been given the right to pursue a permit to be the Marina Operator at The Villages.

For more information contact:
Mike Martinez
Mirobo, LLC
423-562-3718
mmartinez@mirobollc.com
http://www.thewillowscommunities.com/

Mirobo VNL Owner's Meeting Concluded

2009-03-07T17:13:00.002-06:00

Partners of Mirobo LLC met today (3-7-2009) with approximately 150 property owners of The Villages at Norris Lake. Their presentations overviewed Mirobo and its success as a local developer of marinas and communities at Norris Lake and specific plans to get the Villages back into operation following the bankruptcy of Land resource LLC. Minutes of the meeting will be emailed and sent via US Mail to all VNL owners in the next few days.

Owners expressed optimism with the presentations and the Q&A session. For questions regarding their specific lots, owners may contact Mirobo Partner, Mike Martinez at 423-562-3718 or email him at mmartinez@mirobollc.com .

Tom Sturm, of Tennessee Home Finders, announced the opening of a new sales office and Villages Welcome Center in the next few weeks - more on that later. Tom and his team will be handling sales of available VNL properties beginning immediately. See the THF web site at http://www.tennhomefinders.com/ .

Thanks
Pat Perry
VNL HOA Secretary

Mirobo VNL Owners Meeting Invitation

2009-03-04T13:00:00.002-06:00

Saturday March 7 beginning at 2:00 pm (Eastern time)
Conference Dial In Number:
Participant Access Code:

Note: This may be a toll call if you are using a land line or some cell phone plans. Caller capacity is 150 incoming lines and an estimated 70-100 owners are expected to be calling in. (see call-in guidelines below)

Invitation: Owners of property at the Villages of Norris Lake only

Host & Moderator: G.L. "Boog" Potter, Partner Mirobo LLC Management & Development
Meeting Coordinator: Mike Martinez mmartinez@mirobollc.com
Mirobo Staff members will also be present to help answer questions.

A Special Request from Mike Martinez:
1- To help the call move faster while giving people a platform to voice their questions, please submit any questions you have pertaining to the development or your specific lot to mmartinez@mirobollc.com by Thursday at 5:00 PM EST. On Friday the 6th, I will sort through all the questions and be prepared to answer the most common ones at the meeting on Saturday. Any specific questions you have about your situation or lot, I will handle the following week on a one on one basis so please include your contact information.

2- For owners attending the meeting in person, please send me an email with the number attending so we can plan for refreshments and seating.

3- We will publish minutes of this meeting next week.

Conference Call Guidelines:
1- Upon being admitted to the call, please mute your phone by touching *6. To ask a question, simply un-mute by touching *6, state your name and ask your question then re-mute. Muting your phone is vital to eliminate background noise so that all callers can listen without interruption. Cell, wireless and speaker phones are notorious for causing static, echo and background noise, so please use a land line if you can.

2- If you dial in and experience a difficult connection, hang up and redial in.

3- If you are calling from a phone which has music on hold, PLEASE DON'T PUT US ON HOLD!

4- Jeanette Jones with AIM Services will be at the meeting and can receive questions via email at
Jeanette.Jones@aim-services.net

5- There will be a Volunteer Committee member at the meeting who will make sure that people calling in can hear the questions being asked at the on-site meeting and to make sure that background conversations are kept to a minimum.

6- If we should experience an outage of the call in line for more than 5 minutes we will move to a back-up dial in number and code. The back up dial in number is: , the access code is:

7- If we lose the primary and back-up dial in capability, hang up and we'll send the minutes to you next week.

Thanks,

Mike Martinez
Partner
Mirobo, LLC
office: 423-562-3718
cell: 865-719-8212mmartinez@mirobollc.com

Great News!

2009-01-24T10:22:00.003-06:00

Hi VNL Neighbors,
Great news!

VNL HOA Board Secretary Pat Perry has reported that he LRC bankruptcy asset sale was completed and approved by the court today, January 23, 2009, and our preferred buyer won the bid.

The closing will take place February 6, 2009 and the buyer is looking forward to meeting with the HOA and Volunteer Committee to make plans for getting VNL back in operation. There is much work to be done in the next two weeks and we will be sending you a more comprehensive update in early February.

Thanks for your patience!
VNL HOA Board and Volunteer Committee

Reminder:
VNL property owners who have not already done so are invited to join the neighborhood email network by sending an email to Keith Dralle at steelie2@gmail.com .

VNL Property Owners user group established

2008-09-19T18:20:00.005-05:00

A private Yahoo user group has been established for property owners of The Villages at Norris Lake in Campbell County, TN.

VNL property owners are welcome to join.

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/vnlpropertyowners

Pat

VNL Property Owners meet in LaFollette 9-9-08

2008-09-16T20:31:00.002-05:00

This article appeared in the LaFollette Press:
http://www.lafollettepress.com/LaFollette_Press.html

Villages Owners Seeking Updates
By JENNIFER CALDWELL
stories@lafollettepress.com

Campbell County Regional Planning Commission meetings are not usually a tourist attraction.

More than 20 out-of-town guests were in attendance at Tuesday’s meeting in hopes of learning more about the fate of their property in the now defunct Villages at Norris Lake development.

In an effort to provide property owners with information, planning commission attorney Reid Troutman held a question-and-answer session with the group that traveled from Toledo, Memphis and a variety of other locations.

“I will tell you everything I know,” Troutman told Villages property owners.

Troutman told property owners the planning commission will use revenue from bonds to complete the development’s infrastructure.

The Villages parent company, Land Resource LLC, was required to provide the bonds in case the company ran into financial difficult and was unable to finish the project.

“I think this county owed you the fiduciary duty to call the bonds,” Troutman said.

According to Troutman, he participated in a meeting with Safeguard, the project’s bonding company, to discuss the development’s future.

“We had a meeting about 10 days ago with Safeguard to discuss this mess. Safeguard has its engineers and people here looking at the property now,” Troutman said.

Because much of the work in phase I of the development has already been completed, it is likely this will be the starting point for Safeguard to oversee completion of the project.

“One of the biggest issues right now is the waste water treatment facility,” Troutman told the group.

While construction of the facility is fully bonded, the proposed plant will not be able to function with only two houses that are already under construction.

Troutman said an alternative waste treatment plan will need to be in place until more homes are ready to be brought on line.

Since little work in phase II and phase III of the development has been completed, these property owners expressed the most concerns.

“Phases II and III have a long way to go,” Troutman said as he again stressed that bonds were available to complete the infrastructure in all three phases.

According to Troutman, Safeguard is planning to initiate litigation against Land Resource LLC soon in an effort to recoup the costs of completing work at the Villages.

“The big question is where did the money go?” Troutman said of the more than $30 million that was generated from property sales at the Villages.

While proposed amenities including a clubhouse, pool and marina are not covered by the bonds, Troutman projected that work on the development’s roads and utilities would be underway soon.

In addition to roads inside the development, a portion of the roadway outside the gated community that has sustained damage was also bonded.

“The goal is to start work in the next 60 days,” Troutman concluded.

End of article

Pat

Welcome to the VNL Property Owners Blog

2008-09-16T17:39:00.002-05:00

The Villages at Norris Lake Property Owners Blog was created to facilitate communications with and between VNL property owners. In July 2008 the VNL sales office in LaFollette, TN, Campbell County was closed by parent company Land Resource, LLC of Orlando, FL.

Click this link to see an article from the Knoxville Sentinel:
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jul/29/lafollette-project-halts-developers-face-hurdles-l/

VNL property owner Keith Dralle has organized a group of over 125 other VNL property owners. His goal is to help all of us become better informed about the status of the closing and our options as owners in protecting our interests.

For now, Keith and I have have the access to author new blogs and everyone is invited to comment. Currently, registration is not required to comment but that may change if spamming becomes a problem. I will moderate the comments to make sure unwanted posters are not tolerated.

I am new at blogging so please make suggestions on how we can improve.
Thanks,
Pat