We currently have insurance through the California Fair Plan (CFP) to their allowed maximum amount of $20M. The premium is $76,609 per year, about what CW was previously paying to Farmers before CW was dropped. Our agent has recommended we budget for a 25% premium increase this next year (insurance renews April 1) and we...Read More

Today at about 3:15pm there was a fire response plus deputies to a fire at the end of Sahara Drive near Pretoria Road, about 150 yards from Carnelian Woods unit 76. The fire was just off Carnelian Woods property and on California Tahoe Conservancy property. According to Brent Armstrong, Fire Marshal for North Tahoe Fire,...Read More

Linchpin Engineering staff will be on the Carnelian Woods property beginning this Thursday, May 2, at 9 AM, to conduct inspections of the balconies as required by California Civil Code 5551.  There will likely be one or more additional days scheduled in the future to complete the project. The first inspections are required before January...Read More

The Sugar Pine Foundation will plant over 350 Sugar Pine seedlings on the “undeveloped lots” (top of Silver Pine, above the locked gates)  area of the Carnelian Woods property on Thursday, May 9, 2024 between 10 am and 2pm (weather permitting).  Volunteers from Carnelian Woods, Agate Bay, and neighboring areas are cordially invited to attend and help...Read More

Homeowners have been contacting the office looking for information on solutions to the issue of now needed an egress window in their lofts to claim it as a bedroom for short term rentals. Jack Venable, the Architecture Review Committee Chair who will process any applications for changes to your unit, spent much of his career...Read More

Pacific Premiere Insurance, out new agent, has found new insurance policies for us to cover the various auto and liability aspects of the HOA, but we are still waiting to hear on fire/property insurance. The difficulties in obtaining insurance involve the wildfire risk, percentage of short term rentals, claims history, and that repairs are underway....Read More

Effective today, March 1, 2024, Alpenhof Management Services, LLC. (AMS) has been awarded management responsibility for Carnelian Woods. Your management team will consist of Nicholas Saadi – Association Manager, Tom O’Neil – Accounting Manager, and Janessa Visnyei – on-site Office Manager. Contact information will remain the same: Carnelian Woods PO Box 68 Carnelian Bay, CA...Read More

Ignitions did not go as planned today due to travel delays and other factors. We are still looking at basically 10 acres of piles remaining on the Carnelian Woods property. With the snow already on the ground and the current and predicted storm systems, it is unlikely that we’ll burn these last 10 acres this...Read More

The conditions are right so NTFD is planning on bringing in the love this Valentine’s Day with more pile burning Wednesday and Thursday. We have a goal of 10 acres this week which would essentially complete the pile burning on Carnelian Woods property. There have been a few difficult piles that we may burn next...Read More

NTFD pile burning operations went well January 29-31. We completed all 19.5 acres (around Carnelian Woods upper units), reaching our goal for the week and completing most of the work for this project. There are 11.3 acres of piles remaining on the 78-acre total project. Depending on the incoming storms we will attempt to burn...Read More