Most of the "no comments" came quite quickly.
ODT: Have there been problems with the water supply to the Snow Park?
Park operator Robin Sadowski-Synnott: "No comment."
ODT: Why were the Snow Park's groomers repossessed during the summer?
Sadowski-Synnott: "No comment."
ODT: Are you behind with the rent?
Sadowski-Synnott: "I'd rather not go into any financial details."
At this point there is the longest of pauses before a final "no comment".
It is the Lee family of the Cardrona Valley that owns the park on the Pisa Range.
They are effectively landlord to Mrs Sadowski-Synnott's Snow Park management company Alpine Ventures Ltd.
On a warm, sunny afternoon this week, as the Snow Park's lifts carried a steady stream of young skiers and snowboarders, Mrs Sadowski-Synnott cried off discussing the park's finances.
But there were obvious signs some sort of accommodation has been reached - not least that the park has opened for the season in the face of speculation it might not.
As well, snow is being made - for "100 hours straight" on one occasion - and therefore a water supply must have been secured.
And a groomer sits on the snow, with talk of another somewhere on the mountain.
Mrs Sadowski-Synnott is into her third year running the "terrain park" with its "small-mountain kind of feeling".
Her lease of the park ends this season and while she hesitates to talk about her future here, she confirms she would like to continue.
"Definitely. Snow Park is a magical, exciting place. It's some place that I think is near and dear to many people's hearts - definitely my own and my family's."
The New York-born mother of five has been skiing since she was 5 and says she has a love of the snow.
"I have always found the snow quite magical and obviously in the northern hemisphere, at Christmas time, it has kind of an enhanced magic, if you will."
Mrs Sadowski-Synnott went to university in Massachusetts then became a business consultant with Ernst and Young in Boston, before joining Dell in Texas, where she "ended up" managing the company's consumer business.
She met her husband, Hong Kong-based Aucklander Sean Synnott while taking a high-performance sales incentive trip to the Whistler ski resort in Canada.
A move to Dell's Sydney office followed, as did five children.
The family arrived in Wanaka in 2008 and the following year took up residence for the winter in the Snow Park's accommodation.
"It was fantastic. The kids would stay up into the wee hours and build little jumps and go sledding ... "
In 2010 the family got involved in discussions with the Lee family "and kind of collectively at the time managed the park".
That arrangement broke up at the start of the 2011 season when Snow Park founder, director and operations manager Sam Lee resigned citing a "difference in values" with Mrs Sadowski-Synnott.
A "challenging" season followed with the late arrival of natural snow and a lack of cold temperatures for making snow.
And when this year's opening was delayed several times last month, speculation began to mount the Snow Park might not open at all.
Seated amid the cheerful chatter of young skiers and snowboarders this week, Mrs Sadowski-Synnott declined to comment on the speculation preferring to make the point repeatedly, that she would "like to focus on the positive" and would like to make the Snow Park "the best it possibly can be.
"I try not to focus on rumours."
