Housing Market Slowdown

[ApS]

The solution to the quandery is to buy two lakefront homes.

When the time comes, you sell the one you won't be needing. They don't need to be located in the same county or state.

Originally Posted by Biggd

That's a really off the grid property, no electricity, no plumbing, no internet, no boat dock on the main shore. I doubt the island would even accept a septic system.

First thing I noticed was an aluminum "walker". Apparently, the owner was disabled somehow.

The refrigerator is powered by kerosene. (An old practice). The cast-iron kitchen woodstove, apparently in regular use, would demand a lot of wood. The pricy "Heatalator" fireplace--designed to capture wasted heat--would also demand a lot of wood--sending much heat out the chimney, while drawing cold "replacement" air from window "leaks" . Food "stores" were kept in cookie tins, to keep the contents from mice and voles.

A small floating dock ensured access to town, although it may have been possible to walk to a common land area by fifty feet of stepping across a "walkway" of boulders.

To enjoy the lake as long as possible, the apparently disabled owner tried to make his island camp into a three-season cottage. Good luck with that.