What a beautiful house!

Beautiful house!....only problem is the long winter and the water never gets warm enough to swim in!

If you are looking for a place in FL, Greg is the guy. Known him for a long , nothing can be said about him but good things.

Bet that makes a nice snowmobile cabin as well.

Here's what's been happening in the Traverse City, Mi area. We have four airlines serving the airport and direct flights from many major population areas. A family buys some waterfront, mom and kids spend the summer and dad flies in on weekends/holidays from NYC, D.C., Dallas, Denver, Detroit etc. There's a Costco on the airport property. Get luggage, rent car buy groceries and booze and off to summer home. Repeat.

We had our boat in the rack facility at Cheboygan one summer when we lived at Black Lake. Nice location.

When we were looking for slip/lift in winter ‘18/‘19 we made multiple trips of leaving the house 6 AM Sat morning and leaving LOTO 8 AM Sun morning. Always seemed like we packed a full weekend in (or at least my liver thought it). Thanks to Mentalpause for the hospitality then or I could never have done it. As for buying in ‘99 I wasn’t in a position to then. In the early 2000’s my parents tossed around the idea for a new unit at Land’s End which we would have split. Coincidently that is where I do the majority of my rentals now. However, had we done it we would have been crapping a brick in 2008 and for a few years thereafter.

Thats why I mentioned 08 in another thread, I was at Table Rock looking at properties and found a nice place with club house and pool, listing price was 295K I told the realtor Id think about it but thought it was over priced, on the way back home she called me and said it just went into foreclosure, the next day I was under contract with Wells Fargo for 135K, timing is everything

It's definitely a draw for all of the normal reasons,

Plus, add in that PBC stores and cares for my boat at a nice summer deal compared to S Fla and the travel and stay pay for themselves. Plus, we go Thurs-Mon so we boat three days. Feels like a vacation. Here I'm lucky to boat three days in a month. Plan is to go look for a lot/house starting in February and be settled in by May 1 if possible. If not, we will continue to rent VRBO 2x a mo until it works out. I have already developed some biz ideas for the lake area so hopefully we can do 6 months straight by 2022/23.

Here is a nice place just north of Toronto and it is a pretty good deal for where it is. About an hour drive from Toronto. You could commute it, especially if you live north of the city to start with. Depending on the time and traffic the drive could be two hours.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2...78733450_zpid/

This one is about 2.5 hours to Toronto, on a Friday or a Sunday it can easily be 4+ hours, and holiday weekends are even longer. We are only talking about 150 miles.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1...77262880_zpid/

I'm lucky, my cottage is only 100 miles, and most of the time it is between 1.5-2 hours either way. We go every weekend from May till October, and then every couple weekends in the winter. But no matter how long the drive, when you start doing 2 hours or more every Friday and Sunday, it gets old by the end of summer. I could not imagine doing 4 or 5 hours every weekend.

The problem is, there is not very much that is affordable sub 1mil within 2-3 hours of the city on the water. There are thousands of little lakes, but anything within a 3 hour commute from Toronto is bringing big money these days. With the recent exodus from downtown and so many people not needing to go to an office anymore, more people are making cottages and lake houses their primary residence and moving out of Toronto all together which is driving prices up even more.