Cottage 24 Construction Commences Outside of Narrowsburg
More burning in above picture. And below is the picture of the piece of land where we are building Cottage 24, our newest cottage design. Sits in a little valley 1400 ft above sea level, looking out into the mountains.
And here is the little house, coming in at 1260 sq ft and selling for $335,000. It sits on a 7+ acre piece of land 5 miles outside Narrowsburg, high above what used to be Luxton Lake.
The house is positioned to take advantage of the big views, with the living room and porches pointed appropriately.
Cottage 14
Cottage 14 was a house we started last year about this time and finished it up and got it sold in the middle of the Great Recession last January - the mortgage market was so screwed up that the lenders were actually calling the employers of these two woman the day of closing in order to verify - for the 3rd time - that they still had jobs. It was a crazy time last winter - that's for sure, when the whole world froze up. I got to hand it to the Catskill Farms team, to the homeowners Albert, Dean, Gayle, Nick, Jeanne and Deb - I mean, we got it done when it couldn't be done. So I was driving around with John and Wendy who are friends of Stan and Leslie from Farmhouse 3 - and I was showing off the houses and we stopped by Albert's where Gus and his wife Malin were raking shit and burning shit and then we cruised past Jeanne and Deb's and they were raking shit and burning shit too. Seems like the city slickers love to come up to their house and rake shit and burn shit.
Cottage 14 is a real unique cottage, - very kitchen-centric with a double high ceiling and big fans swirling. So I like to go over and check things out on Friday's or Saturday's just about at about happy hour time - because turns out Jeanne and Deb are master martini makers and I love martinis. I brought Lucas along to this shindig this past weekend.
The guy can't keep his socks on to save his life.
Jeanne and Deb mixing up the cocktails, showing Lucas how it's done.
And a living room baby shot. GI Joe Lucas doing his special forces crawl.
And a series of funky moon shots with my fancy camera that is a lot smarter than me.
Lake Ridge - New Lots
New Lucky Lake lots high up on the hill outside Narrowsburg.
We just bought some new building lots over closer to Narrowsburg NY. 5 new lots ranging from 5 to 8 acres. High up on the hill lots, looking across the mountains to what will shortly be the annual spectacular changing of the leaves.
This view going up the hill has always reminded me of Tuolumne Meadows, in the northern part of Yosemite National Park, where I used to go on an annual trek with some mates from college (University of Pittsburgh).
Luxton Lake (or Lucky Lake for short) has an interesting history, with the final conclusion that there is no lake no more for the past 30 years, since the dam broke. Now its just a nice stream, with nice property around it.
We have five new houses planned - 2 mini-cottages under $265k, 2 cottages under $335k, and a farmhouse somewhere around $425k.
Will post sketches shortly.
