A “Parade of Homes” tour around the 2.5 mile circumference of Loveless Lake is a remarkable reflection of the sweep of the American Dream.
There’s a congregation of mobile homes at the western tip that leads to a bunch of tidy middle-class homes and humble cabins. That's where my little slice of someday heaven sits.
A bit further down, there's a curious stretch of blacktop, the length of about two football fields. It begins and ends in front of a handful of really nice homes. While Chris and I get a tougher-than-Stairmaster work out each time we head down my bluff to Loveless Lake, these folks scored prime lots in the lowlands.
Sadly, the lake tour also seems like a dispiriting microcosm of the pre-recession boom times, and the fallout when the bottom dropped out. The first time I visited, there were 13 properties on the market. Among those still listed are these gems:
This 3BR, 3BA was built in 2003. It’s listed for $450,000.
This 2BR, 1BA was built in 2002. Price: $199,900.
This lot is not on Loveless Lake – but has a view of it! -- brings up the land value rear at $19,500.
In the same way one hopes their alma mater turns out Nobel Prize winners and other brainiacs who will add lustre to their own humble degrees, I can only hope that these properties sell soon, and sell for their desired price -- no matter how optimistic that seems right now.
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