Lake House

The only way to describe our life these days is Crazy! When Robb's grandpa Myron passed away, we inherited some farm ground and long story short we sold that and things have gotten crazy around here. I now know the meaning of 1031, and many other official terms that have been tossed around but to make it simple we had to purchase property that we would be using for income. So......Why not a Lake House. This was a dual purchase between Bob and Susie and Robb and I. We are a very small piece of the pie here but this is Robb's dream come true! It all happened pretty fast. Andy found a couple houses on Capital Beach that he wanted to go look at and 48 hours later and many discussions on how exactly this would work we were making an offer on a lake house.

Our plan is to use and enjoy the lake house but to also rent it out on Home Away and Air B&B as a vacation rental. Robb and I will manage it and have it to play at and boat at and Bob and Susie will have somewhere to stay when they come down for the weekends.

It has been a blast this summer! I really feel like I can go on a mini vacation that is 5 minutes from our house. The kids love it and Robb is in 7th heaven having a lake that he can boat on during the week. We have spent 2-3 nights a week this summer at the lake house living it up at the lake. The kids go paddle boarding, swimming, boating, they play in the hot tub and the sauna. Once Robb got a railing put up all along the deck it was much more enjoyable to have Emerson there too.

 

Here is  a picture of the outside of the house.

This is the deck and back of the house.

I have learned how to take care of and balance chemicals in an 8 person hot tub or hot baf (bath), as Emerson calls it. This is her favorite place to swim. We just leave the heater off and the water just stays heated from the sun. It is really enjoyable!

The water at Capital Beach is salty due to the salt deposits in the area and it's a little hard to get used to but it is fun to have somewhere to swim and boat.

We purchased some of the furniture with the house but Susie and I were in charge of furnishing the remainder of the house. I must say that this was a pretty fun chore although it was a lot of work.

Living Room

The master bedroom in this house is amazing! At one point Robb was really contemplating just making this our house.

Second bedroom.

I often find myself feeling guilty for the good fortune that we have had in life. It is not anything that we have asked for and it is not anything that we deserve but I hope that we can make great investment choices and be able to pass this on to our children someday.