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Why a Waterfront Property?

What is it about water? What internal human instinct instills the love of that life giving substance? The draw to water is visceral. Like the warm smell of a 3-week-old puppy, water comforts the human soul.

Our human urge to get on the water, look over the water, ride the water, fly over water, bathe in water, drink in the water, devour the water, relax in water, hold our babies in water, swim in water, make love in water, seems to speak of our ancestry and kinship with life.

We mark our own birth with the breaking water--that nine month ride in water, so gloriously harmonized, connecting the unborn and yet to be, with mother, the source. I suppose the water worship is justifiably poignant for those of us wise enough, well heeled enough to live by, or on the water.

Translating the transcendental water front property into business is not so esoteric. Here in the Catskills, we thrive on natural waterfronts of a diverse nature.

The Rio (pronounced rye-o), Toronto, Neversink, Pepacton Reservoirs, the Delaware and Mongaup rivers, Swinging Bridge, Tennanah, White, Kauneonga Lakes, and so much more, provide ample opportunity for those heeding the inner call to the water front.

Be it by salty sea or fresh water estuary, water commands a premium. The collection of qualities surrounding water front properties is mysterious yet completely understood by that inner personal compass. No exact definition can be rendered. It is a personal relationship.

The streams, rivulets, ephemerals of spring flow here. Your spirit reaches out to be renewed, refreshed, and re-vitalized. I’ll be here waiting at the water’s edge. Welcome home.