you could throw a stone to the beach from there
If there are 6 houses, a bar and a major road between your house and the beach, you don’t have a beach.
If I get too much closer to the beach, the taxes almost triple. The beach there is a owner association type thing so it is still a semi private beach.
This is what will make anything closer:
Is that house part of the association though? They make no mention of the beach in the zillow ad which makes me wonder if you have any access to it.
my uncle has a cottage on keuka lake. i love it there. one finger lake past canandaigua so its about 1.5 hours or so. no where near the traffic the other finger lakes see, not as populated.
heres a shot i took looking down one of the ends of the lake. this was last summer, maybe around june-july?
That picture makes me very happy.
We did a day trip with the boat to Conesus lake last summer and it is a nice quiet lake. A little too quiet for a day trip honestly because other than the NorthShore Grill there isn’t really anywhere to go with a boat. It would be a great place to have a little summer home though.
We were the only people to show up for lunch by boat that day.
Delta Lake is way nicer, but it’s too far away to consider for a WNY summer home.
I would probably buy a boat with a cabin before I bought a cottage. That’s just me though, I grew up doing boat trips with the family. We always enjoyed the variety of destination choices, rather than going to the same place every weekend.
I would definitely take a boat with a cabin over that “beach home” listed earlier that’s not on the beach.
A cottage right on the water though would be awesome, but good luck finding one for 100k.
Keuka is a great lake. I’m partial to the finger lakes because I live on Canandaigua for a large chunk of the summer.
Not to threadjack, but what kind of boat friendly restaurants/hotels/motels are their on Keuka? We’re going to do a weekend boat trip there this summer but I’d really prefer to just tie up to a dock and stay somewhere nice at night. Not a big camping fan.
Not sure about water access but there was a thread on Roclife about things to do at night around Keuka.
the switzerland inn. its at 14109 keuka village road
Knotty Pine Inn 293 West Lake Road Hammondsport, NY 14840
Valley Inn aka the Guyanoga Hilton
2862 Guyanoga Rd Branchport, NY 14418
cant think of the names of the places, but there are quite a few resturants/bars on the lake that you can pull up to by boat. most of them are in the center of the “y” and to the south though. next time im out there or when i talk to my uncle i can ask him. i usually just hang out on the deck to look out on the lake or im on the boat, dont really pay attention to whats going on lol.
Man I miss growing up every summer on Keuka Lake
Ok, thanks. Now back to finding him a not really on the beach home. 
that’s a big price drop, lol
07/17/2010 Listed for sale * $134,900 -68.3% $59 Realty USA
09/08/2005 Sold $425,000 – $186 Public Record
There’s no way that’s right. Craigslist scammers offering to pay with fake cashiers checks wouldn’t even offer $425k for that place.
I saw that lol… I will dig into the clerks database and get the actual sale price before I proceed.
oh and shut it on not actual beach home you ass. I can not afford the actual beach home, and even if I could it would be weird having a summer home worth way more than my normal home. I consider it a beach home as it is in a beach community. I asked Jeff (he is a fiend that would be my neighbor) and he said part of buying in that neighborhood is beach rights. It is something controlled by the town.
I just seems like a lot of money to spend for a house that’s going to be pretty much like living in your current house. You still have neighbors pretty close on all sides and a typical suburb sized back yard. Maybe you don’t have a pool now, but you could get a pool easy enough. Going to the beach is still going to involve a vehicle if you’re bringing more than a bottle of sunscreen. Plus now you’ll be maintaining and paying taxes on two pieces of property.
I like the idea of a vacation/summer home, but I’d want it to be a lot different from my suburban home. Aka, waterfront (which I can’t afford either) or maybe a cabin out in the woods somewhere with no neighbors for a 1/2 mile in any direction.
I don’t want it to sound like I’m crapping on your idea, I’m just trying to understand the appeal of having two similar homes where the big perk of home two is gaining access to shared beach on Lake Erie. $120k seems like a lot for that perk when it costs like $8 to go to Beaver Island park, who’s beach is probably better and it’s never that busy.