If you love life in the mountains, consider owning a small piece of it - your own home, condominium or tract of land. You'd be surprised at the diversity of housing options available to you.
You'll also be delighted at the exquisite natural beauty that encompasses so many High Country abodes. We have urban areas with downtown walking districts that appeal to many in Boone and Blowing Rock.
A panoply of picturesque natural settings awaits you on the fringe of these towns and in Watauga, Avery and Ashe counties. These include properties with waterfalls, frontage on the Watauga or New Rivers, nifty aeries with 50-mile views or rolling farmland with morning fog pooling in the hollows.
If you can imagine it, you're likely to find land of such beauty in the vicinity of Boone. And wherever you arise you'll awaken to the unmistakable signature scent, the fresh forest fragrance of western North Carolina.
The air is crisp and crystal clear in winter under a cerulean Carolina sky. In summer it's laden with a sweet mist you can almost touch. The skies are alive with the magic, mood and personality of endless cloud colors dancing, walking or scudding languidly just above your fingertips.
These visual delights and scents are some of the first neighbors to call on you. In High Country housing you'll find your roof is the sky. In spring, summer and autumn, many of us live outside on our decks breathing the world's freshest air and snoozing on porches savoring the sweet summer rain.
At night, look aloft to a conflagration of celestial candlelight, like a garland of diamonds in the night sky. Nature knows no compromise where beauty is concerned in our Blue Ridge Mountains.
Examine your alternatives. You can opt for any of the fine, gated communities like Chetola Resort, Hound Ears Club, Linville Ridge Country Club and Yonahlossee Resort and Club. These and other communities offer many refined amenities in a distinctive setting. Retirement or second homebuyers may choose between many town homes and condominium developments.
Rental property abounds in close proximity to Appalachian State University much of it along the AppalCART route, which provides the Town of Boone excellent public transportation.
If you seek a quintessential mountain real estate experience, consider exploring property farther out near the Blue Ridge Parkway or on one of our ubiquitous mountaintops or streams.
Contact a local real estate agent of your choice for expert assistance in this process at 828-262-5437 - the office of the Avery-Watauga Association of Realtors. The web site is www.awaronline.org.
Contributed by Bob de Camara of Prudential Mountain Properties, President of the Avery-Watauga Association of Realtors.
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