Posted on 08/28/2005 1:39:37 PM PDT by Coleus
Bill Van Keuren shouldn't have had any trouble selling his family's house.
It's a three-story colonial with a formal dining room, thick mahogany doors, leaded-glass windows and an enclosed porch. A spring-fed lake is just steps away, past two tennis courts and a hot tub. The house sits on 145 acres of pristine Sussex County woodlands in a naturist resort.
It is priced very attractively at $395,000.
Still, it has languished on the market for more than a year, even as its price has been reduced from $450,000.
How can such a home defy the roaring real estate market in New Jersey, where people are paying half a million dollars for homes only to knock them down and rebuild on the empty lots?
The problem lies in that phrase "naturist resort," which is a euphemism for a nudist camp, or what once might have been known as a nudist colony.
Put differently, anyone who wants Van Keuren's house at Rock Lodge Camp in Stockholm mustn't mind public nudity.
"It's definitely unique," said Heather Adam, the realtor who has listed the house since February, advertising it in naturist magazines and local real estate pamphlets.
Last winter, there were three open houses. A few folks showed, but were shocked to learn they were in the middle of a nudist camp. In the winter, of course, no one is around.
Adam said she hasn't held an open house this summer because "you have people up there with no clothes on."
Three couples, she said, have shown interest in the house: a European nudist couple, a couple from Montclair and one from Manhattan. No one has made an offer.
The sale is complicated by the fact that a potential buyer would have to lease the house first, then join the club, then buy
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At first it sounds enticing, and then when you visit the house you see the kind of people who join nudist colonies. They usually ain't the kind of folks you want to see naked.
Imagine two dozen helen thomas clones walking around with about 50 ted kennedy clones. YEEEEEEECHHHHHHHHHH.
I'd-rather-live-in-a-tent ping.
In other news...former President Bill Clinton has purchased a 145 acre estate in Sussex County...
You got that right. When my family was stationed in Germany when I was a kid, a friend and I sneaked to a nearby nudist camp to have a peak. I was a bit of a let down, to say the least.
I was a bit of a let down= It was a bit of a let down
I'm glad they think that way. If I bought that house I would buy a fast server, T-3 line, a couple of color cameras and set myself up in the Internet Business.
They must save money as they don't have a clothing bill
excellent idea. A live continious nudist feed. People can log on and see just what kind of geeks rule at those places. If ever there was an argument for the wearing of clothes nudist camps make that argument.
They have no pockets.
I love the last sentence:""Unlike any other place in life, people actually look at you when they talk to you."
LOL!
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