Today local real estate agent Chelsea Perkins invited people looking to purchase both a house and boat to check out an adorable Eastlake houseboat, which is neither.
“If you’re looking for a cozy, stable home and an adventurous boat to enjoy, you’ll love how this place tries so hard to be both it is somehow neither – isn’t that neat?” Perkins said. “That’s what makes it so special: It’s basically two structures sacrificing so much of themselves to merge with the other that they have no real usable gift left to give each other or anyone else—isn’t it just romantic? No wonder Tom Hanks’ Sleepless in Seattle character lived in one of these. ”
Perkins went on about how precious it is to live in a houseboat despite the fact that it can’t move like a boat or easily power more than a few appliances at a time like a house.
“What it lacks in all of the main advantages of real houses and real boats it easily makes up for with moorage fees, regular hull cleaning and home insurance so expensive you probably won’t even bother with it,” Perkins said. “Don’t forget how fun it is to constantly have kayakers, paddle-boarders, and tourist boats slowly drifting by to peer into your home and wonder who even lives in one of these things.”
At press time, one impressed couple celebrated snapping up the houseboat by getting dinner at Ray’s Boathouse, which is also neither a boat, nor a house, nor Ray’s.
