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[Cletus_Vandam]

Allow me to clarify a few things here....
The Chesapeake Ranch Club (now known as Chesapeke Ranch Estates) was orginally a destination for vacationers that had second homes by the bay. It was built with seasonal living in mind and had a club house built along with camp grounds and a man made lake for relaxing. It was a private club that was self supporting by dues paid for by its property owners and when the population boom hit it coincided with the selling of the property by its original owners. It was never, ever designed to be a subdivision. Part of the problem is that there are so many lots on the property and with many houses in and around being built in the late 50's to early 60's as vacation homes (I know, the one I own and live in is one of them) property developers came in during the 90's and still today are building spec houses right on top of one another and next to all of the orginal houses and properties. With no planning at all and no guidelines for how houses should look if you drive around (which you saw on your first visit) you will see low income homeowners that have lived here for 20+ years (most of whom bought thier homes for under 70k) with houses right next door to 400K homes. If you look throughout the county there are very few places you can buy a home and have access to a fresh water lake, 2 bayfront beaches, a clubhouse that can be rented by any property owner and close proximity to such a good public school system for the amount of money that can purchase a home here. Am I defending the community in which I live? Absolutely. Is it the best place in the county to live? Hell no. For the money though, it can't be beat. No place is without its compromises. Before you make up your mind, take a look at all the property and homes available on all sides of the community. It is huge (which is really an understatement) and there are good areas to go with the bad. Just be sure to check out the good ones before you decide its all bad.
oh and ps-the roads are typically in better shape in here than RT4 when it snows.

I should open with "no offense, but"; but I know you will take offense to the following.

The reason why you should stay away from the CRE are all stated within the text of your message, you just need to read between the lines.

Going by your description, CRE obviously does not have a well-established covenant. While there are those that abhor covenants, there is no argument that they [1] protect property value and [2] do create a sense of architectural stability within the neighborhood. At least with covenants you won’t have a 600 square foot shack, next to a 4,000 square foot mansion.

On the chance that CRE does have covenants, the community is either not enforcing them, or they have not been updated to meet the standards of today [addressing architectural standards, etc].

I’ve lived in a lot of communities, all of them had covenants to some level. I never had the neighbor with their car up on jack stands for a year with a motor sitting on the porch, or the siding half falling off another house…. There are plenty of these in CRE.

Sorry to be honest.

 

[Ponytail]

... I never had the neighbor with their car up on jack stands for a year with a motor sitting on the porch, or the siding half falling off another house…. There are plenty of these in CRE.

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I've lived in CRE for 3 years and haven't seen this yet. Please tell me where so that it may be taken care of. This is strictly forbidden and has been my experience that things such as you describe are taken care of quick, fast and in a hurry.

Also, All of the CRE covenants are available online to everyone.

http://www.poacre.org/Covenants.html

CRE provides as part of you HOA dues, private security that patrols 24 hours a day, on top of the MANY sheriffs deputies that live and frequently patrol in the community. There are also EMT's that live in CRE and a Fire House located just outside the northern limits of the Ranch Club providing very fast response to any emergency.

I live there, and love it. No where else that I looked around here, can I be provided with such peace and quiet when I get home from work. At night, I can't hear the highway, emergency vehicles, loud car stereo's...nothing. I frequently have deer and red fox in my back yard too. Where else around here, for the price I paid, can I have all of that??

 

[rdkarob]

I've lived in CRE for 3 years and haven't seen this yet. Please tell me where so that it may be taken care of. This is strictly forbidden and has been my experience that things such as you describe are taken care of quick, fast and in a hurry.

Also, All of the CRE covenants are available online to everyone.

http://www.poacre.org/Covenants.html

CRE provides as part of you HOA dues, private security that patrols 24 hours a day, on top of the MANY sheriffs deputies that live and frequently patrol in the community. There are also EMT's that live in CRE and a Fire House located just outside the northern limits of the Ranch Club providing very fast response to any emergency.

I live there, and love it. No where else that I looked around here, can I be provided with such peace and quiet when I get home from work. At night, I can't hear the highway, emergency vehicles, loud car stereo's...nothing. I frequently have deer and red fox in my back yard too. Where else around here, for the price I paid, can I have all of that??

Can you tell me where you live in CRE? I went through even near the airport and I was so shocked that people do not take care of their homes. I looked at a beautiful home for sale that I would have purchased except next door was huge pile of crap, the other side the neighbors porch looked like a storage shed, and across the street was a house from 1920 in very poor shape.

 

[Ponytail]

I live South of there. Have you gone and seen Seahorse Beach? How about the area of Lake Lariat? Driftwood Beach? The areas closer to the beaches seem to be the nicer areas. But you don't have to be within eyesite of them either.

Find Golden West Way off of Catalina (that's where the airport is), and travel down Golden West Way. It meanders all over the place with lots of little side streets. Golden West way is undergoing a pretty severe re-paving/re-construction and widening and unfortunately, LOTS of new homes for sale.

I live off of Golden West Way, and live in a house that was originaly built to be a vacation home. The exterior was taken care of fairly well. Though the inside was a mess when I bought it. And yea, when I looked at it, there was piles of trash and messes everywhere. That was typical of the homes that I looked at everywhere in SOMD though. I was shocked at how little time was spent making the homes "showable" prior to putting them on the market.

I'm gutting and re-doing the inside of mine though making it more of a year-round home that it was. Most of the houses on my street are newer (less than 10 years old) and for the most part, the few other older homes on the street are kept up. Obviously, hard times fall on folks from time to time, and it's easy to see who it's happening too, but at least on my street, and in my area in general, they do what thay can with what they've got. No trash outside, no broken down cars on jackstands and they take care of their own.

Over by the airport and gardens and past that, towards Driftwood Beach are some nice areas though too. You have to look past the crud instead of concentrating on finding it. There's diamonds in the rough in CRE. With the way that housing prices are now, you can take advantage of it, buy low, invest, and have something worth much more than what you paid/invested in no time. BUT, doing that is not necessary. There's alot of nice homes too.

 

[RoseRed]

I live South of there. Have you gone and seen Seahorse Beach? How about the area of Lake Lariat? Driftwood Beach? The areas closer to the beaches seem to be the nicer areas. But you don't have to be within eyesite of them either.

Find Golden West Way off of Catalina (that's where the airport is), and travel down Golden West Way. It meanders all over the place with lots of little side streets. Golden West way is undergoing a pretty severe re-paving/re-construction and widening and unfortunately, LOTS of new homes for sale.

I live off of Golden West Way, and live in a house that was originaly built to be a vacation home. The exterior was taken care of fairly well. Though the inside was a mess when I bought it. And yea, when I looked at it, there was piles of trash and messes everywhere. That was typical of the homes that I looked at everywhere in SOMD though. I was shocked at how little time was spent making the homes "showable" prior to putting them on the market.

I'm gutting and re-doing the inside of mine though making it more of a year-round home that it was. Most of the houses on my street are newer (less than 10 years old) and for the most part, the few other older homes on the street are kept up. Obviously, hard times fall on folks from time to time, and it's easy to see who it's happening too, but at least on my street, and in my area in general, they do what thay can with what they've got. No trash outside, no broken down cars on jackstands and they take care of their own.

Over by the airport and gardens and past that, towards Driftwood Beach are some nice areas though too. You have to look past the crud instead of concentrating on finding it. There's diamonds in the rough in CRE. With the way that housing prices are now, you can take advantage of it, buy low, invest, and have something worth much more than what you paid/invested in no time. BUT, doing that is not necessary. There's alot of nice homes too.

Is the trailer and Jeep still in your yard?

 

[Ponytail]

For a quick self guided tour of MY neck of the woods...

From 4, take 760. Take 760 all the way back to the circle by the high school. Go 3/4 of the way around the circle and go right (this is still 760). Follow that past the marina. Go left on Clubhouse Dr (This is Gate 3 of CRE)

Make a right at the stop sign. Follow that all the way around. This is Golden West Way. You'll go past the admin building, horse stables, horse shoe pits and eventually past Sea Horse Beach.

Go past the beach and keep going. There's some side streets along here that have some nice homes, new and old. This is the area that I live in.

you can follow Golden West Way, all the way out to Catalina. Make a left there. Follow that till you see the sign on your right for Lake Lariat (Lariat Drive maybe?) This takes you past Lake Lariat, the CRE campgrounds, and again, lots of little side streets with tons more homes and nice areas. Keep following this till you get to another stop sign. Make a left, and you are at the Lusby Post Office and new Shopping Center, across from Appeal Elementary School.

 

[Ponytail]

Is the trailer and Jeep still in your yard?

For the record, it's a car hauler. But yes the "trailer" is in the "yard" in the section of woods off to the side and is out of site. And the jeep is, almost out of site. It's up by wood shed in the corner. It's not on blocks and is kept clean.

 

[RoseRed]

For the record, it's a car hauler. But yes the "trailer" is in the "yard" in the section of woods off to the side and is out of site. And the jeep is, almost out of site. It's up by wood shed in the corner. It's not on blocks and is kept clean.

:catpiss:

 

[jazz lady]

:catpiss:

 

[RoseRed]

 

[rdkarob]

For a quick self guided tour of MY neck of the woods...

From 4, take 760. Take 760 all the way back to the circle by the high school. Go 3/4 of the way around the circle and go right (this is still 760). Follow that past the marina. Go left on Clubhouse Dr (This is Gate 3 of CRE)

Make a right at the stop sign. Follow that all the way around. This is Golden West Way. You'll go past the admin building, horse stables, horse shoe pits and eventually past Sea Horse Beach.

Go past the beach and keep going. There's some side streets along here that have some nice homes, new and old. This is the area that I live in.

you can follow Golden West Way, all the way out to Catalina. Make a left there. Follow that till you see the sign on your right for Lake Lariat (Lariat Drive maybe?) This takes you past Lake Lariat, the CRE campgrounds, and again, lots of little side streets with tons more homes and nice areas. Keep following this till you get to another stop sign. Make a left, and you are at the Lusby Post Office and new Shopping Center, across from Appeal Elementary School.

Funny how you give directions....we hit the stables and turned around...and thought...NO WAY. I may have to give it a chance. My friend just bought a house on Western Dr or Cr. 2nd right when you go into the 3rd Gate as you described. 1st house on left. split level. This is why we were looking but I just could not get past the "environment".....Thanks....and see you Saturday...

 

[Ponytail]

Funny how you give directions....we hit the stables and turned around...and thought...NO WAY. I may have to give it a chance. My friend just bought a house on Western Dr or Cr. 2nd right when you go into the 3rd Gate as you described. 1st house on left. split level. This is why we were looking but I just could not get past the "environment".....Thanks....and see you Saturday...

If you hit the stables then turned around, you had just passed the Sec 8 housing. It gets MUCH better past the stables. Trust me.



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