Houseboats For Sale Florida

DC residents livin' on the dock of the bay

Michelle Basch, wtop.com

WASHINGTON - The cost of waterfront property in DC may be less than you think. For about $ 100,000, you can live peacefully along the Potomac River.

Again, the price is so low because you would be technically living in the Potomac River.

Gateway on the seafront of the Southwest DC Marina is home to the largest cruise community on the East Coast of the United States.

"We can not survive without a car here," said Eugene Day, who lives on a boat at the marina. "You can walk to the store, you can walk to the subway. You get up in the morning and it feels good. It's beautiful."

Day paid about $ 100,000 for his 48 foot Defever trawler, which he calls "a classic" who turns heads.

The gas tank capacity of 1000 liters of diesel, an amount that could get the day in Florida on a tank, but he usually just takes the boat to "small jumps" on the River.

Day lives alone on the boat, but he has an adult son who visit several. He lives at the marina for 15 years but has only lived on his boat for a few months now.

"Like many people here, we are not rich," says Day. He says there are houseboats at the marina, which range in price from $ 10,000 to $ 20,000, all the way to $ 4 million .

Day cruises are told to budget about 10 or 20 percent of the price of their boat for maintenance. It also has to pay the cost of skiing, and this tax varies according to its electricity consumption.

During the winter, Day uses a kind of "bubbler" system that brings warmer waters of the river bottom so that water around the boat does not freeze into ice.

Day Cruise loves the community because it is so diverse.

"We have married couples, families with children, gay couples, we have seniors, we have younger people," he said.He said a house boat for a family of four children, and some people have pets, including cats and dogs.

Debbie Christianson DC used to travel for work, and admired the houseboats here. Then her work brought her to DC permanently.

"I just kind of on the spur of the moment one day watching Craigslist for barges here, and it just happened to be selling, so I jumped at the chance," said it.

Christianson paid $ 125 000 for his floating house a little over two years. She said that the boat about 450 to 500 square feet of living space, plus an apartment she had in Ballston.

She says she does not miss life on earth.

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