Where to buy on Lake of the Ozarks

[nomolites]

Nice area, but like the upper Gravi it ices in.  Just sayin.

Mike

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On 1/18/2018 at 8:46 AM, Mitch f said:

I will hopefully be retiring at LOZ good Lord willing. Wrench and I will be tearing up the tourney circuit 😂. But I’ll only be there half the year. My wife wants us to be snowbirds and live in FL in the winter. I hope this thread progresses and I get a bunch of good info. Thanks for posting John!

There are things to consider when you buy out here. Do you have sewer, water and ambulance close by etc. What about police and ambulance protection( and do not bet on it being fast even if the stuff is about 3 miles away as I am) Year before last I collapsed  from lack of water and radiation  treatment I  laid passed out on the road for 40 minutes before they showed up from Laurie. Response time to Laurie by the Sherif in versailles is over 40 minute Unless one just happens to be close. Every cold day in hell you might see on around here. Never seen one patroling. This is the law enforcement area that Peircy  from. Laurie police or 7 miles from me but they don't get there much faster.

Then there is sewers. Believe me it is going to happen all over the lake. But right now the local and state government do not want to spend the money. So check that out also. I pay $ 60 a month for my sewers. We have a sewer district and I know some of the board. The problem is getting money. The powers that be are not interested in cleaning up the lake.

Prepare to work in your retirement if you do not want to Buy a condo. I could not live in a Condo myself or even a indentured subdivision. Reason being I do not like the kind of neighbors you will get in those joints. If friendly helpful neighbors mean anything to you get into one of the small subdivisions. People today are not what they were years ago.

Check your lot carefully.  if its steep the home on it might be a slider. Only place I have ever seen with more major foundation problems is Hermann Mo. I have been looking for a part time home in Hermann mo for a couple years and have yet to find one with a stable foundation.

There are animals out there especially at night. You be careful what you plant in the yard. Something will be munching on it. Either that or digging holes. Like Armadillos ,they will dig through anything to git at whats under it. Surprise one crossing  the road at night and it will not run more than likely It will jump straight up in the air about the hight of the center of your grill where it may very well go thru that and your radiator as well. This does not happen often but the body shop over in osage beach sees enough of them  Then there are the deer. If your a city boy you might think were all just bad driver when you can't see a thing a big as a deer. Wrong  most of the time it is not you hitting a deer it is the deer hitting you. They think they can outrun something going 30-40 MPH they do not run away they will run out and try to go around  the front. Never seem to think about running around the back and when they are making these moves they will every close and will just dart out. Have we hit any ?YES. My wife hit 3 and I hit 1 group you might say. When I hit mine there were 4 of them in back of a berm. All 4 darted out together. The leader hit the headlight While I was swerving into the other lane and the other 3 ran into the car from the from door to the back                                  back fender without doing any damage.Only thing damaged ws the headlight from the lead deer.

 

Well I am tired of typing and i know there  more. But if your a city boy just be prepared for a lot of adjustment. Maybe if you are not so muc of a fishing nut you better stay where you are.

 

 

Then there are the abundance of Deer.     

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2 hours ago, nomolites said:

Nice area, but like the upper Gravi it ices in.  Just sayin.

Mike

So does everything else. Frozen solid all as far as I can see down past coffins bend is frozen right now.

 

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I need to add something about the medical aspect out here.  I do not have but one Doctor in The lake area. She is my family practice. Everything else is in Jefferson City at St Marys and Columbia at MISSOU. That said you question everyone you can find about the medical things about living out here and get recommendations about the hospitals and Doctors. Iwill say there have been instances but I would never put them down in writing. 

 

[John Lynn Carroll]

I am no city boy, probably closer to a red neck. Just looking for good fishing ,very few people and a place to buy beer.  Worked in the Colorado prison system before retiring.  The boat house is more important to me than the house that comes with it.  I very much appreciate everyone's response to my question. 

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That is impossible. If you do not do it the right way at the right time in the right place nothing will consistent. I think everyone on here knows Wrench is a very good fisherman on this lake and  he does just fine right under the nose of Coconuts Bar and what have you in the Gravois. I have the advantage off picking the time and place I want to fish and I can better than hold my own in the mid and lower Gravois.  lot of things work against the weekender

 

[DADAKOTA]

LOZ is a weekenders dream fishery.  One of the easiest lakes to catch fish.  Now to compete with the locals in derbies is a whole nother thing.  You best be spending a ton of time on the water to consistently compete with those boys.