Having had stone’s-throw access to the Gulf of Mexico for nearly 50 years, Bryan Marshall knows spectacular views.
“My parents bought a place in Panama City, Florida, in 1972, and I inherited it,” he says. “From the patio, it’s literally 75 feet to the water. But I’m a mountain/lake guy, and this is definitely preferable,” he says.
“This” is the vista Marshall enjoys from what he calls his Ponderosa-style log cabin in Harrison. James Perry, the Chattanooga-area real estate agent who did the deal for Marshall in 2009, minces no words in describing the 3.5-acre property.
“It’s out on a peninsula, really wide,” Perry says. “If there’s an oceanfront view in Chattanooga, this is it.”
But when Perry first showed Marshall the property on Chickamauga Lake, his client wasn’t even looking, let alone buying.