Wrightsville, PA

I had buyers looking at a home this weekend near Sameul S. Lewis State Park just across the Susquehanna River from Lancaster County and just outside of Wrightsville, PA.

I have been here before but I forgot how spectacular the views are.

Located on Mt. Pisgah which is 885 feet above the Susquehanna River, the park encompasses 85 acres of walking and riding trails, picnic grounds, ball fields and a play ground.

I was fortunate to have the view to myself this weekend.

So who was Sameul S. Lewis? Samuel Lewis held several positions with the state of Pennsylvania including that of lieutenant governor and donated 35 acres to the Commonwealth of PA in 1954.There is also an arboretum with several unique trees including European beech, persimmon, concolor fir & English yew.

Oh and did I mention that this park is located within minutes from Cool Creek Golf Club?

Just another place to add to your list of places to see and visit in the Lancaster - York County Area.

With low interest rates, a buyer's market, deflated home prices, and the $8000 tax credit, why are there buyers still on the fence? If you are one of these buyers reading this, please contact a Realtor--preferably me if you live in the York area :-) ! But anyways, are we in historic times for first time home-buying or what? I would like to just take this space to stir up some conversation about the nature of Gen-Y buyers or should-be-buyers in this market.

So we all probably know someone out there, maybe friends or family, who should be making that first home purchase, but they aren't. Many of my Gen-Y peers make up this population of people not buying. So why aren't they buying? Are they ill informed? Do they dislike the idea of maintaining a home? Or maybe it runs deeper like-- maybe home ownership isn't something that generation Y values.

If it is a matter of people being ill-informed, are we Realtors failing in marketing this great opportunity? A brief story: I met with a friend of mine over questions he had about buying. He solicited the meeting. Over the meeting, he agreed with me that it is a great time to buy and it may not get any better than this-- and HE SHOULD BE BUYING! I told him what his next steps were, and sent him some reminders, but the home buying expedition never took off for him, and he has since told me that he isn't going to be buying for now.

What about maintenance, or the underlying responsibility of owning a home? In my own home buying experience, I was anxious to find a fixer-upper so that I could learn a thing or two about home projects! I wanted to put my special mark on a home! But I feel like I am running into a lot of young should-be buyers who value the few advantages of renting. They are at ease if it is someone else's responsibility, and they don't care that their rent gets thrown away instead of building up equity. Is it as simple as a difference in values?

Allow me to potentially stereotype my own generation. Is there something different about this culture? Ownership is American! Isn't it? But this curiously doesn't seem to be a shared sentiment with some my peers, which I alluded to in the above paragraph. Perhaps Generation Y is a more nomadic people and we do not like to be tied down. I don't know what it is so could you please help me out?

Nathan Krotzer

RE/MAX Patriots

2575 Eastern Blvd. York, PA

www.myyorkparealtor.com

Wrightsville, PA History

Wrightsville is a borough in York County, Pennsylvania. The population was 2,223 at the 2000 census. Wrightsville borough has a police department, historic society, and a volunteer fire company.

According to a plaque at Samuel S. Lewis State Park, which overlooks Wrightsville and the Susquehanna River, Wrightsville was George Washington's first choice as location of the Capital of the United States.

The world's longest covered bridge (5,960 ft) once spanned the Susquehanna from Wrightsville to neighboring Columbia in Lancaster County. Built in 1814, it was destroyed by high water and ice in 1832. A replacement bridge was burned in June 1863 by state militia during the Gettysburg Campaign in the American Civil War. Confederate troops under John Brown Gordon formed a bucket brigade to save the town from fire. Yet another replacement covered bridge was destroyed by a windstorm a few years later. The final bridge, the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge, was a steel open-air bridge constructed in 1896 and razed in the early 1960s.

Wrightsville was the northern terminus of the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal.

In 2007, Wrightsville was the chosen location for the rekindling of the War of the Roses between the York Revolution and the Lancaster Barnstormers baseball teams. Wrightsville was chosen for its location on the Susquehanna River, the boundary between York and Lancaster counties.

York County, Pennsylvania

York County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of 2004, the estimated population was 401,613. York County is located in the Susquehanna Valley, a large fertile agricultural region in South Central Pennsylvania.

York County was created on August 19, 1749, from part of Lancaster County and named either for the Duke of York, an early patron of the Penn family, or for the city and shire of York in England. Its county seat is the city of York.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 910 square miles, of which, 904 square miles of it is land and 6 square miles of it (0.64%) is water. The county is bound to its eastern border by the Susquehanna River. Its southern border is the Mason-Dixon Line, which separates Pennsylvania and Maryland.

The York-Hanover Metropolitan Statistical Area is the fastest-growing metro area in the Northeast region, and is ranked nationally among the fastest-growing in the nation, according to the "2006 Population Estimates for Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas" (U.S. Census Bureau). The estimates listed York-Hanover as the 95th fastest-growing metro area in the nation, increasing 9.1 percent between 2000 and 2006.

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