EP: 0039 - Whatcom County Golf & Resort Communities Sudden Valley & Semiahmoo w/ Jess Davis Perrino

Whatcom County has two true golf course resort communities. Sudden Valley is located just east of the city limits of Bellingham on the shores of Lake Whatcom. And Semiahmoo, which is on the northwestern tip of the the state and the U.S. Just 12 minutes from the border and 30 minutes from Bellingham. Realtor Jess Davis Perrino discusses with Paul Balzotti the scoop on both communities and key differences. Jess is both an avid golfer and resident of Sudden Valley.

For more, contact Jess Davis Perrino at jessdavisperrino@johnlscott.com at 360-739-8728

Transcript

Speaker 1
Hello, and welcome to the Bellingham Real Estate Podcast. I'm Paul Balzotti, I'm here with Jess Davis Perrino.

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Speaker 2
Hello.

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Speaker 1
Welcome, Jess. And today we are talking about golf course communities, resort communities around Bellingham and Whatcom County, which is primarily Suddenden Valley and Semiahmoo. So we're going to primarily focus on those two communities. And I wanted to have you on because not only will, first off, we both love to golf. So so both these communities are meaningful to us personally.

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Speaker 1
But, we do have buyers that when they're looking in the area, will start to explore both, for different reasons because they're resort communities to they're not just golf course. You got the Marina one, you got the lake at the other, and you live in Sudden Valley, and you're definitely a Sudden Valley specialist. And I know you also work in Semiahmoo, so let's get right into it.

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Speaker 1
Okay. So you because you live in Sudden Valley, and you specialize in Sudden Valley. when you have buyers coming into town, why don't you kind of get right into what do you, you know, somebody first comes in, they know nothing about Sudden Valley. They're looking at Bellingham, but they see the sweet place with the view that's better.

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Speaker 1
That has a better price and everything. And it looks, you know, looks great. And they see the Bellingham address 97 Valley community. What's that? They come out for the first time. What how do we how do we get that started. That conversation started.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. Well actually typically most people that come to me have never heard of Sudden Valley. So they've heard of Bellingham, maybe some of the neighborhoods around there, but they don't know much about Sudden Valley. And I always like to bring it up with every buyer, regardless of what their criteria is, just to see if it is a good fit.

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Speaker 2
And it's definitely a neighborhood where if you like the amenities, if you like to do all the things Sudden Valley has to offer, it's worth it. but there are some people where it just doesn't work for them. So what I usually do is I start off with Sudden Valley Tours. Hopefully there's some homes that we can look at that match their criteria.

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Speaker 2
But even if there aren't, I pick a few homes in the different gates because every. There are seven gates to Sudden Valley, and everyone has its own personality and unique features. And so some you get a little bit more privacy, but a little less Suddenlight. others are really close to the amenities, which is important for people. Or they have larger lots.

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Speaker 2
so I'll start off with we'll do a few home tours in the different gates, and then we'll go to the, the pool, the gym, the waterfront, the golf course. we just got a golf cart, so I'm excited to hopefully show some clients around in a in a golf cart. I think it'll be a fun little change for our tours.

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Speaker 2
but. Yeah, well, I'll take them around and show them all the different places that they'll get to enjoy if they, you know, decide to live there.

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Speaker 1
That is really cool that you got a golf cart, by the way.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, it's it's pretty fun. Yeah.

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Speaker 1
And so in here are you in gate.

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Speaker 2
One I am you're.

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Speaker 1
Gonna get one. Say you're. Yeah. That's in that gate one is where the golf course is. and so gate one and gate two are kind of that, that side the lakeside essentially. Right. Yep. And so, let's so you just touched on those. So let's, let's kind of dig a little deeper into that. we don't the dues are currently whatever the dues are, they're going to they change.

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Speaker 1
what I quarterly they're about right now as I know.

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Speaker 2
It's 144 month.

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Speaker 1
144 a month. Okay. So so basically give a kind of summary. If somebody says, okay, that seems kind of high. What's what's unique about Sudden Valley is it's such a huge HOA. It's like a little mini city. Yeah, I think Sudden I think Semiahmoo we could both agree, is more of a more of a typical golf course, HOA resort community.

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Speaker 1
Sudden Valley is is is a little bit more than that. Sure. So what are the kind of the main things that go into those dues?

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Speaker 2
Yeah. Well, we have a ton of parks and trails throughout all of Sudden Valley, so a lot of, that pays for the maintenance. Our roads are private, pays for that. So we are Bellingham School District, but we are in the county. So people get confused because we have a Bellingham address. but we have, you know, 24/7 security, road maintenance, snow removal, our parks, trails.

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Speaker 2
We have five lakeside beaches, which is, I think, the best selling point of Sudden Valley. there aren't that many Lake Whatcom beaches around. that are open to the public and, you know, Sudden Valley just to have five of them in such a close proximity. And so many of them are just not used in the same way as like low Bloedel Donovan for instance, in Bellingham.

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Speaker 2
Right. we have the Marina. and then of course, the golf course. And so for a very small amount of the dues go to the golf course, because you do if you want to become a member, there's membership fees. you know, a lot of it for the, our other amenities, we have two pools, a gym, a library.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. Yeah, a lot out there.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. And, and so and so we know those are a lot of the positives. Yeah. And home prices are are a step down there. I, I would say 10 to 15% below dollar per square foot on average compared to in town. so more bang for the buck. Yep. in Sudden Valley. But of course, you know, you can also be buying out there for the amenities.

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Speaker 1
what would you consider to be the trade offs you kind of touched on? one of which is, you know, if you're if you're kind of further up into the hills, a little less Sunlight, any other kind of trade offs to different areas versus other areas. when you know someone's online right now looking through, the homes in Sudden Valley, things to think about.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, absolutely. So some people that move to Sudden Valley want their tree house. I it's like a common phrase and you can actually get something very similar to that. So if you're in gate five sometimes gate three, every window you look out, you just look out onto trees. I mean, it's absolutely beautiful. I mean, gate five is at the very top of a hill.

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Speaker 2
I mean, it's incredible how, like, my ears pop to driving up to the, you know, the top of it. And so you can get really incredible views from up there. actually, everyone that lives at the top of gate five and you could see, you know, the lights at Whistler, like, wow. Yeah, it's it's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2
And they had a bear up there last summer. They saw some bear cubs. I mean, yeah. So, that's a huge part if if you like nature and maybe you're coming from a city and you're tired of, you know, all the noise of cars and people, it's incredibly quiet out there. a lot of nature, a lot of deer coming through.

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Speaker 2
raccoons, I mean, so the natural elements are huge if you really want to live on the lake. I mean, the home that sold, sold for 1.5 million. that's the highest priced home that sold in Sudden Valley ever. but compared to just right outside of Sudden Valley, there's a lot for sale on the lake. For 1.8 million.

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Speaker 2
So, I mean, this is a beautiful, you know, three story home. so you get a lot more bang for your buck. you get a lot more natural light and gets one and part to get to the ones that are around the lake. but the lots sometimes you're a little bit closer to your neighbors, whereas you go higher up in the gates.

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Speaker 2
more tree cover, more privacy. a little bit more nature. and so those are, I would say, some of the trade offs also that the housing sizes are a little bit different. So gate gate one specifically, originally was built with, you know, Canadians in mind. So as a vacation place. And so a lot of those homes are a little bit larger.

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Speaker 2
but as you get up to gate three, gate nine that, you know, they've got little chalets. So, you know, price wise it's a lot more affordability. So it's great because, you know, you've got people that some people move out there strictly because it's more affordable than town. And I think for people that are just doing that, that are just buying it because of the price, if they don't really love the parks and trails, they don't really care about any of the other amenities.

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Speaker 2
it's about a 20 minute drive into Bellingham. You know that over time. Plus, the dues can feel daunting and it might not be the best fit for them. they may think it's worth it just because of the price of the home. But the people that move out there because they love the amenities, I think the the dues are very fair for for what we get, and for the lifestyle like in my opinion, I live there for the lifestyle.

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Speaker 2
So I grew up in Sudden Valley. I moved, thought I'd never come back to Bellingham in general. I went and lived in the, Midwest and lived in Chicago for a few years and then really started to value, like the fact that I can ride around Sudden Valley in a golf cart and go down and get on my boat and go golfing and do all these things at a very low price point, compared to really anywhere else in the country.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. Well, in the in the cut, you mean the county?

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Speaker 2
No one in.

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Speaker 1
The country, I.

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Speaker 2
Mean. Oh, yeah. I mean, we have family that come to visit from the Midwest that have homes on like, Lake Geneva and yeah, you know, they said this lake is, you know, way better. There's nothing there's so few people out there, you know, in comparison. so I think we've one of the, the best areas. Yeah.

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Speaker 1
Best values overall. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. And we were talking about and then you know you're right. So you hadn't even touched, you barely touched on the golf course. And we're and we're making this about the two golf course communities. And it is a good point because definitely in Sudden Valley Semiahmoo as well. And we'll talk about Sudden Valley but definitely in Sudden Valley.

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Speaker 1
You're right that there's only, you know, a small percentage of probably people who buy a home in the Sudden Valley You look at the Sudden Valley website, you see a big picture of the golf course, in the area. But, and it is a there's definitely a golf course community. You're a big part of that. You're, you're you're in that.

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Speaker 1
but most people who live in Sudden Valley, to your point are, are they're, not using the golf course even necessarily. And, because of the whole other section of the, of Sudden Valley that's going up the hill into the trees. like you said, nature lovers, you know, tree houses, things like that. Definitely some driveways.

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Speaker 1
You know, you can you can have to contend with because of all the hills. There's definitely that. but, and it's kind of it went from this kind of Canadian second home resort community 30, 40 years ago to just a giant kind of suburb, almost, would be the right way. I would consider it kind of a suburb of East Bellingham, essentially.

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Speaker 1
Right. the tree thing, that is also unique to Sudden Valley. So they are very that's definitely part of what the HOA is about. right. As far as, like they're not necessarily policing, you know, everything that's going on out there at all. But there is something about their not wanting, it's purposeful that there's a lot of trees out there.

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Speaker 1
It's not just it's in. What do you know? How does that exactly work?

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Speaker 2
Yeah. So it's not just even the trees, it's the greenbelt. So we have a lot of green space. because we have a lot of wildlife out there. So, I mean, I'll walk outside my house sometimes and I'll have five, six deer, you know, in my yard. So it's very, you know, the whole purpose is to maintain that as well and allow there to be you know, that greenery.

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Speaker 2
That's what a lot of people love about Sudden Valley. So that is, you know, there are lots that are owned by Sudden Valley. And then there's green space that's designated to not get built on. if you have trees on your property that need to be cut down, there's a process to get that done. And, we had to get, I think, six taken out when we first moved just because of, you know, the proximity to our house.

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Speaker 2
And it was a very easy process. So definitely something someone can can navigate. But the goal is to keep it very natural. I mean, that's the whole point of why a lot of people live out there. But there's 8000, you know, around 8000 residents. So who think about the vast I mean, there's a wide range of why people chose Sudden Valley and to kind of go back to the golf course side of things I love.

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Speaker 2
I grew up golfing because I grew up in Sudden Valley, so it was something where it was relatively affordable and, a good activity for me as a kid. And so that's kind of where my love for golf stemmed from. And, and you know what got me into it? And now as an adult, it's really cool because we have a whole community of friends within the golf course community.

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Speaker 2
And my husband moved here working from home, right before the pandemic. Didn't know anyone. luckily I grew up here at all my childhood friends, so I was fine. But, you know, he had to go and make friends. and he's now like this third year president of the men's club. I mean, he really dove in, and he's met so many wonderful people.

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Speaker 2
So I think it's nice to live in a community where there's so many different, activities that you can find a common interest with other people. Yeah. And so, you know, we have a lot of community events as well, community garage sales and, you know, business fairs, things like that. So that's I would say, like the community aspect of living in Sudden Valley is great.

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Speaker 2
And both Semiahmoo and Sudden Valley, yes, they are around the golf course, but they offer way more than that.

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Speaker 1
Yeah, absolutely. And and because you get so many people who relocate to these communities, you do you do get it's not just this community where everybody knows everybody. And it's kind of tight, where it's hard to get in. It's like it's it's open in that sense because a lot of people came from somewhere else. And so, it is kind of that melting pot of a community from all over, a lot of people from California, but all over the country, really.

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Speaker 1
So, yeah. Super cool. Yeah. So, we can we can jump back to Sudden Valley, but I want to I want to just get over to, semiahmoo as well. Semiahmoo of course, being much closer to the border, you said what, 20 minutes Bellingham to Sudden Valley, approximately drive. What do you say 35 minutes.

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Speaker 2
Probably like 36, 40 minutes. 36 to 40.

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Speaker 1
to. So it's almost twice the distance from Bellingham. and I was we were talking about this right before how if you're coming from California or something, the when we say 20 minutes, we really mean 20 minutes away. We mean like because we don't.

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Speaker 2
Yeah its like 8 miles from Sudden Valley. Yeah. And about 25 miles, or eight miles from Sudden Valley to Bellingham and about 25 miles from semiahmoo to Bellingham. So yeah, you know that that in a city may be totally different. And so a lot of I will say a lot of people complain about the commute. That is a big I have friends that I'm like, oh, it's you know, come over for dinner.

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Speaker 1
Which commute? The Sudden like.

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Speaker 2
The Sudden Valley. Yeah. And but when you're driving, you're literally driving along Lake Whatcom. I mean, there's bald eagles flying, you know, right next to you. I mean, it's the most beautiful drive and commute. And same with going out to Semiahmoo right. You're driving along the water. I mean, it's absolutely gorgeous. So, you know, we had mentioned that in a lot of places in California and Florida.

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Speaker 2
I have family in both of those places. Why I mentioned it, there are a ton of golf course communities, so it's interesting. Sometimes you get people relocating that expect that and are a little bit surprised about how few we have. Yeah. but I think if you're looking for the golf course community, I think both, you know, and you want a full 18 hole golf course because we mentioned Birch Bay has a golf course, Bay.

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Speaker 1
Village.

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Speaker 2
Village. Yeah, yeah, has a golf course, and is a gated community, but the only nine hole course, I think the commute, if, if that's something that you really value being on a golf course or having different many like pools and tennis courts and, you know, private roads and things like that. I definitely think it's worth the community.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. And, and the, it's important to note also, if you happen to be a golfer, Whatcom County is fabulous for golf. We have a ton of golf courses. And per capita it's it's quite high for the Western Washington area compared to the greater Seattle area in general. I think there's 12 or 13 golf courses, but there's plenty of fabulous golf, but just unique.

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Speaker 1
That semiahmoo and Sudden Valley are the only of the golf only ones, the golf courses. I mean Loomis trail to to a smaller extent. You have some homes in Loomis Trail, but only large communities that are truly kind of surrounded by the golf course and and where the golf course is kind of at the center, to some extent of the resort community, but going up to, semiahmoo so closer to closer Canada.

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Speaker 1
So there's definitely more Canadians, there's Canadians, that that buy in Sudden Valley for sure. As we talked about. That's what started the whole thing. Yeah. but semi I'm a little different right. It's it's not it doesn't have the the, the whole other side up the hill end of the nature. It does a little bit. But and kind of that as much of the suburban angle, it's more of truly like a resort community.

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Speaker 1
Right. and all and when we were talking about Gates and Sudden Valley, those are called gates, but they're not actually gated.

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Speaker 2
Which is.

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Speaker 1
Confusing. Yeah. semiahmoo is actually gated community. Yeah. So talk to us a little bit about semiahmoo.

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Speaker 2
Well Semiahmoo has 27 subsections within it and each of them are really different. So you know some homes you'll have on a really large lot beautiful large three, 4 or 5000 square foot homes, beautiful views of the bay. And then you also have condos and you have these luxury luxury condos along the spit, or you'll have smaller condos

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Speaker 2
around 400,000.

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Speaker 2
there's a lot of development that's still happening. So you'll get some, you know, new construction. And but within each of those, what I think is different from Sudden Valley is, you know, Sudden Valley, like just driving around.

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Speaker 2
There are a lot of different styles of homes with next to one another, whereas I feel like Semiahmoo depending on what which of those 27 areas you're in with a Draton Harbor or, you know, another, the homes look like they're all built around the same time with. Yeah, kind of a more similar you know.

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Speaker 1
It was more it's a more it's generally a newer planned community. Yeah. Where Sudden Valley started way back in the 70s and then has been kind of in the building. Yeah. Whereas Semiahmoo was all mostly 20 years ago, 25 years ago. And then as with some newer coming in now.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah. And then they were all built like the homes were all built around the same time.

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Speaker 2
So I'd say that's, you know, a big difference. I mean, it's gorgeous out there. The, the club is, the golf course is, is great. it's a very, you know, highly ranked golf course. And, Jeff costan academy is a golf academy out there that, when I was a junior golfer, a lot of elite golfers went there, and, it's very highly regarded.

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Speaker 2
So, you know, there are a lot of really amazing things about Semiahmoo, and they've got the Semiahmoo, resort. We were talking about it like, if you've lived here long enough, almost every couple does a staycation over the summer. a resort. Absolutely. and so I think there's definitely it's on a little bit of a higher level in terms of, catering to out of town guests, having that resort and, whereas Sudden Valley is, you know, isn't geared as much to that.

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Speaker 1
So semi almo definitely the resort you know down there. That is a big part of the community. Right. you have obviously you said the staycation thing, but I think a lot of people who live in semi, who spend a lot of time down there walking that beach, which is fabulous.

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Speaker 1
They have a lot of community events. obviously a fabulous restaurant down there. and so there's definitely an, a great trail system. So it's truly more planned, as we said. And and then I think if you're leaving, the Semiahmoo area, it's just a little different for your other amenities because and Sudden Valley, you're you're definitely going into Bellingham for everything.

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Speaker 1
And in semiahmoo it's a little different because you can drive to Bellingham and 35 minutes, but Ferndale is a little closer. That'd be only 15 20 minutes. Birch Bay in Blaine there's grocery stores and other amenities. Blaine. The boardwalk there is really cool. So I you know, I'd imagine a lot of people are in Semiahmoo spent a great deal of time jumping over to Blaine, jumping over at Birch Bay, or even crossing the border.

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Speaker 1
Right. You know, white Rock, you could. It feels like you could throw a rock at it when you're. You can't.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. It's it's crazy.

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Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah. So I mean, what else do you think about when you're or what else do you share when you talk about semiahmoo with buyers.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. Or even like this semiahmoo Vs Sudden Valley. You know if people approached me about the golf which is great the, the other you know big difference is you know saltwater versus freshwater. Yes. So the lifestyles of those are completely different because both have a Marina. so if you like to go fishing and, you know, you want to go see the San Juan Islands and you've got a boat in Semiahmoo definitely the place to go.

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Speaker 2
if you'd like to be on the lake and you want to, you know, go swimming all the time in the summer and, and, tie up then, you know, Sudden Valley is a is a great place. So I think that's another big difference. between the two for sure.

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Speaker 1
And you so you mentioned, comparing the golf courses both really nice golf course. Yeah. semiahmoo first, what do you, what do you have to say about Semiahmoo Yeah.

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Speaker 2
Well, I mean it's a gorgeous golf course. It was designed by Arnold Palmer. it has an elite, golf academy, Jeff Costin golf academy. You know the the dues, our membership dues are higher out there. So, you know, it's captain really, really good condition. so. Absolutely beautiful. Course, I'm much more familiar with Sudden Valley just because I've.

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Speaker 2
I've golfed Semiahmoo but I've golf Sudden Valley more times than I can count. I think it's a little bit more accessible for, you know, first time golfers or newer golfers. Sudden Valley.

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Speaker 2
Sudden Valley. Yeah. but it's still very challenging. is design.

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Speaker 1
Thank you for saying that because I, I, I've, I've, I've shot pretty poorly on both courses most of the time.

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Speaker 2
Yeah. Well what I like it both courses have water features. So not all golf courses have that.

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Speaker 1
So yeah. No. And I've shot I've shot okay. I'm joking about I mean yeah.

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Speaker 2
Oh no it's it's challenging. I like to call like The Tale of Two Nines are a lot of people call that the Sudden front night and the Sudden valley. The front nines really flat a lot more, you know, a lot more open, but a lot of water. Yeah. and it's gorgeous. I mean, you know, you go round the lake at some points and, it's absolutely beautiful.

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Speaker 2
And then the back nine, you're like hiking. It's like, you know, shorter holes, but a lot more tree cover, a lot tighter shots. So I find it really interesting just because it's so different depending on what nine you're playing. so I find it's a really like dynamic golf experience. yeah.

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Speaker 1
Whereas Sudden Valley, and Sudden Valley has some homes, especially on the back nine that are definitely in play. Actually a lot of homes in the back nine that are in play, maybe a few in the front nine with the Condos but Semiahmoo almost every hole. Yes, but Semiahmoo really well designed in that. You know even though there's homes everywhere, it doesn't always feel like it when you're, when you're, when you're out there and every hole, some holes have a still a lot of trees and, and you know beautiful homes.

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Speaker 2
Yeah.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. And it still feels very Pacific Northwest. You know, kind of all the way and, and so, yeah, I mean, I wouldn't say semi I'm who probably has had more accolades, I would say and probably a little bit more expensive. Yeah. But yeah, they're both they're both really nice courses that, that even the, the most picky golfers that are coming into town would both really, really enjoy for sure.

00;22;30;19 - 00;22;55;17
Speaker 2
Yeah. And Sudden Valley's hosted a few championships. I think 2019 maybe the Senior Open or the Women's Amateur there a few big tournaments that we hosted So I think that's a pretty cool, you know, feather in our cap. Yeah. and I think, yeah, both are great. And as we mentioned, Whatcom County just in general, we have some really great courses for, just how many courses we have per our population.

00;22;55;20 - 00;22;56;15
Speaker 2
it's really great.

00;22;56;20 - 00;23;13;18
Speaker 1
Yeah. And if you're in semiahmoo you, you have the Loomis Trail golf course I mentioned earlier, which is one of the best golf courses in Whatcom County to really close by. If you're in Sudden Valley, you get right in town. You get to Lake Padden golf course Shuksen golf course. So, you know, you have other courses nearby as well.

00;23;13;19 - 00;23;16;24
Speaker 1
Just being either one of them, which is I mean, within 15 minutes of both of them.

00;23;16;24 - 00;23;17;23
Speaker 2
Yeah, absolutely.

00;23;17;23 - 00;23;30;17
Speaker 1
So super cool. Super cool. Well, thank you for getting into that. This with me and and sharing all your expertise on Semiahmoo especially on Sudden Valley for sure. And Jesse, you've been in business for how long now?

00;23;30;21 - 00;23;31;06
Speaker 2
Seven years.

00;23;31;07 - 00;23;46;28
Speaker 1
Seven years. So she knows what she's talking about. She's a fabulous broker. So reach out to Jess if you're relocating and considering these communities. thank you for watching. Thank you for listening. If you're on YouTube, please give us a like and subscribe. If you're on iTunes, a five star review would mean a lot. Thanks, guys. Cheers.

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Speaker 2
Thank you.