Some moorages have the equivalent of streets, where there's row after row of houseboats and the ones closest to shore are floating on the water, but don't really have a water view. At our moorage, there is only one row of houseboats, side by side along the shoreline. The view from all of our houseboats is Burlington Bottoms, a protected wetland area with a shoreline of forest. Many of the trees are tall deciduous cottonwoods, so that in the winter when they lose their leaves (as seen below), the Tualatin Mountains can be seen beyond.
When I had to get an appraisal for a mortgage for my floating home, one of the features that was rated was "View." The two comparables were at a moorage where those houseboats were on the "back street" called an "inside slip." My houseboat, in comparison, was noted as having an outside slip, and a "Good/Water" view and the value of my place was upped "+$20,000" compared to the others. That tickled me.
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