Buying a Home in Biz Point: Water View, Not Waterfront

Buying a home in Biz Point puts you on a madrona bluff at the south end of Fidalgo Island looking west over Burrows Bay, with Burrows Island and its lighthouse across the water. Read one thing before you fall for a photograph: these homes are water view, not waterfront. No path runs down from the bluff to the beach. Listings elsewhere sometimes blur that line, and I will tell you plainly which side of it a house sits on before you spend a Saturday driving out.

What the point gives you instead is the bay itself and the boating. Del Mar community dock, beach, and moorage rights come with homes here, seals and otters work the water below, and bald eagles and blue herons are ordinary daily traffic. The water is too shallow for whales, so nobody should promise you those.

Three lanes run off Rosario Road out here: Biz Point Road, Biz Point Lane, and Polaris Point Lane, all inside the Rancho San Juan del Mar plat. The homes are individual, they sit outside the Anacortes city limits, and they are on septic. That last fact changes your inspection list, so we start there.

We start with a conversation, not a tour. I want to know what the boat is, how often you plan to be on the water, whether stairs are a factor, and which rooms you actually need to have the view. On a point with this few homes, knowing your answer in advance is what lets me tell you within a day whether a new listing is worth your drive.

Then we get your financing settled with a local lender before we write anything, because a rural parcel outside city limits on septic can change what a lender wants to see. Sorting that out early prevents the ugly surprise later.

When we tour, I read the property, not the brochure. We stand on the bluff and look at the actual view line, not the wide-angle photograph. We check the access and the driveway. We talk about which trees are load bearing for the view and which ones are not yours to touch.

Once you want a house, I pull the septic record, the water source, and the community dock and moorage documentation before the offer goes in rather than after. Then I negotiate, and I stay calm at the table. My job is to tell you the hard facts when they are inconvenient, because that is what you hired me for. You can see what I currently have available on the listings page.

Buying a home in Biz Point rewards patience, because a handful of homes come up in a year and the right one has to be recognized quickly. Tell me what you want the water to do for you and I will watch the point for you and call when something real appears.

Read the Biz Point neighborhood page for the full picture of the community, compare it against the lake side of the south end at Campbell Lake, and when you are ready, tell me what you are looking for. Let's get you home.