Montreux Condominium

—so what you're really getting here is land. Eighty acres carved into sprawling lots, each one running around two acres, which means actual space between you and the next driveway—the kind of breathing room that doesn't materialize in most residential corners. Homes here run around $2.1M, and that price reflects the acreage more than anything else; you're buying the property, not the proximity to shopping. Groceries and restaurants sit about three miles out, which matters if you're the type who walks to dinner, but it also means the whole development has a genuinely removed quality—not isolated, just deliberate about its distance from strip-mall convenience. Downtown Grand Rapids is a straightforward 17 minutes away, and Gerald R. Ford Airport clocks in at just under a half-hour drive, so you haven't actually severed your ties to the region, you've just chosen to live outside its immediate orbit. The Knapp Street Bridge Boating Access Site is less than a mile away, which tells you something about the water access and recreational bent of the place. Forest Hills Public Schools serves the area, and the parent area has the infrastructure to support it, but the real draw here is the land itself—the kind of lot size that lets you actually own something without feeling like your neighbor's breakfast is happening in your living room.