The Vintage Club, Lake Oconee | Neighborhood Guide

On Lake Oconee Parkway in Greene County, immediately beside the main bridge over the lake. Vintage Club Drive and Huntington Place are the two streets.

There is a second gate at the back that opens directly into The Landing at Reynolds Lake Oconee. It is an unusual arrangement and a useful one if you have friends or family in there.

Each unit carries a deeded assigned slip, and The Vintage Club permits boat lifts on them, subject to size limits. That combination is rare. Plenty of communities here give you an assigned slip; barely any let you put a lift on it.

The slips sit on community docks below the units with 24-hour access. One thing to walk before you buy: slips are assigned, and the ones serving the more interior units near the entrance sit farther out in the cove toward big water. That is a longer walk, and it is uphill coming back. With a cooler and a couple of children it is a real consideration, not a small one.

There is also a storage yard inside the gate for boats and trailers in the off season.

Most of the units back onto the deep cove that separates The Vintage Club from Highway 44, east of the main bridge. The rest, along with both single-family homes, face the main lake with views across to Sebastian Cove.

The two look and feel different from a back porch, and they are worth seeing side by side before you choose.

The Vintage Club sits directly on the Highway 44 widening and the bridge work. And there is a big open question about that. Anyone buying needs to know the answers and anyone selling needs to know them as well. It will likely be an early question in the process.

What is not settled is what happens to the entrance off Lake Oconee Parkway during and after construction, and how close the widened road will come to the cove side that most of these units face. The work is still a couple of years out, which is exactly why it is easier to get answers now than to discover them later.

Ask the POA what they have been told by GDOT. Ask whether any right-of-way has been discussed. Ask what the entrance looks like during construction. Somebody knows, and the questions are reasonable ones for an owner or a buyer to put. The wider picture is in the commercial district guide.

They are bigger inside than the street suggests. Recent sales run from about 1,600 to 3,700 square feet, most of it on multiple levels with terrace-level space below. The original townhomes date to 1990 and a later phase went in through the 2000s.

The POA handles the lawn and the landscaping, which is most of the appeal. People buy here to spend weekends on the water rather than on a mower.

Several kinds of buyer, and they are not who you would guess. Second-home owners who want the lake without the upkeep. People building elsewhere on the lake who need somewhere to be in the meantime — it happens here regularly. And anyone who wants a slip with a lift at a price no waterfront house will match.