Gibson's Grant Neighbors
An Inteview with Annette Potts -- A Covell Communities Home Purchaser
Annette Potts knows Real Estate. She moved many times while her husband was in the military. Then they lived in northern Virginia for twenty-two years where she sold Real Estate.
After Annette was widowed, she started a Bed and Breakfast which she ran for five years in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. She then bought a home in Tennessee where she had family. Through all those years she often visited Kent Island to spend time with a niece. Then she found Gibson’s Grant.
“I signed one of the very first contracts on a townhome in Gibson’s Grant just after the model was opened”, she says. “I realized how much I missed living on the East Coast and being near the water. The Bay is where I always went for vacation”.
“When I come across the bridge my stress is deflated. It is slower and laid back here and I am near the water”, she says. “Living in the townhome is a “lock and go” arrangement. I don’t have to think about care of the yard, or leaving an empty house. We are all friends here”.
Annette has discovered the famous Cross Island Trail which runs from the Kent Narrows to the Chesapeake Bay. “After I moved here my niece and I bought bikes so we could ride the trail. There is so much to do here”. She lists the many neighborhood activities and the events put together by residents in the new picnic pavilion.
Annette keeps busy in many ways including her work as a volunteer at hospice and as a grief counselor. She also admits to taking lots of pictures of sunsets over the water.
“There is such a sense of community here. You can talk with neighbors on their front porches and relate to people walking their pets.”
Annette believes Gibson’s Grant is one of the “best kept secrets on the Eastern Shore”.
