We were early for our appointment with Merle and Marianna Dutton on Thursday afternoon, so we drove on down to Smith Mountain lake on a nearby road and looked at some of the newer homes that have been built near the lake in Gooodview, Virginia.

This is one of them. You can see a very small portion of one of the many inlets of the lake in the background. We were told this home is valued at near a million dollars. Brother Dutton said the lots themselves in this particular development are priced at over $500,000.