McCall’s Whitetail Club opens sales for new Shore Lodge Cottages

Putting a vacation home up for short-term rental will be a new opportunity in the next phase of development at McCall’s Whitetail Club private community.

Short-term rentals are prohibited throughout the 1,300-acre development, which adjoins Shore Lodge. The development has 250 platted lots with 90 lots sold. Fifty-five multi-million-dollar homes have been built there since 2004.

But management is breaking the rules for its new Shore Lodge Cottages, which will be built on 10 acres close to Shore Lodge and across the street from Whitetail’s new lakeside clubhouse.

In fact, the 15 cottages, ranging in size from 1,400 to 2,500 square feet, could serve as an extension of 77-room Shore Lodge.

Homeowners will have the option to enter a rental program, where, in their absence, Shore Lodge would rent the cottages out as though they were rooms at Shore Lodge, said Joe Carter, sales director at Whitetail.

Shore Lodge and the homeowner would split the rent payments in half.

Carter quotes a potential cottage buyer: “This is perfect. I get a little money coming back to me.”

Whitetail Club opened Shore Lodge Cottages for purchasing reservations July 1. So far, seven of 15 cottage sites have reservations, one from California, one from Phoenix, the rest from Boise and McCall.

“Our market here is definitely a second- and third-home market,” Carter said.

Ideally, Carter would  like to see up to half of the cottage owners opt for the rental program.

Buyers will have a choice of four designs with options of one, two or three bedrooms. The architect and general contractor is Resort Concepts of Edwards, Colo.

The cottages range in price from $689,000 to $889,000, which Whitetail describes as “more modestly priced” than the 15 four-bedroom, four-bathroom, 3,200-square-foot cabins built in the past five years, priced at $995,000 to $1.159 million, or the balance of custom homes that average 4,000 square feet and $2.2 million to $2.4 million.

For an additional fee, Whitetail will even completely furnish a home down to the silverware. Homeowners participating in the rental program with Shore Lodge must take the furnishing option, Carter said.

Foundation work is expected to start in September. Homes will be built as sales agreements are signed. The first set of homes – maybe all 23 if they all sell by fall – should be complete in fall 2018, Carter said.

The Whitetail Club, Shore Lodge and The Cove are all adjoining and are owned by Boise resident Joe Scott, who acquired the properties in 2008.