About our Happy Haus

ABOUT HAPPY HAUS

In 2008 a dream was born. We always wanted a vacation home in the mountains and decided to start looking around. We began with the Adirondacks and finally, back and forth through the years, decided to try our luck in 2015 in the Catskills.

 

It took some serious searching, but we found our Catskills Mountainview Haus in Prattsville with an amazing view in mid-2017. After our bid was verbally accepted, it fell through to another buyer within days of our verbal acceptance.

 

The Catskills Mountainview Haus slipped through our fingers and we kept looking. Fast forward to March of 2018 and with Pam 9 months pregnant, Marc found the house miraculously relisted online one day. The next day Marc drove up and made an offer and we closed 9 days after our son was born. We were ecstatic and started a modest renovation and within a few months, it was listed as a vacation rental.

 

This was never our intent, but with Pam home on maternity leave, we figured we would try it out. Now, 3 years later, we are going strong with our Catskills Mountainview Haus, and also have added our New Paltz Pool Haus to our repertoire.

 

As we live in the New Paltz area, it made sense to expand our business to offer guests the amazing things that not only the Catskills are known for, but to also include our special piece of heaven which is the Hudson Valley.

 

We hope you enjoy your time in either location as much as we do!

 

We are grateful that guests appreciate the beauty and nature of the outdoors, and we hope that our homes provide a special gathering space to enjoy time together in these unique locations within New York State.

ABOUT PAM & MARC

We met on our first day of university at the University of Stirling in Scotland in 1999. Marc studied abroad from his native country of Germany and Pam was an international student from the US.

 

We continued to be together through 4 years of travel, study, living together in Germany, and apart in different countries.

 

We married young and settled in the beautiful Hudson Valley in 2003. Our first house purchase was in 2005 and we spent many years renovating, studs to ceiling, our New Paltz Pool Haus.

 

About 90% of the work was done by us.

 

We consider ourselves to be avid absorbers of all things Haus related and have interests in construction, renovation, design and utilizing green technology.