“We Saw the Vision”: Why Tracey and Jeff Getman Bought at North Fork Resort Before It Was Finished
It is a Friday afternoon in Greenport. Tracey and Jeff Getman are settled into their cottage at North Fork Resort, their son with them for the first time on the East End, the weekend already beginning to open up. Dog dock jumping is taking over downtown. Macari, One Woman, Sparkling Pointe, and Lieb are on the list. There is no checkout time Sunday morning. This place is theirs.
Tracey grew up on Long Island. Jeff is an upstater who always said he would never live on Long Island.
Then he came to the North Fork.
“He fell in love with it out here,” Tracey says, laughing.
A Friend Said: You Have to See This Place
Tracey and Jeff did not find North Fork Resort through a search. A friend bought first, told them about it, and they came out to take a look.
“We really fell in love the second we were out here,” Tracey says. “We kind of saw the vision of what the place is going to look like, heard about the plans, and certainly have seen them in action since we’ve taken ownership.”
That was last fall. They came back this season and the transformation was immediate and visible. New cottages delivered. Landscaping filled in. The paths and gathering spaces taking shape. “It just looks completely different now,” she says. “You can see what they’re trying to accomplish.”
What brought them in was not a finished product. It was the direction. The sense that something real was being built here, by people who cared about it. “Everybody we’ve met has been so helpful and really welcoming,” Tracey adds.
The Second Home Without the Second Home Headaches
They have friends with houses on the North Fork. They know what that looks like: the maintenance, the closing up at the end of the season, the weight of ownership that follows you home.
This is different.
“We don’t have the worries of a full second home,” Jeff says. “When we leave, we don’t have to close things up. It’s just all taken care of for us.”
Tracey puts it another way: “It’s like we own it, but it’s like being in a hotel. There are so many amenities.”
They can come when they want. They can rent it out when they are not here. And when they leave, they leave.
“It’s been a nice way for us to get away, have a second place to come to that certainly is a great area,” Jeff says, “without the worry and cost associated with a full second home.”
Bringing the Next Generation
This weekend has an extra layer to it. Their son is 19 and has never been to the North Fork. They are going to show him around: Mattituck, Cutchogue, the villages, the vineyards, the waterfront. Give him the lay of the land.
It is the kind of weekend that only works when you have a place to come back to. Not a hotel room you are checking out of Sunday morning. A place that is yours, where the weekend has a home base, and the next visit is already something to look forward to.
That is what Stay. Return. Belong. looks like in practice. Not as a tagline. As a Friday afternoon conversation with Tracey and Jeff Getman, two people who fell in love with the North Fork and decided to make it part of their life.
Tracey and Jeff Getman have been owners at North Fork Resort since fall 2025.
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