In my opinion, if a house is listed as "Direct waterfront", the property should be directly attached to a body of water. Some of my colleges like to stretch the facts (often due to pressure of sellers) and list property separated by a street or other permanent passage as Direct Waterfront.
I should have know better and ran into this situation last weekend. My client found the house online and wanted to see it. Soon as we pull up to the house he said "this isn't waterfront". Thank goodness it was a nice house and worth seeing, although asking price was out of line with location.
