Thursday, May 7, 2009

House for Sale

2900 sq foot Victorian Farm House on 5 acres.
$89,000
Homesteader Ready!!!
No set up needed. Move livestock in, start gardening and canning
and open your home based business right away!
Plenty of room to homeschool and/or raise a large family.
Contact cfnorton@msn.com to schedule a showing.

Kitchen

This old style, large eat in kitchen is great for canning. Lots of room to move around.
Extensive cabinets with jar storage on the North wall.
Windows on 3 sides for cross breeze.
Gas stove. Double basin porcelain sink.


Living room & Family room


Living room is bright and sunny. (pics taken on a gloomy day and at night)

Sits between store and family room.

Dining room/ family room/ home school room. Sits between kitchen and living room. Exits onto enclosed porch/ mud room.

5 Bedrooms

One bedroom down stairs. Closet, 2 windows.
4 bedrooms upstairs.
X-large master bedroom with closet and 4 windows- lovely view.
Medium beedroom with 3 windows and attic access.
Large sunny bedroom with 4 windows.
Small bedroom with 2 joined windows.
All upstairs bedrooms have large adjustable shelving.

1.5 Baths

Upstairs full bathroom.

Downstairs half bath. Washer hook up and electric dryer. Clothes rod above as well as storage shelving. Note: Washer not included in sale.

Store

The front room of the house is store front ready. The front porch leads into this room. There is a rest room inside the room. There is a large built in desk with room for a register, computer connection and phone. I used this room as a rubber stamp shop. Regular tourist traffic for consistant sales.

Upstairs hallway

Here is the hallway. Room for bathroom overflow storage and a small side office.

Walk in Attic

The house has a large walk in attic with a storage closet. There is also a full size attic above the main body of the house as well as a full dirt floor cellar and root cellar. PLENTY of storage space for a large family.

Outside

The yard
View out of driveway onto road. Front porch. This is not siding. The green is the clapboard that is found under the shingles. I just removed the shingles from the porch area, power washed the clap board and painted.
Fenced strawberry and raised bed garden.
Last spring.
Wood Master brand outside wood furnace. 5 yrs old. All new seals. Recently serviced. Wood fire heats water that is pumped into the house where forced air is pushed through it. Heats entire house and hot water. When not in use there is oil back up for heat and propane back up for water. Drastically reduces heating bill!
Swing set. 11 feet at tallest point. 2 swings, heavy duty spiral slide, sand box,
cargo net, tree house deck.

View off front porch.

Store front ready with parking and signage. Open zoning.
View across back pasture. Fenced 3 lines electric for goats, horse or cow.
Property lined with corn fields then trees, train track and fields for 1 mile till lake.
House from back yard by hen houses.
8' Store sign with changeable letters.

All original windows with weights in sides. Sliding storms.

5 yr old asphalt roof.
Enclosed porch/ mud room with small landing porch.

Back view.
Extensive garden plot.
Metal building with cement floor. Fits one car.
Can be used for mower & bike storage or work shop. Small duck house with tire pond & sand beach (to keep mud to a min)
View of white deer across the road. No deer activity on property (that we've experienced) as deer are fenced.
3 sided livestock shelter. Will house 1 cow, 1 horse or 5 or so goats.
Iron pole clothes line behind house.
Nice little picnic area bordered by blossoming cherry, tulips and purple lilacs.
Two 8'x5' (floors) shelters on legs. Back human access. Open to two 8'x16' sun
decks the exit onto a 50'x50' chicken pasture with low fencing.
House chickens, colony rabbits, young turkeys, etc.