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Key Details
Property Type Single Family Home
Sub Type Single Family Residence
Listing Status Active
Purchase Type For Sale
Square Footage 2,122 sqft
Price per Sqft $235
MLS Listing ID 1027386
Style Raised Ranch
Bedrooms 5
Full Baths 2
HOA Y/N No
Rental Info No
Year Built 1960
Annual Tax Amount $5,598
Lot Size 6.980 Acres
Acres 6.98
Property Sub-Type Single Family Residence
Source onekey2
Property Description
Out back the land rolls open, wide and green and completely yours, edged by a treeline that flares in October and disappears under the first real snow. There is a pool for the stretch of summer when the days refuse to end, a covered porch for the mornings the sky cannot make up its mind, and a deck that stays ready without ever asking to be sanded or stained. Enough open ground sits around all of it that you could walk for an hour and still be home. Out here the loudest thing you hear is weather.
Inside, the feeling holds. The living space opens around a freestanding fireplace, the kind you light on the first cold night and forget to let go out, its glow carrying into the kitchen where an island gives everyone somewhere to land on the Sundays that turn into long, slow cooking. Five bedrooms mean no one has to give anything up, an office, a studio, a room that stays made up for whoever drives up. Downstairs the full basement is already finished, already warm, more house rather than storage. Everything you touch has been kept and cared for and left ready, so the move is exactly that. You arrive. You unpack. You start living the same afternoon.
And then there is the part that turns this from a beautiful place to sit into a genuinely smart one to own. The garage comes with approved permits and plans to convert it into a full one-bedroom home of its own. The hard part, the drawings, the approvals, the waiting, is already behind you. Whether you ever build it is entirely up to you. It can stay a garage. It can become the rental that quietly pays you back, the studio with its own door, the private quarters for guests who never quite want to leave. The upside is sitting right there, permitted and ready, and it asks nothing of you until the day you decide you want it.
The setting is the Sullivan County Catskills at their easiest. Bethel Woods puts a full summer of lawn concerts about 15 minutes from your door, on the same ground where Woodstock happened. Holiday Mountain keeps the winters short on excuses, and Lake Superior State Park hands you a swim and a paddle when the heat climbs. Resorts World and the Kartrite waterpark sit close enough for the days you want a little noise on purpose, and then you drive home to none of it. The city is about 2 hours south when the road runs clear, close enough that it stays in reach, far enough that it stops reaching you.
What sells you in the end will not be any single feature. It will be the absence of the thing you have come to expect from every other listing, the catch, the compromise, the project hiding just behind the nice photos. There is no catch here. The work is done, the land is yours, the future is already permitted, and all this place has ever asked is that you show up and let it hand you the quiet. Some evening soon you will be standing on that deck as the last light leaves the trees, nothing at all left to fix, and you will understand that this was the whole point.
Location
State NY
County Sullivan County
Rooms
Basement Finished, Full
Interior
Interior Features Chandelier, Eat-in Kitchen, Granite Counters, Kitchen Island, Open Floorplan, Open Kitchen, Recessed Lighting
Heating Electric
Cooling Central Air, Ductless
Flooring Hardwood, Tile
Fireplaces Number 1
Fireplaces Type Free Standing
Fireplace Yes
Appliance Dishwasher, Dryer, Range, Refrigerator, Stainless Steel Appliance(s), Washer
Laundry In Basement
Exterior
Parking Features Driveway
Garage Spaces 2.0
Pool Above Ground
Utilities Available Cable Connected, Electricity Connected, Phone Connected, Trash Collection Private, Water Connected
Garage true
Private Pool Yes
Building
Sewer Septic Tank
Water Well
Structure Type Frame,Vinyl Siding
Schools
Elementary Schools George L Cooke School
Middle Schools Robert J Kaiser Middle School
High Schools Monticello
School District Monticello
Others
Senior Community No
Special Listing Condition None
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