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Beautiful unique rustic house with grounds--- 5+ wooded acres backed by a 150 acres of forest with future development possible. (This back 150 acres is not part of the property.)

Includes pool, outbuildings, sheds, deck, walking trails. Easy access to local lakes, golf, hiking, ski resorts, boating, Bethel Performing Arts Center, and more.

Much investment potential.Survey shows pie shape of property. 800+ feet road frontage. Back runs along forest.
3 sides of property have stone walls.

HURLEYVILLE, NY 12747

Offered at $559 K. (Reduced from $750) Private sale. Owner financing possible.
Make an offer now. Spring is coming to the mountains - enjoy every minute of it!Perfect investment, income, spa, or large/multi-family compound. Subdividable. Other possible uses: B and B, writers or artists' colony, ashram, office suite - such as medical offices, or healing/massage rooms. Opportunity to generate substantial rental income, subdivision income, and/or income from programs and retreats.

1 1/2 hours from New York City in CATSKILL MOUNTAINS.

Features of rustic 1840's house and property. The house systems have been modernized. The historical character and uniqueness of this house have been maintained. This is a rare, and possibly unique, opportunity to purchase a historically original previous century home.

* Wide plank floor boards throughout.

* Newly designed master kitchen with island - good for groups.

* Kitchen and bathroom floors designed with marble, onyx and granite compositions.
* Thick plaster lathe walls throughout. VERY quiet inner rooms.* New insulated windows throughout.

* Lodge- style front loggia along entire 50' front of house.

* Natural crafted pergolas. Himalayan rambling roses and other flowering vines beginning to climb them. Country art form.

* Main house is 4000 Square Feet.

* House has 20 rooms. 5 kitchens. 7 bathrooms.

* Taxes: School & Property approximately $4500 annually.
Municipal sewer runs about $85/quarter.

* Zoned R-1 with variance for "rooming house".

* 2 outbuildings that can become additional rental units or living spaces or studios.

* 20 X 40 inground concrete pool. Landscaping with boulders at one end for natural-looking fountain and waterfall. 2 gazebos at one end form massage and private area. The hard work is done. Either leave the pool as a koi pond, or clean and put back into service as a pool for humans.

* Natural crafted deck with floor with inlaid marble hexagonal (Star of David, double inverted triangle. 20 Feet in diameter. Supplied with electricity.* 9 guest rooms, semi-furnished with original farmhouse antiques -many priceless, unique, and one of a kind. Each room individual decorated and designed by visiting artisans and architects.

* Professional landscaped.

* Designed garden beds with thousands of dollars of hardy and specimen plants.

* Perennial herbal beds. Pick your own fresh herb tea and salad daily.

* Hurleyville, New York is in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains.

* Delicious organic food from local farmers all during the growing seasons.

* A spring and a deep well provide water. Town water across the street if you care to hook up to it. New well pump August 2006.

* Lots of hiking/walking trails.

* SKI country.

* This home is in the HEART of the autumn leaf spectacular. For 2 weeks every October, eye-catching & stunning display of the reds, golds, oranges, bronzes. Big TOURIST season if you care to rent out during this time.

* Tap your OWN MAPLE SYRUP! Big Sugar maples on property.

* Beautiful lakes all around.

* Quiet living, yet easy trip to New York City and surrounding areas.

* 6 airports: NY City (Laguardia, JFK, Newark - 2 1/2 hours). Albany, NY (2 hours). Stewart-Newburg, NY (45 minutes.)Binghamton 1 1/2 hours.

* 1 and 1/2 hour commute from New York City.

* BLUEBERRIES! BLUEBERRIES! BLUEBERRIES! Eat your fresh anti-oxidants right off the bush daily!

* Rugosia and hedge roses provide LOTS of fresh rose hips each autumn.
Build your immune system naturally right in your own acres.

* Have breakfast in the fresh raspberry patch each morning... from the stem to your mouth direct!

* Rustic hand-crafted antique garden shed. Rambling rose covers oak architecturally designed trellis and is reaching for the cottonwood patch of saplings now. 6 weeks blooming season of pale pink rose clusters enchant the senses & perfume the neighborhood.
Visiting healer Jacque from France even opted to make it his out-door cottage one summer. He was totally happy in his little shed and his picnic table right outside the door. (Jacque was also a marvelous French cook. Ummm..... what he could do with the garden vegetables every lunch time! Ahhh!

* Systems fully updated.

* New electric system. House fully rewired. New electric panel brought in. New circuit breaker box and lines throughout. Outdoor lines to pool and to gazebo. Outdoor carriage lights around 4 front entrances.

* New plumbing system. 2 4" drains, one on each side of main house connecting to town sewer system. All new plumbing serves 8 bathrooms and 5 kitchens. Year round anti-frost outside spigot.

* New heating systems. 2 commercial propane furnaces zoned for upper floor and separately for main floor. House totally supplied with forced hot air vents. AC can be added to this system for central AC. (Though we get naturally fresh and cool air from the surrounding forest during the summer months.)
Additionally, 4 Monitor and Toyotomi vented wall furnaces burning K1. VERY economical and produce a LOT of BTU's. PLUS a large wood-burning stove in the great room- for fun, ambiance, and power emergencies. New chimney.

* 40 gallon hot-water heater, propane.

* New water pump - your own well, 250 feet deep of famous Catskill Mountain water. The Catskill mountains provide the drinking water for New York City.
Dr. Emoto's water picture photos
of New York City drinking water - from our mountains here - are very bright, happy and radiant crystals. Many spring bottling companies are in the area - including Leisure Time springs bottling.

* Never mind buying water. Get your fresh spring water from your own hand pump. In addition to our deep well which provides the main house water, there is a shallow spring pump right outside the kitchen door - year-round. You are
never without your own fresh water. Even if the electricity goes down, you can pump your own fresh spring water in your own country estate.

* Acres can be developed. Town water and town sewer run along property line. Acres very pretty woods and surrounded on 3 sides by stone wall. Borders native forest.

* OR keep the extra acreage in reserve for your own enjoyment, future development and appreciation.

* 800 feet of maintained road frontage.

* Fire hydrant directly across street from main house.

* Many new developments in the area give a strong demand for a B and B or country inn, and other amenities to support guests and other visitors. House is approximately 20 minutes from the new Bethal Performing Arts Center - said to be the Tanglewood of the Catskills.

This unique one-of-a-kind LARGE HOUSE, healing center, community and/or retreat house is being offered on the market now. Offering price REDUCED SPRING 2010 $559K private sale. Seller will hold mortgage.

MAKE OFFER.

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