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53 Woods Road

Port Jervis, NY 12771

$539,900 $2,276/Mo

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Bed

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4.30

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The best financial decision you make this year is going to look like a red barn on a hill. There are two full homes inside it. You take the upstairs. The lower unit has its own entrance, its own kitchen, its own laundry, and it goes to work on the mortgage while you go about your life. Your half is the one you fall for. The living room runs 40 feet and never meets a flat ceiling. It climbs into the roof, solid plank with the rafters left showing, a line of skylights down the whole length, and a brick fireplace on one wall. A walkway crosses above it on a black railing with the bedroom doors set along the wall behind. Three bedrooms and two baths sit up under the peak, and the timber follows you all the way up there. The rental is a 2 bedroom with a full bath, and it is nobody's aftertho ught. French doors open it straight onto the grass, so a tenant never sets foot in your part of the house. There is a real kitchen, a laundry of its own, and a 29 foot room with a brick hearth and a pellet stove. It is finished, it is bright, and it comes to you vacant, which means you write the first lease on your own terms. Everything that keeps a unit occupied out here is already in place: I-84 at Exit 4 minutes from the door, the station 15 minutes out, and the Minisink Valley district. What that buys you is not really money. It is the part of your income that stops being spoken for. The payment quits running your calendar. You take the week in October instead of talking yourself out of it. You get to be the person who bought 4.3 acres and a barn and still sleeps fine at night, because somebody downstairs is helping you hold it. And the land is why you were looking out here to begin with. Mowed ground runs from the back of the house down to a tree line and keeps going, a few fruit trees standing out in the open, deer along the edge most evenings, and not one other rooftop showing from any window. The wrap-around deck takes the afternoon sun. The screened porch beside it sits right up against the woods with a fan turning overhead, and it is the seat everybody fights over from May to September. Past the yard there is a fire ring for the nights it gets cold enough to want one. High Point is 20 minutes south, where the monument looks out over three states and Lake Marcia is worth the swim in August. The Appalachian Trail crosses at Unionville, where the hikers come off the ridge and land at Wit's End Tavern. The Delaware is close enough to be a Saturday rather than a trip, and every January the bald eagles come down and sit in the bare trees above the water. Route 97 takes the cliffs at Hawk's Nest for the days you feel like driving for its own sake. Dinner does not mean leaving the valley. Westtown Fare runs farm to table Thursday through Sunday. When you want the bigger night out, Milford is a short drive west over the river, where Broad Street has Bar Louis inside the Hotel Fauchere. Sunday is Warwick, the market in the South Street lot from 9 to 2 and the orchards picking through the fall. Manhattan is 75 miles southeast on the days you want it. The structure is settled and the land is here. The rest is paint and fixtures and the small choices that make it yours, which is the fun part if you have been waiting for a place worth putting your own hand on. The nights out by that fire ring are going to cost you a lot less than you think, and you are going to have a lot of them.

Property Details

Property Type : Residential Income

Price : $539,900

AD Id : 90096881

MLS Id : 1042308

Beds : 5

Lot Size : 4.30 Acres

Year Built : 1973

County : Orange

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Bedroom Information

Total beds: 5

Bathroom Information

Total Baths: 3 Full Baths: 3

Room Information

Basement: Finished
Flooring Information

Ceramic Tile, Laminate, Tile
Interior Features

Beamed Ceilings, Cathedral Ceiling(s), Ceiling Fan(s), Chandelier, Double Vanity, Natural Woodwork, Open Floorplan, Recessed Lighting Laundry Features: Laundry Room, Multiple Locations Window Features: Skylight(s)
Heating & Cooling

Has Heating: Yes Heating: Baseboard Has Cooling: Yes Cooling: Wall/Window Unit(s)

Building Information

Year Built: 1973 Construction Materials: Wood Siding Patio And Porch Features: Deck, Porch, Screened, Wrap Around Private Pool: No

Lot Information

Lot Size Acres: 4.3 Lot Size Square Feet: 187308

Listing Price Information

Listing Price: $539900

Tax Information

Parcel Number: 333200-007-000-0001-014.200-0000 Annual Tax: $9241.94

Parking Information

Driveway

School Information

Elementary School: Minisink Valley Elementary

Junior High School: Minisink Valley Middle School

Senior High School: Minisink Valley High School
Utility Information

Electricity Connected
Location Information

WaterSource: Private, Well

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