19.2 acre Farm for sale - Silverdale,WA
This page contains both a detailed description
as well as current pics and older
pics to
give you the best overall picture of what this property has to offer.
The above is a current photo of the east side of the house
Aerial photo of total
property
This photo of house/yard was taken about the year
2001
More current pics Older Pics History of farm Property description
Fire Sprinkler system High speed internet Security system
Heating systems Multipurpose building Bunkhouse - guest cottage
Short
platt map Large Barn
Covered parking for 16 vehicles
Warehouse/shop Addtl
storage areas Firewood
storage-marketable timber
Other amenities appraisal of value things needing repair
Zoning
timber survey septic
system Mobil Home land
lease well water
2013 appraisal
Larger platt map
This 19.2 acre farm/homestead is about 2 miles
north of Silverdale bordering on Bangor submarine base.
Home totals about 2700 sq ft including 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2
bathrooms (one of them a large bathroom w/jacuzzi tub), office,
dining room, large living room w/masonry fireplace, laundry room/
pantry/mudroom, & finished basement with two sided masonry fireplace.
Continue reading for full information/disclosure.
For answers to your questions regarding the property
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We currently live in Davenport,WA, 509-703-2189
I do currently have a listing realtor I am working
with.
Her name is Tosca Fernandes, broker for
Better Properties Kitsap
360-340-4934
toscafernandes@gmail.com
She is the one to schedule walk through appointments with.
History of
this homestead
You can read the history of this homestead at my page
Gustafson History
Description
Summary
As the MLS listing "remarks" section only allows 500 characters
of information, not much can be stated there. Hence the necessity
for this page, even though it IS long. Here you will find a much more
complete and comprehensive summary description of the property
that is
for sale.
Starting with useable actual square
footage of the house.
Here is room by room, the useable inside measured square footage
presently of this
home.
Second story master bedroom including
woodstove/masonry chimney,
extra closets, toilet/sink, and built in finished storage 21'w x 24'
long 504 sq ft
Main level living room 21' wide x 18' long w/masonry fireplace 378 sq ft
Main level dining room 12' x
12' 144 sq ft
Main level small office 9' x 12' including stairwell to
basement
108 sq ft
Main level family room, large office or bedroom 9.5' x 25' 237.5 sq ft
Kitchen 5.5' x 6.5' + 7.5' x 15.5' + 5' x 8.5' 194
sq ft
Main level bathroom 9.5' x 18.5' 175.75 sq ft
Main level utility/laundry room/pantry/closets 6.5' x 12.5' 81.25 sq ft
Basement - considered unfinished per county rules
although
walls and ceilings are plastered/textured/painted and concrete
floor is seal coated
2 10.5' x 14' bedrooms
w/closets
294 sq ft
16' x 21' rec area w/ masonry
fireplace
336 sq ft
12.75' x 7' narrower rec area
extension
89.25 sq ft
9' x 12' open
space
108 sq ft
7' x 5.5' basement bathroom w/shower, sink,
toilet
38.5 sq ft
total basement square
footage
(866 sq ft)
Total useable sq footage of all 3
levels
2688 sq ft
This truly is a very unique, one of a kind, property.
Appraisers have told me it is hard to appraise it's value because there is no other
property in the county to compare it to that has so many features included. The
property borders on the southernmost Bangor fenceline for privacy and solitude.
It is 19.2 acres of everything you could want in a property including 3 - 4
separate
large pastures for horses or beef, and timbered woods trails for horses or
motorbikes.
It is an 1800 sq ft 1-1/2 story farmhouse with a 900 sq ft finished basement
under it.
The house has undergone over $100k in three major remodels between the mid 70's
to late 80's and the current 2019 renovation including new roof, new exterior paint,
new gutters,
new room by room interior paint, new vinyl plank flooring, refinishing of oak
hardwood
flooring, new carpeting etc. for another
$50k.
There is a heatilator masonry corner fireplace in the basement rec room, a
second
heatilator masonry fireplace in the main level living room with a
"roots" gas log set
currently installed in it, a certified Avalon Olympic woodstove on the
backside of
the main level masonry fireplace for power outages and emergency use, and a
small woodstove with it's own
masonry chimney installed in the cathedral ceiling
master bedroom on the second
level.
The large master bedroom upstairs with its half bath could be made into two
separate
bedrooms as it was originally before the upstairs remodel made it into one large
master
bedroom. An expensive hardwood bedroom set goes with that. The main level
contains
a spacious 18' x 21' living room with five 4.0 x 5.0 double paned
windows ; a dining room
with real oak hardwood floor and two office spaces. An expensive dining room
china hutch
goes with the place as well as a modern oak dining room table that needs the
ends glued
back together. The new office
space on the west side of the house is 9' x 25' and could
also be used as a bedroom or
a bedroom and an office space. There is also a separate
smaller 9' x 12' office space at the top
of the stairs going down into the basement. The
basement also has an outside entrance stairs
to it.
The main floor bathroom includes a raised jetted jacuzzi tub, corner shower ,
two sinks,
a large three door medicine cabinet, storage cabinet and it is 9' x 18.5' long.
It has a hot water
radiant floor system if you choose to use the oil fired boiler heat source.
There are two 10.5' x 14' bedrooms with window
egress in the basement behind the masonry
fireplace. There is a woodchute in the basement wall to bring wood in to
feed the downstairs
masonry fireplace.
The kitchen contains a lot of cupboard storage with more food/coat storage in
the utility room
in the back porch entry. Another set of floor to ceiling storage cabinets can be
found opposite
of where the refrigerator is now located. Carpeting has been replaced in the living room,
upstairs
bedroom, large main level office and downstairs bedrooms. New laminate plank vinyl has been
installed in the kitchen,
main bathroom, back entry porch and downstairs bathroom. The oak
hardwood flooring in the dining room and small office has been refinished.
Fire Sprinkler
system
The house and basement have a fire sprinkler system installed with heads
in every room including the upstairs. The fire suppression system also extends
to the adjacent four section building as well as to the guest cottage; the
"bunkhouse".
The house should be functional if the valve is turned on; the old stove shop and
guest
house (bunkhouse) systems will need a couple minor repairs where a couple freeze
breaks occurred.
High
speed internet/cable TV
There is currently Wave Cable connected to the main farm house for a high
speed
internet connection (like 45 megs) which you can't get with a Century Link
phone
DSL connection. It can function for both high speed
internet and TV use.
Security system
The house did have a wired security system but it was old and was removed. A wireless system
like www.simplisafe.com
like I installed in our home here in Davenport is a much better bet. It
can either be connected to CENCOM or used just as a private system with no monthly
fees..
It's inexpensive, very easy to install and set
up, and can be added on to as you wish to cover
more items, from additional sirens, and
motion sensors, to more window/door alarms, even a
water sensor if the basement floods or a freezer sensor if the freezer fails and the temperature
gets too high. One
unit could monitor the house, bunkhouse, and freezers in the cellar, and the
4
section building adjacent to the house. You do NOT have to pay for monthly monitoring (although
it could be tied into Cencom for $15/mo). You just purchase the wireless parts and
components that you need and that are very easy to install.
Heating
The house has several options for heating. It has a high tech 2.6 gram woodstove
in the
dining room, the same one I use in our home here. But it was meant for use only
during
power outages even though it has been used for continuous heat also at times. It
can
produce up to 74,000 BTU/hr and takes up to 24" wood. Although it is a
certified stove, it is
not vented in a
manner that would pass code.
The house has an electric forced air furnace and ductwork that was put in at the
time the
basement went in. It works well but there is also the option for a hot water
heating system.
We put the new office and main floor bathroom in a gypcrete radiant in floor
system when
those rooms were added on to the house in the mid 80's which is very
comfortable..
We also plumbed the main level house and upstairs master bedroom
in hot water baseboards which are also very comfortable. We started with a
woodfired boiler
but switched to a Veissman high tech 87% eff oil fired boiler when oil was cheap
back in the
80s. That works well but oil is now$3+/gallon instead of 73 cents/gallon.
Today's high
tech woodfired boilers such as the HS Tarm cost way too much.
If you wanted to heat with wood, I would help you with decisions and
guidance in that area.
In my day I was considered the west coast guru on boilers.
The forced air ductwork system in the basement has a water to air heat exchanger
mounted
in it so the boiler providing heat for the radiant floor system and hot water
baseboards and also
provided hot air through the ductwork even without running the fan blower. And
if we get
in a cold snap the fan only portion of the electric furnace system can be
activated to provide
much more heat through the ductwork from a woodfired boiler.
A good addition would be to heat the baseboard
system with an air-water heat pump.
The air heat exchanger sits just outside the house and a water tank is used in
the basement
to direct the heat through the more comfortable hot water baseboard system.
Multipurpose
building
Adjacent to the house is a 4 section 2200 sq ft 37'w x 30'deep building
that
used to be the retail store when a heating business was run out of here between
'77 and
2001.The lower north section would make a great woodshop. It contains the
hi-tech oil
fired boiler that heated the house. It can also heat the building it is in
with hot water
baseboards upstairs and a fan forced convection heater downstairs. The north
upper section
has lots of shelves for storage and an area suitable for a ping pong table
set up. The south
lower section has infloor radiant tubing installed and would make a great
apartment for renting
out or a larger family. The south upper section has a locked storage area and a
kids rec
room with it's own gasstove for heat besides the hot water baseboard system
delivered
by the 87% efficient Veissman oil boiler below. This building is also
sprinklered but the
system would have to be pressure tested for any freeze breaks before being
connected
back to the house system. Same with the guest cottage which we call the
bunkhouse next door.
Bunkhouse
- guest cottage
The 400 sq ft guest cottage or "bunkhouse" was set up to allow our
kids to have privacy
while they went to Olympic college. Three sets of kids in fact have used it for
that purpose.
It is not fancy but has all the
amenities of an apartment; gas range, washer, gas dryer, kitchen
counter, refrigerator, dish
sink, shower, hand sink, toilet, sleeping and study quarters with dressers
and desks. It also
has a hi efficiency direct vent gas heater as well as three separate 15 amp circuits for
electric space heaters; although we have never had more than one running at a time and
most
of the time it was on 600W. It uses a 28 gallon hot water heater contained
in the little short
red building out front. It is sprinklered but not currently connected due
to a freeze break
somewhere. The bunkhouse has a root cellar under it as well as a small attic
storage above it.
Large Barn
The 90' x 30' barn has a metal roof on it; is in very good shape except for the
west wall
which needs to have the boards removed and renailed back on and even has a
basketball
hoop and court inside where the hay wagon used to roll through. There is a
partial mezanine
in it for storage along with two separate large hay mows, a feed storage
area, and a 20' x 25'
concrete floor area for feeding cows or horses in the winter. There is also
a tackroom and
two areas for calves. Just outside on the north west corner is a 25' x 20'
loafing shed accessible
from the pastures so the animals can get in out of the rain. At the east end of
the barn is a
20' x 25' smaller shop; we used to call the jeep shop. It has a large workbench
and is wired
for a 240V arc welder also and has air piped into it from the air compressor
located on the
other side of the wall in the barn where the new circuit breaker box receives
the new
underground wires coming from the house/garage. There is also a 240V plug
in the jeep shop
for an air compressor.
Covered
Parking for 16 vehicles
The south side of the barn has a 72' x 22' covered overhang for parking 6
vehicles under.
There
is another 2000 sq ft of covered parking available for 10 more
vehicles/trailers/boats/
equipment on the east and north sides of the warehouse. Two of the parking
spaces will
house a motorhome or large camping trailer.
Warehouse/shop 1500 sq ft
North of the barn and jeep shop is a 30' x 50' warehouse/shop that contains an
upper
mezzanine for storage and much shelving for storage. It is wired for a 240V arc
welder and
is piped with an airline to connect it to where the air compressor is
located in the barn next
to the new wiring panel. The 5HP Ingersol Rand air compressor that is there
needs a new
electric motor. A 3HP Campbell Housefield new one at 10cfm@100psi from
www.northerntool.com would be a better option and cost about the same
as a new
5HP electric motor. It could be plugged into a 240V plug in what is called the
jeep shop
at the east end of the barn.
Overhead wiring from the house to the barn was removed and a 2 ought w/gnd
wire set buried underground to connect house to the garage and then on to barn.
The house
has a newer 200 amp circuit breaker box also with a shutoff switch to isolate it
from the power
pole. The warehouse/shop also contains an overhead trolley/hoist set up
for lifting heavy objects
like the woodstoves and boilers we used to load, unload, deliver and install.
Some of the boilers
it hoisted were approaching 2000 lbs. not to mention pallets of pellets/presto
logs
Additional
storage areas
The warehouse has attached to it three other main areas for storage/equipment,
all with
concrete floors, about 600 sq ft each for a total of 1800 sq ft of
additional covered/enclosed
storage space.
Firewood - Marketable timber
On the west end of the storage areas is a 4' wide by about 60' long covered area
for firewood storage. it will hold 12 - 15 cords of wood. Since there is 103K
plus of
marketable timber on the property(2018 update) , see the timber appraisal further down,
you could
probably never run out of cordwood or wood to take to the Lemola Mill north of
Poulsbo
to have cut up into boards/headers/posts.
Other amenities
There are 3 large pastures to rotate animals through, 23 fruit trees, and large
maples.
There is tractor shed alongside the driveway
with a 7' x 10' insulated chicken house
and chicken pens behind it. Two separate chicken yards work great for a dozen
layers.
There is also about 10,000 sq ft of garden space with an 8' x 12' greenhouse to
get
early starts in. The greenhouse needs repair where the last tenant's goats did
damage
to the side. Both the garden and chicken house are plumbed with freeze proof faucets taping
into a 1" line for good flow.
There is a plug and a line inside the greenhouse which is plumbed
for an additional freeze
proof faucet also.
Additional info - appraisal of
value
Further down on this page you can find pics inside and out (not all current) ,
maps, aerial views, etc. We did have a thorough appraisal done in
2013 when
we attempted to take out a reverse mortgage but they don't give you
squat and
the fees are outrageous, especially with the monthly mortgage insurance
tacked on.
Reverse mortgage lenders bank on the fact that as your loan amount escalates
due to their ridiculous fees, you can never pay the loan back and they will
essentially
eventually pick up your property for a third of what it is worth. That's
how it works.
A partial of that report is included further down. The appraiser said
that he couldn't
properly appraise the property because there was none comparable to it
anywhere
he could find to compare it with; and it only included 5 acres of the 19 in
his appraisal
because it was a reverse mortgage appraisal.
Two other real estate appraisers have said the same thing; nothing as
complex to
compare it to. However, the last appraiser broke everything down into
components
instead of just a single sum which makes a lot more sense.
The property value conservatively is broken down as such:
$300k for land and utilities - which is very
conservative for 19+ acres.
Land can go for 30k+ /acre in this area.
$250k for house and
$75k for basement.
State Farm in evaluating the place for home owners insurance after feeding
all the amenities the home has into their computer said it would cost close
to $500k to replace the house as it exists. State Farm has it insured for
$339K
plus another $67,800 as a cushion if the $339k doesn't cover it.
House has undergone 3 major remodels over the years in excess of $100k
plus the current renovation of approximately $50k.
The place has 2 drainfields, the most recent being 3 runs of 100' each.
All house gutters are drained separately; not into the septic drainfield.
$185k for 30' x50' shop , 90 x 30 barn , ~1800 sq
ft of additional storage space,
carport overhangs to support 16 vehicles, trailers, boats, two of which are
tall
enough for an RV or 24' camping trailer. $185k is a very conservative
figure for all
that. I doubt you could rebuild the barn for 185k.
$75k for 2200 sq ft building close to house that used to be the retail
store
It is broken down into four sections described above. It is made of full
dimension
rough cut lumber.
$40k for 400 sq ft guest cottage/bunkhouse next to house which contains all the amenities
of an apartment - gas range, washer, dryer, counter, refrig, sinks, toilet,
shower,
study and bedroom and includes a storage attic above it and a root cellar below
it with a working freezer. It also has a direct vent gas wall heater and
three
separate 15 amp circuits for electric space heaters. We never had to use more
than one.
$5k for chicken coup and tractor shed
These are all very very conservative figures but total
$930,000.
Money required to put the farm back into shape is $60-80,000
We are offering the farm for sale for only $650,000
The farm is not currently in
top shape - things needing repair
All the fruit trees (about 23) need pruning (bid was $3500), roofs need
replacing
except for the barn, chicken house and back covered overhangs; those roofs are good.
The house was reroofed, repainted, and new gutters installed in 2019.
Scotch broom which has again invaded the pastures needs to be
pulled out and
removed. New fencing would have to be installed if you want to
run cattle or horses
on the place. Only one pasture of the main three is currently useable
for cattle
without having to install new fencing. And it should have the existing
4' field fence
with barbed wire strands on top replaced with a 60" tall 2" x
4" horse fence; about
$165/100' roll.
There is approximately 3500 lineal feet of fence
required for the three main pastures.
100' of 60" tall 2" x 4" Red Brand 12.5 ga. wire (with 10 ga. top
and bottom) costs $165
per 100 ft roll. $165 x 35 = $6000. You are looking at less than
$10k in materials counting a
good 5' tall 2" x 4" mesh horse fence and T posts to make new fences.
Fruit trees need pruning badly but the bid
for that is only $3500 for all 25 of them.
Costs to restore farm - $60K-80K
A tractor is needed to pull the scotch broom out by the roots. I was using the
jeep
winch and a nifty chain grabber thingy from www.northerntool.com
and it worked really well.
I did go all around the barn and shored up any places where it wasn't solid
underneath.
That was a several week job. I still had all the left over beams from the stove
shop in
the tractor shed to work with. The west wall, about 35', of the barn
needs to
be removed piece by piece and renailed back up but most all of the boards are
still okay.
Many have expressed an interest to buy the farm but wanted us to hold a
contract
but we need all the funds to pay off both mortgages and work with our new place
so we cannot do that.
We recently moved to eastern WA to be closer to my son and help raise his
family
and like the weather and situation there (wasn't prepared for how cold
winters get
though so
now I am willing to part with the farm I have lived on since 1951. At my
age, 75, the 19 acre farm is too much property to manage and keep up with.
We had to downsize.
There is about $68k left to pay on the existing farm
mortgage.
As we are expecting a large investment to payout soon to be able to pay off
the
mortgage and finish fixing the things that need fixing; as of today I won't be selling
the place at lower than the asking price of $650k.
Zoning
The property is zoned 5 acre rural and could be subdivided into 3 lots;
in fact survey work was done years ago to do just that, see the plot map below,
but the process was never completed and it would have to be redone. Most
all the
survey stakes still exist and I can show you exactly where they are. Very little
survey
work would have to be done to lay it out in a way the county would now accept
it.
Access for the current north plot C (5 acres)
would be through plot A, down
the regular driveway of plot B (9 acres that the house sits on) , and
past the
warehouse out to plot C, about 230' north of the corner of the north warehouse
overhang. Plot A (5 acres) would have access directly from Gustafson Rd.
The whole property is 19.2 acres. The original short plat divided things into two
5 acre
sections and a 9 but the county rejected it because a mobil home sat on
the same plot
as the main house in the southwest corner of the property. More on that further
down.
A revised short plat of a little different configuration would be necessary
unless the mobil
home was asked to leave; which may not be in your best interest because his
1/8th acre
land lease his mobil sits on essentially pays most of the property taxes on the
whole place.
Timber value on
property
A Timber survey done in 2013 says there is $90K in marketable timber here;
with probably
a third of that being in C section. A copy of that proposal is included
further down. He updated
that in 2018 to $103k. But before you have it logged, go to the east end of Trigger Ave and see
what a mess
they left logging Gerald Peterson's old farm timber. Recently they also logged part
of Gustafson Road and left a huge mess there also. The timber can be thinned to provide all
the firewood you could use as well as lumber if you took whole logs to the mill
in Indianola
which will cut the logs into useable lumber for you. The woods has many trails
through it for
walking, off road vehicle riding or horseback riding. If you log it, all that
will be destroyed.
Septic system
The property has two drain fields for the 1000 gal septic tank system which
services
both the main house as well as the guest cottage. In the late 80's a second
drain field was installed with three very long 100' runs out into the north
pasture, all inside
section B. The Septic tank was pumped in 2013 after 13 years of use from
last pumping,
and the man from Dana's stated it could have gone a lot longer - that
everything was in
very good shape. We also had it pumped again in April 2019 and received a clean
bill of health again.
There is a valve in the NW corner of the area by the
swimming pool that can direct the effluent flow
into either the original drain field
installed in 1974 or the newer drain field installed in the late 80's.
18' x 36' swimming pool - which I built in early 80's
Our weather is not suitable for a swimming pool as our weather has changed over
what it was back in the 80's when we built that pool. The insurance company made
us fill it in up
to the 24" point with fill dirt. Adding topsoil from there to the top
would make a large winter
greenhouse out of it.
The spa was damaged by the last tenant's kids and dog and probably
needs to be removed.
Mobil Home
Land lease
There is a manufactured home in the southwest corner of the property. It is not
ours but
leased to a tenant who leases the space it sits on. You have the option to
retain rents and
continue to allow occupancy or ask that it be removed. The land rent he pays
essentially pays
for the property taxes on the whole place each year.
In the late 80's we purchased a doublewide mobil home for my second wife's
mother to live in and placed it in the very southwest corner of the property on
Gustafson Rd.
When my second wife divorced me in the 90's they took her mom out of her place
here
and put her in a singlewide in a mobil home park in Bellingham. We tried renting
the mobil
out but that didn't work out well; renters didn't pay their rent and trashed the
place twice. So
we sold the mobil and the owner has paid us a monthly land lease payment for the
1/4 acre
it sits on for the past twenty years and that fee pretty much pays for the
property taxes on the
whole 19 acres. If you buy the farm you can either continue that arrangement or
ask the
owner of the mobil to move it. My arrangement with him was that as long as I
owned the farm
he had a place there for as long as he paid his monthly land lease and he has
never failed to
make his payment on time, everytime. But the mobil home is in his name and not
mine.
Well-water
situation
When my sister put a newer mobil on her 16 acres which is adjacent and
to the
west of our property, county rules had changed and her own drilled well was then
considered
too close to her septic system to meet current code, even though it is several
hundred feet
away. I signed a water rights agreement with her showing the county she had
access to water
from my well so they would allow her to put her new mobil home in. She still has
her own
functional drilled well which she uses. She is not dependant upon our
water, but in essence
we have had a 3/4" line that connects her water system with our water
system for the past 40
years (long before an agreement was put on paper) so that when one or the
other's well was
down we both shared water from the system that was still running. The
agreement was a
legal issue to satisfy the county so she could put her mobil in, and has
not been rescinded,
although it could be. Since her mobil burned down in 2019 and the agreement does
not contain
the features such an agreement should; legally it could be rescinded with little
effort.
Physically, to be able to have a water source by
opening a valve and
cross connecting into a separate system if something goes wrong with your
well until your
well or pump can be repaired in my opinion is a plus, not a negative. Both wells
come from
the same Bangor aquifer water source and both wells are about the same depth.
Our well
is 90' to the top of the water and 120' to the bottom of the well and has a
1 1/2" pipe from
the submersible well pump at the bottom of the well all the way to the
house. Our well has
a 6" casing and pumps 25 gal/min plus all day long of the best tasting
water in Kitsap
county. In the summer we used it to water the pastures with a 25 gpm
sprinkler head
when we had beef on the place.
Besides the drilled well we still retained water rights to a 9' hand dug
well down in the woods
that could be used in an emergency. The pipe from that well to the concrete
cistern
in front of the warehouse still exists. In fact the deep well pump is still in
it as well.
Read Gustafson History
www.heavensfountain.com/gustafsonhistory.htm
for more
on the
water system and it's evolution.
And there is also now a county water line that now runs down Gustafson Rd
although if you
tapped into that you would be drinking chlorinated water and not the great
tasting water
from our well which taps into the Bangor aquifer which is the largest aquifer in
the county.
More Current pics
East side of house is the first pic at the top of this page
west side of house showing outside basement entrance
at left
South end of house
House/back entrance/patio from northeast
Bunkhouse w/root cellar and attic storage
entrance above - see several pics of
the inside in section "older pics" as the
inside hasn't changed
2200 sq ft old retail stoveshop store; 4 sections
- kid's rec room, lockable storage,
ping pong room and lots of shelving/storage upstairs. Good woodshop area /
potential
living space down w/radiant floor tubing in south lower section.
This building could be turned into many things.
Gated driveway entrance to farm off Gustafson Rd
Looking west
Looking north towards barn w/6 parking stalls - there are ten more on backside
Kids playhouse with slide and doored sandbox below to keep cats out
Back porch, pantry, closets and utility room looking east
Back porch and laundry room looking west - washer left, dryer right, sink tub in middle
Kitchen with reupholstered nook-table
Kitchen with refrig and pantry cupboard space in doorway on right
Dining room looking south - china hutch and Avalon Olympic woodstove goes with house
Dining room looking north into kitchen
Main level master bathroom with Jacuzzi jetted tub
Master bathroom with shower also
Small office for computers - could hold two desks
Small office with rolltop desk included - network
cable from modem-router comes into
this desk
9' x 25' larger office or family room - could
also be a fourth bedroom
Router - modem are on shelf on left in bookcase
Same family room but looking south - this end could be made into a separate bedroom
18' x 21' living room with masonry fireplace
Living room has 5 4' by 5' double paned windows
Master bedroom upstairs - king headboard and two
dressers come with this.
There are his and hers glass doored closets and built in storage spaces.
Toilet - sink are in north corner of master
bedroom so you don't have to go downstairs
at night to use a bathroom.
Entrance door to master bedroom and "His" closet and dresser
Looking north in master bedroom, sink/toilet on left behind privacy screen
Basement rec room
Basement rec room area with two sides open fireplace; two bedrooms in back
Basement bedroom - there are two bedrooms behind the fireplace
Basement bathroom
Basement bathroom with shower, toilet, sink
Older Pics
These are not current pics but gives you a better idea of how furniture was used
throughout the house
Dining room facing north - that table and chair set is still available but needs
gluing of the table ends back together as they became separated when we
ratcheted it into the trailer taking it to eastern WA. It's too large for our
house there.
kitchen facing south. The china hutch on the left goes with the house.
Middle pic below is looking south from the north entrance into the kitchen
from the utility room doorway. Refrigerator location has been changed.
Living room is 18' x 20'. The angled part used to
be a porch outside but as it
faced south it was too hot to be useable in the afternoons and we wanted a
larger living room so annexed the old porch onto the living room
Group 2 pics
Upstairs master bedroom; about 20' x 24' , small woodstove has
it's own separate masonry flue.
Living room and stairway to upstairs. Carpet is currently speckled gray..
Master bedroom upstairs was done in 4" cedar stripping.
Group 3 pics - house and yard
Main level bathroom looking west
kitchen looking northwest
Basement fireplace w/ 2 bedrooms behind it
Guest cottage (the bunkhouse) with attic above
and cellar below
Bunkhouse kitchen-laundry food preparation area
Bathroom sink - enclosed toilet area
Dish sink on right - entrance into study area
Bunkhouse shower , dish sink, bathroom sink
Bunkhouse rolltop desk, study - TV - dresser area
Bunkhouse bedroom - second desk
Large garden space - years of grass clipping,
manure and
leaves used for mulch makes growing veggies easy
Our kids above are now 34 and 28.
Short
Plat Map - aerials of sections surveyed
Short platt map showing 5 acres in C section that
could be sold
if you went through the replatt process again. Actually section B would
be 9 acres, not 7 as is shown on the map below.
aerial of 5acre C platt at the top and A + B below the yellow line
Aerial view - line for C has been moved north to the left about 200' so it
includes all
of the drainfield and what shows as A below is actually plat B, the middle 9
acres
disregard the A and C lines , plot A now extends 200' further back into C and
all the way
across to property line
Timber survey done in Sept 2013
Value may be more or less today but gives you a good ballpark
2013
Appraisal for a reverse mortgage company
Page from a 30 page appraisal report done in Oct 2013 when we were considering a
reverse
mortgage. It was necessary to base their estimate of how much they would
give us on. If they
used replacement value of everything they came up with the figure $645,500. If
they used
comparable value of homes in the area they came up with $525,000, but then told
us there
were no homes in the area to really compare it with. In either case they
only offered us a little
over $200k we could get out of a reverse mortgage with whopping monthly mortgage
insurance
fees to escalate the debt so the owners would never be able to pay it back. We
decide not to do that.
Where I need to stake west property boundary
for a more accurate fenceline
The short yellow line that crosses the
longitudinal yellow line at right angles in the aerial photo below
represents an existing survey marker shown on the survey map below where you see
the number 1193.41
on the west boundary line. That is a known point as well as marked survey points
at the northwest
corner of the property and at the southwest corner of the property which we
won't need for this request.
I need someone to put a transit on that point where an existing survey marker is
at the 1193.41 point and
then look north N2° 25' 50"E so I can put a post where you see the
fenceline entering the woods where
the short yellow mark is just north of the 1193.41 marker. Then turn the transit
180°
and look south so I can put three more posts at the other three marks shown on
the aerial below.. I do not
need an official survey, I do not need it recorded anywhere, I do not need any
elevations - just let me mark
where that boundary line crosses those three points so I can adjust the
fenceline if need be. All four posts
should be able to be ascertained without moving the transit as it is line of
site to all four posts.
Larger plat map
- move slidebar at bottom to get all of it,
This was how I originally tried to cut it up but the county wouldn't approve it
because the modular home
was on the same plot as the main house. The map further up shows how it could be
divided up into
three parcels to satisfy county whims. But the map below gives good dimensions
of the place.
History of this homestead
You can read the history of this homestead at my page
Gustafson History
Again email berry@detailshere.com
with questions my agent can't answer, put
your name and the words "regarding farm" in the subject line so I
won't delete
you with the 400+ spams I get each day.
Ber