Hardwood Tree Farm with 2 houses
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Hardwood Tree Farm with 2 housesFamily Estate will pay for itself in 10 years
We developed this dream property over 35 years. Dad and Mom bought it in the early ‘70’s. In the early ‘80’s our millwright brother Randy built a sprawling 5-bedroom, 2-story 2,880 square foot ranch home with his own hands. The lower floor is mostly underground and remarkably quiet and cool in the summertime, so that’s where most of the bedrooms are. The living room is the size of most city apartments! Dad built a big white garage and barn combination next to the farm house with space for three big cars his workshop (we’ll leave all the tools), and on the lower floor a huge drive-in barn for all the machinery we’re selling with the estate – it even includes an antique 1949 Chevy flatbed truck with antique plates – yeah, it still runs, if you baby it. Oh, and we wired the garage so it makes a great getaway workshop. We keep the tax-free farm gas in a big tank in front of the garage. The property also comes with a 100-year-old natural gas line easement that gives us unlimited natural gas for pennies a month. Fifteen years ago Dad and Mom got a Kansas State University grant to plant 3,000 hardwood trees (oak, ash, hickory, and walnut) in the water-rich river-plane land on 11 of the 16 acres. With all the underground water, frequent cleansing rains and the tender care we’ve all put into this hardwood forest (some say it looks like a golf course), we've culled them down to 2,300 in another ten years about 1,000 of the tallest straightest trees will be ready for harvest to be sold as expensive architectural hardwoods for as much as $1,000 to $5,000 a tree. About ten years ago our sister Charlotte and her husband Gene moved a little 1,100 sq. ft. 3-bedroom cottage onto the farm, but business took them to Illinois, so we’ve used it as a foreman’s residence and sometimes rented it out to schoolteachers (there’s a great private school, Southwestern College, just eight miles away). It’s carpeted with wood paneling and new built-ins and shower. The 16 acres of this lush Kansas farmland is in Cowley County some 40 minutes south of Wichita (a major, but handy international airport) and 20 minutes north of the Oklahoma border. It is accessible by Interstate 35 (7 miles west at the Wellington exit) and is serviced by Cowley County 3 (a two-lane asphalt highway also known as the Udall shortcut) at the intersection of Cowley County 18. It is three miles north of US 166 (a well-traveled, well-maintained two-lane concrete highway running east-west between Wellington and Winfield and clear across southern Kansas) and seven miles south of K-15 (a major state highway running between Winfield and Wichita). The nearest town is Oxford three miles west (just across the Arkansas River) with a market, gas station, restaurants, complete lumber yard and Ace Hardware, liquor store, barber shop and post office. The larger city of Winfield is seven miles east across the Walnut River and that’s where you shop at Wal-mart and buy fresh California fruits and produce at Dillon’s. There’s even a small computer manufacturer in Winfield and, because it’s a college town with tons of old Victorian homes, it’s where we like to go for social events. Summary: 16 acres of prime Kansas farm land with 2,300 hardwood trees only 10 years from maturing (tree revenue will pay for the investment), with two houses (2,880 sq. ft. and 1,100 sq. ft.) currently rented for $850 and $450, with very large 2-level barn/garage with all needed tools. Price: $429,000. Terms available. Call Dan Fauchier at 858-337-4768 or email fauchier@msn.com. See more photos and info at www.hatzoff.us which also features an adjacent 3rd home "Earthship" on 3 acres also for sale. | ||||||||||||
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