135 W Pennsylvania Ave., Lake Helen, FL 32744
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$284,000
Sold on 10/21/22
Beds Baths Sq. Ft. Taxes Built
3 3.00 1,368 $546 1927
On the market: 109 days
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Lake Helen SFH with in law apartment 1) This single family or mother/daughter home has exterior walls of ¾” hard pine lap board, covered with CDX4x8’ panels, covered by Hardy Board fiber cement lap siding. This home is NOT a fiberboard siding with stucco coating. You can’t punch through these outside walls. 2) All trim around doors, windows, house corners are commercial (¾ light PVC lumber with wood grain markings). 3) All window flange edges are sealed against Tyvek house wrap prior to installing Hardy Board Siding. 4) Weep channels surround all windows reducing any chance of water retention. 5) New England style flower boxes adorn each window allowing flowers to be viewed in home in each window. Boxes have keyed location for pots and their plastic tray that drops water drops excess water to ground not on side of house. All 98 pots watered via drip irrigation on a single valve. Boxes are made from ¾ light PVC lumber are light weight and sit on French cleats for easy to remove and clean. 6) Roof was recently fully stripped, wood replaced where needed, new drip edge, plastic cemented and nailed for new high wind mitigation, bare wood material covered completely with heavy peal&stick roof leak barrier including overlap of all valleys, high wind architectural singles and nailing pattern used including basket weaved for valleys. 7) Large Hot Water tank is thermal wrapped and located in the hot water closet outside home, sits on a concrete slab with extra storage (attached to home but unified into house siding) and sits below inside floor level eliminating a house flooding due to hotwater leak. 8) Mitsubishi heat pump ductless split units (two 1.5 ton, one 2.5 ton approximately). Easy to clean, no dirty vents, no vent cooling lost. Saved a ton of money. 9) Home plot allows room for 5th wheeler truck and home and boat concealed behind fence (about 90' length available) 10) Additional to 5th wheeler truck, there is space for a light truck and 2 passenger vehicles (one under cover). 11) HIM and HER activity area (divided separate building). Her shop is drywalled with washer and dryer and plenty of room to set up for her interest. Her shop has three colonial windows that open to a paved interior of an enclosed patio covered with arbor supporting a 70 year old Lavender Wisteria. His shop is equipped with 110-220 v.a.c, double doors at each end of the shop, plenty of storage, lumber racks behind a vertical workbench, bandsaw (needs two table support parts), planer, other tools, cabinets, shelves, mobile metal tool chest, corner lazy susan for paint and chemical. 12) Her seed house has drawers under each of the two work tables, containers under drawers for all soil type of enhancements. Outside of seed house plenty of space for plant propagation, a greenhouse with sun reduction web that can become a hot house in winter with plastic wrap, 60x3Ft of planting area and fruit trees of varying ages (tangerine, ruby navel orange, ruby red grapefruit, lime, lemon, apple, peach, fig, fingered citrus, grapes, passion fruit, suriname cherry, carambola, loquat, guava, avocado, kiwi, blueberry, logon, pear, plum, persimmon), soil has been composted for 15 years and very similar to northern soil in richness, a deep well submersible irrigates all the property with a co-located multi-manifold manual value system for the entire property including spigots at all corners of house, would be easy to automate. .
Listing courtesy of Mary Scaggs, NEXTHOME ALL AMERICAN