For Sale By Owner

If you want to live away from it all but want to be within reach of the conveniences of the city, then this place is for you! An approximately 3000 square foot, 2.5 levels, 4 bedroom, and 4 bathroom picturesque red brick/ white wood siding house just over a half acre lot overlooking the sunrise crossing lake Whitney. You will find this house in an exclusive cedar wooded upscale community with private security, called The Canyons. Paved roads lead to the driveway of this adorable custom built home. Approaching the house on the winding walkway you may pause to take a breath of clean country side air under the front covered sitting porch roughly 6x20 feet. The cozy well insulated, house with dual pain insulated windows is kept warm with central heat and air, and the added romantic wood burning stove. The main level has a separate living room, dining room, kitchen, laundry room, and bathroom. On the lower half level is a family room with patio access, four bedrooms, three full bathrooms, linen closet, a private room with outside access that could be used as a study, office, workshop, or utility room, and an attic access. The upper level is a loft area perfect for the children to get away and read, play games or spy into the surrounding area overlooking the lake. There is plenty of storage on the two lower floors. There is plenty of space in the attic for storage. There is a large concrete driveway and parking area that will accommodate 5 vehicles, with a concrete walkway surrounding the house. There is a 12 by 14 foot shed with a storage port that matches the house design. Off the main level is a 15 by 15 foot concrete paver decking with a sliding glass doors off of the family room. The roofing is composition. The foundation is mainly slab with foundation wall and footings resting on bedrock with the initial room pier and beam. The house has existed with out and shifts or cracks for 15+ years. The outside house was repainted in last two years. The house has central air conditioning and propane forced air furnace for heating for the whole house. There is an optional wood-burning fireplace (freestanding cast iron, wood burning stove) on the main level along with an optional propane gas space heater. A private community water company supplies the house, and has a new larger dual septic system put in 2003.
The lot dimensions are starting with the front facing the road: single wide and triple deep lot. The lot faces an undeveloped terrain that drops off down to the level of the lake leaving an unobstructed the views. The house sits on a wooded cedar and lot giving you some privacy from the road set in the back of the community with the only traffic coming from the few residences along the waterfront. The average cost of a water front lot with improvement goes between $250 k and $375 k. The waterfront is privately owned but pedestrian access is available to the public across the street, and a swimming area, and boat dock access a few blocks from the house. Therefore the only people you will see on the waterfront near the house are residents and guests. Residents can take 4 wheel drive vehicles on the water front for surf fishing and to haul items like kayaks. The waterfront in and surrounding the community near the house has the natural aesthetics of nature. A natural annual turning of the lake keeps this lake healthy, one of the only lakes of its kind in Texas. There is always plenty to do at The Canyons Water front. The terrain is undulating and great for walking, jogging, and biking. Besides swimming and sunning yourself, the water front and access area are ideal for kayaking, wind surfing, canoeing, jet skiing, skim boarding, sailing, riding a boogey board, or just lounging on an inner tube or raft. There are boats available for rent in nearby Laguna Park marina. For you animal lovers, there is plenty of wildlife to be discovered, including deer and wild turkey. There is a golf course and country club nearby. But what makes The Canyons Water front famous is its fishing. On any sunny day you can see fishermen on the water front fishing for perch, large catfish, large bass, striper, or whatever fish is in season. The Canyons Water front is located off of route 56 just 1 and half hours from Dallas/FtW metroplex and half an hour from Waco. Being a secluded and private community waterfront, The Canyons Water front doesn't experience the traffic and congestion like other water front communities during spring, summer, and fall. Come to your home at last.