For Sale By Owner

(please note: We are in the process of remodeling/reopening our B&B with two new suites with new baths and one additional new bedroom with bath, along with a new 14x38 meeting room, when these changes are complete the price will go to $625,000) OFF GRID SOLAR LAKEHOME Walk out your front door into a Monet painting. Stroll down to the beautiful secluded lake through perennial gardens or into wooded areas. You can putter in your own attached greenhouse, horse barn or heated workshop. Entertain family and friends in spacious comfort. Or maybe youd like to take a sauna, soak in the Jacuzzi, relax on the deck, or watch a movie in the soundproofed audio/video room. Now imagine no monthly electric bill and no winter heating bill. Comfort, energy efficiency and energy independence were watchwords throughout constructing our second off-grid home, which, if you prefer, we can hook up to the grid for no additional cost. 5-7 bedrooms, 3 baths (soon 6), almost 5000 square inside, but lets look at the lake: Swim at our sand beach, or fish in the 20-acre lake, most times having it all to yourself (No public access, only one other full time resident). Jacks Lake is the highest in the area and has many natural springs, even in this dry spell, which has many other lakes down several feet, Jacks lake is only down a few inches. The lake survey shows two pockets of 50+ depth, and being upstream means not having to deal with run-off that turns other lakes green in the summer. Theres a small airport in Bloomer, about 15 miles from here. Were about 2 hours from the Twin Cities area, 42 miles from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The home is license-ready as a Bed and Breakfast. Some of the other amenities: infloor radiant heat, hardwood floors with tung oil finish, marble or ceramic floors in kitchens/baths/laundry, Lots of built in book cases, window seats with great views of the lake, central vacuum, pantry, root cellar, raised garden beds, bearing fruit trees (3 apple, 2 pear) snow melt in the sidewalks and driveway. Entire one acre is fenced to keep the deer out (no sharing the perennials with em!). Included: washer/dryer, two ranges (one commercial), dish washer, all stained glass light fixtures, a 500 gallon LP tank (owning your own tank allows you to purchase fuel cheaper), LPG refrigerator, LPG chest freezer, and an iron filter that doesnt use salt. We have been off grid for over 25 years and put all the good ideas into this home so it produces most of its own heat and electricity. The cost of back-up fuels is very moderate: There are several inexpensive sources of firewood, so if you use the outside wood boiler there is no cost for back-up heat. We do have a high-efficiency gas boiler and a space heater should you not want to burn wood. There is 200 gallons of diesel, which should take care of your back up electricity for at least 10 years. Which leaves LP, we use about 250 gallons a year. The main structure was built 1988-89, B&B rooms finished 1992, shop-garage 1997, new wind system and 600 watts more in PVs 1998, second floor east remodeled and spa 2002,new back-up co-generator and batteries 2003. House and out buildings repainted 2004, new deck and paver walks 2006. 500 watts additional pv's and above noted changes 2007 Bedroom 1: 22x17 Bedroom 2: 20x20 Bedroom 3: 18x17 Bedroom 4: 17x12 (soon to be a 12x32 suite)Bedroom 5: 15x14 (soon to be a 15x32 suite) Bedroom 6 (soon)14x17Office: 21x13 Common room: 14x11 Summer kitchen/laundry: 13x11 Kitchen/breakfast nook: 17x15 Dining/living area: 28x16 Soundproof AV room: 14x12 Greenhouse: 7x40 Library: 17x14 Entry: 15x6 Pantry: 4x8 Bath 1: 13x6 Bath 2: 6x7 Bath 3: 6x6 (see above notes for baths 4,5,6) New meeting room14x38. Heated shop/garage: 25x20 Of course you are welcome to tour our home, please feel free to contact us with any questions or to arrange a visit. If you are interested but would like to see more we have put together a walking tour of the house (inside and out) on VHS, let us know if youd like to see a copy. Our price is $595,000 (635,000 after remodeling is complete. Steve Krug Kathleen Duffy 715-967-2593 30497 Chippewa Trail (138th Street) New Auburn, Wis. 54757 sak54757@yahoo.com