Northwood-Large Home Great Location! POOL Woods behind house

This home is centrally located in Cleveland. This is extremely convenient to most everything. The house includes 4 bedrooms, 3 baths and 3 living areas plus an enclosed heated sun porch. There is also a laundry room and a large multi purpose room. Three of the bedrooms are upstairs with another large bedroom downstairs. There is a formal living room inside the front door. The dining room is upstairs beside the kitchen and the sun porch. The laundry room is on the main level by the garage and the breakfast room.

The hardwood floors were professionally refinished the first week of May 2009. Since then they have been mostly covered and have had no furniture on them.

The den downstairs has a fireplace with an antique oak mantel. Vent free gas logs are installed in the fireplace complete with remote control. The rec room has a wet bar, French doors out to the pool and a very large storage closet. The large multi purpose room downstairs is wired for tanning beds and the internet. Almost everything in the downstairs bathroom is just over a year old. This bathroom has a new super flush toilet.  It wouldn't take too much to turn the downstairs into entirely separate living quarters. The kitchen refrigerator will stay with the house.

Out back there is a 16 x 32 ft. pool with massive privacy fences on both sides. One fence has a CGFI circuit with several outlets for outdoor lighting or other electronics. The pool has an automatic ionizer, automatic chlorinator and a vacuum that "swims" around the pool sucking up dirt. The pool also has a timer for the pump as it really doesn't need to run all the time. There is a diving board, a water slide and there are two ladders. The liner and the pump are about 4 years old and we have replaced parts of the filter as needed.

The back of the yard is open to enjoy the dense woods and total lack of back door neighbors. The woods are very peaceful and soothing. The natural gas grill is by the pool. Next to the patio there is an additional area that is covered and wired for a hot tub. There is a tall privacy fence beside that area.

There is a UV water purification system set up to run to an upstairs refrigerator, a separate faucet by the kitchen sink and a downstairs refrigerator. All of the supply pipes for hot and cold water throughout the house have been replaced with copper or plastic.  When replacements in and around the house have been needed, we have made quality updates and improvements.

This house is great for a wheelchair. There are no steps to the front door and none from the garage into the breakfast room. There are no steps to get into the downstairs of the house from the outside and you can drive down the side driveway to get there. From the back door of the house downstairs there is an elevation change to the pool but we built a ramp into the hot tub patio addition to make it easy for someone in a wheelchair or such to join the family at the pool.

The neighborhood of Northwood is conveniently located on Keith St. in the NW portion of the city. Services available as a city resident include the SETHRA Cleveland Urban Area Transit System. The particularly helpful portion of being close to the city bus route is that an appointment can be made 24 hours ahead of time for the bus to come right to the house at 3627 Woodcrest Circle and pick up a person in a wheelchair or scooter and transport them to many places in the city such as a medical appointment.  This is especially convenient when it becomes difficult to transport yourself or a friend or family member on your own.  For more information go to http://www.cityofclevelandtn.com/CommunityDev/Sethra%20Bus%20%20Ride%20Guide.pdf

Our neighborhood is very conveniently located adjacent to Tinsley Park and the Tinsley Park walking trail. The walking trail is scheduled to become part of the Cleveland Bradley County Greenway. http://www.cbcgreenway.com/about2.html. It is in the plans for there to be Greenway access to this neighborhood, Northwood. When that is complete children from this neighborhood will be able to ride their bike to school at Yates or Ross without crossing or travelling on a city street outside the neighborhood. The Greenway is excellent for walking, biking and doing such things as dining and shopping without ever using surface streets.

We have found this neighborhood to be a bit of a hidden jewel.  We have a wide variety of neighbors many of whom could afford to live in higher dollar neighborhoods but have stayed here for many years perhaps as they appreciate this neighborhood for what a great place it is to live. We have experienced peace and an overwhelming feeling of safety during the many years we lived here.

There is a special perk that only people in this area enjoy.  Because of our close proximity to M & M Mars, where it has been said that 80% of the world's M & M's are made, we are occasionally blessed with the absolutely intoxicating aroma of chocolate and the smell of the baking of the cookie in the Twix bars along with the aroma of caramel.

We are selling because of a job transfer out of the area.  We would have been very happy to stay right here for a very long time.  

This has been a great place to live.

The 2008 property taxes were: city $715.00 county $875.00.

The appraised value of the house for property tax purposes is $228,200.

This appraisal is dated January 1, 2009.

As of July 1st 2009, per square foot, this price is below the neighborhood average of the last 8 houses sold.

We had a Terminex policy in place for the twelve years we lived here. We have never had a claim.

Useful links include:

http://clevelandchamber.com

http://www.cityofclevelandtn.com/Parks/parks.html

http://www.clevelandschools.org

http://www.visitclevelandtn.com/www/docs/1/attractions

http://www.discoverourtown.com/TN/Cleveland/Attractions-215.html

http://.sunburstrafting.com