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I like this place in semi-rural Warren, CT, in beautiful, sophisticated, and horsey Litchfield County. Mrs. BD has some friends there. Only 40 acres, but a pond, a stream, and an orchard. Plus a barn and outbuildings - things I can not live blissfully without. Look at the photos.

I would not take the ask price seriously, given CT and New England real estate right now. What the heck. I do not need anything but peace of mind wherever I am.

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My wife would love that property, particularly the house.

#1 feeblemind on 2020-04-19 13:40 (Reply)

looks like the price of that place has almost tripled in less than 9 years...

#2 cas6039 (Link) on 2020-04-19 15:48 (Reply)

The asking price, not the price.

#2.1 BD on 2020-04-19 16:37 (Reply)

Nice looking layout and interior. The acreage in NE can be misleading for all of the bogs and swampy areas but there is enough to graze a few horses and raise a garden.

It's a bargain at $735K. If the barn, fences and out buildings are in nice shape, and there is a pond, it might fetch upwards of $975 - $990K.

Utilities and taxes are probably hideous--it is in Connecticut.

Better that you could relocate to Tennessee.

#3 Tallywhagger on 2020-04-19 17:04 (Reply)

It looks wonderful and the 40 acres is what I had really wanted, now too old to maintain. I have gotten used to higher ceilings and those look dropped which is what they did in old farm houses sometimes to get rid of the cracked plaster at least in the mid west. A lot of light in the house and land to walk.

#4 JC on 2020-04-19 17:47 (Reply)

It looks wonderful and the 40 acres is what I had really wanted, now too old to maintain...land to walk.

My childhood NE home was on several acres, but surrounded by wilderness- woods, swamp, river. The nearest neighbors were a quarter mile away. Perpendicular to the road by our house, you could travel a mile or so in either direction before hitting another road. Though we didn't own 40 or 400 acres, we benefited by having neighbors who did. As a child I had PLENTY of land to walk in, though we didn't own it.

I have gotten used to higher ceilings and those look dropped which is what they did in old farm houses sometimes to get rid of the cracked plaster at least in the mid west.
A family friend who bought her parents' home in my NE hometown is now dealing with undoing a dropped ceiling in the kitchen. One discovery inside the ceiling was a receipt dating from the 1950s.

#4.1 Gringo on 2020-04-19 22:47 (Reply)

Right on double yellow. No 50 ft set back either. Historic house probably subject to restrictions on what you can do with it. Needs updating but someone else might be able to tell you what you may do.

#4.2 Annie on 2020-04-20 11:29 (Reply)

Decent layout of the house, but all that wallpaper would have to go, pronto. It's horrendous, and I'm not sure I want to be in Litchfield

#5 Ed on 2020-04-19 19:21 (Reply)

Is that more than 400 days on the market?

I suggest a buyer wait.

I still like my California property taxes which keep me here. Oddly its city, state and local workers who disproportionally own houses and guard our property tax protections.

#6 SF Jeff on 2020-04-19 21:10 (Reply)

40 years ago, I said "To Hell with New England, I'm going to Texas." (apologies to US Rep. D. Crockett)

I now tell my Texas neighbors that if the country had been settled West-to-East, instead of the other way 'round, New England would be a National Park.

Can't fathom a place where the gentry both perfected American noblesse oblige and then effectively threw it away on the altar of "Progressivism" by effectively outlawing or taxing-out-of-existence jobs that can be done by the bottom half of a HS graduating class (and that's just the graduates!).

My New England/Ivy upbringing did leave me with ONE good thing, though: an thorough understanding of GLACIATION, and words like Scour, Erratic, and Terminus. In the geologic sense, of course.

#7 HA Reynolds on 2020-04-19 22:19 (Reply)

Comes with a free full-time job.

#8 Aggie on 2020-04-20 10:26 (Reply)

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