Ancestral home for sale

[glatt]

I'm sad to see this go. This is the glatt ancestral home, for sale. My Aunt lived there last, and now that she died, my cousin is selling it. Another cousin is the RE agent.

I suppose I could buy it, but what would I do with it? It's in North East PA, about 20 minutes from Honesdale. Nice place. Old. 1826. (Although I thought it was older than that.) Set back from the road. Big. Very stately looking. Nearest neighbor is 300 yards away, although you can't see them through the woods. You feel like you are all alone there. 4.4 acres, but feels like 300. And it's so far from the road, even loud trucks going by are faint in the distance.

It's a steal at $89k.



Sorry to see it go.

[limey]

Retirement home for old Dwellars?

[Clodfobble]

Did you ever live in that house?

[glatt]

I spent an entire summer there in college.

Mowing the lawn takes several hours, even with a big tractor and a sickle mower attachment.

Edit: And if you don't have a plow, you need to hire someone to do the driveway in the winter. But other than that, it's a normal house.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The maintenance would be murder... or bankrupting.

[glatt]

It's the same maintenance as any other house, except for the mowing and driveway plowing.

Edit: But you're right. I don't want it. Trying to keep it maintained while I live in Virginia is impossible.

[Spexxvet]

Wish I could

[Gravdigr]

$89k, on 4 acres?!?!?!?!?!

JFC!

You should see the piece of shit I've been looking at on the other side of the block, for $69k. Egads.

Someone will be pleased a s punch to get that.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by glatt

It's the same maintenance as any other house, except for the mowing and driveway plowing.

Pre-WW-I houses are always full of surprises, and this one is very pre... and big with lots of joints and surfaces. That's what makes them so beautiful. Of course having been in the family so long gives you a leg up on condition and past maintenance.

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

You should see the piece of shit I've been looking at on the other side of the block, for $69k.

People around this house don't know what a block is. Add that word and the price would immediately triple or more.

[Griff]

Pretty close to Grifftopia as well... maybe that's why the price is so low.

Could be a nice B and B there's good mtn biking in the area.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Or a honeymoon B&B, which is not unusual for northeast PA. Hard to tell with a house like that, how difficult it would be to upgrade the wiring for all those hidden cameras though. Can't risk wireless with all the electronic gizmos folks carry these days one might pick up a stray signal.

[Griff]

Interesting piece on Wayne County.

http://plan.co.wayne.pa.us/CulturalR...esAnalysis.pdf

[glatt]

Oral history says it was two houses joined together, so the framing probably has some surprises.

The kitchen needs work. Its layout is horrible.

There is a cool cabinet that passes through from the kitchen to the dining room and has drawers that slide both to the kitchen and the dining room, and cabinet doors on both the dining room side and the kitchen side. You would want to figure out a way to save that, but you'd want to gut the rest of the kitchen and pantry and start over.

It used to have a huge bat infestation problem in the attic, but I understand my cousin got rid of them and sealed the attic framing with shellac to get rid of the musty smell the bats left behind.

The well works well, and septic is good. Heating is good. Oil. No AC. Electrical was updated about 20 years ago from a tiny old fuse box to circuit breakers and mostly new wiring.

My one cousin and her husband are both certain that it's haunted. For real. They claim to have witness ghosts on numerous occasions. Too many to count. They even brought in some ghost hunters from a nearby university club. But I've never witnessed anything, even living there for a few months. I'm pretty skeptical when it comes to ghosts. Maybe you have to believe for them to reveal themselves to you. So maybe it's haunted, if you believe in that sort of thing.

[footfootfoot]

It would be a horse of a different color if it was a Maine Glatt Ancestral home. PA is fine, but not for a second home.

[Griff]

Ghosts - I don't buy into ghosties but a friend of mine who is more interesting than myself finds that whole area to have a certain creepy mojo. It could be his crazy ex-girlfriend from Waymart(?) but he talks about the Native Americans avoiding permanent residence in the area and the general isolation.