GREAT STARTER or RETIREMENT HOME!!!

This quaint country house was built in the 40s.

Sitting on almost 1.72 acres, this home is located in Alturas, Florida, which is between Bartow and Lake Wales, south of Hwy 60, about 20 minutes from Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven!

It has been lovingly maintained by our family, which has unfortunately outgrown it.

Welcome!

Welcome to our home!

You are looking at the front of the house from the country road.

The roof and front windows are new!

The property is bordered by Orange Groves on 2 sides, and an "Old Florida" cattle pasture facing the front of the house, you are very much in the country!


You can have your country and your convenience too!


Publix is a mere 11 minutes away, Walmart is 17 minutes, and the mall is only 15 minutes from the house. Disney and the attractions are about 45 minutes.

Make fresh lemonade from the abundant lemon tree in the front yard!

Or enjoy freshly picked tangerines and grapefruits from the back yard!

Come on in!


This house has a great open layout, making the 2 bedrooms, 1 bath feel like a vacation home in the country.!
  • The den is currently being used as a 3rd bedroom.
  • A new Central Heat and Air system was installed in 2005
  • A new roof was installed this year
  • Most of the house has the original hardwood floors

Step into the sunny front porch!

Would you like some sweet tea?

There's bound to be some freshly made sweet tea in our country kitchen!
With stainless countertops and a built in drawer dishwasher,
it's easy to keep clean. The stove sells with the house.

Just around the corner is the dining area with
a large built in bookcase. Tongue and groove pine is throughout most of the house


The living room area is merged with the dining area.
The beautiful functioning fireplace does a good job of
warming things up in winter!

Bedroom #1

As you can see, the entire length of one wall is closet

The girls' room


The door from this room leads to the patio by the pond


The den, currently used as a bedroom.
This room is carpeted and exits to the back porch.

The tiled bathroom
Tile surrounds the tub

Let's walk outside!


Come on outside!
As you walk the 1.7 acre property, you will find a variety of fruit trees, mature shade trees, parklike landscaping in the fenced-in yard, as well as

a beautiful brick patio - great for entertaining!

Let's go out through the back porch - about 400 sq ft.
The hot tub needs minor repairs

The large laundry/storage room right off the porch, also under roof


Just outside the porch door,


You will find our orange tree

These oranges make great freshly squeezed juice!

And then we find the butterfly garden


Meander along the flagstone style walkway,
which completely surrounds the home


Until you come to the pond with a trickling waterfall
Sit and relax to the sound of water

Here we are looking at the pond from the brick front patio



Two raised beds in the front yard provide

an opportunity for a nice kitchen herb garden!


Farm Fresh

Eggs!



Collect your own farm fresh eggs




From your own laying hens, included in the sale if desired!
These hens are giving more than a half dozen eggs a day!
They currently reside in this chicken coop and henhouse on the property. This area could also be used for a fenced in garden area and garden shed if you are not "poultry inclined".


Produce!
Grow your own produce!
Here are just a few of the items we have grown "out here"!
(these are the ones we thought to get a picture of!)

Tomatoes

Vine ripened

Green beans



Peppers

Banana peppers



Greens



Lettuce



Limas



Yellow squash



Carrots


Watermelon

Cantaloupe


And strawberries!


Also on the property are the following fruit trees
  • Peach
  • Fig
  • Blueberry Bushes
  • Mango
  • Strawberry Guava
  • Surinam Cherry (A Florida native)
  • Orange
  • Tangerine
  • Lemon