The Dooley Home – 27815 South End Road

This four bedroom, two bathroom home is just East of Appleby’s Point on a lot that has 125.78’ of  Lake Michigan frontage.  The lot extends across South End Road with a good lake view of the frontage on the South side of the road. This lake lot is almost 1,000 feet deep with its North line against State land (thousands of acres of State forest North of this home).  The beach is stony but the water view of the Big Lake and Appleby’s Point and sunsets about 4 months of the year, make this a beautiful family home or retirement site.  This home is just 1 mile from the large public beach in the center of Iron Ore Bay and about 2 1/2 miles from the public boat launch and fishing site on the North arm of Lake Geneserath. Just down the road is a large chunk of State land and public beach on Cable’s Bay. The upper level of the house is 1,248 sq. ft. of beautifully finished living area with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.  There is an additional, large bedroom with 2 full size beds and 2 twin beds in the lower level.  The whole house was built above grade with the lower walk-out level cement block basement construction.  The home was built in 2000 but the owners put a new metal roof on it 3 years ago.  It has a 200 ft. deep well with very good water, a brand new electric water heater and a propane central heating furnace.  In addition, the owners installed and have used for many years, an outside wood boiler for winter time heating of the house (cut your own fuel).  In the lower level the owners have set up a sitting, reading, TV room that is very comfortable on the lakeside of the downstairs but it is not finished.  The lower level has a lot of storage rooms and racks.  There are large decks on the South and East sides of the house and a narrower deck with access stairs to the upper level on the West side of the house.  The great room that includes the kitchen, dining, and living room area has windows on the East, West, and South side.  All of the appliances are fairly new and stay with the house.  Behind the house is a 24 x 24 slab floor garage for car storage or all of your toys and maybe a workshop.  The replacement cost of this property today would be right around $747,000.00.  It therefore is a bargain for someone to buy at the asking price of $385,000.