Willis Home – 25510 Lake Drive

Very nice, one bedroom, one bathroom home that is 776 sq. ft. of nicely finished year-round living space.  It has a nice fairly new addition on the road side that is the living room area, with the original part of the cottage a spacious dining room area and kitchen.  The inland side 8’ x 22’ addition was made into the bedroom with a closet and an adjoining bathroom that can also be accessed from the door off the utility room that connects to the kitchen area.  This home is on a very large lot with mature, standard size apple trees that draw a lot of deer, grouse, turkeys and other wildlife for your viewing.  This home is just one long city block from Beaver Harbor and McDonough’s Store and the Wild Strawberry Café – South down Lake Drive.  This house is right across the street from the large Petritz Nature Preserve which precludes any houses being built across the street from you, AND provides woods with trails and sandy beach frontage for you to use on the East side of Sucker Point.  All new metal roofs were put on both the house and garage a little over 15 years ago.  A new deep well was put down in the late 1980’s by Bud Martin Well Drilling.  It has one large propane (LP Gas) heater on the wall between the kitchen and the utility room that heats the whole house.  The house had a wood stove in it that was taken out, but an expensive Metalbestos pipe chimney is still in place for a wood stove to be re-installed in the middle of the large area off the kitchen.  It has a good plumbing and electrical system and it comes with all appliances and almost all of the furnishings.  The very large grass yard lot also has a very large (26’ x 48’) stick-built garage with multiple doors and windows and wood exterior siding on a slab floor.  The garage is fully insulated with unfinished drywall on all walls and the ceiling.  This garage also has in it all of the plumbing for an extra bathroom that is hooked to the septic system of the house. (You could make part of the garage an extra bunkroom for kids or guests)  The house is a good structure but it is obviously for a single person, a young couple, or a retired couple.  The garage could also be used for a storage/rental area as a source of additional income.  To reproduce this property by clearing the lot and building the house and garage with the same materials and size at today’s building costs would cost you over $520,000.00, not to mention the $25,000.00 lot value.  If you want to move to Beaver Island, here’s a small house for you at much less than half of what it would cost you to build today.  Seller is therefore FIRM at the asking price of                                                                   $260,000.