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Very hard to find, cherry-picked home in brilliant location. Attractive life-style for family, couple, single or retired.
Located in an exceptionally friendly and quiet cul-de-sac, right next to a golf course, country club, lake ocean bay + NASA exciting Space Center Houston.
Near Downtown Houston and Galveston Island. Infinite possibilities for outdoors, indoors and cultural activities! "Make everyday a vacation and broaden your horizons."
Many more pictures from the interior and exterior of the house, as well, as its surroundings can be found in the links below.
You could be very interested in this house, if you appreciate just one or all of its very attractive features below:
a) You want to minimize the cost of living and maximize your standard quality of living compared to other more expensive metropolitan areas of the US.
b) You are ready for some fun in the sun!
c) You want to move to a very well maintained, exceptionally large well laid-out one-story house in this area.
d) Last but certainly not least: This home has many things to offer that money can't buy. You will be hard-pressed to find this combination of characteristics elsewhere.
In more detail:
a) You want to minimize the cost of living and maximize your standard quality of living compared to other more expensive metropolitan areas of the US:
This part of the country has some of the lowest and most stable housing costs cost of living. There truly are infinite possibilities: culturally, economically and unlimited choices for leisure activities. A first class golf course, boating, yachting, nature preserves and the heart of human space flight is just around the corner. NASA’s international space program international business have their diverse fingerprints on the Clear Lake region. Downtown Houston is only 30 minutes away. Houston is the fourth largest city and its metropolitan area one of the fastest growing regions in the US. Houston's economy has a broad industrial base in the energy, manufacturing, aeronautics, transportation, and health care sectors; only New York City is home to more Fortune 500 headquarters in the city limits. This has induced continual surges in the city's population in a very short time. Many job opportunities have been still available even during times of crisis in other parts of the country.
This house is located just a short drive southeast of Houston (30 minutes) in League City's Marina Bay Park. It is surrounded by the gorgeous South Shore Harbour Country Club, which gives it many fantastic advantages and a unique atmosphere. A suburb of Houston, League City has been voted one of the top 100 small cities (population ~ 75.000) in the United States for very good reasons. It is a family based community with the entertainment availability of a much larger city due to the vicinity to Houston and the Clear Lake region's high recreational value. It has a low crime rate and top notch school system. Because of its convenient location to major industries like the NASA Johnson Space Center, the aeronautics energy industries, universities and medical centers of excellence - many people enjoy living in League City and commuting a very short drive to work or recreational activities. Many astronauts, engineers, bankers, investors, doctors, teachers, artists and people of all walks of life choose League City as their residence because of its unique location and diversity. The large and diverse Island of Galveston in the Gulf of Mexico is only a short drive away (23 miles/30 minutes) to the southeast.
b) You are ready for some fun in the sun!
Whether you enjoy water sports, outstanding golf, human spaceflight, national/international festivals and cultural events or just hanging out at the beaches - this location has it all and for every personality. Why spend hundreds of thousands more over years for simple cost of living in other metropolitan areas versus putting that money into your activities?!! There is no time of year where you typically don't end up having some very sunny and pleasant days. We took many boat rides and drove around with the convertible (roof down :-) over the winter holidays. Houston has "3 Summers". Spring and autumn typically have very pleasant, warm temperatures. The summer can get very hot - which is fantastic for those who like hot weather and still be at the beach, in the water or on a boat after one of the many beautiful sunsets. There seldom is any snow in the winter.
If you pick the “Buy it now” option, this house comes with a free nice little 1990 BMW 325i convertible youngtimer + a free exceptionally well-taken-care of, beautiful 1975 Glastron 156 boat. Both are in excellent mechanical condition and ready to go. Boating is easy and you don’t need a license for this boat. I will give you a 4 hour introduction course or teach you to drive it until you are absolutely comfortable – whatever comes first J. Both the Glastron boat BMW convertible easily fit into the large double garage with lots of space left - no storage costs whatsoever. More importantly, you won't have any weathering nor corrosion by the outside elements of these two beautiful vehicles while you keep them garaged - which significantly reduces maintenance costs. Those costs are normal average for the convertible and are super-low for the boat, because of the way you can store it and its low complexity. I have been out with friends in their yachts and large boats, and I honestly don't think they have more fun, than what you can have with a few good friends in this small boat (it very comfortably seats 6 adults), and which you can dock at any restaurant in Clear Lake or close-by Kemah for a great sunset and/or dine-out experience. We see dolphins in the Galveston Bay on a regular basis, especially when you go past the Kemah Boardwalk. Kemah in itself offers a wide variety of activities and excellent restaurants, whether you get there by boat or car and it is only 5 min away by car from your home.
c) You want to move to a very well maintained, exceptionally large well laid-out one-story house in this area:
This house is in very good overall shape and has been well maintained for many years. The interior is very friendly and gets plenty of sunlight when where you want it. It has a very well designed layout by the quality builder "Perry Homes", which allows you to use the many rooms in various ways. We have most appreciated its versatility and construction quality, resulting in relatively low maintenance costs.
Non-smoker house no pets live in it - but you can certainly bring your pets. A beautiful wooden floor runs through the entire house, with exception of the 4 carpeted bedrooms and the 2.5 tiled bathrooms. All flooring (wood, carpets tiles) are in good condition.
The whole region and especially this area has enjoyed relatively stable housing values during the recent crisis and housing prices are back on the rise. The adjacent golf-course, the South Shore Harbour Country Club, an affluent and a diverse neighborhood with high-quality schools, are all fairly safe additional guarantees that this particular neighborhood will continue to grow prosper just as it steadily has during the last decades. Also, large one-story homes are highly sought after in this area, due to their unique atmosphere utility, ease of mobility for the very young old, and the lower air-conditioning/heating costs compared to same size two-story homes. The surrounding neighborhood can no longer grow and its uniqueness, charm, and location to everything else is well preserved for the future. Rather than pointing out many features, I hope the few pictures are self-speaking. I am happy to send many more your way and also intend to keep up-dating the following webpage, which has many more pictures: http://www.triplemastcircle.com/
Certainly, many questions can also be answered via phone. Please, don't hesitate to call me at 281-923-3523 / 281-483-7649 for any questions, clarifications or more pictures from inside outside of the house.
All the house's appliances are included in the sales price (high bid or buy-it-now price), e.g. large double-door fridge, gas heated clothing-dryer fire-pit add-ons, etc. This also includes a very expensive ceran stove (more efficient and easier to cook with) and a very good, expensive front-loader washing machine (more efficient and preserves your clothes much longer than any top-loader). We can leave it mostly furnished as is at no cost to you, if you want to wait with your own furniture.
If you do select the Buy-It-Now option, I do expect $ 1000 of non-refundable earnest money within 48 business day hours, or else I will have to re-list the item after lack of payment within that period. If you are serious about buying, I recommend a longer conversation with me, before you head down here to view house, surroundings do your diligences. The earnest money payment and the final payment will be via wire transfer or cashiers check, tbd (PayPal is not an option). I reserve the right to sell this house before the auction ends. It will list elsewhere, too, in the next days.
There are many more benefits to mention that go along with the purchase of the house, but seeing for yourself is the best way to convey them. I am convinced that most people will be very pleased with the many more things there are to learn about this home and its surroundings and I will openly discuss anything with you. I am only mentioning a few more very important things below under d), which no realtor can ever know nor appreciate as well as somebody who has actually lived in the house for many years. Still these features can be the ones that are truly priceless:
d) Last but certainly not least: This home has many things to offer that money can't buy. You will be hard-pressed to find this combination of characteristics elsewhere:
Square footage material things are not the most important ingredients for a good home or residence. We looked at and considered many, many other houses, often far more expensive ones. But we ended up buying what was a truly picture-perfect dream home for us from good friends. This was almost six years ago and our friends, too, had lived in this house for several years until receiving relocation orders. We, too, would just love to take this house everything that comes along with it with us, but we'll have to leave for job-related reasons. Both our friends and we had done major research and looked at many alternatives, including Downtown Houston and Galveston Island. We did not think that anything compared to this at all (certainly not within budget limits) for the following reasons:
- The neighbors are really great and there is a strong sense of community. Everybody has lawn chairs on the front lawn which we move around to the occasion. It is very pleasant to hang out in the sun or in the shade of the large pine and oak trees in your own or somebody else’s front yard. If you are up to it, you can always gang up with the rest for a chat and a few drinks outside on many pleasant evenings. Join when you want to, there will be many opportunities.
- This is an extremely quiet cul-de-sac. There is no thru-traffic and the kids can play on the street because the neighbors watch out and drive carefully.
- There hardly is any boating- nor traffic-noise from the adjacent environment - which is a result of this particular street's fantastic location.
- This is especially true for the bedroom location in this house. It is amazingly quiet at night and a result of this neighborhood's great location. Keep in mind that we spend one third of our life sleeping and a good night's sleep is priceless. Peacefully watch the moon and the sun rise through the cathedral-style windows.
- The backyard gives you maximum outdoor privacy. There is not a single window from an adjacent house looking into this particular backyard. Enjoy the secludedness, peace and quiet from your other activities. We loved the backyard as is, no need to change anything. You could certainly also install a pool or hot whirl-pool in it, but there are just so many other opportunities for that. Currently, it is still set up as an adventure playground and my kids display all the sea-shells they collected in Galveston on the fences. You can either just keep the whole playground or I will take it down and suspend a swing bench from the oak tree's large vertical branch.
- You have two community pools in your walking distance vicinity. One of many opportunities for some fresh water fun laps. They are accessible from your home via small park trails, which can be used by walkers, joggers and bikers only.
- It is close enough to exceptionally good schools an exceptionally good golf-course, which you can walk, bike or drive your golf-caddy to in "no time". Yet, you are far enough away to be negatively affected by any noise nor activities (A friend of ours got hit in the head by a long range golf ball at his house, in addition to the typical broken windows they have had... :-).
- Despite the secludedness and quietness surrounding this home, you have all necessary shopping facilities, many restaurants and much more within a short walking, biking or extremely short driving distance. This includes many top-rated out- and indoor sporting and leisure activities within biking distance. South Shore Harbour also has one of the most beautiful fitness clubs in the country, which has in- outdoor pools and tennis courts, different types of saunas and much more.
- Broaden your horizons!
Keep learning new viewpoints and gain new knowledge both socially and in science. Learn about other cultures and expand your views even beyond the earthly boundaries. The Clear Lake region has many international influxes, including those coming from NASA's Johnson Space Center, the heart of the nation's human space flight program. NASA has been operating the International Space Station for over ten years with its many partner countries like Russia, Japan, Canada and 10 member states of the European Space Agency. Astronauts from these countries train here at the Johnson Space Center, supported by staff from all over the world. The Johnson Space Center executes these space missions from the famous Mission Control Center Houston and has many communications and public relations events for the general public to meet the astronauts and engage in space activities. Be here and actively participate in the great adventure of human space exploration and gain mind-altering science knowledge. NASA is currently preparing our return to the moon and human expansion into the solar system and you can actively be a part of it, including behind the scenes insights. Many astronauts who have walked the moon still live in the region and give regular presentations, too.
- This home is for sale by a trustworthy owner who works at NASA and has been very familiar with this region for decades. If we don't get the feeling that you will be happy with it, we wouldn't want you to buy it - for your own and our current neighbor's sake.
= This house is located in a truly amazing location allowing for many great life-styles and a high quality of life.
If you are seriously interested, please call us at 281-923-3523 or 281-483-7649 for further questions pictures.
You can find a link to quite a few more pictures here:
http://www.triplemastcircle.com/
Further web-links of interest:
http://southshoreharbourcountryclub.com/
http://www.spacecenter.org/
http://www.kemah-tx.gov/
http://www.visithoustontexas.com/
http://www.galveston.com/default.asp
More Important Information:
In the local market a few interested parties have negotiated a few price reduction steps, which actually turn out to be a win/win for both the purchaser and seller.
You may subtract up to $ 28,000 from your final bid (e.g. 250,000 - 28,000 = $ 222,000 final purchase price),
IF the following purchase criteria suit your needs as well:
a)
If you do not want to move in right away (which you can) we give you a $10.000 "flexibility" reduction. The best time to sell down here in Houston is still coming up in the next months, but I can get extremely busy at work sometimes. So I would like to sell the house now and still live in it for a while.
b)
In that case, we will pay you $ 10.000 in rent for letting us stay in here until end of June 2010.
If we can stay longer than June we will continue to pay you $ 2,500 per month. This rental agreement will be separate from the purchase contract, however the $ 10.000 can be immediately applied towards the house purchase. We will continue the maintenance while we are renting (there really shouldn't be any, but just in case, we will handle it all on our own expenses.)
c)
Currently, I am very willing to share the money saved with the buyer by not going through realtors (6%). You can subtract at least $ 8,000 (or 3%, whatever is more) from your final purchase amount.
Items a) through c) may help you tremendously in selling your own house and we will move out when you are ready. In addition, you will be generating $ 2.500/month solid income until June 2010 (as a minimum) which will cover all your bills on this house.
And then there are a few more good things I am willing to offer up to you, if we are good working together and you have the same high levels of integrity, as you can expect from me.
Buy with confidence.
On Mar-08-10 at 09:01:02 PST, seller added the following information:
Answer to a question: This house has never flooded and never been significantly damaged by any storm or heavy rains. (Of course, I would have mentioned that.) It is located far enough of the lake ocean, yet, close enough to immediately be there within 3-10 min and enjoy the lake bay environment in many different ways on a daily basis.
On Mar-09-10 at 04:45:28 PST, seller added the following information:
You are bidding on the full payment amount (not downpayment). Full payment can be made within a few weeks/months via cash sale, Conventional, FHA, VA, - after a reasonable down-payment has been made, so I don't carry all the risk. I'm flexible there, but in any case, the full payment obviously has to occur before title transfer or move-in.
Keep in mind that there are major tax breaks offered by the government for houses with contracts signed before the end of April and closed on before June 2010.
PRIORITY ONE TITLE Sheila Zubricky -(832)436-0090 will be used with contract forms from My Castle Realty (713)683-0054 for the protection of both buyer and seller.
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