Is a Beaver Pond Keeping This Gem From Selling?
At the end of Bridle Path stands a big yellow house on 3.6 acres of secluded land and an interior fit for a magazine. You’d think people would be racing to put offers in, but it’s been so difficult to sell that the price was just reduced by $200,000.
“I can’t figure out why this house isn’t selling,” Margo Kealler, the homeowner, said as she walked into her gourmet kitchen. “This kitchen was once in a magazine.”
Kealler — who runs her business, Park Street Travel, out of her home — believes what’s keeping buyers away isn’t inside the house, but rather outside. Down a slope from her house sits a beaver pond, and Kealler said several potential buyers have shown up, looked at the pond and left.
Beaver real estate prejudice in Massachusetts? Well, knowing how deeply insane some folks are there about beavers it’s certainly possible. Still, 3 acres of woods with your OWN BEAVER POND! I know what I’ll be fantasizing about tonight. That and this kitchen.
Beaver ponds are not known to be problematic for homeowners. Rarely will a beaver go near humans or pets. In fact, for many people, a pond is an added bonus. It’s protected so no one can ever build there. Kealler said she’s never even seen the beavers in the Bridle Path pond. And there are geese, blue herons and many other birds that add to the scenery.
“Someone said to me, ‘you have a bird-seeker’s paradise here,'” she said.
I’ll bet! If anyone happens to be sitting on an un-invested 999,000 burning a hole in their pockets, you should seriously consider this. Beautiful, remote, peaceful and BEAVERS. Great place for an ECCC (East Coast Castor Conference!)
