There here comes a time for everything and the time has come for us to sell this beautiful piece of Planet Earth that we have loved and once called home. Once you see these pastures, woods, and the panoramic 50-mile vista, you will not think it an exaggeration to say this is the most beautiful spot in the Southern Tier of New York. Just 20 miles from Ithaca Commons and Cornell University, these 115 acres are comprised of mature hardwood forest at the top of the hill and pastures and hay fields on the south-facing slopes leading up to it. Logging roads make beautiful hiking and cross country ski trails through the woods. It's an easy and pleasant 30 minute commute to Ithaca or SUNY Binghamton, and 20 minutes to Lockheed Martin in Owego. The grasslands have been in continuous production for hay, grazing, and the occasional field-corn rotation since well before the 1940s. A neighboring dairy farmer currently harvests the hay and the fields enjoy agricultural assessments because of that. If you were to build your home here, your neighboring house would be an attractive Austrian-style hillside home (patterned after the Von Trapp Family lodges in Stowe, Vermont) that we built in 1984 and sold separately in approximately 2004. All mineral rights (gas-drilling rights) are included and transfer to the buyer. A gas drilling company had leased the gas rights at one time, but did not do anything. The lease expired and has not been renewed. The well that serves the adjacent house (which is not part of this transaction) has a 94-foot-deep well that provides high quality water in sufficient abundance to supply both a household and 50 cows, back in the days when this was a dairy farm. There are actually two separate parcels: one of approximately 110 acres and one of approximately five acres. We would consider selling them separately. The price is $185,000 for the 110 acres or $8,000 for the five acres. An exhaustive search of sales records for the Candor area shows this to be a very fair price, especially so considering the uniquely spectacular view from this property. We would consider a land contract (holding the mortgage) at a modest interest rate.. If interested, please contact Alan Knight, 1399 West Duane Lake Road, Duanesburg, New York 12056. Cell phone 518-461-3244. E-mail: ak55000@yahoo.com.?
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