3238 Main St, Becket, MA 01223

Wonderful Historic Rental Historic furnished home situated in a country village walking distance to the library, visual and performing arts center, public tennis courts, multiple restaurants, and a country store for convenient shopping, dining, and entertainment! A lovingly maintained property boasting extensive updates including a Bertazzoni gas range, Ravelli pellet stove, Asco appliances, and on-demand hot water system. Stroll to a secluded stream on your private walking trail or pick perennials and herbs sprouting throughout your gardens and meadow. Enjoy perfect rural living 20 minutes from Jacob's Pillow, 30 minutes from Tanglewood, and 45 minutes to Northampton, Great Barrington or Williamstown (via excellent roads). If country living is for you, this property has your name on it. Historic properties have unique needs that are reflected in their residential leases. Our primary goal is to ensure the property's historical and architectural integrity is maintained. The tenant acts as a custodian of the property, preserving its unique character and charm. Abiding by and pursuing the overall ecological, historic, cultural and community aspirations for the property may entitle a tenant to receive waivers or refunds of certain fees, and reductions in base rent consistent with a preference to support the arts, culture and academic pursuits - especially for international visitors to the United States. The house is fully furnished, including linens, cookware. Should the tenant need additional items - ask! Items such as specialty cookware, lawn furniture, bird feeders, fans, and gardening tools are currently in storage and may be made accessible to tenants upon request. To preserve the integrity of the property, tenants will: -Enjoy this wifi enabled smart home. Interior and exterior cameras may be controlled as desired by the tenant using several applications - Airthings (air quality and radon monitoring), Google home (wifi and cameras), Topgreener (lights), Eve (lights and switches) and Apple home (television, smart speakers, lights, switches, ceiling fan). - Enjoy cozy pellet stove heating, ceiling mounted and built-in wall air exchange fans. The house has no air conditioning. If desired, landlord will permit the use of two window air conditioning units in the North and South bedrooms (using the windows on the North and South sides of the house). -Make No Unapproved Changes Tenant will not drill / nail into historic surfaces (original plaster, woodwork, or masonry). S-hook rails are mounted in most rooms for easy hanging of pictures. Tenant will not paint or alter the house's color scheme. Our historic property boasts specific traditional colors appropriate to houses built in 1804. Non-abrasive and/or specific cleaning products will maintain the beauty of this property. Historic property amendments abc