On the property at 139 Swanpool to Warrenbayne Road where there is ready access via the Midland Highway to Benalla about fourteen minutes north, or to the Swanpool village in slightly less time to the south, he built a three bedroom plus office western red cedar home.
But having lived on the property ever since and enjoyed the peace and solitude he sought, he has just appointed Elders Real Estate in Wangaratta to sell the property.
The reason he says is to take one last extended trip around Australia by car and caravan.
will ideally suit a couple, or family, wanting a rural living lifestyle with plenty of enterprise opportunities, as well as excellent regional centre access and endless community interests."
The property is subdivided into five paddocks, each with a stock watering point, as the vendor has typically run a few steers, or agisted cattle for neighbours.
There is good stock proof fencing with a decent component renewed recently, including the main bitumen road boundary fence.
On the property are seventy walnut trees and fifty olive trees all well established as they were planted by an earlier owner.
The trees are all good bearers, and their nuts and fruit can be harvested.
The comfortable home has every service, including mains power, and twenty thousand litres of rainwater storage and presents well, with plenty of all round veranda space.
It is adjoined by a garage, workshop and storage building that is large enough to house a caravan or boat.
The village of Swanpool on the Midland Highway is a strong community with a store, the multi campus Peranbin Primary College, and the hall that hosts the famed Swanpool Cinema while to the south Mansfield and Mount Buller are easily accessible.
Just up the road is the Hume Highway and then the rural city of Benalla that overs every activity to match an out of town lifestyle, or for employment.
