Beautiful 7 Year old 3 bedroom home with amazing rural and mountain views
Off the grid with full solar generation system with generator back up, polished concrete floors
Excellent shedding with concrete drive and pathways, veranda entertaining area in idyllic setting
Beautiful established low maintenance gardens and lawn area with irrigation watering system
155 acres gently sloping prime grazing land with good established pastures
Good fencing, hay shed, cattle yards, chook run, tree shelter area, 750mm rainfall location
Located in the highly sort Whorouly region with easy access to snowfields and NE food wine region.
Editorial:
You can assume that a farm and lifestyle property at Whorouly that has the name Karma Roo obviously carries a certain degree of charm and comfort and affords an ideal lifestyle.
The property at 699 Kneebone's Gap Road at Whorouly has easy access off the main Snow Road and offers an offers 62 hectares (or 155 acres) of highly productive farm land.
On the property is a quality sandstone brick homestead with a building area of 280 square metres or roughly 31 squares so the holding has a lot of appeal and built only seven years ago.
But the vendors are seeking to retire for as vendor Laurie McDonald says, "we are both getting old, and I am not as fast around the paddocks as I'd like to be, so I am looking to really retire and downsize."
Vendor Laurie ran a successful concrete contracting business for over forty years and adds "I had a wealth of building experience, so I knew what we wanted in our home for a comfortable yet active retirement."
Laurie actually did the concreting for the foundations and slab of the home for a local quality builder to complete the project.
It offers three large bedrooms and an extra one converted to a study or office, and it was as designed exactly to their requirements
There are two distinctive living areas with the kitchen and bathrooms are right up to standard'
Considering it was built only seven years ago it presents impressively.
Importantly it is set in a fully landscaped and now well established garden.
Moreover, it was sited on a rising portion of ground so that it overlooks the five farm paddocks and to take in the exceptional view of the Ovens River countryside and the snow-capped peaks beyond.
The current stockholding is twenty Angus breeders and their calves which gives the option of running them through to vealers at eighteen months, or selling them off earlier as calves, depending on markets and the seasons which are pretty reliable in this ideal part of the Ovens valley.
Within the five paddock subdivision everything is in place with water points of a dam or a trough in every paddock while Laurie locks up a portion each year for hay production.
There is a full working arrangement of good yards and loading race and the fences are right up to scratch as you'd expect.
There is also a substantial three bay steel shed with a high internal clearance, professionally built with roller door access and equipped with a toilet and shower.
Laurie used this building to house his concrete contracting gear and it serves equally well for caravan and a workshop, vehicle and farm machinery storage.
The unusual feature of Karma Roo is that it runs completely off grid, courtesy of an eighteen panel or 6 kW capacity solar system and battery storage.
An immediate start diesel generator provides back up if required with the real bonus Laurie notes in no power bills and plenty of power capacity to run everything.
There is also a substantial water harvesting network amounting to about one hundred and eighty thousand litres in total,
Two tanks on the home and two on the shed each twenty thousand litres combine with a master storage of another one hundred thousand litres at the rear of the property to which water is pumped up and then gravitates back down for backup and the installed garden sprinkler system.
"Karma Roo will provide an ideal family living destination in an expansive quality home, while the shed scale would be an ideal facility for a trades, contractor or home business use.
"The vendors have never stressed this holding stocking it lightly, cutting an extensive hay resource and setting up ideal cattle handling facilities.
"The location of the home on the acreage was chosen to give a great exposure over the farm paddocks in the foreground, the immediate Ovens Valley aspect and the view to the alpine hills beyond.
