Over the Hills and Far Away

This week the marketing team at Kurfiss Sotheby's International Realty took a road trip to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area. This is definitely outside our business zone, but a property owner requested our help with a special listing AND we just happen to have an agent, Jim Pearsall, who is from the area and knows it well. So off we went up the Northeast Extension to a secluded country home on 500 acres of woodland and meadow adjacent to Ricketts Glen State Park.

This property has been in the same family for four or five generations and has served as a retreat rather than a full-time residence. It is a rather upscale house, yet it is very comfortable, just the sort of place where friends and family can relax with a variety of pursuits. The present owner uses to the property for hunting and fishing and even has his own butcher shop on the property to process his quarry. He also grows apples and has a cider house, taps maple trees and processes the sap in a sugar shack on the property, keeps a vegetable garden and has quite an astounding collection of rhododendron. We look forward to listing the property and promoting it in more detail in the next few weeks. Listing agents are Jim Pearsall, Ericka Kirkpatrick and Melanie Stecura.