Family Fun on Ten Acres on the Wairoa River...

If you're looking for a home not a house, with room for the kids to grow, friends and family to stay, and you're not a city slicker, this could be your dream property.

This six bedroom (plus) home on a 10 acre block of land, with the Wairoa River at your doorstep is made for living and has been loved by five kids, two cats, one dog, friends and family from all over New Zealand for the last 10 years.

A few words from the owner: It's not flash but it's comfortable and has been a wonderful home to us. It's been a big influence on the kid's choices. With six bedrooms, a spare room, and a flat with two more rooms there's loads of space for all the kids friends to stay. Three showers sure helps too. There's even a shed in the top paddock converted to a bunk house.

You'd never know that just four minutes from Bethlehem and 10 minutes from the Tauranga CBD, you could wake up every morning surrounded by trees, paddocks and the big lazy river where camping, swimming, sailing, riding the motorbikes and enjoying summer BBQ's becomes a way of life.

The renovations have started with the revamping of the kitchen so it has a large breakfast island designed for indoor and outdoor living and entertaining on those long summer evenings. The cosy modern wood range keeps the place warm while you cook winter meals on or in it. The spacious dining room is separate to the lounge which means you can put a movie on for the kids while you enjoy a couple of wines. If you want to add your own flair, continue renovating, or even build a new home by the river, rent the old place, and subdivide it off. According to a top resource consent consultant, it shouldn't be too hard to get consent for subdivision if you've got patience.

The master bedroom has a big en suite and because the second bathroom has two showers, there's never long to wait, and one is wheelchair friendly. The flat is great for the eldest kids when they come home to visit, or for when the grandparents arrive and want a bit of peace and quiet. When it comes to garaging and shedsthere's a heap. A huge three bay garage, two cars in each, and still room for the motorbikes, tools, boats and pushbikes, the freezer, dryer and the dog. There are four other sheds of various sizes on the property which means you'll never be short on space. The neighbour is happy to graze the place in exchange for meat. The location is excellent, the lifestyle can't be beaten.

In Brief:
Six bedrooms plus office
4.34 hectares mainly flat land
Dual road frontage
River at your doorstep
Family. Fun. Lifestyle