3938 Village Boulevard NWConover, NC 28613Price: $289,900

Most houses in Cline Village are still going up. This one has been lived in, finished out, and taken care of for four years. One owner, and it shows. he layout is a ranch, so everything is on one level. No stairs to haul laundry up, no stairs to think about ten years from now. It's a split bedroom design, which is the part people notice. The primary sits on its own side of the house with the other two bedrooms across the way. The primary bath is upgraded, not builder grade.Open living space through the middle. The gas fireplace has a quiet blower on it, so it actually pushes heat into the room in January instead of just looking good. Automated lighting throughout. Here's the part that doesn't photograph. The house is built tight and efficient. Heating and cooling costs stay low, and that's every month, not just the first one. Outside, the lawn and landscaping are grown in and easy to keep up with. No new sod, no bare spots, no waiting three years for anything to fill in. The back looks into the woods. That's the piece you can't get by picking a lot off a site map. You have coffee out there in the morning and you're looking at trees instead of a neighbor's kitchen window. The refrigerator, washer and dryer all convey. That's a few thousand dollars you're not spending the same week you're paying for a move. 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 1,615 square feet. Inside Conover city limits, with a park in the neighborhood. Location does a lot of work here too. I-40 is about 5 minutes away at Exit 132, so Hickory, Statesville and Charlotte are all an easy run. Walmart and everyday shopping in Conover are under 10 minutes. Valley Hills Mall and the Highway 70 stretch in Hickory are about 15. Quiet street, quick to everything. Same street as the new construction, four years of the work already done, and you can be in it now instead of next spring.