(The following has been prepared by the Seller)

The property is located at Aniak, Alaska. Aniak is a community of 532 population, located on the Kuskokwim River, 317 miles west of Anchorage and 92 miles northeast of Bethel. Aniak is a major transportation hub, with seven air carriers servicing the surrounding area of the State.

Access is currently provided by daily airline service provided by Frontier Airlines, and Penn Air (an Alaska Airlines "partner"). Regular scheduled air freight connections with Anchorage are provided by Northern Air Cargo and A.C.E. Additionally, regional mail, seat fare, and charter flights are provided by Haglands Air Service, Inland Air Service, and A.T.S. A couple of other small operators provide seasonal and specialized transport on wheel, ski, or float equipped aircraft.

The State-owned airport has a hard surfaced runway that is 6000 ft. long by 150 ft. wide, is lighted, and is equipped for instrument approaches.

As is common in most of Alaska's interior villages, the community at large relies heavily on boat transportation in summer. Bulk fuel, building materials, vehicles, and other bulky freight is transported by several barge services that ply the Kuskokwim River. Depending on conditions, a State subsidized winter ice road may connect as far as Bethel (150 miles downriver). In a typical year, this may be open for wheel vehicle traffic from late January well into April.

The economy of Aniak is based on government, transportation, and retail services. Aniak is a service hub for surrounding villages. Other major employers in the community are the headquarters of the Kuspuk School District, three local public schools, the regional clinic, the headquarters of the area (privately-owned) telephone company, and the local headquarters of the area native corporation (T.K.C.) Aniak has a State District Court, two grocery stores, 3 to 4 permanently assigned State Troopers, and a Post Office.

Aniak is NOT within any of the State Burroughs, and the only tax is currently a 3% local sales tax, no property or other forms of taxation.

Health care needs are provided for locally by the Clara Morgan Sub-Regional Clinic. The Clara Morgan Sub-Regional Clinic is a qualified Emergency Care Center and provides: Primary Health Care, Prevention Services, Dental Care, Behavioral Health, Pharmacy, Radiology, and Optometry services. Specialized Care: KNA Community Counseling Center, providing consumer and psychiatric services. Emergency services is provided by 911 telephone service. Auxiliary health care is provided by Aniak Volunteer Fire Dept. and EMTs. Med-Evacs are performed in extreme emergencies, usually to Anchorage via Lear Jet, with medical personnel aboard.

Bethel, 92 miles northeast of Aniak, has air service twice daily from/to Aniak. Bethel's population is over 5,000 people, with a large hospital, stores, etc. available.

Aniak is a friendly village, a mixture of Yu'pik Eskimo, Athabascan Indians, and everyone else. There is a large Community Hall where dances and special events are held. Aniak hosts the Three Rivers State Fair every August. There are dog sled races, a Christmas Bazaar, Winter Carnival, Turkey Shoots, and the whole community supports the High School Boys' & Girls' basketball teams. They're pretty good, too!

The main religions practiced in Aniak are: Assembly of God, Catholic, Russian Orthodox, non-denominational services, and everybody else as they choose. It is a tolerant community, respecting individual rights and freedoms.

Aniak schools provided our son with a very good education. Current enrollment K-12 is listed as 129 students. That means smaller classes and more individualized attention. Aniak also has the Joe Parent Voc-Ed Center.

Hunting, fishing, and trapping opportunities abound in the Aniak area.

The Aniak river is the northernmost Rainbow Trout spawning stream in North America. It's also a major spawning stream for King, Chum, and Silver Salmon, with large fishable populations of Whitefish, Sheefish, Graying, and Arctic Char. Aniak Lake, in the headwaters is spawning ground for Red Salmon and home for Lake Trout.

The nearby Kilbuk Mountains are the headwater for other major Western Alaska fishing rivers, such as the Kwethluk, Eek, Kisaralik, Goodnews, Kanektok, and Togiak Rivers.

Current subsistence regulations allow residents very generous access to all species of fish in the Kuskokwim River, using gillnets, fishwheels, rod & reel, etc.

Moose and caribou regulations are likewise generous to Residents, although the recent trend has been to curtail some pressure by non-resident hunters. Local furbearers include wolf, wolverine, lynx, fox, marten, mink, beaver, otter, mink, and weasel. Huge numbers of waterfowl migrate both ways through the area, and are readily accessible from Aniak.

Land status in the area includes a lot of State land, BLM land,some Native Corporation land, (primarily adjacent to the major rivers), the Yukon-Kuskokwim National Wildlife Refuge to the West-Southwest, and the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge to the South.

THE HOME

The house is a 1.5 story single family residence situated on a rectangular 2.14 acre parcel of land located on the east bank of the Aniak Slough. This waterway separates the property from the main part of Aniak village. Travel to and from the village is accomplished via an ice road in winter and by skiff in the summer. Only a few families live year-round in "East Aniak" which makes for a very quiet and private environment. The two adjacent dwellings are also large houses on oversized lots.

When the house was built in 1986, it was designed as a two bedroom, 1 &3/4 bath home, and includes a large attached shop, a large mud room, and an oversized walk-in pantry off the kitchen.

The house, as built, has a lot of potential. These rooms could well be used as additional bedrooms (at least two more). The large shop room is heated, insulated, finished, and attached to (part of) the house. It could easily be used as a recreational room, a large bedroom or bunk room, or as designed, as a wonderful heated shop with workbenches & cabinets.

The living room walls are a beautiful golden tongue & groove knotty pine, with a large picture window overlooking the river. The vaulted ceiling (over the living room only) is drywall, recently painted with sealer and a quality paint. The room is carpeted (in very good condition). Lighting is provided by three Diamond Willow wall mounted lamps.

There is a free-standing Riteway airtight wood stove in the living room. The stove sits on a raised red brick platform, and the wall behind is red bricked. The chimney is a shiny stainless steel on the outside, triple-wall metalbestos inside. A ceiling fan keeps the warm air circulating.

The living and dining rooms have drapery rods installed. Insulated draperies come with the house.

The dining area, adjacent to the living room, is also golden knotty pine tongue & groove, with two large picture windows, beamed ceiling, built-in 3'x4' bookcase, post, and track lighting. The dining area flows into the kitchen. All appliances will go with the house: side-by-side refrigerator -freezer with ice maker, ice & water through the door; built-in dishwasher; gas (propane) range stove with exhaust hood fan & lights, and a large chest freezer. The sink is a full sized double stainless steel unit, with mixer faucet & sprayer. A nice sized window sits above the sinks, and there is a light over the sink.

Kitchen cabinets are oak, throughout. There is an island counter measuring 27 inches wide by 84 inches (7 feet) long, with matching oak drawers & cabinets, and is wired for electricity, in addition to the other roomy kitchen counter.

Countertops are cream colored Formica, and in good condition. The flooring is vinyl linoleum. Ample florescent lighting exists in the kitchen, pantry, hallway, mud room, bedrooms, and shop.

Off the kitchen, divided by swinging louvered doors, is a storage area under the 2nd floor stairs. Beyond this area, is the large walk-in pantry measuring approximately 7'x10'. There are shelves on three sides. There are also electrical outlets in this room.

A full bathroom is downstairs, and has an enclosed tub/shower with decorative & functional gold/frosted sliding glass doors, sink & cabinet, dual mirror medicine chest, commode, a heat lamp, exhaust fan, and a light in the ceiling. Flooring is vinyl.

The downstairs bedroom is a sunny room, with paneling and wainscoting, an antique-style wallpaper above. The ceiling is acoustic tile. The room has a large, lighted closet. This room is carpeted (in very good condition).

The mud room measures 10'x12&1/2'. It has vinyl flooring, acoustic tile ceiling, and the Power System Panel. Off this room is a large closet/storage room.

The laundry room (electric washer & gas dryer will go with the house) has a large double utility sink with sprayer, and an area for hanging up shirts etc. on hangers. There is space for a small to medium laundry folding table, etc.

The shop room is off the mud room, and is heated, insulated, & wired. It has wood ceiling, walls, & floor, which has recently been re-painted. There are two regular outside access doors, as well as a double wide end door. (Outside, a constructed ramp permits snow machines, ATVs, & other large projects to be brought onto an outer deck, then into the shop for maintenance during cold weather.) The furnace boiler, water pressure tank, water heater, and house circuit breaker panels are against one wall. There are windows on two walls, two workbenches, and two tool cabinets.

A small Riteway wood stove is installed in the end of the room opposite the furnace, but has never been needed. It would be good in the event of emergency, though.

The back and front doors to the house have arctic entry porches & insulated metal outside doors. All outside doors have screen doors for summer use.

All windows but one are triple-pane windows, open, and have good screens.

Going upstairs to the second level: the stairway (enclosed) is freshly painted, the stairs are carpeted, with a custom hand rail. On the right and through a door, is a lighted storage area which extends for over half the length of the house.

On the left is a loft area, done in tongue & groove honey-colored wood (don't know what kind of wood, but its real wood, not paneling). There is a Jacuzzi brand hot tub , which is in good working order & included with the house, located in the front corner of the loft. Two large picture windows overlook the river and the yard. A third window (standard size) is farther along the outside wall of this room. The half wall overlooks the living room below.

Through double bi-fold wooden doors, is the master bedroom. The walls are the same honey-colored tongue & groove wood as the loft area. The master bedroom has three high windows, as well as two standard windows, which all open & have screens. The floor is carpeted (in very good condition), the ceiling is acoustic tile. There is a very large lighted walk-in closet, as well as another area of deep floor to ceiling shelves (for blanket storage, etc.).

The bathroom off the master bedroom has a shower, sink & cabinet, tri-mirror medicine chest, commode, exhaust fan, and ceiling mounted heat lamp and light.

All window sills are 6+ inches deep. All window sills are 6+ inches deep. A fifty-foot water well was drilled at the time the house was constructed, and has been problem free. It has the best water in town, with no seasonal variations as may be encountered with shallower, or driven wells. The original submersible pump is still in service. (A complete new replacement unit is "on hand" in case it's ever needed.)

The original septic system has also been problem free, even during times of heavy use. Owners and occupants have carefully avoided the common enemies of septic systems, such as phosphates in detergents, coffee grounds, etc. A pump-out exists on the system, but regular testing indicates proper biodegrading of sewage.

The over-all construction of the house was "state of the art" for arctic frame construction - double studded nine inch walls, specially constructed roof trusses to allow more insulation at eaves, triple pane windows, extra insulation around the crawl-space/ foundation, etc. The house is finished with T-111, with an all metal roof. The roof pitch is such that snow load is not a problem in the toughest winters. Gutters & downspouts are installed around the house.

The heating system is hot water baseboard heat, with five controllable zones. The furnace itself was replaced in 2003 with a very efficient new unit. As previously stated, the living room is equipped with a very effective wood stove, an attractive installation with "triple-wall" chimney, and an overhead ceiling fan that distributes the wood stove heat very efficiently. The owner/occupants' experience has been that if the effort is made to "tend the fire", the house can be kept comfortably warm without the expenditure of much fuel oil, even in the coldest weather.

Two sides of the house have attractive, functional wooden decks. The back deck was rebuilt with new lumber & pressure treated footings less than a year ago, stained to match the rest of the decking & rails around the house.

The whole outside of the house was recoated with Behr brand oil stain about 3 years ago.

Worthy of note is the "crawl space" under the house. It is lighted, roomier than most crawl spaces, and can be easily entered through a trap door under the stairs, or by another trap door in the shop room floor. It stays above freezing, and permits ready access to the heating & plumbing system. I've stored my geraniums, begonias & other bulbs, as well as garden produce there, successfully.

OUTBUILDINGS

Several outbuildings are included with the property. All were coated with Behr oil stain less than a year ago, and are very attractive, as well as functional.

A 20'x50' storage building provides a lot of built-in shelving for "dry storage items". One third of this building was converted to a cow milking barn, with an overhead roller track door and ramp access. The end door facing the house is a dutch door. This building is wired for lights and power. The walls & ceiling are insulated, the floor is wooden and not insulated. The building is not heated, but has the potential for additional shop space, etc. A small .Hay barn also has track doors, a wooden floor, and can be used for more storage space.

An aviary has been successfully used for all kinds of domestic fowl (pigeons, chickens,turkeys, ducks, geese, and pheasants in different combinations), and includes some useful innovative features - feed hoppers, feeders, gates, doors, traps, removable "easy-clean" nests, etc.

A 10'x10' plywood meat house has screened sides with hinged doors. It's adequate for handling the meat of several big game animals, and with the use of an external barrel stove, has been used to smoke cure large quantities of salmon.

ALTERNATIVE POWER SYSTEM

Electrical power in Aniak is provided by a privately owned company. This home, and others on the east side of Aniak Slough are serviced by a buried cable that runs underneath the slough. Originally, service was very erratic, when the cable was sometimes damaged by flowing ice during breakup. Most households had some means to provide at least minimum electricity for outages that sometimes lasted for weeks. In 1996, that service was upgraded, with new cable, buried deeper, and since that time there have been no recurrences of "break-up" outages.

In 2003, a fairly sophisticated alternative power system was installed in this home. Major components are an enclosed battery bank, consisting of 12/180 amp deep-cycle batteries, wired in a 24 volt system, a Trace model 2024 inverter, Trace 250 amp DC disconnect, Whisper H80 wind generator on a 65' tilt-tower, and an 8KW Hardy Diesel Generator. Numerous special features, such as a Tri-Metric Metering System, Battery Box ventilation fan, Emergency DC lighting system, and Battery Desulphator were built into the system. The control panel & battery bank are located in the "mud room" between the shop and utility rooms. All outside power lines for this system are buried, as are telephone lines to the house.

Functionally, the system can be used in a number of ways. One way is strictly as an emergency back-up system - such as the ones in such high demand in California in recent years! For instance, if the power fails during the occupants' absence, then the system will automatically operate the furnace, refrigerator, and freezers for up to a couple of weeks, avoiding damage or loss. If the wind produces power within that "emergency", the time could be greatly extended.

If the occupant chooses to actively"manage" his power, the household can be run from the battery bank, which can be recharged from the diesel generator in just a few hours. Because this generator is particularly fuel efficient, power can actually be produced cheaper than the commercial power.

LAYOUT & LANDSCAPING

The house proper is located more or less centered on the rectangular 2.14 acre property. (This size lot is very rare in Alaska Bush villages, and is one of the largest pieces of private property in Aniak). The house was originally constructed on a built up gravel pad, to bring it above any likely floodwater level. About 1/3 of the property has native willow, birch, cottonwood and alder, with a large grass lawn surrounding the house. Access to the property is via a roadway/power line easement on the back (East) side of the house, which connects to a short road down to the beach.

We've always maintained steps from the front yard, directly down to the beach. Depending on water rise during break-up, these steps may have to be removed, then replaced after high water. This provides handy access to boats or aircraft on the beach.

Most of the outbuildings and the windmill tower are located in the back yard. The meat house and a picturesque "antler tree" are located in the front yard. Spectacular wildflower & perennial gardens are located at the base of a flagpole. The gardens are divided by a raised wooden walkway, with a latticed, benched arbor in the middle. Raised beds provide outstanding vegetable gardening. Some transplanted spruce, cottonwood and birch trees provide an attractive "screen" on the side facing the river and the village.

SPECIAL "LIFESTYLE" FEATURES

Since aviation makes the world go around in Bush Alaska, this place offers some unique benefits to that lifestyle. We have always operated airplanes on wheels, skis, or floats on the beach in front of the house, and helicopters out of the front yard.

Likewise, we're only a few steps away from where we park the family skiff, and minutes away from world-class fishing, hunting, and trapping opportunities.

These same opportunities were available to our teen-age boy during his high school years, and his "education" went well beyond a lot of his peers.

Because of our own preferences, we've always kept livestock. The space available on this property gave us plenty of opportunity to prove that "with enough money and time, you can make agriculture work anywhere!!!"

Gardening prospects are really great. Along with Alaska's famed super-long daylight hours, the river-silt soil is very rich and tillable.

The outstanding shop space in this home suited our lifestyle perfectly. We learned long ago, that the more stuff you've got, the more needs fixin' !!! Being able to bring projects into a warm, roomy shop is a rare luxury in an Alaskan winter - and room for various crafts and hobbies help shorten the long winters.

For someone with different needs or preferences, this property has quite a bit of potential for modifying. People with a larger family could easily modify some of the rooms into extra bedrooms.

For a commercial operation, such as a lodge or B&B, space in the shop could be modified, or additional structures could easily be accommodated on the Property. The privacy and unique setting of the property could be marketed to visitors who appreciate this type of experience.

Typically, an appraisal doesn't include anything that isn't "built in". Since we're still occupying the home, we've retained lots of items to maintain the place and the lifestyle. This includes a dependable "working antique" Ford tractor, with lots of attachments for plowing, tilling, mowing, shredding, lifting, hauling, blading, etc. - a couple of 4-wheelers with utility trailers, snow machine & sleds, skiff and motor, canoe, washer, dryer, refrigerator/freezer, chest freezer, microwave, tv/vcr/dvd, some household furnishings, utensils, dishes, etc. Quite a few tools, hardware, and household maintenance supplies. More than a winter's worth of split and stacked firewood, x-tra propane tanks, some fuel oil and bulk gasoline All equipment is in good repair, with lots of spares, maintenance manuals, etc. We'd be glad to negotiate for including any or all of this stuff in a sale, which would make a real "turn key" operation for the new owner!!!

The price for this lovely home is: $290,000.-
All Offers Seriously Considered!