7 N 11th Street, New Baden, IL, 62265

Three acres. One blank page. Your dream home. Picture your first morning out here. Coffee in hand, the big shade tree overhead, farm fields stretching all the way to the horizon, and nothing to decide except where the front porch goes. This is the ground where you finally build the house you've been sketching on napkins for years. Walk the trails winding back through the timber. Bring the horses, a few head of livestock or a coop full of chickens. Or build the shop you've always wanted. Whatever the plan, you're building it from scratch, on your terms. The property has open, mowed ground ready for a homesite and a thick stand of mature timber for privacy and wildlife. It has wide open country views in every direction, and it sits just outside New Baden on paved Haselhorst Road. For utilities, Ameren electric is available but not currently connected. There's an existing well on the property. There is no city water and no city water tap. There's also an existing septic system, but it's believed to be non-functional, so plan on a new system as part of your build. The driveway is currently shared with the neighbor. It's sold strictly AS IS as a residential lot. The existing house and barn are uninhabitable, were planned for demolition by the sellers, and are considered to have no value. No entry into any structure is permitted. They aren't making more land. Three acres of buildable country ground this close to New Baden is the kind of place you build a legacy on.

Some houses are near the fun. This one IS the fun. It's June Jamboree weekend. The park across the street is already buzzing, the kitchen island is covered edge to edge with food, and the cooler is sitting by the back door. By the time the parade rolls past the front yard, half the town knows where the lawn chairs are. For years this has been the house: the pre-party, the after-party, the place everybody ends up. In the fall, the crockpots line up on that island for chili cook-off day, and with two ovens nobody fights over space. On Halloween, you hand out candy from the front porch while the whole town trick-or-treats past your door. All summer, the pool is a flip-flop walk away. The kids go, come back for lunch, and go right back. Then comes the quiet Tuesday after, and that's when this house really becomes yours. Coffee under the vaulted ceiling. Morning light pouring through the big front window. The park is right there across the road, calm again until the next celebration. The main floor was made for both kinds of days. Kitchen, dining and living share one wide-open room under that vaulted ceiling, so whoever's cooking is never out of the conversation. The kitchen has oak cabinets, a center island big enough for the whole spread, and a gas double-oven range. The dining area has its own back door, so it's easy for guests to step in and out. Two bedrooms, a full bath and a real laundry room with a utility sink and drop-zone hooks keep daily life on one level. Downstairs, the finished basement is where the party moves after dark or where everyone crashes the next morning. It has a huge rec room with recessed lighting, a second full bath with a walk-in shower, bonus rooms for an office, gym or overflow guests, and a walk-in storage room. The oversized attached 2-car garage, nearly 24 x 23, fits your gear and the parade-day overflow.Whether it's your first set of keys or your next, simpler chapter, this is a house where the memories come to you. You can update a kitchen. You can't move a house across from the park. The next parade is coming. Be the one with the yard where everyone wants to be!

CALLING ALL INVESTORS! Nice location in New Baden with easy access to I64, Scott AFB, Mid America Airport and Boeing. Home requires rehab...some work started but not finished. Front area is the living room and goes across the front of the home. It is open to the dine in kitchen. There is one room called BR 1 on the main level with access to the bathroom. Bath currently has a shower and access is only through that BR. The upper level includes 2 rooms. 1 is called BR 2 and the other is BR 3. NOTE: BR's will need closets and BR 3, the larger area would need a window as well as a door to be the 3rd BR. Lots of possibilities! The back porch has an access to the basement but DO NOT USE from that area, can access from within the kitchen or from the exterior of the home. Home appears to have 100 amp circuit breaker and a sump pump in the partial basement. GREAT yard! Nice and deep for lots of gardening or hobbies and it has a wood privacy fence. The detached garage has a dirt floor and is deep. There is a 2 car carport on the east side of the home. Bring your imagination to make this one yours! Cash or conventional financing only.