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View Virtual Tour PRICE $470,000 BEDS 4 BATHS 2 HOME SIZE 2,196 sqft LOT SIZE 19,602 sqft Request More Info Schedule a Showing

You have been looking for a place where the day actually slows down. Where the only thing on the schedule is the sunset, and the only sound at the end of the day is the water. This is that place. That version of your life lives at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac on Little Lake Weir. Walk through the front door and the home opens up the way good homes do. A floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace anchors the great room, double-sided, the kind that has hosted a thousand quiet evenings and is ready for a thousand more. Above it, soaring tongue-and-groove wood ceilings and exposed beams stretch across the main living areas, warm and unmistakably Florida. The sightlines pull you forward, through the kitchen, through the dining space, all the way to the water glinting through the oaks beyond. Then you step into the Florida room and you understand why this house exists. Glass on three sides. That same wood plank ceiling overhead. The lake out front, the breeze moving through, the oaks dripping Spanish moss on every side. This is the room where coffee turns into conversation and conversation turns into afternoon. This is where you will be when someone asks where you have been lately. The kitchen keeps pace with the rest of the home, opening cleanly into the living and dining spaces with stone backsplash, generous wood cabinetry, and a flow built for the way real life happens that makes hosting feel effortless and weeknights feel easy. Four bedrooms and two bathrooms give everyone room to land. The seller has already done the hard part. Brand new roof. New exterior siding. Fresh interior paint throughout. A one-year-old Culligan whole-home water treatment system, a $10k upgrade, already in place. And here is where the story gets better. Two parcels convey together. Behind the home, a deeded community access lot opens the path to the water. Just down the street, Carney Island Recreation and Conservation Area waits with its public ramp into the main 5,600-acre Lake Weir. Quiet water out your back door. Big water when you want it. The kind of setup that does not exist anymore, except here. Outside, the property is built for the way Florida is meant to be lived. The attached garage takes care of the everyday. A detached two-bay garage and a separate one-bay garage handle the workshop, the lake gear, and the overflow, and one of them has air conditioning. A large covered concrete boat and RV pad with electricity means the toys come home with you. Mature live oaks shade the grounds, and the additional vacant parcel hands you privacy, room to roam, and whatever you want to dream up next. This is lakeside Ocala the way it used to be. Big skies. Lily pads on the shoreline. Seaplanes on the water. Bass under the brush piles. A short drive to The Villages, an hour to Disney, and a world away from all of it. You already know what this place feels like. You have been picturing it for years. You arrive. You unpack. You exhale.