$150,000 Home for Sale in the NEW RIVER GORGE!!! Downtown Fayetteville

Hi everyone,

I'm just feeling out interest here-

We are placing our 3 bedroom, ~2200 square-foot house in Fayetteville, WV up for sale this month. If you are familiar with Fayetteville and the New River Gorge region, then you know how amazing it is. For anyone who hasn't been living under a rock (hahah), the NRG is simply one of the best areas in the nation to climb, paddle, and outdoor recreate; it has a growing, thriving restaurant and music scene; and amazingly ecclectic and welcoming outdoorsy community. I can't say enough about the area.

A little more about the house-
It is on the Historic Register and the original house was built in 1896. It has a ton of character with high 10 foot ceilings, old clunky trim work, crown molding, hard wood floors, etc. We recently renovated the kitchen into a huge open floor space that integrates the dining room and kitchen. It has 2 huge rooms upstairs and a more private 3rd bedroom downstairs. There is a full bathroom upstairs that has been renovated also. This house has so much going for it and really needs only about $20,000 worth of continued renovation to completely finish it off and turn it into a house you'd keep forever (new paint outside, deck off of the kitchen {door is already in}, re-do bathroom downstairs, and gut the two add on rooms off the back of the house into another bedroom or extra room. The house has a front porch, a garage, a gazebo, a white picket fence, and approximately 1 acre lot.

If anyone is serious about this offer, please post up. I will add photos to this thread later tonight.

We are in no real hurry to sell it and if we have to rent it out while we are in Thailand that will be perfectly fine with us as well. After all, like I mentioned, this house is only a few steps away from being a lifer house.

We will be moving in June and ideally the buyers would allow us to pay rent until then but if needed we could be out as early as April 1.

bump for a really cool home. Wish I could afford a second casa!

What's wrong with my eyeballs??? Post says, "$140,000" the listing clearly shows $149,999.

Fixed. After a little more consideration we bumped the price to 150k.

I've been wanting to visit this area and the property looks great. I personally know nothing about WV other than your town has great access to world class climbing and rafting. Could you expand a little about your experience living and working in such an isolated area ? Why are you looking to relocate ? Thanks.

I thought my eyes were deceiving me as well. I saw the home initially listed for $140K and now $150K.

Hi Eric,

I wouldn't call Fayetteville isolated by any means. It's a small town with a sizeable outdoor-oriented transplant community. World class climbing, whitewater, and an amazing network of trails are located literally out your back door. The restaurant scene is booming and I've heard many out-of-towners proclaim that our restaurants rival some of the best in more urban areas.

We are moving because my wife and I have accepted dream jobs in Bangkok at a private international school. It's not only financially very lucrative and a career promotion for both of us, but it will be an amazing school for my two young children. That's the real reason we are moving. The schools here are pretty poor and its a huge gamble to raise kids here. WV's economy is in ruins and our infrastructe is in only a few steps away from that. We will always keep roots here and plan to buy some land and build a small cabin as a vacation home while we spend the rest of our careers and raise our children working as international educators. Climbing used to be everything to me. Once I had children, I realized that it simply wasn't that important in the big picture. It's still a hard pill to swallow leaving the NRG though. It really is an amazing spot. Affordable, not pretentious, small town charm, lifetimes worth of world class recreation, a super core community of badass athletes, and killer restaurants to boot.

I'd say if you can work remotely or if you have a niche job such as teacher, medical field, etc. and don't plan on having kids; then Fayetteville rivals the best places in the nation to live.

Hope this sheds some light on our decision to leave and helps to highlight the many pros and the few cons to living here.

Take er' easy,
Joe

Yup. My wife and I moved out of WV once we had kids. That was 18 years ago. It was probably better then than now. It's a shame really. The Gauley, Dolly Sods, New River Gorge.

Thanks for your thoughtful response. There are many factors involved in making a move like the one you are committed to (Living and working in Bangkok! What an opportunity!) As a potential community to reside Fayetteville appears to tick many boxes. I've seen that the Charleston WV Airport is only about 70 miles from there, which is about how far I live from the SFO, Sacramento and Oakland Airports. I too live in a small town that is near larger communities like Napa and Santa Rosa, Ca. There is local climbing nearby but nothing like the NRG ! Someday I am looking to downsize and enjoy my leisure time a bit more than I am able to now. Alas that time has not yet arrived, but a proper first hand visit to the NRG is in order to sample the lifestyle there. Best wishes to you selling your house and for your adventure overseas !