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Great Ranch home in Clayton,North Carolina.

This very well kept ranch home in Clayton is in Wyndfall Subdivision, a small neighborhood of about 100 homes, mostly ranch with some two stories and nearly all on about an acre of land or more. The schools for this neighborhood are some of the best in Johnston County, River Dell Elementary, an Honor School of Excellence, Archer Lodge Middle and the newest school in Johnston County, Corinth Holder High School, all of two years old.

Wyndfall is located in the town of Archer Lodge but has a Clayton mailing address, Archer Lodge is North Carolina's newest town having just been incorporated last year. It is a short drive to Downtown Clayton, is about thirty minutes to Downtown Raleigh, close to hospitals, colleges, the beach is two hours away and the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains are about three and a half hours away. Please enjoy this Video of 149 Carrie Dr, Clayton,NC and call with any questions or if you would like to schedule an appointment to see the home in person.

Homes in Clayton under $150,000, Ranch Home on an Acre in Clayton

We just listed this great ranch home in Wyndfall Subdivision at 149 Carrie Dr. It is a three bedroom two bath with a large eat in kitchen and wonderful long living room.It is listed for $145,000

The kitchen looks out over the wooded lot which backs up to a protected area so there is lots of privacy. 149 Carrie Dr. in Clayton is very convenient to most everything yet has a quiet rural setting. For example the new Food Lion Shopping center is ten minutes away. Downtown Raleigh is twenty Five Minutes, Wake Med, twenty five minutes. Downtown Clayton is a mere five minutes.

The schools currently serving the Wyndfall Subdivision are River Dell Elementary, Archer Lodge Middle and Corinth Holder High ( brand new!).  In fact Business Week Magazine named the zip code 27527 as the top ten in the country for having the best schools with the most affordable housing.The subdivision consists of mostly ranch plan homes on acre and above lots, This lot at 149 Carrie Dr. is just shy of an acre, the front has oak trees while the back yard is grass and pine trees to the rear.

There are not many homes in Clayton under $150,000 in this type of condition.Wyndfall subdivision is in Johnston County, NC which is covered under the USDA 100% Financing Program and we have done many homes in this neighborhood with this program. I can recommend a very qualified Mortgage Broker and fellow Active Rainer in Steve Thorne with First Financial Services who can be reached at (919)649-5058.

These days to find a ranch home on an acre in Clayton is becoming more and more difficult as the land prices go up the lot sizes go down.

For a tour of this home at 149 Carrie Dr in Clayton give me a call at (919) 601-2268

Only One House Left In Wyndfall Subdivision, Clayton North Carolina!

Yes, we closed on 231 Carrie Dr. today, a month of dealing with a well test issue and 114 Kirkland Court closed in September. So now the only home I have left in Wyndfall Subdivision is 261 Wyndfall Lane.

All of these homes have something to offer for the new owners. 231 Carrie Dr. had a fenced yard and a work shed.

114 Kirkland Court was in a quiet Cul de Sac.  261 Wyndfall has 1.8 acres of awesome woods, completely private. 261 Wyndfall is listed for the great price of $139,900, it has three bedrooms two baths a huge kitchen with lots of counter and cabinet space. It has two decks one screened and the other has a hot tub (see private 1.8 acres).

OK, River Dell Elementary, Archer Lodge Middle and Corinth Holder High are the schools for Wyndfall Subdivsion. Check out there grades at the NC School Report Card and see where they rank. Our boys go to River Dell Elementary and they have great teachers, an awesome admin staff, lots of parents involved with the school and they are a School of Distinction  Archer Lodge and Corinth Holder are newer schools, in fact Corinth Holder just opened this year so they have no report card obviously. They do have the most amazing campus I have seen in a while.

So if you are looking for a house under $140,000 in Clayton North Carolina with lots of land in a great subdivision with good schools, close to shopping and close to Raleigh, Wendell, Smithfield....look no further than 261 Wyndfall Lane.

I can't remember what came first the blog contest or the water test on my listing that was supposed to close a week ago.

Either way both had me looking under the sink, the test kit actually had me looking in the shed, the closet, my office, tool box until I had an idea! yep there it was the Aqua Chem Chlorine, Bromine and PH test kit that I bought a couple of years ago to try and get another listing that was under contract sold.

You see in Wyndfall Subdivision in Clayton, NC most of the homes are on well water and because the whole of Johnston County is covered by the USDA rural loan program, a lot of buyers choose to use the 100% financing that they offer, here's the problem USDA requires a clean well test before they will approve the loan.

Guess what? nearly every well out there has some form of bacteria in it so in order to pass the test, somebody (agent) goes out and pours bleach into the well then runs all the taps in the house, leaves it for 24 hours, come back and runs the water until all the bleach is gone.....here comes the Aqua Chem test kit.

If the Test shows no chlorine then it's off to the county lab to have it tested, except on Friday, they don't take tests on Friday. We will be ready on.... you guessed it, Friday, so now we have to wait until Monday for a re test and then hopefully we will be able to close.

This could have been avoided but unfortuntly the mortgage broker and the agent have never done a USDA loan before so they had the test results for three weeks and did nothing about it!

Make sure when you are buying a house in Johnston County, North Carolina that the mortgage broker and real estate agent are knowledgable in the loan conditions and how to resolve them, like Cindy Prince or Steve and Eleanor Thorne

261 Wyndfall Lane in Clayton NC 27527.  This is a video tour of a great home in Clayton at 261 Wyndfall Lane. A three Bedroom ranch that is on a 1.8 acre wooded lot. It is in Johnston County so it qualifies for USDA 100% financing, so a no money down home in Clayton, approx 20 mins from Raleigh for $139,900.

Call (919) 601-2268 to schedule an appointment.

Clayton Home for Sale on Almost Two Acres, Three Bedroom Ranch in Wyndfall. This home is on a very secluded lot surrounded by trees. It has a great screened in porch overlooking the trees, and a deck with a hot tub.

Great Home on Almost Two Acres in Clayton

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$139,900 Single Family Home For Sale Main Features 3 Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms Interior: 1230 sqft Lot: 1.80 acre(s) Location 261 Wyndfall Lane Clayton, NC 27527 To get updates on open home dates and other property events, please click the "Like" button below:

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Who Nicked My Blog Post?            Go on admit it you took it and hid it on me didn't you?

I wrote a blog post on ActiveRain on Friday titled Open House in Clayton This Weekend at Wyndfall There Will Be Three Houses Open.  and copied it to Trulia and Blogger. Nine minutes later it was position three and six on page one of Google for the search term "open house in Clayton". I have seen times where I will rank higher on my computer I believe because of cookies so I asked everyone in my office to Google "Open House in Clayton" and see where it ranked. Number three on one and four and five on another both page one. forty agents and only two replied, but that's another story!

So off I go and get ready for my three open houses ( which was a bust by the way). Saturday morning I Google " open House in Clayton" guess what? GONE I mean GONE!! Today my Activerain outside blog is on page three,  a Localism link is on page four, and my ActiveRain post page five. get this though, there is an older ActiveRain Post on page one.

Debe Maxwell wrote a timely post titled I Used to Think ActiveRain was the ONLY Blog I Needed where she addressed duplicate posts and the consensus appears to be that it does not affect your ranking on Google.Thanks Debe if you have not read it get over there and read it.

So can anyone help me find out where my post went and what I can do to get it back on page one of Google for "open House in Clayton" albeit a bit late?