March 28, 2024

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For $77,000 cash, a seasonal gingerbread-style cottage

Nestled in a quiet corner of Hamilton, the quaint, pink cottage at 6 Mount Zion Ave. looks like the blueprint for a make-your-personal gingerbread residence, with white bargeboard together the edge of the gabled roof. 

The home’s novelty does not finish at the door, nonetheless. The cottage is just one of roughly 90 seasonal households in Asbury Grove, a religious community with Methodist roots. A different 60 properties in the neighborhood are for year-round citizens, in accordance to the community’s web page.

“We have people today of distinctive denominations, Baptists and congregational and some Catholic people, but mainly Protestants,” Roger Perham, the community’s functions supervisor, stated. 

The 707-square-foot cottage highlighted below has two bedrooms and 1.5 bogs. Inside of, the carpeted, elevated living room has wood partitions and exposed wooden beams. A gasoline stove sits on a brick system. 

The kitchen area has new wooden-glimpse vinyl flooring, crimson counter tops, and wooden cupboards. The whole rest room is also on the to start with level and capabilities vinyl flooring and a shower/bathtub combo. The half lavatory upstairs comes with wood flooring and houses the washer and dryer. The two bedrooms are carpeted with sloping ceilings. 

The vendor is inquiring for $77,000 and dollars-only provides, but transferring in is not very as very simple as writing a check. There is also a quarterly $743 homeowner’s affiliation price, and intrigued potential buyers also have to submit an software with a personal statement and a letter from their pastor. They ought to bear a CORI history examine. In accordance to the Reasonable Housing Act, a spiritual establishment or affiliated group giving housing could favor or give a desire to people of the very same religion if it is supplying the housing for non-business purposes and the faith does not discriminate on the foundation of race, colour, or national origin.

Candidates should display “a relationship with Jesus by way of the church, and a perception in the Christian faith, and significantly of what the Bible has to present,” Perham claimed. Even though they do not have to have to be lifelong Christians, they ought to have a deep faith and a willingness to convey that faith, Perham mentioned. 

Residents at the seasonal cottages in the Grove can appreciate the group from April 15 by way of Nov. 1. All through the season, there are a range of various social gatherings and religious meetings inhabitants can join in on, including church suppers, chili cook dinner-offs, Monday evening foot races, and Tuesday evening Bible study, Perham stated. The most important celebration is camp assembly week just about every August, with nightly sermons giving a prospect to “be renewed to worship and to have fellowship,” in accordance to the Grove web page. There’s also a pool, a library, and a espresso shop that is open up each and every Saturday early morning, Perham explained. 

In the course of the off-period, some seasonal citizens relocate to a rental group in Gloucester, even though several have calendar year-round households in other places in New England or Florida, Perham said. Perham has lived in the Grove for about 50 yrs and has been a yr-round resident for 23. He’s stayed this prolonged for the place and the local community, he reported. “I just very considerably take pleasure in the men and women I’ve met at Asbury Grove.”

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