MYAKKA VALLEY RANCHES: beautiful, traditional home on almost 6 high and dry acres with a horse barn, a huge utility building, and a pond. This 3/2/2 home has been maintained to the highest standards, and shows like a model! Recent upgrades include impact resistant windows and doors, vinyl flooring throughout, new bathrooms, travertine flooring and a new cage for the lanai in the back (ask your agent for the list of improvements). Do you work from home? The house has super-fast fiberoptic internet service, with Wi-Fi boosters that provide internet access inside and outside. For the horse enthusiast, there is a sturdy 3-stall barn with an airconditioned office and a feed/tack room. The property is fenced and cross-fenced, and ready for your horses, cows, goats, camels, or whatever critters you would like to keep. They will live in harmony with the resident deer, sandhill cranes, tortoises, turkeys, red foxes, you name it. Attention car enthusiasts: there is a 30 x 60 steel utility building that can accommodate your car collection, and the biggest street-legal RV as well. This building can withstand up to 185 mph winds, and has 100 AMP electric service. The house has a great floor plan, featuring a big kitchen/dining area in the center, with the living room in the front of the house. The two guest bedrooms are downstairs: the one on the SW side is very big, and has its own A/C unit. The master suite covers the entire second floor: it has a private, screened balcony which offers beautiful views of the pond and the big oak trees in the south pasture. French doors connect this bedroom with a den, which could function as a fourth bedroom. The washer and dryer are conveniently located in the big walk-in closet off the master bedroom. The attached 2-car garage has a charging station for your electric car, and a huge extra refrigerator. Myakka Valley Ranches is like a big park (2,500 acres), with ca. 285 homes, all on lots of at least 5 acres. Miles of saddle trails run behind the lots, while all the roadside easements can also be used by horseback riders, joggers, or pedestrians (ask your agent to send you the attached trail map). The subdivision is located in a great school district, with shopping and restaurants within 20 minutes. Downtown Sarasota, with its many cultural amenities is only 30 minutes away, as are the beautiful beaches of Siesta Key. For nature lovers: Myakka River State Park (37,000 acres) borders the subdivision. It offers great hiking, birding, fishing, and boating. Take a ride to find out for yourself why Myakka Valley Ranches is considered by some the last frontier in Sarasota! Please, ask your agent to send you a link to the interactive 3D tour, the aerial video, and the list of improvements.