Welcome to The farm!
The house was built in 1926 in a small farming community in Southwest Virginia by the Hale family. It was originally a 300+ acre farm but all that remains with the house and barn today are five acres. It has always been known to locals as the "Hale House". One of the first things we did was plant a row of Leyland cypress along the top of the back ridge and side property lines to create a screen between the farm and a housing complex thus the name, Leyland Ridge Farm.
We bought the house late in the summer of 2005. I had been near by on business and thought I would take the "scenic" route home. I passed this beautiful old house with a "for sale" sign in the yard. I whipped into the drive, called Gary and told him I'd found our dream house and proceeded to put the for sale sign in my trunk. I knew I had to have this house.
We did something we always said we would never do. We bought a house while owning a house. We had to sell in 60 days or we would have two mortgages. We put our first house on the market after extensive staging. The house showed twenty two times in eight days and sold in less then two weeks. We got lucky!