219 State Line Road, Westtown, NY 10998

The keys are in your hand and everything goes quiet. Cut grass on the air, wind moving through the tall evergreens behind the house, hills going soft and blue past the treetops. For once, you know exactly where you will be next year, and the year after that. You are standing on 1.4 acres of your own, in one of the most peaceful corners of Orange County. Inside, rich stained trim frames every doorway and window, with raised panel wood doors to match. All three bedrooms sit together on the second floor, the primary suite with its own bath and walk-in closet down the hall from the others. You lock your own front door, head upstairs, and everyone you love is asleep on the same floor. Nobody can raise the rent or tell you to move. You sleep better than you have in years. By the end of the first week, you have claimed the bonus room. Go up one flight of stairs and it opens to the right of the landing, a huge room over the garage with a peaked ceiling and an arched window. Because it sits...