Demonstration · Not for sale · Sold in June 2024 · The publisher's former home, shown the way a Full Listing Website looks on Medina Homes Guide

The front of 428 Crestwood Ave under the two big oaks, a white cape cod with dormers and black shutters

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Wadsworth · Medina County, Ohio

428 Crestwood Ave

Wadsworth · 44281

4Bedrooms

2.5Bathrooms

2,430Square feet

0.34 acLot

$374,999

Sample listing · Sold June 2024

Listed by

Amy Hoes

Showcase Home Group at eXp Realty · Medina, Ohio

Demonstration page. Amy Hoes is shown to illustrate the format and does not represent this home.

Living here

The swing on the big oak comes with one rule.

Any kid who walks down this sidewalk is welcome on it. No knocking, no asking. The family that hung it in 2022 chose polyester rope on purpose, so it would never rot through under somebody's child. A street where that rule works is a street where the neighbors know whose kid is whose, and that is the thing about Crestwood Avenue that no photo can get across.

The two oaks are the price of admission. Every fall they let go, the City picks up leaves in rounds, and you will be out there more than once. The family liked to picture those trees already standing when the house went up in 1950. That is their story, not a fact, and it is a good one to tell a kid on the swing.

Mornings

5:30 coffee, and the sun coming up over the house across the street.

Here is a morning in this house. The breakfast nook faces the street, so the first coffee of the day comes with the sun rising over the neighbor's roof, and on a good morning an early jogger going by. The kitchen is right behind you, and the first fire of a cold day is one room over.

Whoever gets up first in this family is going to end up in that nook, and after a week they will not want to give it up.

Out the front door

Kindergarten to graduation in one district.

Lincoln Elementary is a half mile from the front walk, close enough that the morning drop-off can be a walk when the weather allows it. Wadsworth runs one school district for the whole city, so a kid who starts kindergarten here never crosses a district line on the way to graduation. For a family that plans to stay, that is worth more than most of what shows up on a spec sheet.

Durling Park is eight tenths of a mile the other way, on East Boyer Street: pickleball and tennis courts, a basketball court, a ball field, a playground, a pavilion with grills.

The family redid the upstairs bath, which is the kind of thing you want already done when you move in with a kid who has to be at school by eight.

Out back, and around the corner

Somebody in this house is going to claim the sunroom.

Light on three sides and its own fireplace. In the last family it was hers, and she did not share it much. Whoever moves in next will find their own use for it, work, reading, homework while dinner cooks, but somebody is going to plant a flag in it inside a week.

The yard is built for a long Saturday. The fort by the back fence has a working crane for hauling buckets of pea gravel up to the window, a speaking tube to shout orders down to the ground crew, and a climbing wall that keeps anybody out who lacks the nerve of a four-year-old. The sign on the front says BEWARE OF PIRATES, and it is not kidding.

The fire pit has done more s'mores than anyone has counted.

And one thing the photos cannot show: a secret room on the second floor. Kids find it on their first visit and never stop asking to sleep in it.

Five minutes by car gets you to Pine Valley, eighteen holes on Reimer Road, which is close enough to work on the short game on a weeknight. Memorial Park has a free eighteen-hole disc golf course six minutes away.

The YMCA is a mile and a half, with two indoor pools, an outdoor pool for summer, and four indoor pickleball courts.

Wadsworth runs CityLink, its own fiber internet, for whoever in the house works from home.

Pine Valley Golf Course in Wadsworth from the air: fairways, mature trees, and a pond, with the town beyond — Pine Valley Golf Course · Reimer Road, Wadsworth

The front of the house under the two hundred-year-old oaks, with a thirty foot rope swing hanging from the larger one — Front of the home · look for the thirty foot swing in the big oak

The front walk and the 428 lamp post, front door beyond — The front walk

Red Japanese maple and mulched beds along the side of the house — Side yard landscaping

Flowering shrub against the white siding — Spring bloom by the front windows

The driveway, basketball hoop, and the detached two-car garage — Driveway and detached garage

The black front door with a wreath, looking out to the yard — Front door

Foyer with hardwood floors and the staircase to the second floor — Foyer and stairs

Living room with a gray sectional and the stone fireplace — Living room

Living room from the fireplace side, television above the mantel — Living room and fireplace

Dining room with a round table, a red hutch, and the kitchen beyond — Dining room

Dining room from the kitchen doorway — Dining room toward the front windows

Kitchen with white cabinets, stainless range and microwave — Kitchen

Kitchen sink under the window, dishwasher and stainless refrigerator — Kitchen, sink and window

Breakfast nook with a checkered tablecloth by the window — Breakfast nook

The backyard, brick patio and Pirates fort seen from the kitchen window — View from the kitchen window

Four-season sunroom, sliding door to the patio, tile floor — Four-season sunroom

Sunroom with its own fireplace, sectional, and windows on three sides — Sunroom and fireplace

Primary bedroom with two windows and a reading chair — Primary bedroom

Primary bedroom from the doorway — Primary bedroom, from the hall

Upstairs full bath with white vanity, round mirror and black sconces — Upstairs full bath

Upstairs bath, round mirror and tub — Upstairs bath, tub side

Tub and shower with dark subway tile and a wood surround — Tub and shower

Bedroom with a white bed frame and two windows — Bedroom 3

Bedroom with a black bed frame and built-in shelving — Bedroom 4

Bedroom 4 with the built-in dresser and shelves — Bedroom 4, built-ins

Bath with vanity and toilet under the sloped ceiling — Bath

Office with board-and-batten walls, a black desk and a window to the yard — Office

Lower-level bath with a dark vanity and round mirror — Lower-level bath

Finished lower level used as an art and craft room, drafting table and work table — Lower-level craft room

Backyard with the Pirates fort, slide, fire pit and the barn-style shed — Backyard, Pirates fort and shed

Before you decide

Thirty photos can't tell you how this house feels to stand in.

This page has thirty photos of 428 Crestwood Ave, and none of them can tell you how the house feels when you are standing in it. Photos flatter every house. A wide lens makes a small room look bigger, and a sunny afternoon makes any yard look good. That is true here, and of every other listing you look at tonight.

So take your time, and bring the friend who tells you the hard truth. Careful and slow are two different things, though. A house that is right for you is usually right for somebody else too.

When you come, stand in the sunroom on a bright morning, and ask to see the secret room. You can look at a photo of a lake all day and still not know how cold the water is. Book the showing.

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Amy Hoes

Team Leader · Showcase Home Group at eXp Realty

3565 Medina Rd, Medina

Her story · as told to Mimi Vanderhaven magazine

Nearly twenty years in Medina, and a team built to answer first.

Amy Hoes has sold homes in Medina for close to twenty years, and the strategy has not changed much: pair the newest tools with disciplined market knowledge and the kind of service where a client keeps the same agent from the first showing to the closing table. What has changed is the size of what she built around it…

Read the rest of Amy’s story

Showcase Home Group at eXp Realty is now a 50-agent team based on Medina Road, and by the team's own count it sells more than 400 homes a year with close to 100 transactions pending at any given time, more than double the next Medina-based team.

It is a family operation. Her husband Kurt manages the numbers. Her daughter Atalie works on the team. And the way they use AI is the part that caught our eye: not captions and listing descriptions, but systems built into the operation of the business that read complex documents, track patterns across hundreds of deals, and remember what solved a late-night problem last time so the next one gets solved faster. Knowledge gained by one agent is shared by all of them, while the client still deals with one person the whole way through.

She also watches the Southwest Florida second-home market for buyers who think in decades, and her team's advice to a Medina seller is the simplest line in the article: wonder what your home is worth, give them a call, and someone will come out and tell you.

We use AI heavily. A lot of agents use it for basic tasks like writing captions or listing descriptions. We embed AI into our operational systems.
Amy Hoes, Showcase Home Group at eXp Realty

Reported by Patricia Nugent for Mimi Vanderhaven magazine, photograph by Adrienne Rose. The figures are the team's own, as told to the magazine.

The home

A 1950 cape cod on a third of an acre, with a four-season sunroom off the back.

This is a white cape cod on Crestwood Avenue in Wadsworth, with two large oak trees out front. Four bedrooms, two full baths and a half, and 2,430 finished square feet on two floors.

The four-season sunroom off the back has its own fireplace and windows on three sides, and the seller's wife thought of it as her room, for the natural light. The kitchen has white cabinets, stainless appliances, and a breakfast nook whose window faces the front yard and the street. The living room has the second fireplace. The dining room is between the kitchen and the living room.

Upstairs, the full bath was redone with a subway-tile tub surround and a wood-trimmed shower. The lower level has a finished craft room with its own bath. Out back: a brick patio, a fire pit, the Pirates fort with a slide, a barn-style shed, and a detached two-car garage with a room above it.

Written by Medina Homes Guide from the seller's notes and the photos on this page. The county's own records are further down the page, labeled separately.

Bedrooms: 4 (county record)
Bathrooms: 2 full, 1 half (county record)
Finished space: 2,430 sq ft above grade, plus 375 sq ft finished in the basement (county record)
Year built: 1950 · remodeled 2017 (county record)
Stories: 2 (county record)
Fireplaces: 3 (county record): living room, sunroom, and one more
Garage: Detached, 2-car, with a room above (former owner)
Basement: Full, 1,182 sq ft, 375 finished (county record)
Lot: 0.34 acre (county record)
Cooling: Central air (county record)
Sunroom: Four-season, with fireplace (former owner)
School district: Wadsworth City School District

Improvements the owner reports

What's been done, in the owner's words.

2017Remodel on the county's record. The auditor lists 2017 as the year remodeled for this parcel.Medina County Auditor · Dwellings
2018 to 2024Upstairs full bath redone: dark subway-tile tub surround, wood-trimmed shower, new vanity and black fixtures.Former owner
2018 to 2024Lower level finished as an art and craft room with its own bath.Former owner

Owner supplied, not verified by the county, except where the county's own record is cited. Where a permit exists, the City of Wadsworth Building Department is the record.

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The neighborhood

Wadsworth

Wadsworth is a city in the southeast corner of Medina County. It runs its own schools, its own fire department, and city water and sewer. Crestwood Avenue is an established street of mid-century homes on generous lots. The Wadsworth page answers the practical questions: schools, utilities, taxes, and getting around.

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GovernmentOhio city, elected mayor and council
SchoolsWadsworth City School District
Fire and EMSCity of Wadsworth Fire Department
Water and sewerMunicipal water and public sanitary sewer
Highway accessSR 57, SR 94, US 224, and SR 261

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428 Crestwood Ave

The swing on the big oak comes with one rule.

5:30 coffee, and the sun coming up over the house across the street.

Kindergarten to graduation in one district.

Somebody in this house is going to claim the sunroom.

Thirty photos can't tell you how this house feels to stand in.

Book a showing of this house.

Amy Hoes

Nearly twenty years in Medina, and a team built to answer first.

A 1950 cape cod on a third of an acre, with a four-season sunroom off the back.

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