$595,000

Let’s start with the good news: the sellers are offering incentives that could shrink your monthly payment. Your budget just exhaled! Now, about the house. Open concept sounded great. Then everybody ended up in the same room. The work call is competing with the TV. The dining table is also the desk, the craft station and the place the mail goes to wait. And hosting Thanksgiving means sliding the couch out of the way. This house fixes that. The kitchen, breakfast area and family room are open to each other, so the everyday gathering spot is still there. Whoever’s cooking stays part of the conversation. But there’s also a separate living room, a separate dining room and a home office on the main level. Host Thanksgiving at a real table. Take the work call without the TV in the background, then close the office door at 5:00 and leave work in there. Claim the living room as the quiet spot where a book actually gets finished. Fill the house with friends and everyone finds their own corner. Then head downstairs. The whole basement is finished and ready for whatever comes next: movie nights, a game room, a home gym, a hobby space, a second office, or a place for overnight guests to spread out. And the treadmill finally gets a home that isn’t the corner of the bedroom. Now step out back. This is our favorite part. Morning coffee on the screened in porch. Dinner outside when Georgia finally hands us one of those perfect evenings. Room for the dogs to run. Mature trees and established landscaping give it the kind of shade you can’t plant overnight. Fair warning: friends who stop by “for an hour” will still be hanging out at 10. Riverstone Plantation is the kind of neighborhood that still does neighborhood things. Traditions like Cookies with Santa, Pool Parties and more. Evening walks where you come home knowing a few extra plans. Lake Lanier is close for weekend boat days, GA-400 makes the commute easy, and shopping and dining around Forsyth County are minutes away.