Wonderful ownership opportunity for cape home in a great Essex neighborhood! Enter this 4-bedroom, 1-bathroom home through the welcoming front living room. Continue into a spacious kitchen equipped with new refrigerator and stove in 2019 and portable dishwasher in 2020. Kitchen opens up to an enclosed porch, currently used as a dining room, with newer windows and door to the sunny backyard. Updated full bathroom with linen closet next to kitchen. Convenient 1st floor primary bedroom filled with natural light. Bedroom 2 is also located on the 1st floor, off the living room. Upstairs offers 2 additional bedrooms; both could be used as a home office or storage room. Basement provides laundry, ample storage, workbench, and bulkhead exit to the front yard. Quaint back deck off the dining room leads to large fenced-in backyard with firepit area, garden, and access to a detached garage. Garage has a mechanic's pit and plenty of extra storage space for recreation and lawn/garden equipment. Shares a driveway right of way, but also has a private driveway to the right of the house. Lovingly lived in for the past 17 years and ready for new owners who can bring needed updates to the home and garage. Sold as is, this property is full of potential! Put your own updates & finishing touches on its good bones. Nestled on a lovely lot near Sand Hill Park, paths, shopping, restaurants, movie theater, and more! Come see this darling home today!