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This house in Coram is for sale.

You and your plastic bins can hang out on this deck.

This house in Coram is for sale.

A great starter home for you and your stuffed animals.

This house in Coram is for sale.

Dirty garage floors: What a selling point!

This home in Coram is for sale.

Now this is what you'd call a handyman's dream!

This home in Coram is for sale.

Couldn't someone have picked up the paper?

The bad rap on Long Island is that there’s no affordable housing. Not true.

Think condo and two things may come to mind -- neighbors on the other side of the wall and restrictions set by homeowner associations.

But a three-bedroom condo on the market in Middle Island is a detached two-floor home with its own grounds, where one can probably put up a statue without condo cops coming around.

Audrey Brandt, an agent at Century 21 Rustic Realty in Coram, said some condo developments limit weight of pets allowed, bar statues in the front yard and allow only “cookie cutter” looks, but Strathmore on the Green is not one of them.

“It’s not the land of no,” she said.

Brandt said the house could be perfect for a golfer. The Spring Lake Golf Club is about a 20-minute walk away, but of course, there might be golfers addicted to the sport. "You cut through someone's back yard," she joked, "it would be even faster."

The house, which has a large back deck and doesn’t look its 17 years, is listed at $279,900. The monthly maintenance is $250.

This home in Coram is for sale.

Buy it, if you dare.

The bad rap on Long Island is that there’s no affordable housing. Not true.

There are two oddities in the ranch on Margaret Drive in Coram.

First, there's no door between the living room and den but a sort of floor-to-ceiling opening that looks like an upside-down pyramid, with the pointy end chopped off, all framed in dark timber.

"The lady that owned the house prior was a real estate agent and . . . she went to some place and saw a similar arch design so when she got back home, she told her husband, 'You have to do the house like this,' " current owner Frances Carr said.

The architectural feature was part of the charm that had convinced Carr to buy the house and has been a much-discussed topic by visitors, who stop and stare once they get through the front door. Initially, her agent, associate broker Steven Azzopardi of RE/MAX Integrity Leaders, thought it was a huge mirror.

The other oddity is in a basement closet. "It's our stairs to nowhere," Carr said.

Actually, the steps in the past went between the basement and garage, but the first-floor opening was sealed up after the last owner turned the garage into the den.

The three-bedroom, two-bath ranch goes for $296, 999. "The house, how it's designed, kind of embraces you," Carr said. "It's not too big that you feel lost."

This house in Coram is on the market.

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