This highly efficient, solar-powered home paid only $400 in total electric bills for the entire year of 2019! Solar panels on the roof generate most of the energy needed to run this home. With rising energy costs, this home will always be very affordable especially compared to other homes of similar size and construction. But efficiency is not the only attraction: this home offers a family-friendly open floor plan. Privacy is assured with the family space separating the bedrooms in a 3-way split bedroom layout. There are ceiling fans in all the bedrooms and great room. Everyone will enjoy the large, screened lanai with great water views of a nature-rich pond and conservation area behind. You will see turtles and wading birds plus the occasional otter splashing in the pond. The garage is 2 cars wide with an extra deep bay that could accommodate a 3rd car or a great workshop. The River Bend neighborhood offers a fitness center, club-house with meeting or party space, a kitchen, community pool, dog park, tennis courts and playgrounds. Ruskin offers local and chain restaurants, shopping, a public park with access to Tampa Bay - and a first-run drive-in movie theater. Conveniently located approximately 30 minutes from Tampa, Saint Petersburg and Sarasota, Ruskin is a growing family oriented community on US-41 with easy access to I-75.