REAL ESTATE AUCTION - 196+/-ACRES OFFERED IN 10 TRACTS IN DEKALB COUNTY, INDIANA
4194 CR 64, Auburn, IN 46706
Mon, Oct 27, 6:00 PM EASTERN
Home w/ Pond & Barns * Productive Tillable Land * Woods for Hunting * Potential Building Sites
Jerry Ehle
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REAL ESTATE AUCTION - 196+/-ACRES OFFERED IN 10 TRACTS IN DEKALB COUNTY, INDIANA
4194 CR 64, Auburn, IN 46706 - DeKalb County, Indiana
Owner: Nathan, Rachel, Naaman & Malinda Eicher
Mon, Oct 27, 6:00 PM EASTERN
• HOME W/POND & BARNS • PRODUCTIVE TILLABLE LAND • WOODS FOR HUNTING • POTENTIAL BUILDING SITES
OPEN HOUSE/INSPECTION DATES
Saturday October 11, 2025 from 10am-1pm
Saturday October 18, 2025 from 10am-1pm
Tuesday October 21, 2025 from 5-7pm
PROPERTY LOCATION
4194 CR 64, Auburn, IN 46706
AUCTION LOCATION
Harlan Christian Community Center
12616 Spencerville Rd, Harlan, IN 46743
TRACT DESCRIPTIONS
Tract 1: 18± ac The Home: 3,605 ± Square Feet Built in 2021, this custom-designed residence was crafted with no detail missed. The exterior features a stone facade with cedar shake vinyl siding, a durable steel roof, and professional landscaping accented by stamped concrete walkways that wrap from the front to the back. The covered entrance with a large porch creates an inviting space to relax and enjoy the views. Inside, the home is warm, bright, and thoughtfully designed, with etched wood trim and barn-style soft-closing doors throughout. The custom kitchen, designed by Matthew Schmucker, features ample counter space, bar-style seating, a large sink area, and beautiful wood beams that frame the space. The cabinets are custom-built with crown molding, soft-closing doors, and drawers, elevating both function and design. The kitchen also includes a walk-in pantry with its own sink and higher-end laminate flooring for durability and style. The open layout includes a large dining area and spacious family room, filled with natural light from expansive windows overlooking the pond and woods. A sliding glass door opens to the stamped concrete patio, where a built-in gas line for grilling and another line for a future outdoor fireplace make it perfect for entertaining. The main level also includes a mudroom entrance with half bath and laundry area, a solid countertop sink just off the kitchen, and plenty of storage with a large coat closet and boot room. The master suite offers a walk-in closet and a luxurious bathroom with a large tub and shower. Additional bedrooms include one currently used as a sewing room and another with a pass-through to a bonus attic space, ideal for an office or kids' playroom. A small office adds even more flexibility. The walkout basement, accessed by wide double concrete steps, provides a massive unfinished area with separately zoned in-floor heating in the concrete. Already partially finished, the basement includes three bedrooms, a full bath, a laundry room, and bonus storage areas, offering tremendous potential to customize further. Throughout the home, you'll appreciate how bright and airy the living spaces are, perfectly designed to capture natural light and frame the beauty of the surrounding pond and woods. Wildlife is a daily sight, adding to the peaceful setting.
The Equestrian Facilities: The property includes a custom-built 46' x 100' x 16' horse barn, thoughtfully designed for both practicality and style. The barn features six oversized 14' x 16' box stalls, each equipped with automatic waterers, interior hardwood walls, and galvanized steel stall fronts that are as durable as they are attractive. Additional amenities include a washroom with an electric water heater, a separate utility room, a 16' x 16' shoeing/storage stall with drain, and the barn is plumbed for a bathroom with its own exterior door. A large feed room with a 14-foot overhead door adds convenience. For storage, the barn boasts a 42' x 100' hay loft with 3/4-inch subflooring and drop-down access to each stall. Access is convenient from all sides with 12-foot double sliding doors at the front, sides, and rear, plus double sliding doors at each end of the loft. Lighting is thoughtfully designed with can lights in large open areas and accent strip lighting for both style and functionality. Just off the barn is a three-paddock turnout area measuring approximately 600' x 200', complete with shelters for the horses, providing excellent space for rotation, exercise, and training.
The Hobby Barn: The second barn is a 3,588 sq. ft. fully finished and heated pole barn, perfect for equipment, vehicles, or workshop space. Features include large overhead doors, concrete floors with drain, and a finished bathroom. Upstairs provides ample storage space as well as a well and water softener. The barn is powered with 200-amp service and 220V capabilities and includes a separate sink area with a man door. Updated lighting throughout ensures a bright, efficient, and versatile space.
Tract 2: 8± ac Potential building site with 50' owned access back to the property. This tract has some woodlands & tillable with road frontage off CR 64.
Tract 3: 4.5± ac This mostly wooded tract has great road frontage off CR 64 & a cleared space for a potential building site. This would make a great hunting tract or a nice potential building site.
Tract 4: 4.5± ac This mostly wooded tract has great road frontage off CR 64. This would make a great hunting tract or potential building site.
Tract 5: 40.5± ac Prime quality tillable land with road frontage off CR 64. The soil composition includes Pewamo silty clay, Glynwood loam & Blount loam. What a great opportunity to have productive tillable ground in DeKalb County.
Tract 6: 10± ac Take a look at this beautiful potential building site. Has the great level land up front for a home & the timber backdrop for your home. The woods are a great hunting ground or perfect for just exploring. Many opportunities on this ground.
Tract 7: 21± ac This tract is mostly tillable land with soils that consist of Pewamo silty clay, Glynwood loam & Blount loam. This tract could make a great building site, just tucked back behind the woods. This land has a pre-determined septic system site. Keep it as a tillable tract or make it into your next homestead.
Tract 8: 23.5± ac What an excellent blend of tillable, woodlands & potential building site. This tract has been pre-determined with a septic system site & backup. Great setting for your next homestead. With excellent road frontage off CR 64 & 39 makes this tract special. The woodland is enrolled in Classified Forest to help reduce the taxes.
Tract 9: 50.5± ac An excellent tillable tract! The land is composed of Pewamo silty clay, Glynwood loam & Blount loam. This tract has its own access to get back along the ditch. With nearly 90' of road frontage off CR 39, this tract has enough to get equipment back to your large tillable land. Combine with Tract 5 to make over 90+/- acres of excellent tillable land.
Tract 10: 15.5± ac This swing tract is an excellent addition to any adjoining land. This tract is mostly woodland & would make a great hunting tract with its abundance of wildlife. This tract can only be purchased by an adjacent landowner or in combination with Auction Tracts 1, 2 or 5.
Terms & Conditions:
PROCEDURE: The property will be offered in 10 individual tracts, any combination of tracts (Subject to "Swing" Tract Limitations) and as a total 196+/- acre unit. There will be open bidding on all tracts and combinations during the auction as determined by the Auctioneer. Bids on tracts, tract combinations and the total property may compete.
DOWN PAYMENT: 10% down payment at close of the auction for individual tracts or combinations of tracts. The down payment may be made in the form of cashier's check, personal check, or corporate check. YOUR BIDDING IS NOT CONDITIONAL UPON FINANCING, so be sure you have arranged financing, if needed, and are capable of paying cash at closing.
ACCEPTANCE OF BID PRICES: All successful bidders will be required to enter into Purchase Agreements at the auction site immediately following the close of the auction. All final bid prices are subject to the Sellers' acceptance or rejection. The terms of this agreement and any addendum are non-negotiable.
EVIDENCE OF TITLE: Seller shall provide an owner's title insurance policy in the amount of the purchase price.
DEED: Seller shall provide Warranty Deed(s).
CLOSING: The balance of the real estate purchase price is due at closing. The targeted closing date will be approximately 30 days after the auction.
POSSESSION: Buyer(s) shall receive possession of the home and barns on TRACT 1: 180 days after the closing day (seller to pay the monthly rent to the buyer). Tracts 2-10 will receive possession at day of Closing. The tenant farmer has the rights to the tillable farmland for the 2025 crop year and the seller is to receive any payment from the tenant farmer.
REAL ESTATE TAXES: Real estate taxes will be pro-rated to the date of closing.
DITCH ASSESSMENTS: Buyer shall pay all ditch assessments due after closing.
BUILDING SITES: For purposes of building sites, all tracts are being offered as non-reviewed sell-offs by the DeKalb County Planning Commission. It will be the Buyer's responsibility to apply for any Platting and Building permitting required by the DeKalb County Plan Commission, DeKalb County Building, and Health Departments.
PROPERTY INSPECTION: Each potential Bidder is responsible for conducting, at their own risk, their own independent inspections, investigations, inquiries, and due diligence concerning the property. Inspection dates have been scheduled and will be staffed with auction personnel. Further, Seller disclaims any and all responsibility for Bidder's safety during any physical inspection of the property. No party shall be deemed an invitee of the property by virtue of the offering of the property for sale.
TRACT MAP(S) AND ACREAGE: All tract map(s), tract acreage, dimensions and proposed boundaries are approximate and have been estimated based on current legal descriptions and/or aerial photos. They are not provided as survey products and are not intended to depict or establish authoritative boundaries or locations.
SURVEY: The Seller shall provide a new survey where there is no existing legal description or where new boundaries are created by the tract divisions in this auction. Any need for a new survey shall be determined solely by the Seller. Seller and successful bidder shall each pay half (50:50) of the cost of the survey. The type of survey performed shall be at the Seller's option and sufficient for providing title insurance. Combination purchases will receive a perimeter survey only.
EASEMENTS: All real estate is being sold subject to any existing recorded easements.
AGENCY: Schrader Real Estate and Auction of Fort Wayne, LLC and its representatives are exclusive agents of the Seller.
DISCLAIMER AND ABSENCE OF WARRANTIES: All information contained in this brochure and all related materials are subject to the terms and conditions outlined in the Purchase Agreement. The property is being sold on an "AS IS, WHERE IS" basis, and no warranty or representation, either expressed or implied, concerning the property is made by the Seller or the Auction Company. All sketches and dimensions in the brochure are approximate. Each potential bidder is responsible for conducting his or her own independent inspections, investigations, inquiries, and due diligence concerning the property. The information contained in this brochure is subject to verification by all parties relying on it. No liability for its accuracy, errors, or omissions is assumed by the Seller or the Auction Company. Conduct of the auction and increments of bidding are at the direction and discretion of the Auctioneer. The Seller and Selling Agents reserve the right to preclude any person from bidding if there is any question as to the person's credentials, fitness, etc. All decisions of the Auctioneer are final.
ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE THE DAY OF THE SALE TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER PRINTED MATERIAL OR ANY OTHER ORAL STATEMENTS MADE.
