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Situated in the heart of Cape Town's City Bowl. This, 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom house is set in the quiet suburb of Devil's Peak. It is ideally set on a large square with a huge secured childrens' park in the middle. The suburb boasts all the amenities of Derry street within walking distance, including Spar, hair salon, and trendy little cafes and restaurants.
The park in the square in front of the house is a favourite meeting place for the locals of the area, especially around the festive season. The close knit community of the square also results in a good neighbourhood watch scheme which is currently very active in the area.
The house is controlled as a connected living house. This means that many of the electrical and security features can be controlled over the internet or on your favourite smartphone! Control the Aircon, Alarm, Entry PINs, Sprinkler etc even when you are out of the house!
Entry to the property can be gained via either pedestrian gate or Garage.
The double tandem garage can comfortably fit 2 regular vehicles in tandem.
There is a small, kept garden in front of the house which includes a fish pond with goldfish breeding and living naturally. There are also a couple of frogs that frequent the pond.
The ground floor is introduced via sliding doors coming off from the front garden. The layout of this area is flexible. The space is big enough to create open plan TV Area, Lounge area and Dining area.
Just past the double volume which occupies the first half of the entrance, there is a bathroom to the left which includes a bath, shower, toilet and sink.
In front of you there is an open plan kitchen which has working oven and hob.
On the right, there is the 2nd double bedroom.
Behind the kitchen is a scullery area. Through this area, a door leads to the back stoep.
The back stoep is tiled in black slate and includes seating area and braai place. Around the back to the left, there is an outside storage shed.
Around the house to the right, as you leave the back door, is a herb garden passage leading back around to the front of the house
Utilities are provided as Pre-paid electricity with all council rates for your own account.
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The property is surrounded by Electric fence. There is a state of the art alarm and connected home system.
Keyless locks. The house is secured via Keypad deadbolts. You will receive your own online PIN Code Registration Control Panel.
CCTV - There are 3 security cameras situated in key areas around the house. These do not include coverage of any private areas (bedrooms, bathrooms, living areas) but rather cover the external areas of the house to detect intrusion. The CCTV Camera Control Panel is managed through the same system as the Locks and can be managed via your own Online Control Panel
Garage Entry via remote (CCTV camera in operation in Garage) or via Keypad pin.
Main pedestrian gate (CCTV camera in operation in Front Garden) either via doorbell or pin code.
Alarm system controlled via remote or PC/Smartphone App.
There are facilities to connect the system to Armed Response, however this will need to be arranged directly with ADT for your own account..
We will send over a standard contract we use for our lettings. Here are some of the important parts.
1. The minimun contract term is 1 calendar year.
2. Template contract available on request.
3. Rent to be paid monthly.
4. Deposit of 2 months rent required.
5. The floor of the house is original yellow wood, and hence pets not allowed.
6. The property is offered unfurnished.
7. Municipal Accounts must be settled within 30 days.
8. NO PETS: We are really sorry...As pet lovers, we know how much your pet means to you. Due to the original Yellow wood floors throughout the ground floor, pets are not allowed.
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Devil's Peak was originally known as Charles Mountain. The English term Devil's Peak is a 19th-century translation from the Dutch Duiwels Kop, and supposedly comes from the folk-tale about a Dutch man called Jan van Hunks, a prodigious pipe smoker who lived at the foot of the mountain circa 1700. He was forced by his wife to leave the house whenever he smoked his pipe. One day, while smoking on the slopes of the peak, he met a mysterious stranger who also smoked. They each bragged of how much they smoked and so they fell into a pipe-smoking contest. The stranger turned out to be the Devil and Van Hunks eventually won the contest, but not before the smoke that they had made had covered the mountain, forming the table cloth cloud. The story was captured by the 19th century poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti in his poem Jan van Hunks (alternatively called The Dutchman's Wager). It has also been claimed that the name is a corruption of Duifespiek ("Dove's Peak") to Duiwelspiek ("Devil's Peak"), since the Dutch the words for devil and dove are relatively close in sound. The Dutch word "Duiwelspiek" has been the common Afrikaans language name for the mountain and the suburb on the east side of the city bowl. The name is also thought to have been derived from the mountain's 'three pronged' spear shape, which is reminiscent of the spear held by the Devil in many images.
Devil's Peak is part of the mountainous backdrop to Cape Town, South Africa. When looking at Table Mountain from the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, or when looking at the standard picture postcard view of the mountain, the skyline is from left to right: the spire of Devil's Peak, the flat mesa of Table Mountain, the dome of Lion's Head and Signal Hill. The central districts of Cape Town are nestled within this natural amphitheatre. The city grew out of a settlement founded on the shore below the mountains in 1652 by Jan van Riebeeck, for the Dutch East India Company. Some of the first farms in the Cape were established on the slopes of Devils Peak, along the Liesbeek River. Devil's Peak stands 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) high, less than Table Mountain's 1,087 metres (3,566 ft). One can walk to the top (western slopes provide the easiest approach) but the ascent is more pleasant and safer outside of the cold, wet, winter months of May to August.