Off-grid cottage on remote Florida island hits market for $799,000

• A 1985 three-bedroom, two-bathroom cottage on Cook Island is up for sale
• The property is only accessible by boat, kayak or seaplane and has no utilities 
• Cook Island was settled by Captain Percy Cook in 1923

For those looking for the perfect property for peace and quiet, a remote 1980s beach cottage on a Florida island has hit the market for less than $1 million. 

Built in 1985, the three-bedroom, two-bathroom house is located on Cook Island and is completely off the grid. 

Since there are no utilities on the island, the cottage runs on solar power and uses water from a rain cistern.  

The 704 square feet of living space is currently priced at $799,000. 

The cottage is surrounded by sandy beaches only accessible by boat, kayak or seaplane. 

Listed by Coldwell Banker Schmitt RE Co. Lower Keys Office, the oceanfront property also has a dock permit. 

The bedrooms have wooden flooring and beams across the rooms as well as big windows for natural light. 

In contrast, one of the bathrooms in the property has a stone-walled shower and tiled flooring. 

The Zillow listing reads: ‘Experience real tropical island ‘off the grid’ living here at Cook Island beach cottage – situated on an offshore island near Big Pine Key. Sandy beach and breathtaking views of the Atlantic Ocean make this island getaway the ultimate for privacy and Keys living.’ 

Cook Island was settled by Captain Percy Cook in 1923 and was used as a fish camp for vacationers from the north for years.

This listing comes days after a 80-acre property with three, three-bed homes across 5,300 square feet, built into the earth with thick stone walls and disguised with grass roofs for $1.1 million in Wisconsin went up for sale. 

Photos of the compound show its sweeping tract of land, thick with trees for lumber, and space for a smallholding of livestock and gun range. 

The compound’s current owner Jonathan Allen told USA TODAY: ‘If people were around, (or) are old enough to remember the fear of Y2K, I think (the families) were just very strategic and smart.’

He said the previous owners were ‘self-sufficient’. 

The property is the ‘ultimate in preparation’ with two wells, a machine shop, a gun range and a separate building that used to house a diesel generator.