Maine: Incredible Opportunity - 22 Acres, Detached 2-Car Garage + More

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A modern house on 22 wooded acres in Solon, Maine, is available for nearly $140K, but the owners are motivated to sell quickly due to personal circumstances, potentially allowing for negotiation on the price. The property includes a heated detached garage-workshop and outbuildings, with a well-maintained garden area. The discussion highlights the challenges faced by potential buyers, including the need for additional property to manage timber extraction due to the layout of the land. The area is described as community-oriented, with neighbors encouraging outdoor activities and maintaining a healthy environment for wildlife. Concerns about chemical use in gardening practices are raised, emphasizing a preference for organic methods to protect local groundwater. The conversation also touches on the broader housing market dynamics and the appeal of rural living in Maine, with participants sharing personal anecdotes and experiences related to home ownership and community life.
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cronxeh said:
What do you mean wide panorama.. Its a 2kb file mang.. :frown:
Just that if you have your windows set fairly narrow and you click through the thumbnail, you might end up with an image that won't size to your display. I don't know how everybody's browser and OS handle this stuff... :biggrin:
 
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  • #92
turbo-1 said:
Just that if you have your windows set fairly narrow and you click through the thumbnail, you might end up with an image that won't size to your display. I don't know how everybody's browser and OS handle this stuff... :biggrin:

That thing looks like a tiny green bug on my 48" HDTV screen.. even after zooming in and getting up close to the screen all I see is lego cubes of the pixelated image..

Do you have a 1920x1080 version?
 
  • #93
No plans to move to Maine, but I might visit Baxter this weekend, and hope to walk the knife edge on Katahdin! Weather forecast's looking fairly good so far - fingers crossed.
 
  • #94
Gokul43201 said:
No plans to move to Maine, but I might visit Baxter this weekend, and hope to walk the knife edge on Katahdin! Weather forecast's looking fairly good so far - fingers crossed.
Color me jealous! My arthritic knees long ago stopped that. I could still climb the steeper ascents, probably, but I'd need a helicopter ride to get back down. Down kills! The Knife Edge is a wonderful walk, with sides so steep that you can't see the slopes most places, so it looks more exciting than it really is. Last time I did that one, a warden asked if we could get across the Knife Edge and safely down the other peak (to a safe elevation, anyway) because there was a squall-line headed our way with lightening. Dramatic weather is very pretty from up there.
 
  • #95
More good neighbor news! The wife of my friend who sells gravel, sand, manure, etc wanted to start growing garlic, so I gave her enough bulbs to get started last fall. This year, I had a bumper crop, and gave her, her best friend, and two other ladies who volunteer at our town's community garden enough German and Russian garlic so that they could all have large enough garlic crops for next season to keep themselves self-sustainable.

I visited my friend's staging-area/sand-gravel pit/screening plant, and took a pail-ful of material from a pile that is comprised of clean coarse sand and pea-stone. I tried filling and edging a short section of pavers with that, and it was perfect, so I called him and asked him to bring me a load (16 cu yds in his big Peterbilt), and before I hung up, I asked him how much the material would cost, so I could have cash available to pay him, and he told me that his he and his wife thought I should get a load of that material for free, and that he'd try to drop it off before noon tomorrow.

I fully expected to pay $250 or more for that large load of twice-screened material. Good deeds come back around to "haunt" you, around here.

My neighbor who (with his daughter) helped to build our raised-bed rock garden and paths is getting a delivery of some nice 12' hemlock logs on Saturday. His (shared with a neighbor) Ford tractor is out of commission until at least next week, so I'll be heading down there with my tractor to unload the logs and stage them on the log ramps feeding his sawmill.
 
  • #96
It's official! The neighbors who want to move hate me. They were insulted by my offer on their property, AND they are ticked off because I made the offer to their broker and not to them. How ignorant! An offer made to a broker is legally binding - an offer made directly to a seller is not. The vented about all this to another neighbor.
 
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Tonight, I called my friend who gave me a 16 yard load of mixed sand and pea-stone. I had given his wife lots of Russian and German garlic last year, and then again this year, so she could establish her crops and spread the wealth. They didn't charge me for the material that I used (in part) to dress the walk-ways that my wife and I are building walks as we landscape. He has lots of trucks, heavy equipment, and heavy trailers. I told him that I'd be glad to top-dress his wife's garden with manure if they wanted to add lots of organics this fall, and then deep-till it. He just has to show up with a heavy trailer, chains and binders to get my tractor to his place, and I'll groom that garden-spot.

His wife gleans the garden, and then let's her horses into feed on the plants, so I'll wait until the horses have had a good feed on the plants until we arrange a good tilling.

This is a wonderful place to live. The most satisfying actions we can engage in are driven not by barter or "you owe me" attitudes, but by thoughts of "what can I do for my friend?". It WILL come back to you. We all have too much interconnectedness and respect for one another.
 
  • #98
We have a new neighbor. The people who are moving back to Mass sold to a 62-year-old woman who breeds Yorkshire terriers. She intends to install a gated chain-link enclosure in the back of the house (downstairs) and use the finished basement to house her doggies. I haven't met her yet, but she is on-track to start moving into the place the weekend after election day. Hopefully she is a nice person. If she likes to garden, I'll use my tractor to till her garden spot (very neglected, this season).
 
  • #99
turbo-1 said:
We have a new neighbor. The people who are moving back to Mass sold to a 62-year-old woman who breeds Yorkshire terriers. She intends to install a gated chain-link enclosure in the back of the house (downstairs) and use the finished basement to house her doggies. I haven't met her yet, but she is on-track to start moving into the place the weekend after election day. Hopefully she is a nice person. If she likes to garden, I'll use my tractor to till her garden spot (very neglected, this season).
Do you know how much they sold it for?
 
  • #100
Evo said:
Do you know how much they sold it for?
No, but probably somewhere upward of what I offered them. She wanted to move here to be close (4 miles or so) from her daughter and son-in-law. At some point in your life, you start strategizing about ease of maintenance, cost of living, transportation, access to assistance if you'll need it.

I was actually a bit nervous about making a $105K cash offer on the place because real estate moves SO slowly here. Throw in the cost of heating and maintaining the place, taxes, AND insurance on an unoccupied dwelling (I checked) until it was sold, and my profit could have been minimal, unless I had some success harvesting and selling off the timber. One little problem: timber prices are depressed because demand is down due to the depressed housing/construction market. There are a LOT of factors that led to my conservative offer.
 
  • #101
Yorkies?

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  • #102
lisab said:
Yorkies?

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LOL!

Turbo, how close did you say that house was?
 
  • #103
Crazy dog lady?
 
  • #104
Evo said:
LOL!

Turbo, how close did you say that house was?
About 100 yards of mostly wooded property. Noise won't be a problem. (yip)
 
  • #105
Borek said:
Crazy dog lady?
Maybe not. Yorkies can sell for lots of $$$.
 
  • #106
Finally met the dog-lady. My wife dropped off a warm loaf of French bread there this morning, and her son answered the door and accepted it. A bit later, the lady walked down to thank us, and she had a Boston terrier puppy in her jacket. A beautiful tan (seal) variant ***** (Edit: rhymes with witch). As it turns out, the initial reports through the grapevine were inaccurate. No Yorkies. She has 6 Boston terriers, and wants to breed preferentially for the brown-and-white coats, and she has two French bulldogs. They are a pretty small breed, but can hit 20# or so. The finished basement of her house will be the dogs' quarters, and she has contracted to have a chain-link enclosure built out back, so the dogs can have a secure exercise yard right out the back door of the basement. Seems like a decent person, too.

I'll till her garden, if she wants to grow vegetables, and I'm hoping that she follows the neighborhood's unwritten policy of free access. We all allow other neighbors to hunt on our property and discharge firearms in that pursuit. Maine has a law forbidding discharging a firearm within 100 yards of an occupied dwelling without the permission of the occupants, but that can be problematic when you see a deer in your back yard and your nearest neighbor is 150 feet away. Nobody here has written permission to hunt on each others' property. We just have an understanding. The only neighbor that has any sign posting his property has a sign saying "Hunting by Permission Only". He's a hunter, but he wants to know who might be hunting on his 40+ acres. That's only fair.
 
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