The Country of the Pointed Firs: Want to Live in Maine?

[BurtWorm]

My mother is selling her late-colonial home in Day's Ferry, across from Bath on the Kennebec River so she can move into a managed co-op for retired people. Her home would be ideal for a couple (especially if one or both work at home--it's a great house for a writer) or a family with young children. She's had a few people look but no one take. I'm trying to help her out because the home is too much for her to maintain now. But she has loved living in Day's Ferry for the past 10 years. It's a great, close-knit community. People visit you with soup when they hear you're sick. Kids go skating on a pond across the little-traveled road in the winter, swimming off a dock at the bottom of a hill across the main road.

I won't say more unless anyone here is interested. You can PM me or ask me questions here.

[BurtWorm]

1. Clarification

She doesn't own the dock. It's a community dock.

Pictures and more info can be found here:

http://sharondrake.com/sd/property.cfm?PropertyID=61015

[bif]

2. Cool place.

I love Maine. We vacationed there for a couple years in a row. You shouldn't have a hard time selling.

[BurtWorm]

3. It is.

It's been on the market since May. She's had a few nibbles, no bites. I don't understand why, except that the economy nationally sucks.

[papau]

4. I am selling a house in the north words of Michigan - and no real bids

Because of the location in the middle of a forest on a river away from everything its valued at 100K - nut the best offer has been 60k

this economy sucks.

Please PM me with details - length of frontage on river - is there a dock already, if house not close to river can one build a structure on river, and price of course -

thanks

[Xithras]

5. Mmm...I wish.

Most of my family hails from the area around Bath (though I'm a born and raised Californian) and I would LOVE to get out of this rat-race and move nearer to the rest of my relatives. The job, the kids, and the cold-hating wife all make sure that'll never happen though :-(

[BurtWorm]

7. Too bad! You'd love this house.

It's great in the summer, but winter in Maine is another matter. You have to really like winter to live there year round. And yet, the summers--and the springs and falls, in my opinion--really make up for it.

[MaineDem]

6. I love Day's Ferry

Gorgeous house but way out of my price range, I'm afraid. :)

Good luck on selling it.

[BurtWorm]

8. It's out of mine, too.

I wouldn't buy it just yet anyway, even if I had the money, because I'm tied to NYC (not unhappily, I might add). But if circumstances were a little different...

I grew up in Brunswick and I love Maine. Maybe someday I'll move back.

[bif]

9. We vacationed on Westport Island

which I believe is just east of there. Absolutely beautiful area. We woke up to the sounds of of lobster boats 20 feet off shore and went to be to the sounds of bell buoys and harbor seals.

[BurtWorm]

10. That is a beautiful place.

That whole coast is unbelievably beautiful, especially in the summer, but actually, all year round. (The bugs suck, though.)

[BurtWorm]

11. Kick

[maxanne]

12. what a gorgeous place

BurtWorm. That's a great area, too. You have peace and quiet if you want, and activity,too. Always something interesting going on around Bowdoin.

I hope someone falls madly in love with it - and doesn't change a thing.