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Old 02-11-2024, 06:15 AM
 
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Great info and conversation. I'm surprised no one mentioned the EV mandates and soaring energy costs. The person who asked me to say how Mainers are suffering maybe isn't paying their own heating bills.
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Old 02-11-2024, 08:28 AM
 
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Great info and conversation. I'm surprised no one mentioned the EV mandates and soaring energy costs. The person who asked me to say how Mainers are suffering maybe isn't paying their own heating bills.
It's taking you two years to find a house in Maine, maybe the problem isn't Maine and new laws , maybe it you and your expectations, just a thought.
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Old 02-11-2024, 12:52 PM
 
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Thank you for weighing in. I appreciate what you're saying and that's exactly my approach, but I also hope to meet folks who are like-minded. I left Vermont and won't go back because of the hard left turn/policies and liberals shaming anyone who doesn't agree with their beliefs. It used to be more balanced. And I wouldn't want to live in California, WA or OR, despite there being plenty of areas that are more balanced even conservative, but who suffer at the hands of the liberal policies.

My concern is that the left leaning policies in Maine are, in fact, not representative of what most Mainers believe/want for their state and this will only get worse.
All three northern New England states have changed over the last 20 years. More people. More crime. More congestion. More busy-body government.

I don't see this trend reversing.
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Old 02-11-2024, 04:57 PM
 
Location: Forests of Maine
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... I'm surprised no one mentioned the EV mandates and soaring energy costs.
I doubt these 'mandates' will hold.

I have been watching Governor Mills begging for more Federal tax money and re-labeling it for other things. Small towns have been getting some of this money for installing EV charging stations. Old Town is near me, they just installed eight EV charging stations using that money.

I do not really care. We have solar power for our home, and we use that to recharge our plugin car.



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... The person who asked me to say how Mainers are suffering maybe isn't paying their own heating bills.
Our firewood delivery went up a lot last year.

What was costing us $700 a year, is not costing $900 a year.
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Old 02-11-2024, 04:59 PM
 
Location: Forests of Maine
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It's taking you two years to find a house in Maine, maybe the problem isn't Maine and new laws , maybe it you and your expectations, just a thought.
The vast majority of Maine is open and unoccupied land. Just buy a few hundred acres and build a house, done.

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Old 02-11-2024, 06:42 PM
 
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People in Maine are smarter then in the rest of the Country.

I'm pretty sure that's spelled "peeple."
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Old 02-12-2024, 07:53 AM
 
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The vast majority of Maine is open and unoccupied land. Just buy a few hundred acres and build a house, done.

LOL, kinda my point, I don't mean to take a shot at anyone but two years seems long to me.
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Old 02-12-2024, 09:17 AM
 
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LOL, kinda my point, I don't mean to take a shot at anyone but two years seems long to me.
I can understand it though.

I did some searches on Zillow, and now they run my searches every week and email me the results. We have homes on the market for 'cheap' [$30k - $80k] but they tend to be mobile homes that look in ill repair. What sane person wants to buy a mobile home that looks ready to collapse from snow load with the next big storm?

If a person wanted to buy a pristine 'turnkey' house of their dreams for under $100k, they would be left lacking in today's market.

I came to Maine in 2005, searching. I met with many realtors. Every realtor I met told me that my expectations did not align with reality. Each of them tried to sell me a house that in no way fit the list of requirements that I had, nor did any of them fit within my budget.

But I am versatile. I opted instead to buy bare land and build.

If someone else came to Maine, hoping to find a reasonably priced home they could buy and move into right away, I can understand their frustration at not finding any.

My experience is outdated. It was from before the last housing bubble burst. Now in 2024 we are in the midst of yet another housing bubble. This would be a horrible time to be buying a house in Maine.
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Old 02-12-2024, 03:48 PM
 
Location: Pennsylvania/Maine
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I can understand it though.

I did some searches on Zillow, and now they run my searches every week and email me the results. We have homes on the market for 'cheap' [$30k - $80k] but they tend to be mobile homes that look in ill repair. What sane person wants to buy a mobile home that looks ready to collapse from snow load with the next big storm?

If a person wanted to buy a pristine 'turnkey' house of their dreams for under $100k, they would be left lacking in today's market.

I came to Maine in 2005, searching. I met with many realtors. Every realtor I met told me that my expectations did not align with reality. Each of them tried to sell me a house that in no way fit the list of requirements that I had, nor did any of them fit within my budget.

But I am versatile. I opted instead to buy bare land and build.

If someone else came to Maine, hoping to find a reasonably priced home they could buy and move into right away, I can understand their frustration at not finding any.

My experience is outdated. It was from before the last housing bubble burst. Now in 2024 we are in the midst of yet another housing bubble. This would be a horrible time to be buying a house in Maine.
Thanks. I appreciate your input. I recall you built kind of a "hangar" looking structure as your home? I may be wrong. Can you refresh my memory? I can't fathom digging into the archives here to find the answer
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Old 02-12-2024, 03:55 PM
 
Location: Forests of Maine
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Thanks. I appreciate your input. I recall you built kind of a "hangar" looking structure as your home? I may be wrong. Can you refresh my memory? I can't fathom digging into the archives here to find the answer
Yes, I bought a steel building kit. A 60-foot by 40-foot rectangle with a nearly flat roof. originally marketed to be an airplane hangar.

About one-quarter of the price of a woodstick framed building.
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