House for rent in Eastport

[221B]

Originally Posted by woxyroxme

A lot of the vacant homes in Eastport have been empty for years and many need a lot of work to be liveable. Dramamama and I were just there last August and walked every street in town to see what was for sale, we also did this in 2009 and I took pics, it seemed it was the same houses for sale so I will link you to the pics.

Homes For Sale In Eastport

Very cool resource, woxyroxme. Thanks for posting the link to the photo album.

[CoastieFSwife]

Originally Posted by woxyroxme

A lot of the vacant homes in Eastport have been empty for years and many need a lot of work to be liveable. Dramamama and I were just there last August and walked every street in town to see what was for sale, we also did this in 2009 and I took pics, it seemed it was the same houses for sale so I will link you to the pics.

Homes For Sale In Eastport

This is wonderful! I wish more people would be willing to rent out their empty houses. There are more thn a few I would love to rent. I wish we were in the position to buy.

[WhereDoIBelong]

Originally Posted by bangorme

Might want to contact everyone with a home for sale and see if they'd be interested in renting. You would want a lease that stipulated they'd have to take it off the market, but this isn't a bad market to sit through with a dependable renter keeping your house safe.

While I accept that things might be different in Maine (nicer people, etc), I have found generally that people who haven't taken the decision themselves to offer a home for rent and who only take that option if they can't sell, are mostly ill-prepared to be a landlord, do not see their home from the tenant's point of view and also, often do not understand that their home is no longer "their" home while the tenant is in it and abiding by the terms of the lease.

If I make the decision to move to Maine, I am only going to consider homes whose owners use a property management agency and have a management arrangement in place. Long distance private landlords are mostly a total disaster.

[willb]

I had a problem with a Coastie couple who left their little cats when they were abruptly transferred to Boston. As luck would have it, a captain called me up to ask me how the place was left, and I said clean, paid up, etc, but they left their cats, a bag of food and some water. The next day the fellow drove up from Boston to claim his kitties.

[retiredtinbender]

Originally Posted by willb

I had a problem with a Coastie couple who left their little cats when they were abruptly transferred to Boston. As luck would have it, a captain called me up to ask me how the place was left, and I said clean, paid up, etc, but they left their cats, a bag of food and some water. The next day the fellow drove up from Boston to claim his kitties.

Willb, my previous tenants didn't know what a mop and clean water was used for. Black feet marks on the wall and it didn't look like the fun way of doing it. The one before that painted some rooms with burgandy, orange and blue. Not fun to try to paint over. Then left owing me a month and a half rent. Two years later and she still feels I don't deserve it. I got a few nice lights and stuff though but not worth the rent. Seeing the back of her: priceless.

[corgis]

There is a house for rent on Washington St that backs on Boynton St. A Coast Guard stationed in Eastport bought a house and this one is available right now. If you want, I can DM you who to contact.