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Old 05-01-2008, 06:59 AM
 
Location: Steuben, Maine
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OK the way it was explained to me and this comes from our towns tax assesors. You have a camp if it does not have indoor plumbing of any kind and your restroom facilities are of the chemical disposal type. Also you can have elctricity in a camp as well as dish tv and a phone.
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Old 05-01-2008, 08:29 PM
 
Location: some where maine
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OK, I thought I was doing so well with research on my own, and then this keeps popping up! In real estate ads, one building will be referred to as a "camp", while another will be a "house". The size doesn't seem to be the determining factor, nor does the acreage size or type (lake-front or just woods). There are "camps" that have electric and phone, with 2 bedrooms. There are "houses" with just 1 bedroom. To make matters even more confusing, some Mainers have both a "house" and a "camp".

What is the difference???
CAMP IS WHERE YOU GO TO GET AWAY FROM THINGS .OR HUNTING ,FISHING,OUR CAMP IS IN AMITY AND I LOVE GOING THERE WE FORGET ABOUT EVREY THING AND JUST RELAX WHILE WE ARE THERE.ITS LIKE A LITTLE VACATION ONCE OR TWICE A MONTH.
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Old 10-08-2011, 11:30 AM
 
Location: Maine at last
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I built what I thought was a house on a lake in Maine but everyone there calls it a camp. It's year round but now they have me calling my house a camp too. It doesn't matter, it's home to me. My question is why do the people on a lake put their front doors in the back of the house facing a lake? I couldn't fathom that and built it with the front door facing the street and the back door facing the lake. It seems right to me but probably not so "correct" to everyone else. Oh well, I like it.
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Old 10-08-2011, 12:02 PM
 
Location: Forests of Maine
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I built what I thought was a house on a lake in Maine but everyone there calls it a camp. It's year round but now they have me calling my house a camp too. It doesn't matter, it's home to me. My question is why do the people on a lake put their front doors in the back of the house facing a lake? I couldn't fathom that and built it with the front door facing the street and the back door facing the lake. It seems right to me but probably not so "correct" to everyone else. Oh well, I like it.
'front door' / 'back door' who cares?

Said the man with only one door.

I am not sure it makes any difference. I commonly see homes where the 'front door' has bushes grown over on it's path and clearly nobody uses it. A few times I have knocked on front doors and people exit their back door saying 'hello'. I think that in Maine people have a front door but then soon forget it exists.
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Old 10-08-2011, 02:33 PM
 
Location: Maine
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I built what I thought was a house on a lake in Maine but everyone there calls it a camp. It's year round but now they have me calling my house a camp too. It doesn't matter, it's home to me. My question is why do the people on a lake put their front doors in the back of the house facing a lake? I couldn't fathom that and built it with the front door facing the street and the back door facing the lake. It seems right to me but probably not so "correct" to everyone else. Oh well, I like it.
Because the front is the lake side. This is a conversation we have at camp often. It's men vs women at my camp. We women say the lake side is the front. The men say that's the back. We disagree with them each time and then we let them think they're right.
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Old 10-08-2011, 06:40 PM
 
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If you have a house or a camp on a lake then the front door faces the lake

Ive had a house on the lake for 20 yrs, and settled this question early on...

however, you can call any door by any name you want...it's your door(s)
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Old 10-09-2011, 04:59 AM
 
Location: Dade City, Fl.
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OK, so my place was used as a camp before I bought it and now I live year round in it.....but I still call it a camp.......
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Old 10-09-2011, 05:37 AM
 
Location: 3.5 sq mile island ant nest next to Canada
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"Camp: a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence."

My sister and BIL used to have a camp on the lake. Over the years they have had a frost wall put in, insulated, put in propane heat, thermal pane windows throughout, new bathroom (better than their home's) and crown moulding in the bedrooms.

Soooo, when does a camp turn into a second home?
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Old 10-09-2011, 06:20 AM
 
Location: Maine
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Soooo, when does a camp turn into a second home?
About two minutes after the tax assessor shows up.
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Old 10-09-2011, 07:15 AM
 
Location: 3.5 sq mile island ant nest next to Canada
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About two minutes after the tax assessor shows up.
Ahh, the rep "problem" Is that a shot? LOL
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