Purchasing land

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by forest beekeeper

There is land available in Maine. You will need to come to Maine to find it though.

I could suggest a trip every few months, each time focusing on a different region of Maine, just to get a better feel for each region.

I enjoyed my shopping trips.

For example, I had always heard of the Cutler Naval facility and had worked with their product a great deal during my career. So I was anxious to tour Cutler, and it was interesting for me.

Another approach is to move to Maine, into temporary accommodations; to base your operations out of that location, so it makes your search for land easier.

One of our regular CD posters began her search for a home in this manner. They moved to Milo for 6 months, during that time they located their 'perfect' home, bought it and everything is working out wonderfully for them in their new home.

Another CD poster has likewise moved into an apartment in Milo, so she is now based here in Maine, and is in mid-search looking for the 'right' piece of land.

In both of these cases, we have had folks over for dinner,
and we have enjoyed their tales as they go through their search processes.

This one seems to be finding a lot of interesting land in the Western half of Maine.

It seems that very few CD posters live in Western Maine. So we don't here overly much about that those regions of the state.

Nobody lives in North Western Maine. It's 90 miles from Ashland to Daquaam Canada on the Realty Road and I bet there isn't 20 permanent residents on that whole road other than a Ranger station at Clayton Lake.

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by 2WhiteHummers

... The western half of the state was very attractive to me as well as the northeastern. I'd prefer something of high elevations.

Maine does not have much in terms of high elevation.

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by Maineah

Nobody lives in North Western Maine. It's 90 miles from Ashland to Daquaam Canada on the Realty Road and I bet there isn't 20 permanent residents on that whole road other than a Ranger station at Clayton Lake.

Yeah that does sound good

[Northern Maine Land Man]

2White Hummers says;
"On our first trip to Maine I wanted to find the area they filmed "On Golden Pond" but found out that the movie was filmed in New Hampshire."

It was filmed on Squam Lake in New Hampshire, but the story happened on Great Pond in Belgrade Lakes, Maine. I know the Author and my father is in the book. Just the name was changed. I used to swim with the author since his camp was next to ours and he would swim off our dock. My father used to take Ernest Thompson salmon fishing. He caught his first salmon from my father's boat.

[2WhiteHummers]

That is amazing information! Thank you! I would then suppose that Squam Lake has better views etc. for filming than Great Pond.

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

2White Hummers says;
"On our first trip to Maine I wanted to find the area they filmed "On Golden Pond" but found out that the movie was filmed in New Hampshire."

It was filmed on Squam Lake in New Hampshire, but the story happened on Great Pond in Belgrade Lakes, Maine. I know the Author and my father is in the book. Just the name was changed. I used to swim with the author since his camp was next to ours and he would swim off our dock. My father used to take Ernest Thompson salmon fishing. He caught his first salmon from my father's boat.

[Northern Maine Land Man]

Nah, just closer to Boston.

Ernie gave a first edition copy of his screenplay to my parents and wrote inside the cover, "To Barbara and Eddie, who lived this story. Ernest Thompson."

There was a lot going on in Belgrade Lakes. The "Big Bopper" went to a "fat ranch" to lose weight there. On one side of the village is Great Pond. On the other side is Long Lake. The hill west of Long Lake is Blueberry Hill and the rest is history.