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Old 05-14-2009, 01:43 PM
 
Location: WV
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Leaving for Eastport tomorrow morning - talk to ya'll in a few days.
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Old 05-14-2009, 08:36 PM
 
Location: Winterport
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Cape Cod house is set to close on June 25th.....almost under agreement on a home in Winterport!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a whirlwind of a ride!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll be a Maineah before long now!!!!!!!!!!
Cowabungah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 05-15-2009, 04:20 AM
 
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That is great news!!!!

Congratulations!!!
Will you close to Spirit of Hope?
I am so happy for you.
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Old 05-15-2009, 04:23 AM
 
Location: Southwestern Ohio
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Cape Cod house is set to close on June 25th.....almost under agreement on a home in Winterport!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a whirlwind of a ride!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll be a Maineah before long now!!!!!!!!!!
Cowabungah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG. that is wonderful!!! Congrats!
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Old 05-15-2009, 05:28 AM
 
Location: Union, ME
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hi...I posted recently in a thread asking about the necessary distance between well & septic. There's room for both (100' betwixt), and I'm about to become the new owner of the property! Closing may be as soon as the 22nd...that's next Friday!!! It's a FSBO, and I've got a lawyer doing contract, title, etc. Everything is in order; basically, it's just up to me to produce $$$.

The 18x20 half cape that's on the property is really hurting (it's wavy), though there are odd bits to salvage toward new construction of a 16x20 half cape on a frost wall instead of a pile of loose rock. Sills are very good; it's fallen off its foundation here & there and settled on ledge. I'm a frugal Susy, and I've lived in some beauts in my life, but the old house may have to go. In weighing cost to make current habitable vs. cost to create clean palatte & efficient new little place the scale tips toward new.

Fun summer and fall ahead! This is where I'm at in my move in Maine!
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Old 05-15-2009, 11:24 AM
 
Location: Forests of Maine
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hi...I posted recently in a thread asking about the necessary distance between well & septic. There's room for both (100' betwixt), and I'm about to become the new owner of the property! Closing may be as soon as the 22nd...that's next Friday!!! It's a FSBO, and I've got a lawyer doing contract, title, etc. Everything is in order; basically, it's just up to me to produce $$$.
Woo Hoo!





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... really hurting (it's wavy) ... salvage ... on a frost wall ... fallen off its foundation ... settled on ledge.
Wow, that sounds like it needs a little TLC.



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... I'm a frugal Susy, and I've lived in some beauts in my life, but the old house may have to go. In weighing cost to make current habitable vs. cost to create clean palatte & efficient new little place the scale tips toward new.

Fun summer and fall ahead! This is where I'm at in my move in Maine!
Well, slow and stead, step by step, anything can be fixed.

I have jacked up houses before. Maybe if it were up a couple foot, it would be easier to pour a new foundation under it?
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Old 05-16-2009, 05:46 AM
 
Location: Union, ME
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beekeeper...thanks for the "woo Hoo!" It is exciting! Would this house survive being jacked up...slowly, carefully, even? Straighten out this bit, and how would that translate through the rest of the creaky old structure? Might happen this way, though...My gut keeps telling me to start from scratch. Building mats. used in current structure are really...'unspecial'. Wish I had - a camera - so I could post a couple of photos of my Maine prize! Will keep posting in words as things unfold, are torn down, jacked up, etc!
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Old 05-16-2009, 10:44 PM
 
Location: Hidin' out on the Mexican border;about to move to the Canadian border
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Glad to hear some of you are having good luck with your adventures in real estate. Maybe you can help with ours. We like the house we live in, which is for sale, but we think it wise to look at other houses. If you know anyone with a house for sale in the Calais area, could you DM me please? Got a realtor, thanks. I think getting settled into our OWN house will be that last little detail that seems to be missing from feeling completely at home here.
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Old 05-17-2009, 01:07 PM
 
Location: Florida&Eastport
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Leaving Florida for Eastport in two weeks...stopping in Tennessee to visit sister and brother...pick up some furniture and hope to be in Eastport by June 5th or 6th to spend the summer unless I can convince husband to retire...not having much luck convincing him...I will continue to nag...nag...nag or hopefully If I get lucky and find a job he will relinquish. He keeps saying that he doesn't think he can make it another year living and working in Florida.!!

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Old 05-17-2009, 06:42 PM
 
Location: Southwestern Ohio
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Leaving Florida for Eastport in two weeks...stopping in Tennessee to visit sister and brother...pick up some furniture and hope to be in Eastport by June 5th or 6th to spend the summer unless I can convince husband to retire...not having much luck convincing him...I will continue to nag...nag...nag or hopefully If I get lucky and find a job he will relinquish. He keeps saying that he doesn't think he can make it another year living and working in Florida.!!
Keep nagging and maybe you will get to stay.. then I can see you when we're up in September. Totally selfish of me I know, but a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do!
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