We will be moving back to our home in town in three weeks. We ususally stay until the weekend after Thanksgiving, but I have decided I want to come home and start moving things out of the camp. The 5th of September we were given a notice my the landowners that we will have to purchase our lot in 90 days or we will lose our camp to another buyer. We were hoping they would be a small price, but we were totally shocked with the $83,500.00 price tag. (This is just for the land...if they have buyers, they do not have to pay us for our camps or anything else..they can just make us leave and get nothing for them) I know a lot of the out of staters up here thing its not much, but when the locals are the ones that have built the road up and the lots to what they are today with no help from the several landowners, we thought for sure they would take that into consideration, but they didn't. The landowner, Katahdin Timberlands of Canada has control of the road leading into the road that we are connected to and they have made some really big changes too! No more plowing the road in the winter, unless we get written permission, we will not be able to live there year round and they made us form another association along with the new one for us new landowners and that they will control the dues. We now have to pay to cross the railroad crossing...and that will be included in our dues. We also now have to have a 4 million dollar policy for liability to cross the tracks. Once was always open to the public is now a closed road to all, unless you have a camp in there or are invited in. Wow the big city people have come to the little North Maine Woods and have opened our eyes up to more GREED then expected. This price tag has put a lot of pressure on all of the leasees here and a good portion are putting their camps up for sale. I know we do not want to, but we have no choice. When Great Northern Paper went under 3 years ago, we used all our life savings to keep our home and camp. We used it to pay them off. Now trying to rebuild that is not easy with the price of gas and oil. Food is now costing us over $150 a week and that's not buying much of anything to put in the freezer for later.
Well, time to get off my soapbox and head back to camp. DH has been out bowhunting all day and he will be hungery when he gets back...and I am in town playing on the pc instead of making supper!!! Ha Ha Ha!
So if any of you are interested in owning a little piece of the Maines north woods, email me...we are asking under $400,00 for it with the 1.75 acres of land that we will own in a few weeks.
Take care all and knit on!
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