Having Fun With Maine Water Front Real Estate With A Very Thin Wallet!

     You make a good salary at the three jobs you hold down in say the Boston Massachusetts or Providence, Rhode Island Or Hartford, Conneticut.  Working your fingers to the bone and all you get is boney fingers. Because between mortgage or rent, taxes, groceries, kid's braces, prom dresses worn once, paying off school loans, that irs lien, your uncle's funeral expense, car payments and insurances (whew) ...where does all the money go? And to think about stepping out to buy some Maine lakeshore or riverfront property? Not without a winning lottery ticket you think. Until now.  You have a large family. You have a burning desire to have a Maine property on a lake or other waterfront like river or brook side someday in your lifetime to spend time with the family a few times a year at least. Martin Luther King's three day weekend is coming...you could be planning Friday afternoon to climb on Interstate 95 and heading  north to a recreational property that you bought with your other family members.  Set it up business like.  For example, say a twelve acre property on a large river is $22,000.  (They are this inexpensive in Northern Maine!) You split it seven ways with folks you are related to, work with or have been buddies with for years. Your share as ring leader with clearly stated rules of dos and don't could be  a tad less for setting up the dream but figure even steven the the normal roughly $3140 share.  This is pretty cheap recreational entertainment.  Can't buy a timeshare this low.  And monthly service fees and building maintenance to add another bill to the pile on your desk right? Yes you have gas expense getting here...and yes, you have not put up the structure but work with me here. 

     You could buy an amish building like this pictured below for very very little money (under $2000 easy and again split seven or more ways right? ) and they come in a slug of options. Just a shell but brand new.  Or you could build like one fellow we sold land to id..in his yard two states away during the work week.  Then in a trailer, he pulled them up, bolted them together and voila! Prefab camp! Or you see second hand, get-it-out-of-my- yard-please campers in sell, buy, swap guides thru out the nation.  Get one if you don't already own one, fill it with stuff you need for camp..usually odds and ends from home.  Between seven people or households, you will get your toaster, coffee maker, cots.  And remember your sister's husband is a union electrician and can wire the place, you swing a mean hammer and may not be a finished carpenter but hey...its a camp complete with screened door, open deck made out of 3rd and 4th stock cedar log pieces you get for a song from local Ward Cedar Log Cabin Or Katahdin Cedar Log Homes that are here in the Houlton Maine area anyway! This camp and land are bought on a budget.  You get water from the river.  You do a soil test and set up a privvy or real life non pressurized system with the help of another neighbor on your end who is a plumber and wants in for only $3140 and his talents.  You can time share it rotating 4th of July, etc or rent it out carefully if none of you are using it this hunting or snowsledding season.  You can own easy but need "what if's" covered.  Could have your youngest brother the new attorney fresh out of law school draft a fair but detailed ownership agreement dividing how taxes are paid, what if you don't do your share, what if you die, what if you divorce kinds of protection for the rest of the gang.  Have we lost you yet or are you thinking maybe I CAN own Maine vacation or recreational property afterall with my wafer thin wallet? Take those empty cans and bottles on your porch back, dig deep in the old sofa for loose change and start calling the other partners in this Donald Trump endeavor in Maine! Once you are here, you have the great outdoors to enjoy for free..fish the river, walk the trails, read, relax and give your family fun time with dad, uncle Bob or grampy/grammie they will never forget. Enjoy the slew of unpopulated lakes with boat landings, snowsled trails, trip into Canada, hit the local two movie screens on that rainy thursday night for $3.50.  Don't miss the hunter's breakfast with gut busting breakfast of all you can eat with ham, beans, pancakes the size of your head, juices, fresh muffins, cornbread and eggs a zillion ways for $3.50.  Northern Maine...it does not take money to have fun, see gorgeous country and meet friendly down to earth people forming friendships to last a life time!