Lots of unspoiled acres of land that’s all yours, ripe and ready for building a simple home in Maine.
This blog post is about options for home building in Maine today.
Maine land is very affordable but what and how you build on it can waste a lot of money in home building.
Without a plan for where you are going to live, the home building process can be full of costly mistakes.
The best advice is start small, keep it simple living in Maine.
First things first, the costs to develop the Maine land and create a house vary greatly. Many land buyers just use their property acreage as a camp site for long weekend and yearly vacation getaways.
Some land buyers decide to cash in the chips, sell the home in the suburbs. They pack up the Subaru and head north up I-95 to build a Maine country home with land.
As an Aroostook County Maine real estate broker, I see first hand how many land buyers approach simple home building.
For starters, money is not usually flowing like spring maple tree sap. The building a home on your Maine land option choices are limited to the size of your financial resources.
The time of year you opt to build really adds extra pressure or creates breathing room to house construction.
When you make up your mind and get in gear to build is crucial. Unless you are doing everything yourself DIY, finding contractors to help with house construction in rural Maine can be iffy.
If your Maine land needs extensive clearing, tree removal and you have to be goat to scale the terrain to your house site, hold the phone.
Maine land building site preparation is time and money consuming.
What else leads to waste of resources that distracts from the house construction of your Maine home?
If your land in Maine is not on a town or state maintained year round road for access.
You can spend so much time putting in culverts, creating drainage ditches that delay the Maine home construction.
So what are couple routes to choose from in building a simple home in Maine?
Your site is pretty much prepared, you plan your septic and well installation when the right equipment is already landed at the property.
I see many Maine homesteaders, sporting camp enthusiasts run out of time and lack the skill set needed to build from the ground just up go Amish.
Buying a single or a couple Amish shed shells and finishing them off on their own. Adding another shed to create modular add ons as they go.
The problem is they are sheds built for storage of things not people.
There is also a big difference in the shed construction too and sure, you can modify and beef them up to create a home.
But in the long run lack of venting so they breath and just sitting on a few cinder blocks open to the elements is not going to cut it.
Look into the many Maine log home and cabin makers for the turn key complete building kit.
Or just for the logs that are numbered and go together easily for your walls.
I bought an existing next door lake log cabin made of LC Andrews cedar stock and had fun reworking it into snug as a bug in a rug condition.
With existing you start undoing, redoing, make doing with what you have.
But new home construction on your Maine land may be start from scratch.
So you check out building containers, look into the cost to stick built or ship a modular over from Canada happens in my Maine border town location.
If you don’t build big, cheap and go the barndominium route for efficient space, think one small room with option to expand.
If on a monolithic slab, make sure to pour more.
So you can to provide for the in time foot print living space expansion. Once you build your own 12×16 or whatever size room, it’s easier to duplicate with another.
Just make sure to think about the additions going in, adding headers over future doorways. To make the house component pieces go together smooth and efficiently.
Thinking just one pot bellied wood stove smack dab in the center of the living room for heating?
Have you looked into economical gas wall heaters so you can leave home for a few days without fear of frozen plumbing when you return?
Done the home work on making your own juice, simple living off grid in Maine?
So much in the Maine house building depends on you, the time of year and weather and your budget.
There is much more to consider and please reach out by email, text, phone call or a personal visit. I will share what I have witness countless buyers and sellers do for
house building on their Maine land for simple rewarding self reliant lifestyle.
I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |
MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton Maine 04730 USA
