The cabin next to Your Scribe's property is for sale.

Actually, it's more than a cabin and that's why the asking price is $300,000.

Come to find out, the family wants to return to Oregon, from which they hail.

So they are selling their property in New Sharon.

It will be interesting to see if there are any buyers at that price.

New Sharon is between Augusta and Farmington, which means within a half-hour of several cities and Route 95.

But will people want to buy in the woods?

(New Sharon is not fashionable now, but I hate to say it is getting discovered).

What The Neighbors are offering is a large log cabin on 20 acres of land.

The wooded property runs down to the Sandy River, where you can fish, canoe and swim.

In addition to the cabin is a two-car garage with an apartment above it.

And there is a small "in-law" cottage on the property, where an in-law actually lived. Until she died, last year.

So there you are: three residential units, with 20 acres of fine land.

A disbursement of $300,000 wouldn't buy you a gardener's shack in Camden or Kennebunkport.

We'll see if buyers will bite on this figure in central Maine.

Notes1: If you read the blueblood classifieds in Down East, you would think there is no chance to ever buy waterfront property. But here are some more reasonable listings from the Franklin Journal, the paper of record in rural Franklin County.
- A cabin on 220 acres on Ballard Pond, near Temple, for $285,000.
- Cottage with two bedrooms, guest house and outbuilding on Worthley Pond, Peru, for $190,000.
- Camp with 100 feet of frontage on Kimball Pond, Vienna, for $174,500.
So there is hope.
All you need is money.

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