No Power, No Plumbing: Maine Island Cabin Asks Nearly $400,000
The off-grid retreat costs nearly double Harrington's typical home price and is for sale for the first time in nearly 40 years.
A three-building, off-grid property on a private island near Harrington is being marketed to buyers after nearly four decades under one owner, according to the Bangor Daily News. The parcel occupies about a quarter acre of Cove Island in Pleasant Bay, an outcrop that visitors can reach on foot only when the tide is out.
Associate broker Susan Stephenson of NextHome Experience, who is handling the sale, said the main house has two bedrooms and roughly 800 square feet, with a separate boathouse and bathhouse adding about 300 square feet apiece. She priced the listing just under $400,000, nearly double what a typical Harrington home is worth.
Boatbuilder Richard Henry Nash built the cabin in 1980, and Stephenson said it has been carefully maintained over the past 20 years. There is no electricity or plumbing; residents heat with a fireplace and wood stove, and the bathhouse uses a composting toilet. Stephenson said the owner, who took title decades ago, wants to hand the property to someone new so he can live nearer his own family.
She said buyers increasingly want seclusion and a simpler way of life rather than luxury finishes. "It's the Maine experience — slower pace of life, more space and a connection to the outdoors," Stephenson said.
This story was first reported by Bangor Daily News.
