Maine woman devises very unusual method to try and sell historic fixer-upper home for modest price

A woman has listed her 120-year-old location for waste connected Facebook Marketplace for $100,000 successful hopes of reaching much imaginable buyers.

Owner Rebekah Peterson lovingly refers to nan four-bedroom, two-bathroom location successful Lincoln, Maine, arsenic 'the Lady' and insists it is structurally sound contempt its dilapidated façade.

The house, apt built successful 1905, sits connected astir a half-acre of onshore pinch a barn down it and includes original wood floors, staircase, and trim. The electrical strategy is intact, and nan pipes are winterized.

'You cannot bargain nan lumber this location is made of anymore,' Peterson told Bangor Daily News. 'It'd astir apt costs $1 cardinal to build this location today.' 

Despite its charming original features, nan spot requires important renovations. The slate tile leaks, 1 wall exhibits h2o damage, nan exterior needs repainting, and respective windows are broken.

Although Peterson has received complete 50 inquiries wrong 2 days of listing nan location connected Facebook, nary general offers person materialized. 

Peterson chose to database nan location connected nan societal media outlet owed to its wide scope which tin pull a purchaser passionate astir restoration and consenting to put successful nan property's potential.

The homeowner acquired The Lady successful a 2016 auction and shared it pinch her children until 2022.

After divorcing her husband, she retained ownership but said she lacks nan resources for basal renovations.

Having ne'er sold a location before, Peterson turned to Facebook Marketplace to link pinch imaginable buyers who worth historical homes. She besides said listing her location connected Facebook gives her nan powerfulness to hand-pick a purchaser who will admit and reconstruct nan property.

'I want to spot thing awesome hap to this house,' Peterson said. 'It deserves to beryllium cherished, loved and brought backmost to life, and I want it to spell to personification who will do that. I wasn't capable to do that, but this is my chance to grant this monument of a home.'

Peterson initially was unfastened to offers made by nan public, but erstwhile an willing statement offered $8,000 and different parties wanted to cognize what she was consenting to waste it for, she settled connected $100,000.

While she realizes her connection is higher than what astir group tin spend successful her mini bluish Maine town, particularly fixed really overmuch activity nan location needs, she hopes nan correct personification will admit conscionable really typical nan house.

'The correct personification will spot what I spot and work together that it's perfectly worthy $100,000,' Peterson said.

But since mounting nan value to $100,000,, she has yet to person a general offer.

The homeowner is presently surviving successful a rental and hopes nan money she makes from trading nan Lady will spend her nan opportunity to acquisition nan location she's successful now.

Peterson said if nan location wasn't located successful Northern Maine, it would alert disconnected nan marketplace for much than her value offer, disrepairs and all. 

Lincoln County, Maine is estimated to person a organization of 36,729. The mean yearly family income was astir $41,000, and 4th of nan homes successful were weighted betwixt $100,000 to $149,999, per nan astir caller US census