Hancock Pond is roughly 300 acres in size with depths up to 58 feet, just a bit smaller than Bantam Lake in CT. Clear water that has a healthy bass population and is annually stocked with trout by Maine F&W. The dock is about 35 feet from the front door. Walk out the door, down the stairs to the dock and you’re on the boat. Closest town for hospital, large grocery store, Dunkin Donuts, pharmacy, restaurants, movie theater, etc. is Bridgton, 7 miles away. Mitch and several other CTF members have fished Hancock Pond and are familiar with the area. Some of the photos that they have posted in past years were on Hancock Pond, one year Mitch took a photo of the CTF sticker on the back of my boat.
Downtown Denmark (population of around 1,500) has a Post Office, the town hall and “Jim Bob’s” store where you can get pizza, gasoline and some groceries. North Conway, NH with sales tax free shopping is about a 45 minute ride away. Sebago Lake is 10 minutes away. From Western CT via 84/91/495/95 to Scarborough, Maine then 45 minutes inland takes us about 4 ½ hours. From Hartford area or eastern CT you could probably make it in 3 to 3 ½ hours….provided you can make it past the Kittery Trading Post and Cabela’s at the Scarborough exit. This is a very quiet lake and neighborhood. On a busy summer day you may see 8 to 10 boats on the lake, if that. You will see an occasional float plane land and you’ll see and hear plenty of Loons and Bald Eagles. Besides fishing and ice fishing, there is plenty of land in the area for deer and turkey hunting. If you snowmobile or are looking for a place to ride your ATV legally, you could use the house all 4 seasons.
The house – 3 bedroom, 1 bath with walkout lower level. 2 bedrooms upstairs with bathroom, living room with large picture window looking over the lake, kitchen/dining. Downstairs has a family room with large picture window looking over the lake and a 3rd bedroom off of it as well as a large walk-in closet and basement storage area. The downstairs bedroom also has a picture window looking out over the lake. The house has 3 sources of heat. Electric baseboard upstairs and the downstairs bedroom. Woodstove in the downstairs family room and a propane “wood stove” in the living room – we never use the electric heat as the propane stove heats the entire upstairs. Cable TV, cable internet & phone. Large deck walkout from the living room, deck boards were replaced 3 years ago. Dug well, septic system, one car detached garage, ½ acre lot with 100 feet of shorefront. Aluminum boat dock included with the house. House is turnkey. We have spent the last 15 years working on it so you don't have to, all you would need to do is show up and enjoy it. Roof is in excellent condition. Cedar Impressions siding was installed 3 years ago. All of the double hung windows were replaced 4 years ago with Anderson 400 series windows so all windows are now Andersons. Yard has been landscaped to position a fire pit/entertainment area on the edge of the lake.
The house is 2 ½ miles in on a well maintained dirt road off of Hancock Pond Road. Road association dues are $125 a year for road maintenance. The road is plowed in the winter as several families live there year round. The guy who plows the road lives past us at the end of the road so he plows past us to the main road. We don’t go up there in the winter as we spend it in Florida. A snowmobile trail maintained by the local snowmobile club is right across the street. ATVs are allowed on the private road and can access the snowmobile/ATV trails that cross the road for summer use. There is a private boat launch on the road for residents use only. We’re selling it with the stove, fridge, washer and dryer included. We bought those new when we bought the house and they have only received seasonal usage. Included with the house is most of the furniture – I built some of the furniture and my wife wants to take those pieces with us – most of the dishes, pots, pans, silverware and a microwave are also included.
We contacted a realtor at the end of last summer and they recommended putting it on the market for $339k to $345k. If we sell it ourselves we are asking $325k. We haven’t opened it up for the season but I’m putting this out to see if there is any interest. If no one has any interest then we’ll go with a realtor but I wanted to give any of you first shot at the reduced price. If someone is seriously interested shoot me a PM and let me know. We’ll hold off on listing it until we open it for the season so you can look at it.
Downstairs family room
Downstairs bedroom
Bathroom - fiberglass shower, toilet, vanity, washer, dryer and cabinets.
Upstairs bedroom - lake side
Upstairs bedroom - road side
Beer, wine or other adult beverage consumption area
Photo taken by our neighbor who plows the road - we don't bother having the driveway plowed in the winter - about 3 weeks ago.
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