1950 Lincoln Home, Walk to Mattanawcook Lake and Public Beach — $98,900

The lake is the thing here. Mattanawcook Lake is a short walk from this house, and so is the public beach. For under a hundred thousand dollars in Maine, that proximity matters. The lot is 0.42 acres on a dead-end street, which means no through traffic and more room than most in-town parcels give you.

The house is a 1950 two-story, 1,100 square feet, three bedrooms and two baths. The first floor runs kitchen, dining room, living room, and a full bathroom with laundry in it. The three bedrooms are upstairs along with the second full bath, which has a clawfoot tub. The tub is a good detail in an otherwise plain house.

This is a fixer. The agent copy says so directly, which at least is honest. There are no before-and-after photos here, no finished product to evaluate. What you get is a full basement to work with, forced hot air heat, and a house that needs someone willing to spend time and money on it. The basement gives you room to add mechanicals or storage as you go, and the lot gives you outdoor space to shape over time.

The location puts you walking distance from the middle school and downtown Lincoln as well. For a buyer who wants to be in town without being boxed in, a dead-end street with nearly half an acre is a reasonable trade for the work this place needs.

At $98,900 it prices like a project, because it is one. An investor looking to flip it or a buyer who can live through a renovation and come out on the other side with a house near a lake in Maine for not much money, either of those makes sense. Someone who wants to move in and have it be done already, this is not that house.

What you are buying is the lot, the location, and the bones of something that could be solid with real effort put into it.