Cottage by Design Retirement Motivates Renovation of Lincolnville Cabins

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If there's a phrase that's been repeated regarding real estate more than most in the past few years, it's that it's a buyer's market, what with foreclosures all over the country and generally gloomy economic climate.

Jane Liedtke knew that. But her decision to purchase and renovate 12 cottages, a nine-room motel and a house on a green, windswept stretch of coastal Route 1 in Lincolnville was only partially motivated by the market. The real reason? She, like so many others, wanted to retire to Maine.

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Cottage by Design Retirement Motivates Renovation of Lincolnville Cabins

"I knew I wanted to come back to Maine to retire," said Liedtke, who taught at the University of Southern Maine until 1980, before eventually taking a position teaching industrial technology at Illinois State University in Bloomington, Ill., where she still lives part of the year. "I have such positive memories associat...

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