Maine Innkeeper Hosts Essay Contest to Give Away Her Property

March 18, 2015

Center Lovell Inn

Janice Sage, an innkeeper, is giving away her twelve-acre property in Maine, Center Lovell Inn and Restaurant, to the lucky winner of her 200-word essay contest.

“There’s a lot of very talented people in the restaurant business who would like to have their own place but can’t afford it,” Sage, who herself won the Center Lovell Inn in 1993 from Bill and Susie Mosca in an essay contest, said to the Portland Press Herald. “This is a way for them to have the opportunity to try.

Sage hopes to receive 7,500 submissions (and each include a $125 entry fee, which would net her about $900,000, which is what local real estate agents suggested as the listing price for the inn and outbuildings) so she can retire and rest assured that the property is in good hands.

Sage will narrow the list to twenty finalists before handing over the entries to two judges, who will select the winner. Entries must be postmarked by May 7, and arrive at the Center Lovell Post Office no later than May 17; Sage will announce her successor on May 21.

Interested in submitting? Read the guidelines at the Center Lovell Inn website.

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