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          renting the cottage for either year-round or summer rentals, she            
          did not advertise in the local papers or on the Internet.                   
          Petitioner advertised the availability of her cottage by word of            
          mouth from the local community and by posting 8-1/2- by 11-inch             
          sheets of white cardboard by her cottage’s front door, by her               
          cottage’s back door, by her caretaker’s door, and by the door of            
          her Victorian house.  All of these doors were located within two            
          blocks of each other.                                                       
               In an e-mail from petitioner in response to a friend’s                 
          inquiry about the possibility of renting the cottage, petitioner            
          expressed a desire to avoid renting to citizens from the local              
          area.  This calls petitioner’s profit objective into question               
          since petitioner advertised only in Lubec.                                  
               Moreover, petitioner insisted that prospective tenants be              
          interviewed either by her or by her caretaker who lives two                 
          blocks from the cottage.  Petitioner asserts that this was                  
          necessary because of her bad experiences with undesirable tenants           
          and squatters on lot Nos. 128A and 129.  Petitioner, however, had           
          limited time available to interview potential tenants in Lubec.             
          Even though petitioner claims that her “home” was in Maine, she             
          lived and worked in New York during 2002.                                   
               In 2002, petitioner spent 1 week vacationing in Lubec.                 
          Petitioner also made several business trips to Lubec, but each              
          trip lasted no longer than “a couple of days”.  Petitioner did              
          not hire a professional to manage the rental of her cottage in              




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