Grandeur Mobile Home Estates: mobile home park in Carmel, Maine
Unofficial page — independent directory built from the Maine state registry, updated July 2026.
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A mobile home park in Carmel, ME. The park runs its own regulated water system, so it — not a city utility — supplies and is accountable for the water at each lot.
- Rent nearby
- 2-bedroom fair market rent $1,392/mo (HUD FY 2026, typical of nearby towns)
- Wildfire risk
- Higher than 6% of U.S. counties (USFS, county-wide)
- Tornadoes
- 14 recorded in Penobscot County since 1950, strongest F2 (NOAA)
- Water
- Own public system (well) · EPA ME0003060
- Neighborhood
- Median rent $1,173/mo · median income $90,000 · 17% mobile homes
Distances are straight-line, so the drive is longer. Internet and neighborhood figures describe the surrounding town — and the rent benchmark, wildfire rank, and tornado count the wider county — not this park’s own lots. The fair market rent is apartment-style rent (HUD’s area benchmark), not this park’s lot rent. Rent limits are not legal advice.
Worth knowing
This park runs its own regulated public water system (EPA id ME0003060), drawing from its own groundwater well. The system reports serving about 100 residents through 40 service connections.
For residents
- Water billing: Maine has no statewide rule setting the rate or markup for water billed to residents of a manufactured housing community, so ask the park how water is billed and what the charge is based on. Check the math free with the water submeter calculator.
- Paying rent: ask the park office how they take payment. Parks that run on Lot Sidekick hand residents clear, itemized rent and water bills.
- Thinking about moving here? What to ask a park before you rent a lot, and what lot rent covers and how it goes up.
Common questions
Is this Grandeur Mobile Home Estates's official website or phone number?
No. This is Grandeur Mobile Home Estates's page in the Lot Sidekick park directory, built from the state registry. We're independent of the park and can't take messages for it. The park office hasn't added a public contact here yet; if you own the park, claiming the page (free) lets you add one.
Where is Grandeur Mobile Home Estates?
Dotties Way Off Rt 2, Carmel, Maine 04419, in Penobscot County.
How much is lot rent at Grandeur Mobile Home Estates?
Grandeur Mobile Home Estates doesn't publish its lot rent anywhere we could find, and we won't guess at a figure. Call the park office to ask. For scale: HUD's FY 2026 fair market rent for a 2-bedroom rental around Penobscot County is $1,392/mo — that's apartment-style rent for the area, and lot rent (the ground under a home you own) usually runs well below it. If you run this park, you can add your real lot rent to this page for free.
How much can lot rent go up at Grandeur Mobile Home Estates?
Maine sets no flat cap on lot-rent increases, but requires 90 days' written notice — and if the increase exceeds the area's average rent for comparable communities plus a point over the regional CPI, residents can demand mediation the park pays for (10 M.R.S. §9093-B).
Where does the water at Grandeur Mobile Home Estates come from?
Grandeur Mobile Home Estates operates its own public water system, registered with the EPA as ME0003060. That means the park — not a city utility — supplies and is accountable for the water at each lot. You can look up its monitoring and compliance record by that id in the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System.
Nearby parks in Penobscot County
| Park | Distance |
|---|---|
| Birch Hill Estates | — |
| Birm Mobile Home Park | — |
| Carriage Estates MHP | — |
| Cedar Falls Residents Cooperative | — |
| Cole Park | — |
Free tools
- Park value & profitability estimator: what the park earns and what it's worth, at the cap rate you pick.
- Rent increase calculator: the 2026 Maine rules applied to your park.
- RUBS calculator: split one master-meter water bill across your lots so the pennies add up exactly.
- Water submeter calculator: two meter reads in, an at-cost tenant bill out.
- Notice generator: a clean, printable rent-increase notice with the dates filled in.
- Rent receipt generator: a printable receipt for a cash, check, or money-order payment — two copies to a sheet.
- Prorated rent calculator: the exact first-month charge when someone moves in mid-cycle.
Registry record
| State registry ID | MP3060 |
|---|---|
| Registered with | Maine's Office of Community Affairs (which took over the Manufactured Housing Board's registry in 2026) |
| Listed as | GRANDEUR MOBILE HOME ESTATES |
Data from official state registry that may be out of date.
Source: Maine Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation manufactured housing community licenses (pfr.maine.gov), as of July 23, 2026. Counts come from the state's registry and can lag real life. See something out of date? Tell us, or claim the page.
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