RUMFORD — Six tax-acquired properties will soon be placed on the market, with one bearing a stipulation that it be destroyed in six months.

Selectmen voted unanimously Thursday to sell a Kennebec Street lot, and properties at 24 Erchles St., 8 Franklin St., 8 Royal Ave., 41 Lochness Road, and 134 Penobscot St.

Selectman Jolene Lovejoy further motioned that a covenant be prepared for the Penobscot Street property, requiring the buyer to remove it within six months.

Describing it, Town Manager Carlo Puiia said it’s in a “very tight neighborhood” and that abutters on either side of it have expressed interest in buying it.

“That is one that in my mind is best for the town to see if either one of those (abutters) would want to buy it under conditions that they remove it and they use it for a parking area or something,” he said.

“It’s in a condition that I really wouldn’t want it to go back to somebody who is just going to repair it and leave it substandard,” he said.

Puiia said the other structures don’t require covenants “other than we would expect them to be brought up to a repairable condition within a certain period of time.”

“In other words, that they just don’t buy it and sit on it, and that maybe we would have our code officer review it within a 12-month period, so that it meets some sort of satisfaction that they’ve done what they said they would,” he said.

Puiia started the discussion tabled from a previous board meeting, saying he’d assembled a new list of nine tax-acquired, blighted buildings, but would set them aside for a future meeting.

For those, he said he’d like the board to view their plots colored in on a town map to better consider their removal for future economic development ideas.

“I know we don’t have enough money in our next fiscal cycle to remove all these buildings,” Puiia said.

He urged patience until money could be raised within a few years to remove them.

After more discussion, Selectman Lovejoy said, “I don’t want to be a lousy landlord and send the code enforcement officer out to these homes and tell them what they have to do. I say, ‘Let’s get them out of there.’ I don’t want to be in the real estate business.”

Selectman Brad Adley agreed. He said he wouldn’t support selling “strategic” tax-acquired buildings on Waldo and Falmouth streets.

“I took off 426 Waldo and added the Royal Avenue one,” Puiia said.

“Oh good,” Adley replied.

“I removed the Waldo one, because now the town has acquired the property right next to it,” Puiia said.

“This is a really good opportunity for the town to take a long-term look.”

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