A Sagamore Beach resident says she can’t sell her house because of this new trend

The renovated three-bedroom, three-bathroom beach house was on the market for eight months.

Judith Ann Roan Comeau is trying to sell her newly renovated three-bedroom, three-bathroom house less than two minutes from Sagamore Beach for just upwards of $1 million. However, after eight unsuccessful months and dropping the price to $995,000, Comeau took the property off the market on Aug. 10.

Most houses within Comeau’s price range in the neighborhood sell within 30 days, she said.

“We have a beautiful view of the bay, we have beautiful gardens, and we’re so close to the beach,” she told Boston.com. “There was something wrong.”

That something, Comeau said, “was called pickleball.”

Comeau says she has been complaining to the Sagamore Beach Colony Club, which installed pickleball courts roughly 50 feet from her home, about the noise for nearly four years, asking for the club to use softer balls or paddles to muffle the sound, but to no avail.

Comeau took to Facebook earlier this month to express her frustration, joining “Pickleball Noise Relief,” a support group “connecting families who are dealing with the unintentional but significant noise nuisance of pickleball courts,” according to their Facebook page.

“We had over 60 people come through [the house] and many come back again for a second look,” Comeau wrote alongside photos and videos of the pickleball courts. “Each time, no matter what time it is, someone is playing PICKLEBALL.”

Rob Mastroianni of Falmouth, founder of the group, which aims to be a “safe space” to discuss pickleball noise as well as a “clearing house of information” on how to address it, said loud pickleball noise has become a “new phenomenon in residential communities.”

“It’s really insidious, this noise that people are enduring now so close to their homes,” he told Boston.com.

Mastroianni said he was grateful to Comeau for sharing her story with the group.

“She joined our group and told us about her plight, her problem with her courts being so close to her home and how she was trying to sell her house,” he said. “She’s unable to sell her home because of the pickleball noise. Otherwise, it’s a beautiful home and a beautiful location.”

On behalf of Comeau and two other neighbors, real estate lawyer Jonathan Polloni told Boston.com he is writing a letter to the club asking them to relocate the pickleball courts elsewhere.

The Sagamore Beach Colony Club did not respond for comment.

“This is actually a growing issue,” Polloni said. “With the rise of the pickleball we were also seeing a rise in more complaints.”

If the letter is unsuccessful, Polloni says he plans to begin litigation.

“I can’t imagine any judge saying that it’s OK for us to have to deal with this,” Comeau said. “I hope that it can just be ended, I can say no pickleball, I could put my house on the market, and ride off into the sunset.”