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REALTOR Andrew Mooers' Maine Real Estate Blog
A broker is a broker right? No...each broker has different sets of skills unique to their market. In a small rural market like northern Maine where there are 11 people per square mile, the day to day routine is different than a broker in a city with wall to wall brokers and a myriad of transactions. In rural Maine, our prices are much lower, people don't lock doors, more smaller commission sales. Unspoiled scenery and what life's like in Aroostook County and its real estate market.
Fertile Soil, Rolling Ground! Big View In A Low Population Area Of Northern Maine Called Masardis. Population Under 200!
Own 155 Acres..One Big Piece Of Aroostook County Here! Drilled Well, Full Concrete Septic In Place Too! Borders Squapan Stream, Has A Pond And Is Very Handy To A Large Lake To Fish! This Is A Maine Farm For Sale Without The Buildings! $129,900 Watch The Video And First Snow Of Winter! This Property In The Heart Of Fishing/Hunting Country! Game Trails Galore! info@mooersrealty.com 207.532.6573 Log On www.mooersrealty.com
For adults to talk among themselves about how peaceful and beauitful being in the north Maine woods camping, hunting, fishing did not register totally then. Oh sure, growing up and climbing Mt Katahdin with your family or hiking and those picnics with mom's world class food were fun. Family gatherings every Sunday afternoon taking turns on which aunt or uncle's home we would visit. Family and all the ages that occupy it together, laughing, sharing. But the great outdoors without people mixed in time to time was part of everyone's life in rural Maine too. Everything in balance, playing with your friends, getting your chores done and likeing the small town you were born in. Safe, secure, loved. Contenment. Seeing the older folks build into their schedule time to be off alone to look out over a lake with a hot coffee. Walks admiring the beauty of our surroundings! But now being a little older, that peace and quiet and running away to a corner of the world that is unspoiled, unpopulated and peaceful is regenerating. Heck, mowing the lawn is time away where you can spend time with yourself. Why the need to escape? Turn on the television, or radio or consider this blog entry is sending you one more opinion or giving you advice. Or giving you something more to think about. Information. Tons of it. Opinions...self help, tell me what I need, tell me what I just heard. Look where I've been self serving attention getting information too! Bombardment of strong slick constant signals of what I need to buy this Christmas, what book I need to read. What stock to dump, which candidate to pick and why. Communication gives me the latest on what everyone else is doing...what "music" the herd or society needs me to dance to.
When I was a news director in Bangor Maine at a station Stephen King owns, I learned what "herd journalism" was all about. News is reported in the Maine Sunday Telegram in Portland and comes out Saturday. That's what is on the journalist plate for early Monday morning as left overs due to the sunday gap when folks are with their families and until more news is generated Monday. Making news Friday afternoon in Maine gave you a three day run of exposure. The Associated Press picks up whatever is in the big major newspapers and runs with it. Every smaller radio, newspaper and television outlet "rips and reads" whatever came across the wire. All covering the same story, taking our lead from everyone else and trying to dig to add a local approach, bring in someone related to the story on a home town approach to show how it is relevant to our listeners, readers, viewers. In the cities as the conveyor belt of life speeds up, and as you get older so you feel the time that conveyor belt robs, you look for an escape. Load on the wagon, bring the kids, head to Maine. With eleven people per square mile in Northern Maine, Aroostook County, you can get the space, the fresh air, the space and time off the conveyor. Loosen up your sneakers. Maine is where you spend time with youself to figure out the course your life is on. To learn what you need to add more of, what you need to weed out, what you are no going to change and basically what course you are on. In Maine, no traffic, no tons of people to maneuver around or to avoid. No crime because Maine is the 4th lowest state in that department. The best part? If you chose to own a piece of Maine, it is attractive AND affordable. Maine..the way life should be.
Being in the outdoors..Maine woods has always excited you.
Imagine making your living helping others fish, hunt, snowsled too! This one is not just black bear, moose and deer...besides bird hunting, snowsledding on the trail thru the property is possible. Skiing on Big Rock at Mars Hill also an option! Golf course handy to it too! Maine is Vacationland" so think of the fun you can have running an established Maine sporting lodge and cabins. Up to 32 diners can be learn how great your cooking is. 9 rental units too! Maine lodge has owner's living quarters with its own master bath. Three other bathrooms in the main lodge too! Enjoy the video! $299,500 is all! info@mooersrealty.com 207.532.6573 info@mooersrealty.com
An owner of a 320 acre woodlot in Linneus that was lower, wetter land decided to trade that property for a 19 acre high on a hill with a tree plantation property in Ludlow.
Trades. Equal value even though the quantity was vastly different. Like a gem, its not just the size that matters. Quality exchanges in Maine for more than money. 1031 exhanges happen too. Had a property recently on an Oakfield lake with a log cottage that the owner considered trading for the buyer's Camaro. Did not come down in the final analysis because the cash to go with the sale was not obtained but trading for real estate in Maine is not out of the questions. Value for value. So think beyond conventional bank financed deals, cash sales..and consider if someone with say a large land yatch motor home might let it go in exchange for a nice vacation place on water in Maine!
The week is over, here is something to look forward to in Houlton Maine. "Footloose" based on the 1984 hit movie is a high-energy musical about a young boy who moves to a small town and shakes up the status quo. The Houlton High School music program is well known for its state champion show choirs, jazz bands, percussion ensembles. Houlton has been nicknamed "Music Town Of Maine" so you know this production will be first class in entertainment and performance. Show times November 21 to the 23rd. Visit the
site for more! Or contact 207 532 6551. Cost of show $8 adults, $5 students. See you there!
You work hard, you want a place to spend those three day weekends, vacations, sporting trips with loved ones and friends. Consider this 25 acres of Aroostook County land. Fertile soil was used for years to produce high yields of potatoes. Plant christmas trees on it and watch your investment grow. Borders a fly fishing stream too! Fronts year round, maintained side road. View into Canada! Log two story cabin sits up solidly on concrete sonar tubes, has open front porch and second floor sleeping area. Well with hand pump out front, lined chimney for wood heat! Sound like you want to know more...video should help tell the rest of the story! Come up and see us and walk the land! Maine..the way life should be. 207.532.6573 info@mooersrealty.com Log On www.mooersrealty.com
Houlton Maine Rotarians make calls, canvas businesses, collect items and services. Every year the week of Thanksgiving has an exciting three nights of bidding in the Southern Aroostook area.
Local folks of all ages make bids on half hour items. Bids are read on the air, collected and when the half hour is done, read the winners, reset the bid board, start another set of items. Over $53,000 worth of itreasures collected to peddle on air, being broadcast on Polaris Cable, streamed on the internet thanks to Pioneer Wireless, and broadcast on WHOU FM 100.1. The local Houlton Pioneer Times inserts the auction program in the local weekly newspaper so listens can be ready to bid on the list of items they would like to own. With Christmas a short time away, items for loved ones on your list can be found... many items and services unique to Houlton Maine to bid on. The auction is held at Watson Hall on Main Street and is open to the public. Lots of food, drinks and Rotary fellowship is available to anyone off the street that wants to watch the operation. Here is a movie of last year's Houlton Rotary Radio Television Internet Auction! Proceeds fund local projects including this year the new Houlton Performing Arts Center.
You have decided to have some recreational fun this winter in New England. You like to snow ski, ice skate but wanted to see some country and not be restricted to a small area.
Maine is one big state and to cover lots of ground, climb on a snowmobile. The snow sledding industry is a big one when you have the top five trail system to ride on. Many clubs work year round to take care of their corner of Maine. Making new trails, widening existing ones, building bridges and doing everything possible to enhanced the experience. Imagine stopping a machine and watching deer and moose feed...or the back drop of a stop to stretch when Mt Katahdin is covered in snow in the in your lap or you can hear and see a roaring river falls with icicles, clear crisp air, and a bright sun making the snow sparkle. Forget diving onto the couch this winter. Grab your helmet and point the car north to Maine. Learn more about snow sledding at the
Maine Snowmobile Association's website. Maine has more than 13,500 miles of groomed ITS and club trails. There are 265 sled clubs in "Vacationland" working hard to make sure your winter vacation is memorable and fun. Myth number one. "It's too cold to ride". No..new hi tech snowmobiling jackets and pants are flooding the market and the machines have heated thumb and hand warmers. And the most models are liquid cooled with radiation under your feet so if you are cold..you are not dressed right and missing out on the fun. Plan to snow sled in Maine over the holidays and this winter season.
Put your passion to work..making money sharing your skills at hunting and fishing in Maine.
You could wade into a large overhead and debt by buying an established sporting operation complete with world class everything or start from stratch. Purchasing a parcel of land in Maine is affordable and the selection vast. Are you looking for 85 acres on a Maine river or just a little over 600 acres in the woods to start building a lodge, then cabin one by one? Maine has what you seek and if you were an animal or fish, wouldn't you want to be where there are not many people (11 per square mile in Aroostook County)? Go to sporting shows, make a deal with the many Maine log cabin companies to get rental cabin for your guests at near factory cost. These outfits want real life working models not just slick brochures showing them but allowing customers or dealers to walk thru them, to smell the cedar or pine! If you have patience, build as you go, get a website, start an ad campaign, learn the local turf. You plow the money you make from hosting hunters, fishermen, snowsledders, hikers and just plain vacationers heading into Maine. Our license plate call us "Vacationland". If you build it, they will come. If you like to cook, in addition to feeding the cabin guests in your lodge, open it up to the local area for meals. Folks will snowsled in, atv by and call for reservations. You can make and sell crafts, have small repairs done to machines that you gas up that go right by the its trail thru your Maine property. Open the lodge up to be an executive retreat where business people can get out of that office complex and really brainstorm and be productive in a whole new setting in the Maine woods, over looking a lake, river, or mountain range. Host workshops for a weekend between your sporting seasons, open the cabins use by a church group, someone getting married, or an outward bound type experience. Maine lodge..owning one and building it from stratch. Won't make tons of money in the beginning, but you won't owe tons either!
Shelter...gimmee shelter. A safe place, a place your would defend. Caught a verse of the Rolling Stones song this morning and you realize a home is more than just four walls. It is a shelter..like a cave, an igloo, a yurt. We peddle all kinds of real estate but homes, houses, shelters are the main stay for most real estate brokers. That's our job. We locate them, list them, sell them. All prices, types, locations. And we need one too. You go home at night, rake some leaves this time of year, enjoy a supper with loved ones, catch some tube, head to bed. Tomorrow do it again. When you think of the word shelter do you think vacation home, condo or timeshare? No..you probably think basic home. One you would defend, one you have the right to have arms to protect. Safe, clean, warm, yours. A home is security and a financial savings bank too. Many have equity in their homes as all there is for "savings" or equity. As REALTORS, we all see families grow up in homes we sell, older folks downsizing and others investing in multi unit shelters to provide housing for renters. We are in a pretty awesome, important industry. As a group, we all need to with one voice give direction to our leaders to get this country back on solid footing and to protect the right for everyone to have their own special shelter to be proud of, to raise families in, to retire and enjoy life in. A home or shelter is a source of pride, an investment in the community and by paying taxes, we have a say, a stake by setting roots down in an area. Now that the hoopla of our first black president is history, let's roll up our sleeves and get to work, heading in one direction to fulfill the American Dream of home ownership! This is a good forum to do that. What do our leaders need to do to preserve this institution? Throw your two cents in here....
Four Season Living On A Maine Lake! This Grand Lake Cathedral Shell Is Worth Your Inspection! Hop In And Watch The Video As We Head To The Lake!
Grand Is Maine's 3rd Largest And Fish Filled! Recreational Choices Are Endless..Boat, Swim, Sail, Snowsled, ATV, Hunt, Fish From This 32 x 24 Cape! Septic All In! Sale Can Include A 30' 5th Wheel Camper In Super Shape! Owner Adding 7 New Windows! Hard Part Is Done...Peck Away And Round Up Your Buddies With Carpentry, Plumbing, Heating Skills To Make It Your Own! Over 160' On The Water! 1.3 Acre Is A Big Waterfront Lot! Extra Ground Too Across Road Part Of The Package So No Neighbor Behind You. Room For A Garage/Bunk House For Toys And Company In This Extra Area! Plenty Of Parking! Maine..the way life should be! $185,000! info@moooersrealty.comn 207.532.6573 Log On www.mooersrealty.com
Old apples that were brown, the world's smallest in size did not make the top ten either.
What really impressed this goblin as he tramped with his friends and cousins was the older lady who made fresh hot donuts and warm apple cider. She would escort you into the living room where you would tell her who's son you were while munching a donut just off the stove coated in sugar. The home owner who got the little Halloween bags and filled them with a variety of goodies was also a standout in my mind. I realized this person enjoys the holiday, likes kids and made the effort to have a better treat for the monsters ringing the bell and tromping up and off her front porch. Halloween...canvasing neighborhoods like we still do as a real estate broker. But trading candy with your friends..hey, I have five Pay Days...want to trade for the Pixie Sticks or the hey, I'll give you 17 vintage popcorn balls for one of those Reece's peanut butter cups. What do you have planned for treats at your house this Halloween?
Land to build a cottage on, set a travel trailer on, pitch a tent. Underneath all is land. Think of the enjoyment from Ross Lake for the entire family!
Easy access..watch the movie below! Recreational fun for in the $40's? No over crowded lake here. Just unspoiled Maine lakeshore to explore with your kayak, to fish, to get recharged spending some time in Aroostook County. Climb on a snowsled or atv and take off into the hundreds of miles of trails with wildlife spotted along the way. Isn't this what is missing in your life? Get It All! $40's! More land available too!
Just Off Drews Lake! Over 1000 Acre Lake With Easy Boat Launch!
Fish, Sail, Boat...Relax Playing On Drews Lake! Then Retreat To The Future Cabin You Build In Time On The 5 Acres Off The South Shore Road! Enjoy The Video! $14,900 Is The Best Investment You Could Make. Call Or Click Today. 207.532.6573 info@mooersrealty.com
Doing The Hokey Pokey In And Out With Still Images And Trying To Pass Them Off As Live, Narrated Video Is Not Cutting It.
This Property Has Water Frontage...You Can Hear It. You Can See It Moving, The Tree Leaves Of Fall Blowing In the Wind. Your View (Buyer) Is There! Joe Broker Had To Shout Over It...Live, In The Field Sound Salt And Peppered With Maps, Details To Entice Someone To Wander Up From Many Miles Away To Kick The Tires! Get Over 22 Acres! Surveyed! Camper Too! Round Up Your Sporting Buddies. This Investment Will Not Tank Like A Stock Like Enron Or Others Disappearing From View, Busted In Value. $25,000! info@mooersrealty.com 207.532.7573 Log On www.mooersrealty.com
Hey..what a novel approach. That was the headline in the news today as observed by some of the big box stores in spending patterns of their customers. Isn't that the way it should be?
You don't buy way ahead unless there is a deal. You pay for things with money you have now, not hope to have later. You determine what is a priority to buy with what you have. Can't the country be run to live and spend within their means or is that so old fashion, square, so turn of the century pot and auger survival and no fun at all? Cautious spending....even if you are making money hand over fist is still good business. Frugal not cheap and getting the best deal, the best trade for the money you work so hard for. Or you don't spend the money if you perceive you are not getting value in exchange. Maine kids pick potatoes, rake blueberries, work on lobster, fishing boats and dig for clams. The families need the helping hand to cover costs and household overhead. New school clothes bought with harvest money Aroostook County youth just pocketed. The money earned is held on to longer, not spending it is an option too. Not many burned holes in the pockets of teenage youth in Aroostook County. Why? Money is always held onto tightly, always precious. Savings are security, a way to sleep better nights. Heck local farmers and woods operators figure if they broke even, paid all their taxes, wages and overhead, and get to have another go at it next year, they are rich. Breaking even is way way better than owing thousands and thousands and sinking. Examine how you react to this situation. You make alot of money but you don't owe any. Aren't you "rich" and free of the stress and anxiety that you and others around you go thru if you are up to your eyeballs in debt, buying this, throwing plastic money you may not have on that. How did we get so wasteful in this country? Too much money to burn? As hard as the high gas and heating oil is, and the roller coaster with the stock market making us queasy, if you have savings, if you don't owe money, and if you find recreation that is no cost, low cost like Maine offers, isn't the belt tightening what the country needed? Starting with food, shelter, heating as your most basic need...and allocating from the funds you have to prioritize for those needs. And remembering your kids are watching, learning and being taught that the entire family needs to be on board this "running a tight ship" program. Maine has conservative banking principles and is in better shape than most areas. The local population enjoys "Vacationland" that we live in..the good things right in our backyard like 4 season beauty, wildlife, space and freedom from traffic, crime, over population, pollution. Leave that behind and fit right in with fiscally responsible thinking and living. There is a real sense of community, people help each other. Maine...the way life should be.
(tap tap tap) Now class...Jim and Jill are hankering a pool. Where are they living on this map to the left? (Edging back from blackboard)
And...they figure the thousands to put it in will come back two or three fold because like them, everyone wants an in ground pool right? Whoa....cowboy. East up on the spurs in side of Trigger! For starters, what state and climate do you live in? How does a professional REALTOR tell you the market reacts to a home with or without a pool? True you live in the home, would enjoy the pool but if a sale is on the horizon, maybe that "Value in use" is great for you. But the money plowed into the back yard may stay buried in that back yard. Broaden your approach and consider not just want you want if a resale is in the cards in the near future. Or don't and then whine to the broker waving receipts getting red faced and try to convince him how much you enjoy the pool. And hear them say in Northern Maine, with a shorter summer and a slug of lakes to enjoy, that a pool is not number on one the list for buyer hankerings. As a REALTOR, they know the market! You should too.
Ten foot marks all over the property. Unrealistic expectations. The property is not selling...and sometimes a seller has a light bulb come on.
"Hey..maybe the place is priced too low..that's why it is not selling." If you over price a property, it sits there. It gains shelf life where folks that see the place wonder..hmmmm...must be something wrong with the place, its not selling. Maybe lack of marketing and hefty pricing or both are the reason despite whatever the real estate market climate is. Price your property fairly with the help of a trained, experienced REALTOR. Sytematically hammer out a consistent, exposure strategy for the marketing of your real estate. There is ALWAYS a market, always. But the supply of "just like your property" listings coupled with how clean, how attractively priced and how finely marketed it is all add up to a sale or a delay of sale. If the place looks like Stephen King made a movie there, don't expect champagne pricing and return. Reality check...what kind of real estate cards are your holding...honestly, how stellar is your property? And avoid the pendulum knee jerk where you don't really want to sell so you decide to jack up the price or double it fooling yourself that it will sell. There are not many stupid buyers with wheelbarrows of money hanging around the office these days. If a bank is involved, an appraisal will quickly shatter the fantasy of getting twice what the place is worth. Avoid suddenly chainsawing your price to go from the extreme of overpricing to dive, dive to the bottom of the ocean below market pricing. It is caused due to wasted time on the market with a nose bleed high price tag dangling from the place and then oy my gosh. your need to move the place NOW...NO RIGHT NOW with all marketing time to date wasted with an unrealistic asking price. Your local REALTOR you can trust will help guide you thru the pricing, the marketing and eventual sale of your Maine real estate! Economics 101. Class dismissed.
Like the song goes, "You work your fingers to the bone..and what do you get? Boney Fingers!" Ever thought of owning your own business, making what you are worth? If you are not lazy, this well known local business would be worth your time to look into and consider. For over 45 years, local folks have gotten their car repairs done here, bought their heating oil and vehicle gas here. The local area is crying for a Jiffy Lube too..in and out would be such a convenience! Houlton Maine...the best place on earth to live, work and play! Consider relocating here. Ideal spot for other business endeavors too due to high exposure and busy US RT 2A traffice! Watch the video! Maine..the way life should be.
Fall in Maine. The local folks enjoy the splendor of fall colors with mountain back drops and rolling fields.
Fields with potatoes in them, needing to be picked. That's where kids come in. Earning your school clothes. Want an Ipod...you can earn it and will take better care of it. You also shop harder to get the best deal with your own money rather than mom and dad's. Watch a potato picking operation in Sherman Maine and decide if you are missing the rural farming lifestyle that made this country great. Low cost real estate, attractive 4 season surrounds, friendly, fewer people! That's Aroostook County! Watch the movie below for a taste of the sights and sounds of fall in Maine!
Fall in Maine. Clean crisp air, soccer season underway, and wrap up of the fall potato harvest.
Warm days, chilly early mornings and evenings. Autumn in "Vacationland" is hard to beat. Sometimes there is an injury, and health care providers are right there. This accident with a broken leg was quickly responded to and part of the game. The local high school teams in Maine are just as big a deal to watch, cheer for, hoot and holler with your friends, neighbors and other parents as if it was the Red Sox in an world series game! Small town values, home made fun, community pride. That's Maine, the way life should be. Come up to see the foiliage. Plan to picnic, camp, hunt, and get ready for snowsledding that is just around the corner. Four season living in Maine.
You have done the math, figured a price for the home on your own.
You are pretty proud of not having a commission and hope this sale by yourself goes smoothly. Plan to run ads, write them, blog, have videos, and try to duplicate the exposure enhanced sites like REALTOR.COM and a local full time season broker can provide? Do you know what you are doing? And is selling your home or land or small mom & pop grocery your full time job? Can't be that hard right...run a few ads, just let any buyer who calls wander thru the place..and financing. Hoping for a cash buyer who does not negotiate? Know the ins and out of banking programs, which banks are on the ball, which ones mess up deals from lack of experience like you? The beauty of a real estate broker that works full time and markets your property 24-7 using every media available..is you are partners. You don't pay for anything until the place sells. No up front marketing fees, just advice, and direction on a strategy that will get the place sold. In a challenging market, do you really want to lose a season or two thinking because there is a for sale sign on the lawn, that it will happen on its own? Disclosure forms, broadcasting your property and a data base of prospective buyers to market to...up to speed on all those area? Lawsuits when you get taken in by a sharp operation, knowledge of what is customary in the market for a seller to pay, or not to pay. What is the norm on closing costs to expect? Cordinating the next purchase with contingencies and flushing out a buyer to know whether they are qualified to buy. Figuring it out now with the right questions from broker experience with buyers rather than suddenly learning what went wrong at the end of the selling seaon after being tied up for months on your own. That commission you think you are saving, if the place does not sell or you take a big dip because it was not marketed correctly, promptly, professionally is a small drop in the bucket. A good broker with a solid reputation and cutting edge marketing tools is worth his/her weight in gold. Ask a REALTOR for a list of FSBO's (For Sale By Owners) who you can talk to who learned the hard way before listing and selling for more than they planned on. Would you like to find out after the sale what you should have gotten for the place? Good luck!
Develop This 16 Acres...Nestled In The Heart Of Northern Maine's Wildnerness! Baxter State Park And Mt Katahdin Up The Road.
This High Land With View Is Across Rt 159 From The Lumbermens Museum. See A Farming Operation During Harvest With Picking Crews Too! This Property Is In A Lumbering, Sporting, Rural Farming Area Of Northern Maine. Friendly, Fewer People, Scenery And the Great outdoors For Sale! $30's!
Scared of stocks and the roller coaster of up and down? Invest in Maine land.
Waterfront, farm, woodland, retirement house lots. Think about it as a safe bet that will not disappear. Maine land. Way way more fun than a stock certificate you hope holds it value.
Check out this video of 10+ acres just listed. Build a cabin, set a travel trailer or pitch a tent here. Located on Pea Ridge and highly scenic. Nestled in Southern Aroostook County surrounded by many lakes! Use this as your base to explore, to fish or hunt. Snowsled here, cross country ski and snowshoe from your Maine land. $7900! No misprint! $7900! Watch the video below!
For 14 years, each Labor Day Weekend in Camden's Penobscot Bay, the Windjammer Weekend attracts schooners from the around the world. The local area has a rich seashore heritage and tradition. The Windjammer Weekend is a popular family event in Maine. Organizer and founder Annie Higbee says the event planning goes year round, and each year's celebration has grown. Large schooners gracefully sail and parade into Camden Harbor. Schooner participants and spectator numbers have grown yearly. Check lobster crate races, sample some local cuisine and enjoy Labor Day In Camden Maine!
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you are on. In Maine, no traffic, no tons of people to maneuver around or to avoid. No crime because Maine is the 4th lowest state in that department. The best part? If you chose to own a piece of Maine, it is attractive AND affordable. Maine..the way life should be.
Had a property recently on an Oakfield lake with a log cottage that the owner considered trading for the buyer's Camaro. Did not come down in the final analysis because the cash to go with the sale was not obtained but trading for real estate in Maine is not out of the questions. Value for value. So think beyond conventional bank financed deals, cash sales..and consider if someone with say a large land yatch motor home might let it go in exchange for a nice vacation place on water in Maine! 
You work hard.
You work hard, you want a place to spend those three day weekends, vacations, sporting trips with loved ones and friends. Consider this 25 acres of Aroostook County land. Fertile soil was used for years to produce high yields of potatoes. Plant christmas trees on it and watch your investment grow. Borders a fly fishing stream too! Fronts year round, maintained side road. View into Canada! Log two story cabin sits up solidly on concrete sonar tubes, has open front porch and second floor sleeping area. Well with hand pump out front, lined chimney for wood heat! Sound like you want to know more...video should help tell the rest of the story! Come up and see us and walk the land! Maine..the way life should be. 207.532.6573 
Here is a movie of last year's Houlton Rotary Radio Television Internet Auction! Proceeds fund local projects including this year the new Houlton Performing Arts Center.
and fun. Myth number one. "It's too cold to ride". No..new hi tech snowmobiling jackets and pants are flooding the market and the machines have heated thumb and hand warmers. And the most models are liquid cooled with radiation under your feet so if you are cold..you are not dressed right and missing out on the fun. Plan to snow sled in Maine over the holidays and this winter season.
wade into a large overhead and debt by buying an established sporting operation complete with world class everything or start from stratch. Purchasing a parcel of land in Maine is affordable and the selection vast. Are you looking for 85 acres on a Maine river or just a little over 600 acres in the woods to start building a lodge, then cabin one by one? Maine has what you seek and if you were an animal or fish, wouldn't you want to be where there are not many people (11 per square mile in Aroostook County)? Go to sporting shows, make a deal with the many Maine log cabin companies to get rental cabin for your guests at near factory cost. These outfits want real life working models not just slick brochures showing them but allowing customers or dealers to walk thru them, to smell the cedar or pine! If you have patience, build as you go, get a website, start an ad campaign, learn the local turf. You plow the money you make from hosting hunters, fishermen, snowsledders, hikers and just plain vacationers heading into Maine. Our license plate call us "Vacationland". If you build it, they will come. If you like to cook, in addition to feeding the cabin guests in your lodge, open it up to the local area for meals. Folks will snowsled in, atv by and call for reservations. You can make and sell crafts, have small repairs done to machines that you gas up that go right by the its trail thru your Maine property. Open the lodge up to be an executive retreat where business people can get out of that office complex and really brainstorm and be productive in a whole new setting in the Maine woods, over looking a lake, river, or mountain 
range. Host workshops for a weekend between your sporting seasons, open the cabins use by a church group, someone getting married, or an outward bound type experience. Maine lodge..owning one and building it from stratch. Won't make tons of money in the beginning, but you won't owe tons either!
Shelter...gimmee shelter. A safe place, a place your would defend. Caught a verse of the Rolling Stones song this morning and you realize a home is more than just four walls. It is a shelter..like a cave, an igloo, a yurt. We peddle all kinds of real estate but homes, houses, shelters are the main stay for most real estate brokers. That's our job. We locate them, list them, sell them. All prices, types, locations. And we need one too. You go home at night, rake some leaves this time of year, enjoy a supper with loved ones, catch some tube, head to bed. Tomorrow do it again. When you think of the word shelter do you think vacation home, condo or timeshare? No..you probably think basic home. One you would defend, one you have the right to have arms to protect. Safe, clean, warm, yours. A home is security and a financial savings bank too. Many have equity in their homes as all there is for "savings" or equity. As REALTORS, we all see families grow up in homes we sell, older folks downsizing and others investing in multi unit shelters to provide housing for renters. We are in a pretty awesome, important industry. As a group, we all need to with one voice give direction to our leaders to get this country back on solid footing and to protect the right for everyone to have their own special shelter to be proud of, to raise families in, to retire and enjoy life in. A home or 
shelter is a source of pride, an investment in the community and by paying taxes, we have a say, a stake by setting roots down in an area. Now that the hoopla of our first black president is history, let's roll up our sleeves and get to work, heading in one direction to fulfill the American Dream of home ownership! This is a good forum to do that. What do our leaders need to do to preserve this institution? Throw your two cents in here....
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impressed this goblin as he tramped with his friends and cousins was the older lady who made fresh hot donuts and warm apple cider. She would escort you into the living room where you would tell her who's son you were while munching a donut just off the stove coated in sugar. The home owner who got the little Halloween bags and filled them with a variety of goodies was also a standout in my mind. I realized this person enjoys the holiday, likes kids and made the effort to have a better treat for the monsters ringing the bell and tromping up and off her front porch. Halloween...canvasing neighborhoods like we still do as a real estate broker. But trading candy with your friends..hey, I have five Pay Days...want to trade for the Pixie Sticks or the hey, I'll give you 17 vintage popcorn balls for one of those Reece's 
peanut butter cups. What do you have planned for treats at your house this Halloween?
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and freedom from traffic, crime, over population, pollution. Leave that behind and fit right in with fiscally responsible thinking and living. There is a real sense of community, people help each other. Maine...the way life should be.
And hear them say in Northern Maine, with a shorter summer and a slug of lakes to enjoy, that a pool is not number on one the list for buyer hankerings. As a REALTOR, they know the market! You should too.
Like the song goes, "You work your fingers to the bone..and what do you get? Boney Fingers!" Ever thought of owning your own business, making what you are worth? If you are not lazy, this well known local business would be worth your time to look into and consider. For over 45 years, local folks have gotten their car repairs done here, bought their heating oil and vehicle gas here. The local area is crying for a Jiffy Lube too..in and out would be such a convenience! Houlton Maine...the best place on earth to live, work and play! Consider relocating here. Ideal spot for other business endeavors too due to high exposure and busy US RT 2A traffice! 
You have done the math, figured a price for the home on your own.
blog, have videos, and try to duplicate the exposure enhanced sites like REALTOR.COM and a local full time season broker can provide? Do you know what you are doing? And is selling your home or land or small mom & pop grocery your full time job? Can't be that hard right...run a few ads, just let any buyer who calls wander thru the place..and financing. Hoping for a cash buyer who does not negotiate? Know the ins and out of banking programs, which banks are on the ball, which ones mess up deals from lack of experience like you? The beauty of a real estate broker that works full time and markets your property 24-7 using every media available..is you are partners. You don't pay for anything until the place sells. No up front marketing fees, just advice, and direction on a strategy that will get the place sold. In a challenging market, do you really want to lose a season or two thinking because there is a for sale sign on the lawn, that it will happen on its own? Disclosure forms, broadcasting your property and a data base of prospective buyers to market to...up to speed on all those area? Lawsuits when you get taken in by a sharp operation, knowledge of what is customary in the market for a seller to pay, or not to pay. What is the norm on closing costs to expect? Cordinating the next purchase with contingencies and flushing out a buyer to know whether they are qualified to buy. Figuring it out now with the right questions from broker experience with buyers rather than suddenly learning what went wrong at the end of the selling seaon after being tied up for months on your own. That commission you think you are saving, if the place does not sell or you take a big dip because it was not marketed correctly, promptly, professionally is a small drop in the bucket. A good broker with a solid reputation and cutting edge marketing tools is worth his/her weight in gold. Ask a REALTOR for a list of FSBO's (For Sale By Owners) 
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For 14 years, each Labor Day Weekend in Camden's Penobscot Bay, the Windjammer Weekend attracts schooners from the around the world. The local area has a rich seashore heritage and tradition. The 
