Remember the fun, speed, ease of use as you turn on a new computer or laptop for the first time. How it zings, lightning fast and is not bogged down with a clean, shiny large wide open hard drive to feed?

Real estate video can bring that hard drive to its knees, cause a log jam, a computer road block on the information highway. Anemic, bloated, poorly performing overloaded hard drives a side effect of real estate video. And cleaning out video clips can become a new daily chore. You can use a HD video tape drive. You can save each projects raw footage to disc. But if you want to hang on to local area vids for all four seasons to use in your community and real estate videos, it's nice to have them parked right near your mouse. Tucked away in your hard drive to avoid time consuming search for that tape or disc copy. So, consider if you have been faily good this year of asking Santa for a terabyte or petrabyte storage solution. Terabyte..a thousand gigabytes.

    

My kids have 3500 mp3 songs on their ipods.

They have laptops with the same kind of storage depletion as more and more files pile up, get collected. If you are considering getting into real estate video, have a whopping big hard drive and with hd  graphics card that will handle the new load on the computer system.  I find that footage shot of real estate that I will never use again or that has been sold and will require new shoot with a relist can be deleted. But it's the area ME community video events that are hard to deep six, that will be needed in a future production. For over 360 local Maine community / real estate videos, take the tour. The term for one billion megabytes? Petrabyte, and Exabyte means a trillion megabytes.

     What you shoot, edit and upload to youtube, other real estate video platforms in an avi state could be 400 or more megabytes. It used to be 100 megabytes or less than 10 minutes was the rule for file size. And editing to get under that wire for the longer community pieces is one concern, or red flag. Many video outlets allow up to 200 megabytes now, probably as HD video caused a need for more space in the video cupboard. With various compression formats, you can whittle it down with varying degrees of degradation in video/audio quality. For the embedded real estate website quick tour snippets to guide and introduce, HD high quality video imagery is the way to fly. You can buy a tetrabyte stand alone hard drive add on unit for under a $100 these days.

Exploring, discovering Northern Maine and going places you can not get by car on a snowmobile, snowsled.

Have you thought it looked like fun? It is and the Aroostook County trail system is groomed, wide, and easy to travel from the motel you stay at. Maine snowsled trail groomers drag a path in and out of local Aroostook County motels and places to eat.

     Worry about getting cold? Keep in mind our average winter Aroostook County temperature is 19 degrees. The snow machines have electric thumb warmers, grip warmers for the rest of your hands and the windsheild keeps the wind chill from zipping down the trail at a good clip from make your hands cold. Under your feet on the liquid water cooled snowsled models, there is an aluminum radiation strip on each side to disapate the heat..right under your sled boots.

    

If you are still cold, you are simply not dressed right.

In northern Maine too, instead of freezing rain, we just get white fluffy dry snow. Dampness is the hardest way to get warm so don't worry about that happening with our weather zone. Plan to book a trip. There are places to rent sleds too. This winter, turn off the television, get off the counch. Head to Maine to snowsled thru the woods and see wildlife. Zip across an open field and see sunsets you never forget or at night brilliant stars overhead as you stop to laugh, talk, socialize with others you meet along the trail, at local Maine motels and restaurants. many families come up to snowsled and downhill the many Maine ski area slopes too. Either way get on some clean oxygen...breath deep and fill your lungs with quality Maine air. Already know the fun of Maine winter snowsledding, need something land wise to atv, sled, use as cross country ski location in Aroostook County? Try this Maine snowsled trailside low cost 31 ME land acreage.

    

The real estate buyer was supposed to be in Maine last week to look at a Main Street Houlton ME victorian.

This morning he called and passed the heart stress retest. Got the thumbs up from the cardiologist. He is hoping to run a restaurant...on a very very small scale, in house but the Maine state fire marshal's office is another hurdle to clear. Another test to pass. Have you ever thought about running a little inn or just serving meals without renting the rooms as a Bed and Breakfast would?

     Can you see living in the upstair of a Maine victorian home, while running the tables, serving the meals, shooting the breeze with dinners downstair? Asking them "How was your steak?" "Do you like my grandmother from the old country's Italian sauce on that chicken? Too spicy?" Or like the big fella pictured, "How was your fish?" knowing the only fish fresher is still swimming in the Maine sea, the Maine lake.

    

Serving the public...literally feeding them something they enjoy.

Providing the right music, the right volume of tuneage in the background. Low lights but so low that you feel like three blind mice groping with one hand for the salad fork, spilling your water glass with the floating lemon in it with the other hand in the meantime.  Making sure the kitchen has not wooden surfaces where germs, bacteria, mold could grow...that the water in the dishwasher is scalding hot to disinfect. You do not want to serve even one salmanila blue plate or your business is cooked, history, swerved away from by those not wanting an intestinal flu or sickness. A memorable meal, but not in a good way.

     What images, artwork, pictures for the walls around your in home restaurant that show the essense, the flavor of the area of Maine you are from? Mr Moose caught taking a Saturday afternoon bath might be on one wall if you are living in Maine, showing the diners what the area is all about.

     Designing your menu with the right colors, a certain font and the right diner lingo to fit the cruisine you are serving. What table clothes, dinnerware pattern?

     Dining is an experience and you are not operating a drive thru.

     Your meals are not to be hurried and conversation, a little laughter and a glass or two of wine  or your favorite livation part of the experience or not. Up to you. To each his own.

     And after the meal in your favorite part of the home, you walk to the local movie theatre, take in a show. Or if your small town provides a local Maine McGill's band like Houlton ME does, that may be the last course of the dining out meal extravaganza.

Our area is lucky as we are not far from the ocean, and right on the Canadian border. So border hopping to shop, eat or just leave the country for a few hours is common. I joke that  not many of us on the American side would not pass the test of being at least a quarter Canadian dna.

Day in, day out listing, marketing, selling real estate.

But taking a break, listening to a song that makes the skin tingle, gets to your soul can really shake things up. This is that kind of song. Here are couple of my favorite songs from years ago. Doobie Brothers, Chicago....

 

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Not often but once in a while, we get a personal real estate request.

To not let someone's kids know that I've seen mom and dad and that they are relocated to Northern Maine, Aroostook County.

    

Part of the reason is mom and dad or grampy and grammy feel the kids are wearing them out financially and saying "no" to them is hard.

     So when we list a one bedroom place, that's neat as a pin, empty and ready to go. With a garage too. One bedroom means if those pesky kids, or other relatives you are running away from show up...you can just hand them a list of local Maine motels to stay at because no room at your place. $50's. 

Call with lots of questions.  207.532.6573

Watch the Maine real estate video.

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Maine waters in the lakes, rivers, streams are crystal clear.

Northern Maine waterfront is free of any milfoil, and the biggest sore spot to water quality is man and what he does around the waterfront to spoil it, stress it or abuse it. Good stewards have the ideal with Maine waterfront real estate to give it to their kids, the next buyer in better shape than they received it.

     So when you buy a vacant ME waterfront lot or an existing structure on a Maine lake, river, stream, what can you do? Always, always check with local towns or cities that the property is in. In the event the Maine waterfront real estate is in an unorganized townships, check with Augusta Maine to see if permits were received for earlier work so you know what you are walking into. Real estate box canyons are not fun and Maine takes water quality protection very very seriously. Remember, Maine is the way life should be. And so much of what we do is tied to the great outdoor natural resources that the state is loaded with.

     The DEP (Maine Department of Environmental Protection) And LURC (Maine Land Use Regulation Commission) are super, dedicated folks to work with.

When you hear someone complaining about those offices, it is 99% because violations were made, or lack of permiting from the previously owner and after the fact resolutions can be as much fun as a colonoscopy.

There are rules for a reason and Maine's shoreland zoning ordinance is under constant challenge, improvement, redesign to protect Maine waterfront resources. If a Maine rainbow trout or landlock salmon fish could talk, it would gurgle it's rage over non-point source pollution. Silt, dirt, erosion that runs off loaded with phosphorous that causes algae blooms, growth of vegetation in the water along the shoreline and choking water conditions for the fill. Lakes hate lawns..long rolling, rich green loaded with weed and feed and fertilizer lawns. Water that races to the lake during heavy fall rains, bring the soil and other debris, contaminants into the water.

     Cloudy, silt rich lake, pond, river or stream water is not fun for a fish to live in. And algae bloom, milfoil water vegetation further cuts off the oxygen levels. Maine, fill your lungs with clean fresh air. The Maine waterfront is treated the same way...keep it clean, unspoiled and a safe habitat for fish, birds, animals that depend on it. Questions about what you can do or not do and the process of what needs a permit? 207.532.6573.

    

In Maine, going back for a forty year title search is standard.

But on this home one family owned it, lived here since 1946 so pretty simple search in the Southern Aroostook Registry Of Deeds.               

     Here's what excites us on this one. On the one hand the expensive, nice to have items like a new furnace, updated tilt in vinyl windows, new roof, siding have been done, taken care up, all updated. Those are essentials..but not the eye candy, the fun stuff.

    

So on the other hand, the old original formal dining room tin ceiling, the raised panel 25' long formal parlor ceiling are still here, protected, enjoyed. So are the archways, the extra rear den with fireplace.

$80's! 

    The price, condition, style, updates and charm all blend on this one that is two blocks from everything. Here is the splash, propaganda on this one. Enjoy the show..the door's open anytime to see with video. 207.532.6573

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Since the late 1950's, this one lone english tudor design Houlton Maine home has been in one family.

You can break the tradition, have your name on the warranty real estate deed.

    Enjoy the Houlton Maine real estate video on this one. Hardwood floors, sun room, 3 car garage, huge corner lot on the edge of town. Almost on a Pearce Brook too. $149,900.

     Walk to everything from this one...five blocks from downtown, schools, everything. Houlton Maine is the county seat for Aroostook and the largest of Maine's sixteen counties. Parked right on the New Brunswick Canadian border with no crime, no traffic...just friendlier but way way fewer people who care about each other.

Many lakes within ten miles, a golf course, a community Houlton Regional Hospital with over 400 employees. You will be happy here if you are toying with retirement, relocation to work at the US customs, immigration, border patrol or other endeavor.

    

Life starts at 100. 100 Court Street, Houlton Maine.

207.532.6573.

ME, It's Just Healthier Living Here.

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Easy big fella...if you bought a mobile home and want to move it from one Maine town to another, you need some paperwork in order.

That paperwork involves proof the town taxes have been paid in the city or Maine muncipality the trailer is in. The same paperwork showing Maine personal property taxes are current, paid for and also that no Maine water, sewer liens or pass due fees exist before the trailer is hooked on to.

     The town provides a state of Maine taxes/sewer/water certificate fees certification statement with the tax collector's signature, name, date PLUS it has to have the town stamp, embossed and raised on that paperwork.

     If you don't get the paperwork in order before the move, nothing is moving. You need the state of ME to issue an Maine overlimit permit to get your new home on wheels rolling down the highway. The fax number is 207.622.5332. Or drop it in the mail way ahead of the move date to bve safe at Overlimit Permit Unit, 29 State House Station, Augusta ME 04333-0029.  The other reason for getting the Maine property taxes paid is when you land the mobile at the new spot, you don't want to pay the taxes again...in two places.

One tax bill is enough to swallow.

Questions, 207.532.6573? We are here to help. We sold a single wide last week and today are helping get it from Ludlow Maine to Sidney Maine and the fellow to move it is going to be in Houlton ME tomorrow to whisk the mobile to go down the road. (Finger's crossed) The mobile home seller had bought an 80 acre Maine farm a few years back after a move from Oregon, lived in the mobile until their new country home was finished. they are looking forward to getting the "lawn ornament" out of the view, off their lawn. Maine real estate to go...(bell ding ding ding sound) order's up from the drive thru window. 
  

 

    

Maine is neat enough no matter where you live but Maine waterfront listings get us, our real estate buyers cranked up, very excited.

Folks dreaming about a Maine vacation home, a place to retire on the water, on a lake now have a new listing to consider.

     Living on a Maine lake. That lake is the entertainment as you watch the seasons change.

     While you kayak, fish, explore this area of Aroostook County which is not far from Baxter State Park, the Mt Katahdin region.

    

Handicap friendly with ramped entry, two paved drives and rear screened in porch to enjoy.

Garage to putter in and extra shed for four wheeler ATV's, snowsleds can be parked under the carport extension. $195,500. Watch video right now.

Ask lots of questions..call right now 207.532.6573.

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