My Active Rain Real Estate Blog Post Is 11 Miles An Hour Slower Today...Only 175 MPH. - 12/31/10 07:58 AM
High speed trains, wireless real estate blogging on the way from Amsterdam to Paris for New Years on family vacation. The speed of this train only 175 miles per hour, not the 186 mph of my last real estate blog post. The speed of life is easy to miss if you are in the comfort zone of your home turf, the real estate market you service. 
But those of use that test positive for the affliction, the sport of real estate know that being comfortable is dangerous, can cause apathy and lack of creativity in the way we list, market, selling … (8 comments)

Blogging About Real Estate At 186 Miles Per Hour...This Is A First. - 12/30/10 04:48 AM
High speed internet, the wireless kind on a very fast, blur like train to Amsterdam from Brussels makes you consider how you would look from outer space. Far from your hometown.  How connected to the world, global village are you? When you are away from your normal turf to list, market, sell real estate, you realize more fully how easy it is to connect on line.
But like looking at your real estate local operation from space, it also points out how you appear on line. Or don't like being on a space ship, looking back at earth from the other … (8 comments)

Pulling Back From Your Local Real Estate Marketing Area, To See The Forest For The Trees. - 12/28/10 09:17 AM
 
You know the expression about seeing the forest for the trees? And how to capture the whole picture, you have to keep  stepping back. Further and further to get it all fit in with plenty of space around the subject when shooting images, videos. Well taking a trip, getting far from the real estate market you list, service, sell in is important in the same way.
 
 
Large population areas have boat loads of information to wade through.  
For the real estate buyer who has never been here before to sample the local flavor, get a feel for the … (5 comments)

In England, The London Estate Agents Handle The Real Estate Sales, Rents, Transactions. - 12/27/10 07:26 AM
The agents, brokers in London England are not called real estate professionals, they are estate agents. Have a new Joomla real estate site that took quite awhile to read up on, set up and estate agent improved is the component settled in on for the property distribution, shelf stocking of listings. Downloaded Open Realty, EZ Realty and unzipped other tools for the real estate listing inventory arm of the new website. But Estate Agent Improved was the best for hand built, not cookie cutter slam dash listing loading. To make sure everything is in there. Nothing left out. Had to tweak … (15 comments)

Forgetting Who You Represent, What Is Your Real Estate Role In The Property Dog & Pony. - 12/26/10 05:47 AM
Scanning real estate blog posts on Active Rain you begin to see a theme surface about buyers an agent, broker, REALTOR represents who cause frustration for the guy or gal wearing the "R".  The real estate buyer is frustrating the agent, the property purchaser is not getting it, does not understand and so on rant. And as you read the blog post like I just did for a California broker, I sense a how stupid the buyer of real estate is when it is not the broker's money that is being spent. Not that real estate broker making the payment. Or … (11 comments)

Maine Waterfront Real Estate, Property Buyers Surprised At No Cost To Use. - 12/24/10 10:58 AM
Over and over Maine real estate waterfront buyers are shocked that folks not owning a property on say a lake or river, pond can still have access. Maine is big on enjoyment of our natural resources and also protection to give them to our kids, their kids in better shape than we received it.
But when fewer folks live in Maine, and it is a little bit of a hike to get here, it is like Disney World with the lines at Space Mountain. No one charges for parking or you don't see miles and miles of signs saying no parking, … (5 comments)

Maine 46th Lowest For FSSR And 4th Lowest For Crime...That And Low Priced Real Estate Makes The Job Easier. - 12/23/10 12:02 PM
The real estate market where you live starts with the surroundings, not the sticks and bricks. The safety, how high the real estate prices and whether there is much FSSR or not makes a difference.
If your home town, county and state is 46th lowest for foreclosure, short sale, repossession because folks double up on payments that makes the wheels on the bus go round and round way way easier.
And if the Maine mortgage on places if there is one, is low because we are talking $60,000 not $600,000 super sized, that makes for a happier you each and every day.
… (2 comments)

How Much Of Your Real Estate Job Is Done By You, Yourself And I ? - 12/23/10 10:38 AM
The listing, marketing, selling of Maine real estate, any properties as an agent, broker, REALTOR...how much of the process do you the guy or gal wearing the "R" do all by your lonesome?   In some markets you see the vital dire need to hire a real estate stager to make sure the colors are correct, the place is ship shape and in balance. Giving off, radiating positive ions or pleasant vibes to set the wheels in motion for the real estate buyer.
Home inspectors give there two cents along the way. You have some agents, brokers, REALTORS who have never … (6 comments)

Low Cost, Highly Scenic 10+ Acres Of Maine Land For Sale, $15,900. . . Watch Video. - 12/22/10 04:07 PM
Land in Maine is always cheap, low cost and fun, easy to own. This over ten acres is warranty titled, free and clear squeaky clean. And the Maine land is surveyed too. Big view, old field growing up with volunteer Christmas trees, mixed woods to rear section. Southern exposure.
$15,900 gets you a property, land in Maine. Hop in the jeep, buckle up, we're heading to Oakfield Maine, Southern Aroostook County to go up on Pea Ridge where this land listing is. Watch the Maine land video.
You don't need to sell a kidney on ebay, rob a bank, hit the … (3 comments)

Classified: Sensitive Real Estate Matter Because Property Buying, Selling Is Emotionally Charged. - 12/22/10 10:57 AM
The offer made on the real estate, say the home in Maine you wanted to buy was rejected. And the way the buyer reacts can be taken personal as a slap just like the seller may have reacted to it. But many times what the real estate buyers expectations are for this much house for this little money just are square peg in round hole application thinking, situation.
Every real estate deal no matter how skilled the guy or gal wearing the "R" is at holding it together and helping each side see both sides is not a given to get to … (3 comments)

Being A Cub Investigative Reporter...It's How the Real Estate Disclosures Get Filled Out Properly. - 12/22/10 10:09 AM
The property you just listed, the one the son and daughter now own that you need to sell has missing background property listing information.   When the owners that did the work are deceased, not around to question and when the little Maine town does not have records, get out the detective top ring reporters notebook.
Start making calls, asking neighbors who are pretty accurate in backing up the bits and pieces you put together as one resource for property listing information.
It takes time but the less "I don't knows" on a new property listing, the quicker you get to … (0 comments)

The Maine Loon Sings, Or Cries You To Sleep On A Lake, Waterfront Property Listing. - 12/22/10 08:30 AM
Maine lakefront property is low cost, offers a great selection and you are on the water. Not seven properties back from a lake with a right of way but right in the front row.
Often 40, 60 feet or less from the water's edge and with plenty of frontage along the shore of that Maine lake.
Ever considered owning some Maine waterfront real estate, retiring, relocating, investing in a property with a lake for a neighbor?
Maine, full of lakes, not over crowded with people that can spoil them. People, too many are what drive the price up, cause the pressure … (2 comments)

Santa Loves Homes With Multiple Fireplaces For Obvious Reaons, Hit And Run Real Estate House Stops. - 12/21/10 08:56 AM
The sleigh is double parked, tittering on the sharp peak of your home, time meter ticking and the 8, maybe 9 furry flying engines are starting up those reindeer horsing around, clowning it up games. Think about it, if you had a 60 inch waist, wore red velvet and white fur trimmed clothing.
Which Maine home would you spend more time at, remember as one of the easier on your route once a year with eleves tossing gifts down the chimney? That's right, biggest opening, most options for getting in and out like Bonnie and Clyde during a bank heist.
A home … (3 comments)

Help Santa Who Is Getting Older Before He Brings Another Tie When You Want Land In Maine, Some Real Estate Instead. - 12/20/10 04:26 PM
Santa has a lot on his mind these days and like most people, there is nothing you really need around the house this holiday anyway. You have all the "stuff". But you want Maine land, a parcel, property you can run away to, on those three and four day weekends. Vacations, hunting or snowsledding or fishing trips.
Maine land (ding ding) Order up Santa, to go.
Everyone knows Maine real estate deeds, property land titles are easy to wrap up, slip under the tree.
Over 10 acres, in Maine, land is surveyed, owner financing considered too! Image link. Watch the … (4 comments)

Missing Zeroes, Lots Of Them In Maine Real Estate Home Prices. - 12/20/10 09:57 AM
On Active Rain, Zillow, Realtor.com, Truila, you see lots of zero places in the homes prices. The real estate costs way way less here and property prices are always on Slim Fast, lean and mean. Missing zeroes and property listings in Maine without $700,000, $800,000 mortgages hanging like several cinderblocks around necks of real estate buyers is the way we roll.
Simple, just like the recreation. Heck in Maine, heating with wood from your woodlot, amazed at the bright, plentiful night stars walking under a full moon winter sky. A Maine church bean supper,. Local basketball or ice hockey games cause … (5 comments)

Cash Money Tooled In, Delivered By A Real Estate Buyer Struggling With A Wheelbarrow. - 12/19/10 08:57 AM
Wheelbarrows of overflowing cash, with real estate buyers hefting those wooden handles for all they are worth due to the load, strain of Benjamins, Hamiltons, Grants and Wilsons.
Piled high and reeking, stinking like a currency factory of cold hard cash.
Cash buyers for smaller rural priced Maine properties, like say 20 acres of ground are pretty common. Coming up with a few thousands dollars is not hard for Maine land buyers to get their hands on. And often the Maine land purchase involves a third down payment and monthly installments. Payments the Maine real estate broker helps set up, structure … (2 comments)

How You Market, What You Promote, Your Style And Flavor Comes From The Real Estate Area, Zip Code. - 12/18/10 09:58 AM
When you stop and think about it, many many variables go in to marketing real estate, how you do the property listing hokey pokey. HEY! Seriously, it starts with you the real estate agent, broker, REALTOR and your way of presenting the property listing, promoting the area information.
Then after you consider your take, spin on the property and area, there is your style of delivery.
Plus the approach is fenced in by the area preferences, features real estate buyers seek out, go for.
In an entirely different market, it will be no doubt a completely new real estate marketing approach … (5 comments)

Low Cost Maine Waterfront Real Estate, How About Something On A Lake To Entice, Excite? - 12/18/10 05:57 AM
Being next to a Maine lake, any season is an experience the family can make memories around and for not a Brinks armored car loaded with money either. Vacationland, Maine is low cost waterfront real estate, property listings. Like this Butterfield Landing Weston Maine Grand Lake cottage. Or this Drews Lake log home ME listing.
Or if it is low cost Maine land you hanker, want, have plenty of gems to showcase on the acreage aisle of the ME real estate store.
Any properties in Maine no matter what the price range, got it. Inventory is king and with 175 exclusive … (4 comments)

Gems, Jewels That Sparkle In Your Home Town...Do You Promote, Showcase Those, Not Just Real Estate? - 12/17/10 09:48 AM
The "where the property" is trumps the "what it is" details, listing propaganda. If everyone where you live has coal lung disease, the movie Deliverance might have been filmed there, the cute cape and rambling ranch are going to develop a case of "ten foot pole marks" syndrome. What does your area look like and do you post boat loads of the beauty, the benefits to living there on Flickr ? Show more than the sticks and bricks and lay down the skinny on the area in full living color (and video).
If you just peddle the properties, nose to the grind … (8 comments)

Farm In Maine For Sale, 200 Acres Of Land, 2 Bath Log Home on Dead End Road. - 12/17/10 08:46 AM
Aroostook County is famous for farm land, fertile soil that you can grow anything in and get huge yields per acre and this Bridgewater Maine log home sits smack dab in the middle of prime dirt. Some of the fields are rented to a potato and grain farmer to pay the property taxes.
Other open pasture areas are used by the white horse in the video below.
More fields could be cultivate for crops, to raise some beef or dairy or just plant Christmas trees.
The USDA's soil and water people would love to help you set up a red pine, … (2 comments)

In Radio Broadcasting, Always Could See The Guy Driving To Work, The Mom With Tunes On Doing Housework. - 12/16/10 10:51 AM
People have lives and real estate professionals, guys and gals wearing the "R" help them lead them.  One on one personal, buyer singled out marketing, instead of promotion geared for just sliding the message in to the torpedo tubes. And loaded, fired to who knows where out in to the great beyond over or under water. It helps to see the target, who you are talking to, connecting with, aiming at in the dog and pony process. 
Your real estate blog posts advertising real estate, the new home listing on 123 Morning Glory Circle...is it just brought out in to the … (0 comments)

Driving North Up Interstate 95 In A Late Model SUV....Your Dog Riding Shotgun, Frampton Crooning On The XM Radio. - 12/16/10 09:16 AM
You have had a good run in your career in the city but tugging at your heart is someday, someday owning a Maine waterfront property, something on water, a lake. You have entered the period of your life where easing back that SUV seat a couple notches, building time for some rest, relaxation in to your 200 mile blur schedule is long over do and going to happen. You are good at your career but frankly how to relax has not gotten the time and attention that you owe  yourself.
Log home on a Maine lake, two waterfront lots came up on … (5 comments)

Excelling In One Area Of Your Real Estate Job Was All The Boost, Edge You Needed. Once. - 12/15/10 08:58 PM
You are in real estate because....?  The talent you have in one particular aspect of listing, or marketing or selling real estate used to be enough to propel you like on the last turn in the indoor swimming competitions growing up. But now if the income stream gets a little light, and more wolves running in the pack has you itchy to break loose, then running your day to day like a big box retailer with "just in time" inventory control gets intiated. Lean and mean, large and in charge as Joe Dirt would say. But it gets to be you … (3 comments)

Maine Home For Sale, Watch Video, Take The Tour Leaving Your Shoes On. - 12/15/10 10:01 AM
Home in Littleton Maine is easy to show...like how about right now? Take the tour, leave your shoes on, let us hear some questions. You get vinyl siding, country location, modern heating, newer roof, double garage, vaulted ceiling with skylights in the 27x15 living room overlooking one huge pond on your property.
The best part? (You sitting down? You are if you are driving.)
Priced in the $70's! Image link.
Watch the Maine home video. 
Big cellar with three extra rooms, areas for hobbies, storage, to work out of in this Maine house.
Outside entrance to this area. Open deck, two sets … (6 comments)

Land In Maine, Buying, Owning, Enjoying It Means You Need Your Name On A Deed. - 12/15/10 05:14 AM
Owning Maine land serves many purposes and just the sheer enjoyment of walking over your acreage, knowing it is yours to enjoy, vacation at, pass on to loved ones to do the more of the same is one big source of happy feelings deep inside.   A natural four seasons backdrop for some serious fun times with family and friends. If used part time, just knowing you have a trip penciled in on the calendar to get away and recharge with some much needed rest and relaxation, looked forward to is another simple bonus of owning land in Maine.
But which … (3 comments)

You Want The Good News Or Bad News About This Maine Dutch Colonial Home Property Listing? - 12/14/10 05:41 PM
Earlier in our 30 year real estate career we listed, sold this 64 Military Street Houlton Maine home, and it was top knotch, loved, pampered, spotless, maintained. Always. That's the good news. That is was better built, and had much of its life with folk, a family on board who took good care of it.
Ready for the bad news?
Year ago, the new family that owned it that had one heck of a little league pitcher on our Mooers Realty baseball team that helped win the team the town championship. But then everyone in the family picked up, moved away, quickly, … (2 comments)

Redeem Those Active Rain Points For A Deluxe Toaster, Blender, Monogramed Golf Bag. - 12/14/10 03:03 PM
The points you accumulate on Active Rain just blogging consistently on your real estate, your local area and showing who the heck you are, the peddler of the property listing taxi up here in Maine. Wouldn't it be neat to redeem them for special prizes, sea cruises like you do with credit cards?
 And used to do in the age of green and gold stamps as a kid with your mom to get a new baseball glove for two and a quarter books.
(Gulping down a glass of cold fresh Maine water, the kind without floride or tasting/smelling like Chlorox.)Well, hopping … (4 comments)

Maine Land For Sale Means Always Supersized, Big Amounts For Little Money, Bought Cheaply. - 12/14/10 08:56 AM
It's no secret anymore that when you find a property listing of Maine land for sale, it is a given that like McDonald's without being asked, it is super sized, big quantity. No one goes away hungry when you buy Maine land. It's a given, nothing new just always this way. Just established long ago due to big supply, being a little bit up the pike, Interstate 95. 
Examples from the Maine real estate land property listings chocolate box.  Here is nearly 200 acres of Maine land for in the $70's price bracket.
Thinking this is like the Big Box stores and their … (6 comments)

Learn About Northern Maine, Discover Aroostook County. - 12/13/10 06:54 PM
These days buyers know very little about some areas they were hoping to relocate, retire, invest in so property information is super but area detail steps need taking first. To get the real estate buyer from point "A" to "B". Do you just peddle properties or do you just as consistently push your area and expose it on line full throttle in the marketing information mix? Discover Northern Maine is one resource we use but also community videos that show and tell the area.
This blog post, others on outside blogs help build a case for the purchase of real estate … (0 comments)

Littleton Maine, Next Town North Of Houlton ME In Aroostook County. - 12/13/10 03:08 PM
Maine has many small towns that each have special people living there, a unique local spirit and flavor. Still  Maine, but variations on a home grown, local theme. 99% of the towns in Northern Maine, Aroostook County which is the largest of the state's sixteen are simply shaped, and square. Six by six miles cut out in grid work like new brownies hot out of the oven and sliced / diced in even rows and rows of same uniform size, shape. Littleton and Monticello Maine are the same "squares" north of Houlton in that order. Both bordering the US Canadian border … (4 comments)

Often Times On Active Rain Blog Posts, The Topics Covered Were Pretty Vague, Unknown Going In. - 12/13/10 11:35 AM
Real estate blogging is sharing knowledge or asking for help where you are weak, needing guidance if a true two way process.   Often times the knowledge you post about can be areas of real estate, running a business that you are proficient at.
But many times like a news director of a media outlet that knows very little but sees a national story and wants to do the local angle, spin, it's a case of just rolling up sleeves, beating the pavement.
Reporters notebook in hand, taking notes, flipping sheets of hieroglyphics up and over the wire rimmed fact finding … (5 comments)

Could You Live With One Car, Maine Home Payment Under $350 And Be Happy? - 12/13/10 10:24 AM
Less is more and if you like the idea of everything you know divide by three, four or more, Maine and the low cost real estate, day to day living expense will make you smile.   If you don't think you could live with one car, double up on payments to not have a payment, mortgage debt at all and no traffic, no crime with friendly but way fewer folks around you, Maine might not be for you.
In Maine you don't impress anyone with flashy this or that. You don't need to when everyone rolls in a down to earth, who … (0 comments)

Maine Farms For Sale, Or ME Waterfront Real Estate Always Low Cost, Quality Return Investment. - 12/13/10 06:45 AM
We'll save my rendition of "Oh give me a home ..", we just don't have buffalo roaming in Maine on the farms we list, market, sell. Maine red deer happen here and there but no songs about them I know by heart to perform today. No tunes I can hum or recall words on if pressed, quizzed before the second cup of coffee today.
But like Maine waterfront real estate, the price tag on our farms, land always causes a stir when a buyer from a few miles down the pike says, asks "Is there something wrong with these prices? Why … (9 comments)

Show Of Hands...Who Writes Their Own Blog Posts, From The Heart, Local Area? - 12/12/10 11:27 AM
Flushing those drugs, hearing all those toilets running on national news as you see sports greats admitting steroid enhancer use. Something chemical to supposedly give them an edge.  Or maybe thinking it did the trick the real placebo effect drug boost, a being all in your head thing.
 With all the Internet library book like sites, blogs on a slew of topics, loaded with images, salt and peppered with other further background links, and embedded videos, not sure why any real estate agent, broker, REALTOR would "hire" someone to ghost write their work. Blog from your zip code, not left overs from one completely … (9 comments)

Apps, Plug In Extensions, Widgets For Real Estate....Too Many Cords Strangling, Draining The Website's Heart, Generator. - 12/11/10 09:47 AM
Looking for slick, fun, helpful doodads, add ons, extensions to your real estate website, blog posts, video platform are all well and good but there is a price to pay, offsets to consider. They all drain the powerfield, the time to load and create obstacles in some cases of over size and not customized for your application. Too big and clunky. It is nice to think of everyone holding a droid, a lap top parked in front of you with a speed of thought Internet connection.
But simple, easy is like using a few crayons to create the experience from your … (0 comments)

Active Rain Leaderboard Points Totals, Scores One Reason, Not Only One To Blog. - 12/11/10 07:59 AM
Everyone has a competitive nature, heck we are in the real estate industry which is a sport, passion, some say affliction, condition. The Active Rain's leaderboard point scores, state by state, niche and related real estate industry spotlighted. Each segmented out to shine brightly to show who gets a gold star or perfect attendance for showing up at Active Rain blogging school each day makes it a game. Measurable to see who gets extra credit for blogging class participation and photo in the AR yearbook with notation "most likely, tendency to blog" distinction.
But if points were all you got from the experience there … (14 comments)

When You Go Out To Eat, You Expect Lots From The Experience, Like Real Estate Transactions. - 12/10/10 09:02 PM
A buyer is hungry, piggish for some surf and turf real estate. Their time is limited and they are hog wild, ready to eat. Or you point them to kill some time in the lounge. Armed with a LED pager to alert them when they are bankable, credit worthy to order off the menu and sit down to eat. 
The experience is emotional where worry about the meal bill (or wondering what the bottom line in the HUD-1 real estate closing document will be). Not wanting to not have enough, caught shore to have to do dishes out back with an apron put on.
Or … (4 comments)

Merry Christmas And Happy New Year. - 12/10/10 04:29 PM
May the season be bright, family fun with food, good conversation, a time to reflect and relax on another calendar running out of months, days. Look at the postage we saved, no trees, animals were killed with this card from our house to yours either! All recycled electrons went in to this wish for a very merry very green Christmas & New Years Holiday wish!
Spend some vacation time in Maine, come see us too! Low cost properties, real estate in Maine.
All price ranges, types of Maine property listings to consider and boy are they attractive! (Long wolf whistle sound)
… (5 comments)

"The Higher The Real Estate Price, The Thinner The Property Buyers." - 12/10/10 10:31 AM
As you glean blog posts on Active Rain, other real estate industry media channels, the hardest property selling markets are often the larger ones, the places with the most zero places in their listings. Rural America real estate agents, brokers, REALTORS live more frugally. Like they are preparing for a recession at any moment, around any corner. Ready, poised, cautious. And the homes, land, farms, waterfront, business properties, listings in those markets are way way lowered priced. Like the local pay scale, cost of living. Everything you know, divide by three, four. Property listings that cost less, get paid for quicker, … (3 comments)

Your Real Estate Site, Hosted On Linux Or Window Based System With Apache Server Hood Ornament, Decal? - 12/10/10 09:19 AM
Technical web hosting information, server models and specs, the  under the hood stuff is important when you are listing, marketing, selling property with Internet real estate web, blog, podcast and video sites being put on line left and right.
Choices for real estate website host servers like which snack to select as you go in to a low blood sugar decision making coma with a pair of quarters juggled in your hand in front of a vending machine. Trigger finger locked and loaded, ready, poised for the poke, jab to cause a small avalanche of calories, sweetness in colorful vacuum … (0 comments)

In Populated Areas Real Estate "Offices" Within Agencies Confusing Public. Who's in Charge? - 12/09/10 03:41 PM
As you travel and hit populated areas, the advertising, on line marketing seems to indicate a brand new real estate agency is flying high, has sprung up in the local area. Who's in charge and appearance of a horse of an entirely different color is on the scene.
 And as you look over the propaganda, you realize wait a minute, is this is really part of ABC Real Estate, or Country 22 Properties LTD or XYZ Realty Experts agency license?  Not just looking like a team of real estate guys or gals wearing a "R" paddling the property listing boat together under … (0 comments)

"Finish Me Off" Says The Maine Lakeshore Log Home To A Real Estate Buyer (Handing Over Hammer.) - 12/09/10 03:02 PM
The hard work of finding a choice Maine waterfront lot, doing the excavation, roadwork, installing septic, foundation, frame of a ME log home done. Now you decide how to finish it off in your time table, within your budget and expertise.
Many folks can with the help of family, friends that are pretty skilled or do construction trades for a living end up getting a quality finished product if they are not in a hurry, are patient.
At a fraction of the price and with the satisfaction of how well the Maine log home on a lake is completed.
Leave your … (3 comments)

Ford Motor Smart In Sending Out An IRS Tax Deduction Reminder About Buying New Vehicle. - 12/08/10 04:01 PM
Have always drove Jeeps for decades and all the kids do too but every once in a while, thanks to IRS tax deduction incentives, suddenly parking something bigger in the dooryard happens. Especially when section 179 of the IRS tax codes allow many businesses to deduct up to the full price of qualifying equipment purchased or financed during the 2010 tax year. You may be able to buy equipment used in your business that may be 100 percent deductible from your gross taxable income this year.
The catch? Has to be a heavy hitter, weigh, have a gross vehicle weight greater … (0 comments)

Remodeling A Maine Home, What You Find As You Remove, Rip Out In The Renovation. - 12/08/10 08:13 AM
Old Maine homes were built to last, by skilled craftsmen that were world class, taking major pride in their real estate projects. In the 1913 Maine home that is a whopping 32 foot commute daily to my job as a REALTOR, Houlton ME real estate broker is no exception to the rule on how they built houses years ago. In remodeling, replacing the harvest gold colored 1972ish kitchen, the ceiling was removed and after gaining a foot and a half, this is the crown molding, raised panel original ceiling that was flawless, hidden. A little paint, a pot light here and … (7 comments)

Video...Clean, Fluid, Talking From A Brokers View, Talking To A Real Estate Buyer , Touring Thru A Johnson Street Houlton ME Home. - 12/07/10 09:34 PM
The lot is wide, driveway paved, Houlton Maine home sided and 34' means the garage is 3 wide, but with power doors. Private rear yards. Natural wood and tile floors. Clean, modern, quick occupancy. All this in a quiet neighborhood in the $80's?
Really. You forgot you are in Maine right? Happens all the time.
Watch the Houlton Maine 5 Johnson Street property listing video.
Questions about the area, Maine real estate? We need to hear them, to help you with the background details beyond the Maine real estate. Find out about Maine. 
I'm Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
… (1 comments)

It's Like A Ghost Ship, Eerie When You See A Fellow Real Estate Agent, Broker, REALTOR On Line Who Is Dead. - 12/07/10 04:11 PM
When you and I are are gone, cyber blog posts, membership in social media will continue on to do your "marketing". Birthday reminders you see on Facebook, other social media sites hit you in a strange way when you know no more birthdays are going to be celebrated on this earth by members lost, that have died, passed away, are gone. It is departed Active Rainer Laurie Manny birthday announcements, others that hits you a weird way. Like when we lose a fellow real estate agent, broker, REALTOR out of respect that name should get tucked away, removed from on line. But … (6 comments)

Secret Weapon For Selling More Real Estate Quicker, Easier...Hey Do You Smell Something? - 12/07/10 03:26 PM
Buy a case of this secret weapon real estate helper and order before midnight tonight for a bambo cooker, ginsu knife set too. But wait there's more with those three no fuss monthly payments and that last killer, not so easy final installment. We'll throw in a REALTOR approved ray gun to hang on your utility belt. Don't leave home without it.
Happy Holidays and enjoy this complimentary stocking stuffer to put wind in your sails, a spring in your step.
Perfect gifts for the real estate agent, broker, REALTOR on your holiday gift shopping list from Shoestring Productions.
This holiday gift giving … (1 comments)

Ever Been To The World War Two Pearl Harbor Exhibit...Not A Lot Of Talking. - 12/07/10 07:13 AM
Memorials for veterans, especially the one you take a boat to in Pearl Harbor in honor of those fighting, those lost in the early morning bombing, attack of the Pacific naval fleet to kick off the Pacific Theatre end of World War Two for Uncle Sam, GI Joe.
 Today is Pearl Harbor Day and if you have ever been to Hawaii, taken in the memorial, it will go as deep inside a person as humanly possible.
As you take a boat out to the Pearl Harbor exhibit, seeing rusted remains of sunk vessels below the surface make, force you to … (15 comments)

The Reach Of The Opponents In A Marshal Arts Boxing Fight Can Be Critical, Same As Real Estate Marketing. - 12/07/10 06:14 AM
The tale of the tape as the ringside boxing announcer doing the color for the big match up, the fight in some city arena with spotlights rotating, glaring, the crowd chatting, on their feet, out for blood, revenge. With real estate, reach is just one of the factors you want for any of your marketing. And frequency is a close second but with careful thought on when you are wearing out your welcome. Going the other way on wooing, courting and sparking your real estate buyer. Like a football pass, skipping a flat rock across a lake, how far is your … (1 comments)

Community Assets In The Maine Town You List, Market, Sell Real Estate...You Brag Them Up Right? - 12/06/10 02:04 PM
A house is a house, a home a home but where it is located, what the community is like to live in is part of a real estate agent, broker, REALTORS job assignment.   Take inventory of your local town or city assets and don't just assume everyone else knows about them. Or that it is like this other places.
Economic development can be as exciting or as dry, boring to you as watching paint dry. But if you brag up the features, the intrastructure you have that other areas don't it serves two purposes.
Educating the outside buying public that … (4 comments)

Property, Real Estate Listed, Sold Over The Holidays...Think Family Discussions, Decisions Being Made. - 12/06/10 06:57 AM
Slew of blog posts about trying to stay motivated over the holidays, others hinting that someone rolls up the real estate office carpet during the red and green celebrations due to all the tinsel, egg nog, mistletoe ho ho ho. That is not so in the Maine real estate market.
Think of before and after carving the Thanksgiving turkey and that second piece of pumpkin pie the discussion around the family table. "Since dad died, mom is all alone, does not need this great big place since us rug rats left home". 
(Adjusting CIA like listening device in another home) "Boy, … (10 comments)

A Holiday In Maine Can Be Just When, What You Needed For A Winter Vacation. - 12/05/10 09:20 AM
When you have a young family, vacations around the holidays unless they are to your parents, grandparents out of town are not so common. You want to be home to build your traditions, to be in one spot.
But when the kids grow up, get scattered, meeting for a holiday vacation somewhere other than home can be fun too. Especially in Maine at a ski area like Sugarloaf Mountain.
If you have never skiied or are a veteran of down hill, cross country, Maine may be a spot to spend the holidays. Call, email loved ones and plan a trip renting … (4 comments)

When Your Maine Real Estate Comes With Waterfrontage, Some Property On A Lake, Good Things Happen. - 12/05/10 08:34 AM
Memories with family around a Maine lake are special and all it takes for the fun to happen is the property, real estate to border waterfront, a beach. Maines lakes are plentiful, to the tune of 6000 in number so you can find affordable waterfront properties, listings to consider. It starts with saving, planning, doing your homework. And maybe like your first car, or home, considering entry level waterfront property.
A starter place or maybe just land on Maine water, real estate bordering something wet. A lake lot or something even on a river, the ocean in Maine to place a … (5 comments)

Waterfront, A Maine Property Listing, Real Estate On One Of Our 6000 Lakes Interest You? - 12/05/10 07:57 AM
Water, property next to a Maine lake is a popular goal of many real estate buyers. A place to use on vacations, holidays, those long weekends. The attraction is the backdrop when you are lucky enough to own Maine real estate on water.
Because all you have to do is show up, with something to grill, read in the hammock, to use for bait fishing.
Your kids growing up around a Maine lake, with cousins chasing fire flies, listening to loons, swimming on hot hot afternoons build memories. Happy childhood traditions and a property that gets passed on to the next generation. … (3 comments)

5 South Street Houlton Maine 04730 Home Near Schools, Property Priced To Sell. - 12/04/10 09:08 AM
Homes in Maine, like this one on 5 South Street in Houlton Maine in the $80's price bracket are a joy to list, market, sell. Place, Maine home has a new addition, proximity to new schools and the little league baseball field complex in Houlton Maine. Chance for a fourth first floor bedroom and woodwork. The original natural wood staircase, trim still in place. In one family for most of its life since being built back in the early 1900's in Houlton Maine, Aroostook County's governmental seat. Houlton Maine is on the Canadian border with New Brunswick and Interstate 95 is … (4 comments)

Building A ME Real Estate Media Center...Or Don't Take A Knife To A Gun Fight. - 12/03/10 07:47 PM
You are a real estate agent, broker, REALTOR and media is the key to promoting, exposing, marketing your Maine listings, the communities the property with your sign out front are in right? Keep up or get left behind. Way behind. Not even in the rear view mirror, quickly disappearing. The days of delivering the property information with the peel off black and white poloroid photo, a few basic lines of copy are long over. Not nearly enough to show up on real estate property radar. To stimulate the senses...all of them.
As much as you can you want to capture … (0 comments)

What Part Of Real Estate "Phone Hold" Do Your Think Your Buyer, Seller Likes The Best? - 12/03/10 10:17 AM
Making the most of being on hold is a lot like traffic when you are pinned behind the wheel of your car...all belted in and killing time.   Luckily in smaller rural states, traffic is not something we factor in each day as just part of the local life in the turf we call home.
But being on hold, waiting for someone in the office, product, service food chain that can help you takes time. Mainly because departments in a large organization are scattered around the globe. Out sourcing to in theory serve you better. Or at least save money.
Personally … (0 comments)

Ajax, PHP, Drupal, Joomla...No, Not Medications To Combat Garden Variety Depression, Chemical Imbalances. - 12/02/10 06:06 AM
The real estate agent, broker, REALTOR of today does way way more than just list property, stick signs in the ground and eventually attend closings with lots of chairs, long simulated wood tables loaded with pens at a bank or lawyers office. Delivery of the property information on the listings he or she markets and background, full throttle exposure on the area the sticks and bricks reside in has become more necessary. Because the buyer for the real estate, the new home listing is not always local. Knows diddly about the community you live in. Where the property is GPS coordinated.
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Maine Things To Do In December, The Christmas Heading In To New Year's Season. - 12/01/10 08:57 PM
If you don't over spend and shop til you drop in Maine over the holidays, more time to do the fun things, take in events musically, sportswise in Vacationland. Many activities in Maine depending on what your idea of fun is. If it is live music is your release, passion then Cape Breton's fiddler Natalie MacMaster is in Maine December 7th at the Collins Center at the University of Maine at Orono. Show time for this folk and Celtic crowd pleasing fiddler is 7 pm for a $47 event ticket. 207.581.1755 or click www.collinscenterforthearts.com for the skinny.
Changing the music channel, … (4 comments)

Too Many Christmas Tree Lights Plugged In At Active Rain Blog Headquarters. - 12/01/10 06:41 AM
You know the feeling when you are on a freeway and no traffic, you get from point A to B pretty quickly? Active Rain's blog servers that were wrenched, tweaked, replaced a while back made you have that giddy feeling of a new computer hard drive.
Or the same feeling when sliding off a Maine ski lift. To hit a just groomed trail of corduroy lined snow with no signs of any one else sampling the new powder yet.
But lately and maybe because of growth of membership, increased numbers of blog posts and all those HD photos for our listing side … (7 comments)

 
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