REALTOR Andrew Mooers' Maine Real Estate Blog

You Are On Vacation In Europe, You Get Sick, You Have Free Health Care In 27 Countries.

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:24:46 -0500

You need to apply for a health care card.

Let's face it, you don't think of getting sick on vacation. But with college kids taking semesters in a European country happening more and more as part of their education to broaden their experience, health care is a concern. But until you need it, health care in downtown Paris France or London England. Universal health care for free? Free European Health Insurance Card..do you have one? What about if you are below the 2009 poverty guidelines in this country and who wants to help? Socialized health care and how it factors into a US traveler's health care provision to a foreign land?

Health care when you get sick in a European country and need an immediate health care response and can not put off until you are back stateside.

What to do and how to prepare for European health care options.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, Scramble To Get Here Quick Like A ME Bunny.

Don't Need To Use Words...You Can Paint With Pictures, With Video To Get Real Estate Job Done.

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:56:09 -0500

Rolling fields, mixed woods, near lakes, big views. Simple.

Was both sides of road with 180 acres. Sold one side and west side that is 75 acres with 14 cleared acres available. Ideal farm and woodland without the buildings to repair or tear down. Just build when you are ready what you want, where you want, how you want.

$75,000 Buys Maine Quality Land With Killer View.

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In The Westerns, Cowboys Carried Two Guns, Holster On Each Side Just Like Realtors With Computers.

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:16:30 -0500

Picture this movie in your head.

You have shot a property or local community event video, edited it, doctored the audio, added graphics, chyroned the copy on a color board. And while it is uploading, you bolt from that computer monitor and whip out another to shift tasks. All while the latest video creation project is being saved or compressed and uploaded. Just like a gun slinger on Main Street reaching for another shooting iron. Sure a huge chip, hard drive lets you work on the same machine, but sometimes a whole new horse and task on another machine and work space is quicker for lots of reasons. Video takes time to upload even with the fastest connection and with HD, other introductions to the video production stream, there are delays. It is lots for a computer drive/graphics card to chew on, digest and process even when you swap machines yearly.

So as you package / prepare video syndication of your property / community creation, I have found sliding into the saddle of another machine to personally catch up on the latest emails, or to download images to other sites works best. Some times you are creating a plot plan, a floorplan to weave into the next video you have scheduled right behind the one in the oven, being processed. As you set up a new listing or tweak an old one with new imagery or rotation shuffling, another computer stallion or painted pony / work station works well in saving time. Video is table top producing with digital and no more film to physically cut and glue or VHS to maneauver, guide, punch and poke.

Anyone else find that having another office computer idling ready to head out of the barn is helpful, worthwhile, a time saver for a lot of reasons besides these above? As the video uplink stream to more and more platforms or portals, it may mean adding a rifle to the pair of six guns to keep shooting, firing, loading up the video folks are hungry for. Maybe a third computer in another box stall as you rotate from each work station. We're talking real video with 30 frames per second, not an image slide show passed off a genuine video.

The difference between real rich 5 sense video and a tinkling piano still image slideshow is like real fresh ground hot, steaming coffee with Juan Valdez in your kitchen open closet smiling, with the hat, the blanket, next to his donkey Grande vs warm water with a brown crayon dipped in it.

Anyone calling a slide show of the same regurgitated stills zooming in and out causing viewer vertigo with piano or flute music in the background should be ashamed to tout that dog and pony creation as real life, hard punching all the senses full fledge video. Let's head to the lake..this is the latest out of the can video we whipped up.

ME REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Show Them Maine, Right Now With Real Estate/Local Community Videos.

100 Acres In Maine For Sale And With Video, You Can Get Inside Right Now!

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:10:58 -0500

You have a few minutes, you are surfing for some land in Maine.

How about a log cabin with that Maine acreage? This video helps show you the inside/out of this listing! $70's! Cary Maine is south of Houlton which is at the beginning of Interstate 95.

Want tucked away, hidden, a place for Maine vacations or to homestead?

Your search just ended! Maine, get here just as quick as you can! info@mooersrealty.com 207.532.6573

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Less than 3 minutes to scope this one out. Watch more too, over 320 on Maine real estate and local community events at www.youtube.com/mooersrealty

Water (Gasping) I Need Some Maine Water(wheeze)front, A Home Full Time.

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:53:36 -0500

You work hard, way way too hard. You raised a family, got them educated, took care of elderly parents.

It's your turn. Well deserved Maine lakefront home! Two lots means tons of waterfront. Plus, major bonus in the 54,200 square feet of extra land (1.24 acres) behind you for company, development, seclusion protection.

Picture it in your head?

Heck, double click Maine video link and you'll be walking around, hearing the water, birds, and we can get you inside right now. Questions? 207.532.6573
$299,500!

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(Tap Tap Tap) Testing One, Two, Three. Making Local Community Real Estate Videos.

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:54:36 -0500


Just be yourself when making local community and real estate videos.
Talk one on one and be the tour guide whether about the property you have listed and are marketing to real estate buyers or to folks considering relocation, retirement or recreational investment in your area. You are in sales right? And you know your properties inside and out, shot the videos, took the images, tracked down the town information, studied the deed from the local registry right? AND you like where you live, are in the best place on earth correct? So tell them in your own words not announcer guy reading a script or copy you write. Show them the area knowing you are providing a service.
It's no different than you asking a person for directions when you are in a strange unfamiliar area. You are glad for help, looking for information. Be that FAQ provider, or Direction's Guy for others looking in on your home town.
Be yourself and let them get to know you, become familiar with your passion for your area, your professionalism for your job as real estate locator.

     A Maine real estate broker answers questions about the property, about bank financing, about disclosures and the correct way to avoid lawsuits in a sale and be ethical. But with the global reach of the internet and knowing 85% of real estate buyers go on line to hunt down property, help them in the hunt by doing local community videos that capture the hometown, the local turf. It's not a couple pictures and an interchangeable write up written by the office help anymore. You are the Realtor, the local go to guy or gal for real estate, chamber of commerce information and you are the first person they meet, on line. You are the first person to take then thru ten "open houses", on line before they even get here with video. Our office has a FAQ, frequently asked about Maine video series started and here is one video installment or episode. Simple, helpful, three minutes long so way way less difficult to endure than a root canal and everyone comes away with information, video and audio from the town of Houlton Maine / Southern Aroostook County that I serve.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, Less People, Friendlier People, Wildlife And Scenery 2nd To None.

Maine Lakes Hate One Thing More Than Any Other....Rolling, Sloping Lawns.

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:48:01 -0500

Picture this.
You are out in a kayak, skimming the water around a pristine, uninhabited lake in Maine. What hits you is no camps dangling on the edge of the water, no lawn right down to the shores edge. natural bushes, trees. But no sign of man, weed and feed, or pressure treated docks.

Man messes up a lake, and lawns are the number one thing that lakes, if they could talk would gurgle angry excitement about. Many Maine lakes have local boards of folks to be pro-active not reactive to pressures that can kill or spoil a lake. The Drews Lakes Property Owner's Association (DLPOA) is a member of the Congress of Lakes Organization(Cola) an holds yearly meetings. In the past few years a $60,000 grant from the soil and water conservation district has helped with erosion of the roadways and undersized or missing culverts. Another grant has helped with adding vegetation and local soil stablization to protect the lake from silt, phosphorous and other non-source point pollution.
Watersheds, wood cutting operations miles away and water racing to the lake, contaminants being brought in thru streams all mess up the water quality for fish, swimmers, loons, everyone that enjoys a clean, milfoil free Maine lake.
This year's meeting is at the New Limerick town office, July 7th, at 6:30. We are lucky to have Bill Hersey, a well known local Maine soil tester/site evalulator on board to talk about the do's and don'ts and septic regulations in a Maine shoreland zone.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Protecting Maine's Resources, Being Good Steward to Our 6000 Lakes!

A One Sentence Complete Real Estate Appraisal, 20% Home Loan Down Payment.

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:37:23 -0500


Twenty years from now we will all look back and think how simple paperwork, the home buying real estate process was back in 2009.
Consider one local yesteryear appraiser named Sam Sylvester in Houlton Maine.. Sam gets a call from the local bank, if the bank manager himself did not make the determination of value on a place to consider, to evaluate. Sam cruised thru the property, scoped out where the owner thought the bounds were, did not do a CMA, did not sketch out the floor plan, did not take pictures. Did not hit the town office or registry deeds. He remembers when the home was built, who built it and how it was maintained over the years. He used to deliver papers to the Fergusons. The mom made the best date filled cookies. The dad worked for the Bangor and Aroostook railroad. After the tour of the property, he would move the valuation to his mental back burner and go on with his other tasks. A few days later, he would shut the door to his office, ponder the value and type out a one sentence appraisal like ....

     "Have inspected, studied and evaluated the home on 17 Maple Street and its current value as of the above date is Forty Seven Hundred Dollars ($4700).

Respectfully submitted, Samuel Sylvester"

     He would walk it into the bank. Done and on to other real estate appraisal missions. He kept a carbon copy to recall the lengthy, voluminous detailed home value analysis. The buyer of 17 Maple Street had saved up his 20 to 25% down payment. The loan was done locally. No secondary mortgage market hoops to jump thru, no Lending Tree banks competing for his loan. Local in every way and the bank making the loan with the hefty down payment in today's standards did not have many foreclosures or non-performing mortgage notes.
Today three trees need to be killed to produce the paperwork and documentation to get the closing over with. The usual skyscraper thick loan folder from the "loan a-Ranger" was skinny, malnourished compared to today with just a few sheets of paper. And the fellow with the combination to the vault did not hand out pens, note pads, important document folders branded with his logo or try to sell them life or home owner's insurance. No flood insurance certification. No standardized HUD 1. No appraisal with pictures of comps, competing listings and all the appraiser's credentials printed out in a 40 page propaganda spin.
Simple, quick real estate closing. And the owner of the home financed all the furniture to the new buyer too right down to the cooking pots, pans, high chair in the attic, Maine coon cat, African violet plants and the Christmas cactus in the front room.

     When you think about wouldn't it be nice if the bank making the loan was your neighbor? Helped on the Rotary float this 4th of July and your wife was the cub scout den mother for one of his kids? And you coached his daughter in basketball, sponsored her in a local soap box derby race? The defaults would be nil unless a giant factory was the only local employer and went to its knees from foreign competition. A banker at the front of the line with no sale of the mortgage each week to another financial enterprise in some other country or planet. The banker that made the loan held responsible. He who would be left holding a bad, risky loan and who could have his head on the chopping block if too many mistakes were made. Wouldn't that make the success percentage with a loan based on the buyer's character..not just his fica score or job history or debt ratios? How retro-real estate huh?

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, Simple, Down to Earth, The Way Life Should Be And Was Before.





OUCH...Seller Cut My Price So For $159,000 Get 50 Acres, Executive Home, Guest Home..WHOA!

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:22:15 -0500


See if this fits your home needs (sliding into a chair next to folks looking for a unique Maine real estate offering). Here's the highlights because I know you are busy.
But consider if you can see yourself living in Wasburn Maine in a two bath, three bedroom hip roof ranch set way way off the road. And a loved one can live in the extra ranch style home just the right distance away. Still have your interest? Okay...(rolling up sleeves) this one comes with 50 acres of fertile ground/wooded sections. You can have a horse and use the building hidden by trees as a stable or storage for the horse trailer, supplies. All for $159,000? You look surprised.


Owner was transferred, relocation company says move it. Don't rent it, don't let it linger on the market, make it sell quicker than other's not on the fast track.
Are you the buyer? The Maine home real estate video gets you inside right now. Let's us know if you want an actual walk thru based on the imagery/copy/video. info@mooersrealty.com 207.532.6573 Log On www.mooersrealty.com Couple this purchase with the Gift of Green, $8000 home buying tax credits and a sweet deal becomes even easier to swallow. Let's talk.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Get To Maine Just As Quickly As You Can. Life Starts In Maine.

If You Are A Real Estate Broker, You Are Not Shy, Reserved, Quiet As a Mouse.

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:35:06 -0500


You are in sales of real estate, of your local community, of your brand, your company image.
Everything you do builds on that message whether blogging style, angle of your imagery, the graphics, the video and the heart/soul of all you do. Nowadays with Facebook, My Space, You Tube and a gazillion other options to get the message beamed worldwide, is what you do haphazard, helter skelter? Or do you plan a part of your real estate day to that structure of that message. Consistency whether its the size and color of the font, the logo or the storyboard blueprint for your video presentation is important. Style, the way you write, speak, shoot video and edit. Everything builds on each other component. Like a musician, do you create real estate music that stands out, is heard above the noise of signals bombarding the customer, the browser or surfer? Do your newspaper ads match the feel, the spark of your blogs, your video presentations? Why not?

     The Who had a song. "Who Are You?". Folks in the 1960's talked about finding themselves. Are you lost and now you are found? Found on the internet, everywhere a person looks, turns, reads, watches and listens? Why not? Not important? Real estate is just a hobby, all fun and games and just happens on its own? You like being the last horse out of the gate, doing a so so job and personal job satisfaction in your community is not that important? Bull crap. Effort makes a sense of accomplishment, a feeling of a job well done and reminds you there is more work to do, to be the best, stay on top. Isn't that the kind of drive, desire that makes going to work..no matter what your job is, a rewarding experience? And isn't a happier worker a happier family member, mate, community person? It's all a balancing act, a direction you want your life, your job to move.

     It makes it easier if you define what image you are trying to create and you need to know what market niche you are going after? Specialized, general or different speeds depending on the application? Like a world class athelete, different game tactics and discipline depending on the need from the game coming at your from the other side.
Day in and day out, time to make the donuts so to speak. But not in the same old same old way.
The way you start your real estate day and events through out it make you a different, more experienced professional at the end of that day. Or it should if you are serious, eager to learn new ways to market your property, your local community and your brand....to market you. Tell them your life journey, your real estate story so they know they are dealing with a real life human being with emotions, goals, hopes and dreams just like them! Come out behind the real estate curtain in your Emerald City where you live now.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, Get Here Just As Fast As You Can.

Up To $15,000 Maine Home Buying Incentives With MSHA Gift Of Green, $8000 Tax Rebate Options!

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:08:20 -0500

Saving some green.
It makes you feel like a million bucks and when the savings happen to make it possible to own a Maine home, it puts you over the top for excitement. Home ownership, it's the building block of communities, family traditions and makes the property owner a vital part of a community. With the Maine State Housing Authority's Gift Of The Green program and the $8000 Home Buying Tax Rebate, there are two very very strong reasons to own a home in "Vacationland" these days.
But like the announcer guy warns at a thousand miles an hour at the end of a broadcast message, "hurry because when the programs are done, they are history and you could find yourself still renting, still pouring cash in the thrash, emptying rent money down the drain with nothing to show but rent receipts.

Check out listing 7771 and watch the Maine home video! $139,900!

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, Get Here Just As Fast As You Can.

Land In Maine With Space...Lots Of Space Around It For Sale!

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:31:47 -0500

You have been jammed in for years, on a small postage stamp lot. People here, buildings there, squeezed in and finding it harder to breath, relax, find a comfort zone with adequate spacing.
These possible real estate suggestions change all that. All price, all locations, all different and unique for your consideration as you ponder investing, moving part or full time to Maine, the way life should be.info@mooersrealty.com 207.532.6573. See all our 315+ videos of Maine real estate & local community living at www.youtube.com/mooersrealty

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - More Space, Less People, Gorgeous 4 Season Living.

Maine Brick Homes, Solid, Attractive And Built To Last But Not That Common Here.

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:07:47 -0500

Recently listed a brick cape that is in tip top shape but brick homes in Houlton Maine not so common.
Makes them extra special and hope the video gives you the low down, a feel for the place. Check out our many Maine real estate videos/local community movies. $70's! info@mooersrealty.com 207.532.6573 Log On www.mooersrealty.com
The huff and puff factor for this one is way way high and just what folks scared of wolves are looking for.
Enjoy the 25 images/video.

Learn about Maine.

"I'm Not Responsible. I Did The Best I Could. I Aways Try My Hardest".

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:33:02 -0500


Standard operating procedure in your day to day? Do you get into habits that on the surface save face and sound good, attempt to make you always come out on top, smelling like a rose, and landing on your feet?
Spin, insincerity, propaganda. Everyone does it, and it's an art form for some right? I am waiting for the day of a college four year degree in "spin". Oh yeah, political science major...it already exists to manipulate, power broker, to weave, bob, snake your way to the top. That is not the America the country started out with or maybe the founding fathers preserved in time as noble, altruistic, not self serving did get their hands dirty or cross the line. Billy Joel reminds us "You are only human, you are suppose to make mistakes".

     The point of this post is do you take the attitude that you are always right, that you do not make mistakes, that you are not responsible when things go haywire and mess up royally? It can be like the youngster who starts lying early on and after awhile, the lies become his reality, he convinces himself that what he is saying is gospel. That is not salesmanship.

     I made a comment in a blog that made me thing about a car dealership where I needed an oil change, and the tires on my 1978 Pinto (woo hoo) balanced. When I picked the car up as a lowly broadcaster, finishing up my college degree in the same profession, I noticed the tires were really hopping. Way way more than when the chariot was dropped off. I asked the service manager who I knew from being a mechanic for my dad who had eight trailer trucks about the road test I took afterwards. He immediately started in on that was the best the mechanic could do, that they could not have added anymore or less weight and maybe the rims were bent, etc.
The assumption was something is wrong with the car, it is the customer's fault if the service was not performed right. Or that the dealership does not make mistakes, does the best they can and this was the best they could do.
I had got done on my knees to scope out the tires...all four. The wheel weights had been removed on the wheels...and I checked both sides just in case they had added them to the inner half of the wheel to give the dealership the benefit of the doubt. There were no wheel weights so all the potholes from Maine spring driving meant the wheels plainfully needed weights in the right places as determined by a spin balance. Someone forgot to put the wheel weights back on. Period. When I stopped Al in this canned speech to make me think that is the best it could be and the dealership bent over backwards to go beyond the call of duty on this wheel balancing, he looked so surprised, like a Maine deer in the headlights. His expression changed, jaw dropped when I said simply "Al. I checked. There are NO wheel weights on the wheels at all." But instead of lets look the car over, or even considering maybe the dealership in a hurry had made a mistake, an iron wall of "we did the best we could, it could not be our fault and maybe something is just plain wrong with the car and not fixable" was the posture taken. Standard operating survival mode or quickest way to get this crabby customer, all customers who come back unhappy out the door and on their way to another dealership. It made me think about real estate and every occupation.

     Is it a habit for lots of people in their business and professional life to just not be wrong, responsible, able to correct a situation they botched up? Ever? And do folks just not consider first that maybe the guy in the mirror each morning makes mistakes and ownership of them would save alot of time, make the person being snowed not feel insulted because the wool is being pulled over their eyes? Aren't mistakes if acknowledged the way we learn, the lessons that humble but in the long run improve, help our career success and reputation? Or by avoiding them all together as ever existing, don't we hurt ourselves and our kids watching the bad habit? Is the country just frowning on being wrong, or making mistakes in the first place in the struggle for perfection, a perfect score, a gold medal, a home run? Rotarians recite weekly "Is It The Truth...Is It Fair To All Concerned.." And maybe getting back into the habit of applying this gold rule template in business and our personal life, our family day to day has been lacking as a nation? Is it considered not right and deceit but the cowardly way to handle your day to day affairs?

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers- Maine, The Way Life Should Be. Get Here Quick As You Can.

Sexy Real Estate...The Kind That Gets Oohs And Ahhs And Wolf Whistles.

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:06:15 -0500

There is plenty of plain jane real estate that is hard to be creative to describe and wow the real estate audience.
But when you list a property that has the stained glass, the turrets, the patterned, different colored hardwood floors and tons of intricate woodwork, the eye candy and real estate copy is easy.
The property sells itself if presented correctly in a video.
In smaller rural areas where there are not tons of "castles" it is especially rewarding to be able to present the cream of the crop, pick of the pack, best of the bunch real estate. It's like a surgeon being tapped to do the intricate, life and death operation on someone famous, or a diamond cutter given the go ahead to painstakingly cut up something like the Hope diamond. These are two examples of those type of listings in the Houlton Maine real estate market currently. info@mooersrealty.com 207.532.6573 Log on www.mooersrealty.com

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, A Place Like No Other, Property You Can Afford.

Real Estate Brokers...They Talk Shop 24/7 Right And Are Pretty Limited Conversationalists Right?

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:08:54 -0500


Actual real estate brokers are pretty well versed on lots of topics.
There is the usual legal, financing, marketing, copy writing skills we pick up on. We get pretty good at handling folks that are on a happiness scale...well they are not on that happiness scale. We wade right into situations with real estate buyers and sellers in a divorce, that have recently lost a loved one. We try to deal with folks in a forced sale, that lost their job, that have juvenile delinquent kids with emotional problems that do damage with power tools to take out their frustrations or to get attention. We run into the evicition of a tenant that owns a pitbull...three of them that are behind the mountain of garbage, hiding, waiting, hungry for a fresh, juicy Realtor.
In our travels, we run into some pretty interesting cats. We talk about a myriad of topics on the way to and from real estate.
When listing a place, you learn about the career of the retiring folks, you see the hanging pictures, diplomas, citations for a long life of public service. We deal with new buyers starting out with young families. A real estate broker runs into transferring government employees or corporate workers climbing their way up the ladder or forced to relocate back to family with health issues needing their attention. You form relationships, friendships with many people you list with, sell to and rub shoulders with thru the real estate closing.

     Had a fellow that was a recently retired airline pilot for 737's who came in this morning to thank us for the recommendation of a carpenter that he said both he and his wife puddled up and eyes watered when the process of building was done. They enjoyed the company of the carpenter who did a first class job and was a stickler for every detail. Just what he needed as a pilot. His wife was a stewardess.
In his visit today I asked him about the pilot who died at the controls recently and does that happen often? He said six months ago the FAA raised the mandatory retirement age of commercial pilots from 60 to 65. This pilot that died was 61.
He further indicated NASA did a survey of pilots and concluded that pilots that did retire at 60, has a whopping majority that died at 61, one year later! He also said if a pilot gets an OUI, they lose their pilot's license. Period. And when I asked about the news you hear about booze in the system of some pilots when tested and why that happens he said it was the tension of flying thru weather, getting all hyped up and attending to the details and at the end of the flight, late at night, some think they have to drink to settle down to sleep. Our talk had nothing to do with real estate now after the purchase he made from us but due to his expertise, I got a glimpse into what it is like behind wheel in the cockpit. He further said all the pilots on a international flight, like the Air France plane that went down, are equally skilled at flying because all three pilots take a turn in the different legs of the flight. On domestic flights, there are two pilots. From the media reports, you get the impression one guy is the pilot for the entire flight, and the other pilots have been in the simulator but a kid in the coach section out back with Xbox game skills could do just as good a job putting the flaps up, the landing gear down.

     Why quiz the people we deal with? You learn alot, it shows you care about them. It helps us understand all the people, all the walks of life we run into and to know a little about this, little about that and maybe be a better conversationalist. I let him go by asking one more question regarding the awful trade towers 911 accident with a pair of planes hitting the building in New York City, if that would be pretty hard to do. He said at 500 miles an hour and that a building is a pretty small target to line up for. Iit was incredible that one or both did not just graze the twin trade towers and do tons of collateral damage all along a New York City downtown boulevard. He said you could slow to 150 if you dirtied it up, whatever that flight lingo means but said it was tragic but still quite a feat of flying when you realize how much space you need to turn something way way bigger than a single engine Piper cub. He was making a statement on the technical aspect from a flying not Hollywood perspective based on his experience behind the wheel.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, Full Of Interesting, Special Hard Working People.

Real Estate Open Houses From Noon To 3pm On A Saturday Or Sunday (Yawn..)

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:17:53 -0500


Ho Hum...you are parked dead in the water at an open house. Whatever floats your boat.
The place is so quiet, the clock on the mantle reminds you of the time you are trapped there. You scheduled a two or three hour block of time when it worked for you and the owner's time frame to be away shopping at a mall two hours distant. Garaged, stored for the three hour stint and having called everyone and their brother to make sure to stop in for a tour, for some award winning donuts and coffee that tastes like warm water with a brown crayon dipped in it. Ahhhh....open houses. You could make some calls, sketch out the layout for your new real estate website, your next video storyboard or idea for blog posts. You could work on the laptop as if you were at the office catching up on emails. But you are parked at an address for the next two or three hours. Now do a whole 180 degree approach to the open house thinking. Are you with me? Instead of the front door being open and ready for the world to see during a small chunk of time without an appointment, now comes real estate video. Think of the buyer warehoused, waiting with time to kill for three hours at a major airport with wi fi who has the time but in a different time zone than on his Mickey Mouse watch. This guy is working way way too hard. Who wants a place on a lake in Maine or your state, your hometown. Who wants to retire before he strokes out, has a heart attack to a place on a lake that you have just listed.


The video you produce that has live narrated audio layed down at the scene, conversational, not rehearsed, not scripted. One on one while he sits slumped in an uncomfortable airport concourse row of seats, watching, listening, learning.
Your video has a story board with the facts, just the facts or highlights spilling out in plenty of time to read and digest them. He meets you Joe Broker, hears your voice, sees you smile genuinely and realizes this guy on the blackberry or lap top wants to help in his real estate quest. This guy on the screen has weaved into the video open house an aerial shot, an easy to read map of the real estate boundaries. He has the video of what the place would look like if this guy was walking through the open front door, around the back yard or over the back forty of the farm. He sees the shoreline of the waterfront cottage. Hears the loons, the singing birds, the water lapping against the dock, crickets, a fishing heading by. The sunset is not a picture still stuck in time, it shows the trees moving, the geese taking off, the water rippling, the sunlight dancing off the lake. He is at your open house that runs 24/7 no matter what his time zone is. He has never been to your hometown, until now.

      The video even has some short clips interspersed with audio tidbits about your area. When he finishes one "show", he checks his watch and has time for a few more. He sees the related real estate and local community videos from you Joe Broker. He bookmarks your site, wants to come back, wants to email the link to one video in particular that made a deep, lasting impression to his wife that is soon watching the same lap top video. As they talk privately on their cell phone about the place and what each thinks about it as it runs, reruns on each video screen they are holding or in front of. They ask each other what the other thinks of the place. No pushy broker standing over them. They are able to shop in the privacy of their own space.

     Real estate dominos snowball like a property avalache. The wife in her housecoat at her home at 10pm on the west coast while you Joe Broker is sawing logs, bagging some zzzzz's, emails the link and comments to her parents. You know to the people who are going in on the real estate buy fifty-fifty who you may never meet but that feel they now know you thanks to the video you uploaded. You the broker smiles as the views accelerate over the short time the video has been posted. (And you post it in a slew of places to be found and wind your way into buyer's hard drive.) Isn't this the real estate drive thru that you want open and easily found when the buyer is ready for an open house? Or for many open houses on their limited time frame? This guy at the airport and countless folks like him with a little time here and there has been to your open house. He downloads and watches them on his ipod every day for the month on the way to work on the train before his trip to your area. He comes in well versed on the properties because you gave him some open book take home home work. You know folks are watching it and so does your seller by the video view coun. You see the emails caused by this video spark. It's about the customer. Not you the broker. Not the owner of the property.

     The real estate customer now has something trumping the mantra "location, location, location". It's "timing, timing, timing". The buyer's timing who is suddenly right to purchase somewhere and it might as well be from you. But this timing is limited and not lasting for ever. He is hot to trot. Ready, willing and able to buy. He did not make it to the open house you had eight weeks ago and does not live in your area anyway.... or he doesn't just yet. Don't you want your sold panel screwed to the top of your real estate sign that is parked for the world to see on his new real estate acquistion in the area you serve so proudly? Don't keep the place a secret or reserved for locals able to drop in during the limited three hour time frame this coming weekend. Produce the real estate video with everything about the place, about you, about your area salt and peppered in every 30 frames per second, every audio bed.

Maine Real Estate Broker/Owner Andrew Mooers - Mooers Realty, The Place For ME Homes, Land, Farms.

For Years My Brother Steve Played In A Bangor Band Weekends..A Second Job.

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:01:21 -0500


His best band we followed over the years was "Bootleg" in Bangor Maine.
When you make music for a living, or to subsidize your living, you see quite a cross section of life from a stage. As you set up for a gig in a bottle club, or wedding or for a charity dance, my brother Steve said it let you see all ages showing up to move and groove, shimmy and shake. Friends meeting for a drink, to joke. Cougars trying to capture some youth. Three piece suits, blue jeans. Long hair, short hair, no hair. They come to laugh, to let go for a few hours, to forget, to socialize, to let their hair down. To get higher, to go lower. Getting along like the animals to the right. It's a party and new friends, old friends, ones you have not made yet. All in the same room, same event, same venue for a few hours. Assembled for entertainment, enjoyment, to get lost, found or looking for something they need or think they do.


Some of the crowd are happy campers, some have had hardship and it shows in their face, their steps. Some want to fight, carry baggage with hair trigger latches.
But for a few hours, they suspend from what they do day in and day out, they walk away from personal problems, bad marriages, problems with health or their children's issues. Or they just take a break from a good life, as a distraction, a stress release valve. My brother Steve who was a singer, a keyboardist said you would look out over the crowd from the stage and see the lady removing her wedding ring, the guy getting a few too many drinks into him and his voice volume increasing, his words slurring. You saw folks really excited when you played a request they made that was very significant to them. And here comes the husband as the night progresses and the boyfriend getting suddenly scarce.

     Brother Steve said you made sure to brag up the hardworking bartenders, the waitresses and reminded the audience to tip til it hurt as they workers there and the band breathed in two packs for each smoking patron of second hand smoke a night. Tearing down the equipment at 2am and heading home to hit the sack with songs, images, videos still playing from that night's gig which is now history as they split the take among the band memebers. Life as a musician. For some it's a job, a hobby and others wanting to be in the top 1% who make it big, touring worldwide for awhile. We are all colors, shapes, sharpness like a box of crayons as an earlier AR blog referenced. We are all in the same box. And have to get along, learn from each other. We entertain each other, make each other feel good about ourselves. Smiling, singing with your heart not your head. Caring, sharing with others.

     Like Billy Joel in the "Piano Man" song, everyone has a tale to tell, a life to lead, things to do. Mistakes made, success bragged about. Lost opportunities, lucky breaks. It's your life. Do you get out and dance, do you laugh with friends, are you having fun besides just working your fingers to the bone? Do you worry too much? Not enough? Would you like to be in a band and what type of music do you like? My kids have 3500 plus songs in their ipods and exposure to that big a library and earlier days in radio and I'd be pretty hard pressed to find a type or genre of music I don't like. Right now taking in a Farm Aid concert with Neil Young telling me it's time to get back to the country, the place it all started. And now Dave Mathews is jamming and hitting a chord within that says small town rural living, growing your own food, raising animals and crops and teaching your kids work ethic, responsibility are not that bad an idea afterall. Where would we be without music from Steve Earle, Harry Chapin and others that make your think, reflect, consider your course in life? Music is the mortar for your cracks and helps connect the dots, making what is vague crystal clear.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, Slow Down, Live The Good Life And Get Here Quick As You Can.

In Maine, You May Be Disappointed With Our Headlines...No Murders, Drive By Shootings....

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:00:50 -0500


Whenever traveling, as I watch the news waiting for kids to get out of the shower, I am amazed at the headlines of murder, drive by gang violence, theft on a large scale and tragic events at schools.
You expect the amazing twenty car pile ups due to the traffic of a city, but the violence you see on the tube and read about on line, in the local city newspapers makes me feel sad, slightly sick. Not used to that one right after another coverage of events.

     In today's local edition of the Bangor Daily News there are lots of community events, friendlier happier news coverage. But for the darker, but tamer set of uglier headlines here is what I scan eating wheaties with my two eyeballs..."Houlton Maine woman hits tree in single car crash", "Boy rides bike into side of pickup in Eastport Maine", "Fire from light damages Milo Maine Methodist church." "Amity Maine man and son hit moose, both wearing seat belts and are okay but moose killed at scene." That's the best I can do digging up tragic, crime filled headlines boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen.
You have to wonder if the news is dire, the crimes horrendous day after day, do the readers/viewers get "tone deaf" or "numbed" by the severity of the headlines and the crimes themselves?
Does it make you the citizen bitter, hardened, more pro gun control or militant, defensive and shopping for a new concealed taser for you and your loved ones? Doesn't protecting yourself and your family, business from crime waste energy, money and give you less of a sense of safety, freedom, peace in where you live? Does your home where you live have triple locks, a security system? Or like most Mainers, would you have no clue where your house door key is? And the car keys are always, always left in the ignition when parked in the yard, or while you shop at the local grocery? Or with heavily covered crime news areas is it assumed it is like this all across America and around the world?
Do you think there is no escaping it, that like a cancer, you live with in fear with it? Doesn't fear make you old before your time, make you nervous, anxious and affect your quality of life? Is it worth it?
Maine is the 4th lowest crime state and Aroostook County is half that state figure again. Less people, a friendly less desperate population translates into folks that volunteer and work hard to make their area shine, safe, and a happy place to make a living, raise a family. If you like to read about and live among folks that are involved in daily violent crimes, you won't be very happy in Maine. We are family oriented, spend our weekends volunteering for youth events, not heisting a bank, stealing a car, or making other negative headlines in the local newspapers/television newcasts.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, No Crime, More Blue Sky, Fewer But Friendlier People.

Images From The 2009 Northern Maine Soap Box Derby Race June 20th, 2009

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:20:33 -0500

It was a little wet but you sure could not see where the water dampened the spirits of the boys and girls racing in the Northern Maine Soap Box Derby Race! Visit the NMSBD website. Local community events with families, friends and youth are a big big part of living in Maine...we make our own homemade fun in a crime free, smog free recreational paradise.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, Family Recreational Fun Is Everthing Here.

Get Low In The Maine Derby Car, Hang On Tight To The Wheel, Head For The Cones.

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:22:03 -0500

Why Wait Until You Are 16 To Drive A Car.
The Video For The Houlton Maine, Derby Hill Northern ME Soap Box Derby Race And We Saved You A Seat Track Side, Under A Tarp With Some Good Food, Friendly Race Fans And Local Community Aroostook/Penobscot/Washington County Family Sporting Fun! This Is One More Local Events That Draws Racers, Their Parents, Supporters From Two Hours Away To Experience "The Thrill Of The Hill!"

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine Families Make Their Own Home Made Local Community Fun.
Visit The Northern Maine Soap Box Derby Website!

Sure...You Get Good At Learning About A Real Estate Buyer Property Need Wise But...

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:15:27 -0500


But in the day to day of the public we serve, Realtors get skilled at knowing more than what a buyer can afford, what a seller's motivations to sell are.
The professional agent or real estate broker is dealing with people, human beings that are emotional, sometimes erractic, sometimes very logical and always the number one priority. As you drive and show and talk on the way to properties for a real estate buyer to consider, you learn about the person, the family. Where they used to live, that their mother in law is coming with them from the west coast, that they have two kids in college, medical ailments...the works. You don't just talk shop about real estate. You learn the wife remembers as a little girl coming to Maine to spend summers on the farm, and would like a little rural living for her family to create childhood memories. You expand on her knowledge of Maine, picking up with what she offers in conversation. The buyer asks you about Maine schools, their daughter wants a horse, the son wants to play hockey or football and from the Realtor's personal life, the conversation shifts to what the area he serves is all about.

     Often times, that broker or agent is suddenly a Chamber of Commerce employee, a local native given a chance to share why he is so excited about this or that in the area applying the barrage of questions answers from his own personal perspective. He waves the flag for his hometown. Over and over the buyer wants to know if you have live in Houlton Maine your whole life, how many kids you have, if you have a good hospital, what people do for fun, what the weather is like. So sure, we list, market and promote homes, land, farm, smal business and waterfront properties, but just as important to the out of town real estate buyer, we "sell" and educate about what this area is like. Much of it from just our own personal history and a give and take, back and forth sharing results. The buyer and their family gets to know the broker from a personal perspective and trust is started. A local reference and their first friend in the area relationship starts. If you really love where you live, that enthusiasm and passion will be apparent to the buyer. Much of the talk as you go to one property after another whether a home or land or lakefront camp is an exchange of information. What the buyer did not like about where they came from, what they hope for in your area. And at the end of the day, a broker's fatigue is due in part to the downloading of personal information in addition to processing the real estate wish list and reaction to each property the buyer sees, likes, does not like.  I remember my sons' hockey coaches reminding them to swivel their heads, to "see the ice". And to process the possible direction of the puck, the entire game, not just their team position as their on board "processors" calculate and recalculate the variables as they change, as the period clock ticks on, penalties pile up. A Realtor does the same real estate analysis and does more than carry three or four sets of keys or merely open up lock boxes each day. He deals with cranky tenants, not so friendly pitbulls, the weather and the tight schedule of the buyer, the timeframe of the seller.

     A back and forth as you tour a seller's propery during the real estate listing, opens up the same communication line as the broker learns about the person, the owner.
A down to earth, friendly broker is like truth serum for the owner or buyer depending on which that Realtor is working with to open up, reveal what we have here for a mission, a case, a challenge.
The public we serve is human, not robotic. Loaded with feelings, hopes, dreams, regrets, obligations, history and limitations just like the broker. Flesh and blood and needing our real estate services to buy or sell.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, Way Way Better Than City Living.

Expert answers to real estate questions..that Active Rain.

Glenda, The Good Witch's Magic Wand Glows, Sparkles And Poof...You Earn An Hour.

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:26:05 -0500


An extra hour a day falls in your lap.
Squeezed in from the genorosity of Glenda, the good witch that does not have to worry about houses falling on her. You know, the one that does not wear those striped stockings hanging out from under a cape that spun out of the sky. So as a good realtor, a community minded volunteer, a great family guy or gal, what do you do with that extra hour a day to use as you like? Excercise? Read the Bible? Date your mate? Do research on line for the parts of real estate or banking programs that you are weak in, need to beef up? One extra hour a day to spend as you see fit. What would you do with it? Volunteer at the soup kitchen, the food pantry? Coach a youth team? Write a book, read a book? Use it to nap? Work? Play? Shop? Or to dilute into your hectic multi-tasking jammed daily schedule to ease the stress, slow the pace and ticking clock?


The good news is you do have an extra hour a day to garden, to read to your kids, to volunteer, to garden, work in the shop, under the hood, to bone up on your real estate profession, your relationships.
Where? That extra hour is salt and peppered thru out your day already and frittered. Folks with over eating or over spending habits write down in a book each day to see where the waste is. Do you trace your steps, see habits that drain, waste, are way way unproductive but the way you have always done it? Or were taught to do it when it worked two decades ago before modern devices to shave time, save steps? If you have a habit of stopping into a local coffee shop or diner for that morning coffee and muffin, how long do you linger? We know you are a talker..you like people and are in sales right? But a governor on that mouth, using the two ears more, duct taping the pie hole to be able to get on your merry way, out of that pit stop earlier. Could you visit but shave off a few minutes from that stop? All your stops, showings, closings, listings? The time in a large real estate office or bank that you chit chat, talk talk talk...if you limited yourself to a few less minutes and some days to break the habit around the water cooler or on that long winded phone call, wouldn't that free up some time? Short cuts to write up the offer, put up the sign and take images on the first visit, have the registry of deeds and town card at the onset instead of oh well, I'll go back to get that later.

     Asking questions, pre-qualifying before taking a client that has no business looking all over the wild blue yonder with their negative credit rating, pending bankrputcy/divorce proceedings and no mom/dad or rich Uncle Harold to pick up the tab for the thirty seven pieces of real estate they want to look at right now. Procrastinators actually make more work for themselves because they put off doing it right in the first place and then helter skelter hurry at the deadline, making more work, more stress, wasting energy and emotion in the long run. What would you do with your extra hour a day that Glenda dropped in your lap? How would you use it? What do you short change now that you need a little more time to dedicate to for personal satisfaction? Cruise your real estate facilty looking for slack...like UPS, run the tightest ship in the shipping business.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Slow Down, Live The Good Life In Maine, The Way Life Should Be.

How People Decide To Locate In Your Area, Why They Buy Real Estate In Your Town.

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:17:13 -0500


Not everyone reads the volumes of online data for a state or town/city.
Not everyone knows a local person or has experiences in your local community. So how do they decide to land there to say locate a factory or start a business or buy real estate? Sometimes it all boils down to the courtesy of a store clerk or gas pump attendant while they were on route thru your town to somewhere else. Or it could be a series of short videos of the local community they watched that you put together to showcase your town.

     And they say it boils down to the small things, the little gestures or extra effort that make a sledgehammer impression. Getting the customer's attention when time is precious may be the five minute stop at a convenience store. Kiosks with local community videos playing they can watch while in line, motel access channels with the same local videos and color boards of details that the person "absorbs" and remembers. They listen to the audio track while they are waiting for goods or services. This is an outlet to tap into on your local level. They say MBNA located in the Rockland/Camden/Belfast area of Maine based on the reception one of their executives got while gassing up on his way thru. The young boy waiting on this executive was the kind of people MBNA, the credit card company wanted for a call center, to locate one of their company industrious beehives. Do you roll out the same red carpet on an individual basis in your hometown? How? Or why not?

    In Maine where I live, lots of folks enter the gateway to the Atlantic Canada provinces on their way to Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia or New Brunswick. They stop for gas and something to eat. You have their attention for a short time, they have never been to Houlton Maine. The small airport we have where folks fuel up and get cleared with immigration/customs also can also provide a chance for a person to sip a coffee and watch a kiosk of the local events. Make an impression. Are you there?
Do you hit this audience in new and innovative ways to get the information out or just rely on an old brochure with 1960's vintage cars and outdate information in them as good enough, what we always used to get the word out?
Get the video/audio/blogs out on what is so great about your local community and stop keeping it a secret. If you don't feel that way about your hometown and area, move. You should be passionate, excited about where you live and if you are not, or no longer are, it's time to saddle up and move to somewhere to capture this joy and happiness. Check out these local videos below and decide if the folks in them are warm, down to earth, glad to live here.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, There Is Not Another Place Like It, Get Here Quick As You Can.

Here...Let Me Give You To My Wive...She Knows All About That Computer Business.

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:12:08 -0500


Simple question to many men about "what is your email address?" Responses vary from sudden terror and stammering on the other end to "I think it's something like.......".
Seems woman have the edge for handling the complex science of running a mouse, retreiving email, feeling at ease with a computer. As a good well rounded real estate broker, do you have a good outlet for folks that are not cyber connected and don't want to be? Do you ask if they have no computer in their day to day life, does a friend, a relative? Or could they visit the local library?


The videos on the property, area you produce for your local community need viewing but mailing them a cd with the videos is not going to do alot of good if they don't own, down want to own a computer and have not friends or local connection to one.
In fact, they may be down right frigthened by them, by the unknown. And then I have the other extreme where an older lady of 94 is way way more savvy than most and has been on line since the day the connection went up on AOL or DELL or GATEWAY computers started being produced. Well produced brochures, paperwork and details without the on line maps, videos and imagery still need to be produced, direct mailed and handed out to the "not on line" yet real estate customer hungry for information but that rely on their mailbox out by the road to get it in a few days after your intial contact.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Get Videos, Images, Links, Solid Maine Information.

REALTOR Andrew Mooers' Maine Real Estate Blog

You Are On Vacation In Europe, You Get Sick, You Have Free Health Care In 27 Countries.

You need to apply for a health care card.

Health care when you get sick in a European country and need an immediate health care response and can not put off until you are back stateside.

Don't Need To Use Words...You Can Paint With Pictures, With Video To Get Real Estate Job Done.

Rolling fields, mixed woods, near lakes, big views. Simple.

In The Westerns, Cowboys Carried Two Guns, Holster On Each Side Just Like Realtors With Computers.

Picture this movie in your head.

The difference between real rich 5 sense video and a tinkling piano still image slideshow is like real fresh ground hot, steaming coffee with Juan Valdez in your kitchen open closet smiling, with the hat, the blanket, next to his donkey Grande vs warm water with a brown crayon dipped in it.

100 Acres In Maine For Sale And With Video, You Can Get Inside Right Now!

You have a few minutes, you are surfing for some land in Maine.

Want tucked away, hidden, a place for Maine vacations or to homestead?

Water (Gasping) I Need Some Maine Water(wheeze)front, A Home Full Time.

You work hard, way way too hard. You raised a family, got them educated, took care of elderly parents.

Picture it in your head?

(Tap Tap Tap) Testing One, Two, Three. Making Local Community Real Estate Videos.

Just be yourself when making local community and real estate videos.

It's no different than you asking a person for directions when you are in a strange unfamiliar area. You are glad for help, looking for information. Be that FAQ provider, or Direction's Guy for others looking in on your home town.

Maine Lakes Hate One Thing More Than Any Other....Rolling, Sloping Lawns.

Picture this.

Watersheds, wood cutting operations miles away and water racing to the lake, contaminants being brought in thru streams all mess up the water quality for fish, swimmers, loons, everyone that enjoys a clean, milfoil free Maine lake.

A One Sentence Complete Real Estate Appraisal, 20% Home Loan Down Payment.

Twenty years from now we will all look back and think how simple paperwork, the home buying real estate process was back in 2009.

Simple, quick real estate closing. And the owner of the home financed all the furniture to the new buyer too right down to the cooking pots, pans, high chair in the attic, Maine coon cat, African violet plants and the Christmas cactus in the front room.

OUCH...Seller Cut My Price So For $159,000 Get 50 Acres, Executive Home, Guest Home..WHOA!

See if this fits your home needs (sliding into a chair next to folks looking for a unique Maine real estate offering). Here's the highlights because I know you are busy.

Owner was transferred, relocation company says move it. Don't rent it, don't let it linger on the market, make it sell quicker than other's not on the fast track.

If You Are A Real Estate Broker, You Are Not Shy, Reserved, Quiet As a Mouse.

You are in sales of real estate, of your local community, of your brand, your company image.

Day in and day out, time to make the donuts so to speak. But not in the same old same old way.

Up To $15,000 Maine Home Buying Incentives With MSHA Gift Of Green, $8000 Tax Rebate Options!

Saving some green.

Land In Maine With Space...Lots Of Space Around It For Sale!

You have been jammed in for years, on a small postage stamp lot. People here, buildings there, squeezed in and finding it harder to breath, relax, find a comfort zone with adequate spacing.

Maine Brick Homes, Solid, Attractive And Built To Last But Not That Common Here.

Recently listed a brick cape that is in tip top shape but brick homes in Houlton Maine not so common.

The huff and puff factor for this one is way way high and just what folks scared of wolves are looking for.

"I'm Not Responsible. I Did The Best I Could. I Aways Try My Hardest".

Standard operating procedure in your day to day? Do you get into habits that on the surface save face and sound good, attempt to make you always come out on top, smelling like a rose, and landing on your feet?

The assumption was something is wrong with the car, it is the customer's fault if the service was not performed right. Or that the dealership does not make mistakes, does the best they can and this was the best they could do.

Sexy Real Estate...The Kind That Gets Oohs And Ahhs And Wolf Whistles.

There is plenty of plain jane real estate that is hard to be creative to describe and wow the real estate audience.

The property sells itself if presented correctly in a video.

Real Estate Brokers...They Talk Shop 24/7 Right And Are Pretty Limited Conversationalists Right?

Actual real estate brokers are pretty well versed on lots of topics.

In our travels, we run into some pretty interesting cats. We talk about a myriad of topics on the way to and from real estate.

In his visit today I asked him about the pilot who died at the controls recently and does that happen often? He said six months ago the FAA raised the mandatory retirement age of commercial pilots from 60 to 65. This pilot that died was 61.

Real Estate Open Houses From Noon To 3pm On A Saturday Or Sunday (Yawn..)

Ho Hum...you are parked dead in the water at an open house. Whatever floats your boat.

The video you produce that has live narrated audio layed down at the scene, conversational, not rehearsed, not scripted. One on one while he sits slumped in an uncomfortable airport concourse row of seats, watching, listening, learning.

For Years My Brother Steve Played In A Bangor Band Weekends..A Second Job.

His best band we followed over the years was "Bootleg" in Bangor Maine.

Some of the crowd are happy campers, some have had hardship and it shows in their face, their steps. Some want to fight, carry baggage with hair trigger latches.

In Maine, You May Be Disappointed With Our Headlines...No Murders, Drive By Shootings....

Whenever traveling, as I watch the news waiting for kids to get out of the shower, I am amazed at the headlines of murder, drive by gang violence, theft on a large scale and tragic events at schools.

You have to wonder if the news is dire, the crimes horrendous day after day, do the readers/viewers get "tone deaf" or "numbed" by the severity of the headlines and the crimes themselves?

Images From The 2009 Northern Maine Soap Box Derby Race June 20th, 2009

Get Low In The Maine Derby Car, Hang On Tight To The Wheel, Head For The Cones.

Why Wait Until You Are 16 To Drive A Car.

Sure...You Get Good At Learning About A Real Estate Buyer Property Need Wise But...

But in the day to day of the public we serve, Realtors get skilled at knowing more than what a buyer can afford, what a seller's motivations to sell are.

A down to earth, friendly broker is like truth serum for the owner or buyer depending on which that Realtor is working with to open up, reveal what we have here for a mission, a case, a challenge.

Glenda, The Good Witch's Magic Wand Glows, Sparkles And Poof...You Earn An Hour.

An extra hour a day falls in your lap.

The good news is you do have an extra hour a day to garden, to read to your kids, to volunteer, to garden, work in the shop, under the hood, to bone up on your real estate profession, your relationships.

How People Decide To Locate In Your Area, Why They Buy Real Estate In Your Town.

Not everyone reads the volumes of online data for a state or town/city.

Do you hit this audience in new and innovative ways to get the information out or just rely on an old brochure with 1960's vintage cars and outdate information in them as good enough, what we always used to get the word out?

Here...Let Me Give You To My Wive...She Knows All About That Computer Business.

Simple question to many men about "what is your email address?" Responses vary from sudden terror and stammering on the other end to "I think it's something like.......".

The videos on the property, area you produce for your local community need viewing but mailing them a cd with the videos is not going to do alot of good if they don't own, down want to own a computer and have not friends or local connection to one.