living in maine: Maine, Isn't It Time? - 03/22/12 03:20 AM
Confusion from living a fast unhealthy pace takes it tolls on marriages, raising families, quality of life. Maine offers a simpler approach.
Study some simple Maine images.
Watch our community videos for Maine.
Then consider how much more for how much less money you can enjoy picking, considering Maine.
Slow down and live the good life in Maine.The state protected, insulated up here in the right hand corner of the country.
Maine, the way life should be.
I'm Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
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living in maine: The Further North You Travel In Maine, The More Spacious, Low Cost The Real Estate. - 09/27/11 09:21 AM
Maine is a big rural state loaded with low cost real estate.
Known for its fresh seafood caught from the deep waters off the rock bound Maine ocean coastline.
Sought after for its hiking, camping and Maine lake recreation options.
But often times you will be more impressed as a new visitor to Maine as you go down through the long long list of what we DON'T have.
You will be hand stand happy in Maine if you like to avoid long lines at stores.
If making eye contact, not avoiding a glance and waving, being friendly is more how you … (14 comments)
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living in maine: Does Living Way Beyond Your Means Feel Good, Help You Sleep Nights? - 01/17/11 04:25 PM
The motivation to live large and in charge, to impress and elevate yourself beyond the folks in steerage, third class down below deck. You know, folks that own the solid, simple, humble real estate, vehicles, items around them and don't lease them or lose them to credit agencies through foreclosure, short sale, repossession. Maine is 46th lowest in the nation for * FSSR. Less than 1 percent of our Maine market home sales, listings test postive for FSSR.
This video is a good tongue in cheek look at a over the top, impress the world lifestyle you chose and the … (7 comments)
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living in maine: Watching HGTV, Property Virgins And The Real Estate Home Price Tags Make Me Woozy. - 09/09/10 08:09 AM
In an area of Maine where you can buy a quality home in the $40,000 and $50,000 price range, the graphic flash on the TV screen of $700,000 for this cracker box home wedged in like a sardine in some metropolis makes me queasy, uneasy.
For starters struggling with a mortgage with that many zeros in it can cause loss of sleep, hair even though typical for the area where people are wall to wall, shoulder to shoulder and carrying tasers.
Secondly, if you are going to spring for that kind of long mortgage commitment or fork over that kind of … (5 comments)
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living in maine: Remember How Rows Of Red Coats Would Go After Revoluntionary American Soldiers Hiding In The Trees? - 07/12/10 10:32 AM
Remember how the British thought it unsporting, not the conduct of a soldier to snipe from the trees while the preferred way to die in hand to hand combat, field battle was to line up in rows, march in to death and sheer last guy standing determined the winner? In ME real estate, smaller rural markets are cleaning up because they promote, nuture on line everything larger city markets do not have. The stuff that can not be bragged about in crowded, higher priced real estate markets. For example, if your crime statistic is nil, if the people leave keys in the … (7 comments)
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living in maine: You Wear Custom Made Suits Hand Taylored From Hong Kong, A Rolex, Drive A Bentley Car, A Ferrari On Order Waiting. - 06/11/10 09:12 AM
You are the cat's meow...or so you think smudgy and toying with the idea of retiring, relocating to Maine.
And with all the gold around you from your midas touch, you have thought this move to Maine will be similar to the haunts you frequent now. Where there are 1000 people per square mile.
But with Northern Maine's 11 people in that same square mile, well, maybe all the same just without the traffic, crime, smog, noise, hurry scurry you think, reason.
Will you be happy here in Maine? If you want tons of open space, rolling fields, woods, woods and … (10 comments)
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living in maine: In Maine, This Is Your Entry Level Job, What Work Looks Like, Sounds And Smells Like. - 03/04/10 08:29 AM
Maine youth...some flip burgers, stack winter wood, mow lawns, shovel snow, bag groceries. Others in the fall potato harvest work their tails off to get the golden spuds in to the winter storage bins. Potato harvest...this is what it looks like, sounds like, smells like. Watch the video.
If you live in an area where youth don't work or there just are not many jobs for them, that is sad. If you hand out twenty dollar bills and the kid has everything going that you provide free of charge, that is too bad. Entry level work, being responsible with … (8 comments)
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living in maine: High Security Bread And Butter Knives Keep Our Maine Front Doors Closed, Mostly From The Weather. - 02/26/10 12:59 PM
Here in Active Rain you read about other state real estate brokers wondering what others do to protect their personal safety. To hang on to their personal property. Always have to chuckle but be reminded that Maine's crime rate is the country's fourth lowest. And where I list, market sell and peddle property, Aroostook County's crime is half that pretty remarkable state average again.
I don't have, need or carry a taser. My keys are in the Jeep, the front door is unlocked, and I don't lose any sleep at night worrying about intruders. Most of the rural properties, lakeshore … (5 comments)
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living in maine: I'm The Happy, Cute One Riding On My Old Brother Stephen's Shoulders. See Me? - 02/23/10 10:32 AM
Family. Everyone is from one. Some that are tight, close, solid.
Other's that are spread in to the wind like wheat chaff. Not in touch, not caring to be. Fall out from past divorces or how the estate was diffied up. And someone got more or less than they should have. The grief of a death can test the strength, resolve of a family relationship dynamic. The institution is sacred and fragile at times in any family's ups and downs that happen right on schedule, right on time in anyone's life. I'm the youngest of four, riding high and handsome on … (2 comments)
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living in maine: Easy, Easy, Relax You're In Maine Now. Slow Down, Take A Deep Breath, Just Sit There Until Your Head Clears. - 02/08/10 09:06 AM
"Life has been a blur and is picking up speed." That is the common theme, sentiment statement I hear from many of our down country real estate buyers. The sense of exhaustion, worrying about a gazillion things is the side effect of living where the pace is way way too fast. The conveyor belt called life with these bone weary real estate buyers is increasing in grade and speed.
And I have had many phone callers, emailers indicating worry about when it will all snap, come undone. And doubt the guy and gal on the other end can hold … (6 comments)
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living in maine: Here's A Test...To See If You Belong In Maine, Rural Community Living Areas Of The State. - 02/04/10 05:11 PM
Do you flash your Rolex, brag about your car, name drop about who you know, or what blue blood schools your kids attend? Getting noticed...do you dream of large homes with maids, staff and a garage full of cars designed to impress others? Think you are special, put on earth to be awed, sought after for advice and your presence?
Do you have an ego needing stroking? Have an attitude and need attention? Are you a gold digger? Do you want to live in a gated wealthy snobby community and is your life about money..only money?
Think you … (0 comments)
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living in maine: Did Your Parents Drive You, Neglect You, Push You To Go Over The Top To Succeed Or Else? - 01/27/10 07:19 AM
Your best growing up. Was it good enough for your parents? Were your parents even in the picture? What makes you tick? Did a blog on health care reform and the need for taking a front end preventative illness approach early on. Rather than last minute million dollar try to save the patient maneuvers in our nation's hospitals. We fix the symptoms, rather than head them off at the pass early on in health class, living by example. Our kids watch us, copy us. And if pulling in to a fast food venue on two wheels and racing to the … (4 comments)
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living in maine: (Sqauwk) "At the tone, please state your name, your purpose for being here."BBBBeeeep. - 11/08/09 10:33 AM
Earth. Why are you here and what kind of difference can you make during that short stint? The gig called life...are you getting the most out of the experience? What one big mind altering, eye opening, status quo shaking observation have you made recently that changes the course of your life? Did you just yawn? It is your life right?
Choices, considerations, patience and thirst, hunger to sample more ways to see what is missing? The number one underlying theme I hear over and over, see day today in running a Houlton Maine real estate office comes from emails, … (2 comments)
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living in maine: Stopping For A Donut, Coffee, Bowl Of Chili, Maine Seafood Chowder..Your Daily Eating Haunts. - 10/16/09 09:07 AM
Thru out your busy day, week, life, you have special places you eat, stop to grab a snack and to shoot the breeze or socialize. Blogging is like that. Instead of one plain jane blog for everything you post when you have time, you have different blogs for different purposes. Like marketing tools in a box you open up daily, you decide what needs to be written about, posted or videoed and you upload it to your social media web 2.0 platforms, and each venue or "cookie jar" has a distinct purpose and direction.
One blog maybe real estate, real estate, … (3 comments)
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living in maine: Heard Of Kids Heading To College And The First Night There, Bailing Out, Out Of There? - 09/21/09 03:53 PM
Do your kids travel, experience life away from home? Sporting events, model state legislature, family vacations? College away from your hometown where you do the laundry, mom and dad are not there to remind you to study, or when to be home from that party.
When I was a kid, my dad was a potato farmer. We took lots of trips to Mt Katahdin and the Maine coastline for vacations. Off to the Hotel Frontinac in Quebec City one winter during the carnival with my three older brothers. And I spent alot of time at my Aunt Ruth's summer … (3 comments)
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living in maine: Mouthwatering...Do You Describe The Real Estate You Sell That Causes Hunger Pangs? - 09/06/09 09:39 AM
Here's the definition.
mouthwatering - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Main Entry: mouth·wa·ter·ing; Pronunciation: \-ˌwȯ-tə-riŋ, -ˌwä-\; Function: adjective; Date: 1900. : arousing the appetite : tantalizingly delicious or ...
Don't think of real estate in this way, using this term? You should. And not just high end expensive swanky places for the rich and famous that have the ingredients, the face cards to play to achieve the appetitie arousal easily either. In Maine, what we don't have is just as important a list. No crime, No traffic. You can see the bright stars overhead at night because there is … (4 comments)
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living in maine: Simple Living...Meat And Potatoes...Nothing Fancy But A Maine Quality Of Life. - 09/01/09 09:33 AM
Being happy with less. Not needing lots of "stuff', material possessions to feel secure, complete. Traveling light and enjoying not owing money, not have the clutter of the newest this or that. Simple living is what we sell in Maine. Oh sure, there are vacation places on the ocean for lots of zeros in the price tag in Maine. But head inland, head north where there are 11 people per square mile. That's where you find the peace and quiet, low cost real estate, warm friendly people that will help you out, care about you. Maine...it's what is missing in … (1 comments)
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living in maine: Flying On A Jet Plane..Don't Know When I'll Be Back Again (Sang Way Way Off Key..The Painful Way) - 08/24/09 11:09 AM
Some folks log 150,000 miles a year and life out of their suitcase. Not all glamorous but it's their job as a gypsy employee, or hired gun to trouble shoot or rally the troops of a national outfit spread all over creation. Realtors log a slew of miles but around and around the burg they live in. Had a chance to see the "dark side" of flying and forgot how easy some days go and how other people handle the down side of traveling inside a silver bird. Youngest son and I set out for Colorado College early Friday morning … (2 comments)
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living in maine: Expectations And Feeling Great And Not Wearing Clothes With An "X" or "W" After The Size Number. - 05/17/09 08:33 AM
The swine flu fear has simmered, reports of global warming or asteroids heading our way that scared in headlines last week are old news. Obesity has not gone away, causes poor self esteem, mega health problems and infects all age groups. I think being on a recent vacation with swimsuits dotting the island beaches or the cruise ship deck showed the problem in a jiggly, rolls of fat sort of way. Losing weight, why we gain poundage. And your expectations.
Ever see an ad where they show a field of flowers and all are black and white except one … (46 comments)
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