selling maine real estate: Maine Real Estate Sellers (Air Raid Siren Sounds) Three Cardinal Mistakes To Avoid. - 07/23/10 12:39 PM
Are there only three mistakes to watch out for if you are a Maine real estate seller...well, heck no. But here are three more to add to the list, to avoid property quicksand. First concerns mobile homes. Additions that trump the Donald, with stone fireplaces, extra granite baths, spas are a big mistake. At the heart of the operation may be a mild manner 1974 Holly Park mobile home back when you were first starting out.
Mobiles are ideal to avoid rent for a first time home buyer who wants to jettison out of the rent rut. Or to avoid throwing … (2 comments)
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selling maine real estate: Real Estate Buyers, The Appetite And Thirst Varies Depending On Population, Standard Of Living. - 04/04/10 08:46 AM
Where you are dictates what you need, what a real estate buyer wants, searches for. If jammed wall to wall in a city, the dwelling dreamed about, the type of home an urban buyer wants is suddenly near a park. Open space is key, crucial, rare. A sense of not being crowed. A sardine or a submarine sailor on sea trials. Where there is less pressure. Like water in a desert after being on that horse with no name. Paid dearly for, on the mind constantly. Special, sought after, like priming, tapping in to the personal space well. If the … (2 comments)
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selling maine real estate: A Local Houlton Maine Banker Pointed Out How Involved He Was In People's Lives. - 02/21/10 09:52 AM
This Maine banker said he sees is all...the divorcing couple where one soon to be ex partner cleaned out a joint account. The settling of an estate, funeral arrangements from a long standing customer. And the family asking him to help track down bank accounts, annuities a loved one had. To generate paper work. Or he is involved with a young couple starting out, nervous about buying a home. And everything in between. His point, that he is involved in the lives of people. Checking their credit, hearing their problems. It made me think that anyone dealing with the public … (5 comments)
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selling maine real estate: Divorcing Property Owners Hold Real Estate Buyers, Broker Hostage During Stand Off. - 02/10/10 08:09 AM
The wife and husband with their lawyers blessings elected to list, to sell their Houlton Maine home. Things were not rosy between the pair but they were still talking. Not raising their voices in front of the kids at this stage. It had not gotten to any rock throwing, back biting during the intial phase of the real estate marketing process. But then a "buyer happened" and the true colors of the divorce derailment process started to shine thru brightly. As a real estate broker who represents both sellers, you tip toe thru a mine field. Chose your words carefully. Trying not to … (6 comments)
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selling maine real estate: Death, Not Something To Worry About And Part Of Life. It Happens Right On Schedule. - 02/08/10 10:04 AM
You get a call from a family out of state. There's been a death. The home mom lived in in Maine is going to need to be sold. She passed away a few months back and it's time before another Maine winter to get the real estate sale ball rolling.
The family needs some help, guidance from a local professional. What to do first, second and third in the process?
When a Maine real estate broker enters the old home on say the Jones Road or Alice Avenue, you study the top to bottom of the place. And the … (0 comments)
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selling maine real estate: There Was A Morphine Ampule, Some Silk Thread, A Chocolate Bar For Behind Enemy Lines. - 02/03/10 07:57 AM
My dad AKA Buppy was tail gunner in a B-24.And during the WW II early morning bomb run briefing, the nine guys in his crew were issued a survival kit of sorts. For use if the four engine Army Air Force bomber was forced to make a landing, or worse was shot down.
In that leather pouch besides an ampule of morphine, the silk thread to sew your gash up yourself, there was packed in a chocolate bar for quick energy, a map of the area your are bombarding. And some silver certificate currency. The kind of money with … (2 comments)
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selling maine real estate: Like To Read Other People's Mail...Is There a Little Voyeur In You? - 09/09/09 10:33 AM
We get tons of calls, plenty of emails and answering alot of the same questions makes links to blogs about those area posts one big reason to blog. It could be the only reason you blog. You do a detailed piece on the weather, on schools, on the areas folks want to know about, are concerned about. So I always encourage the buyer to email me a slew of questions, and one by one can address them. They have a copy that way of the answers, can forward them to their friends, kids, etc. They refer to them. It is so … (0 comments)
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selling maine real estate: (On Air Light Shines Brightly) Hello Caller, Welcome To "Sell Your Home By Your Lonesome".... - 09/05/09 08:14 AM
(Static squeal in and out from cell phone caller) "Hey Sparky, I listen to your show on the way to work every day. Thinking of planting my own For Sale By Owner sign, thowing my hat in the ring of the slew of homes on the market here in Smallburg". Sparky the announcer says "Good for you caller...now if you order my three low low monthly payment series of tapes, books, emails that comes with a fourth not so easy installment, you can "git 'er done" so to speak." (Caller coughs, belches into cell phone and you can hear drive thru clerk thanking … (2 comments)
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selling maine real estate: The Emergency Call Came In At 12:30, A Real Estate Doctor Was Needed Stat. - 09/03/09 07:55 AM
The owner of a property was at wit's end. He tried to sell the home on his own and fiddle faddled away one entire selling season. Then listed with a second cousin who works at the car wash full time and another year on hold, wasted, shot, kaput.
Trot in another broker right behind the family member that was dismissed. Promised the world, had a thousand watt personality, seemed to be a gogetter and then after the listing, became a secret agent.
Gone, disappeared in thin air. The sign out front rusting, fading, listing with burdocks growing up around … (5 comments)
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selling maine real estate: A Real Estate Hangover With Intoxicating Imagery, Video, Copy. (Groan..Can You Please Whisper?) - 07/24/09 10:00 AM
The Romans preached eat, drink and be merry and often left out the part about dying tomorrow. Real estate to die for, drop dead gorgeous property. Luscious, succulent, explosive flavors like these Maine raspberries picked and eaten ravenously. Our job as real estate professionals is not peddling property that when you come back to your senses is not what the buyer thought he/she/they saw, experienced during the fun and games leading up to the purchase. Just before everything went somewhere in a hand basket when the real estate courtship stopped.
Over the top real estate claims, boasts, and hyper-featuring way … (4 comments)
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selling maine real estate: The House, Land, Farm, Small Business Is Not Selling..Maybe My Real Estate Agent Is A Dud? - 07/14/09 06:59 PM
Anxious to sell real estate owners..who to blame for this delay in their life? Maybe the guy in the mirror? Why the delay in getting the sold sign on the sign out front. Division of duties is the first stop to look under the real estate hood to see why the sale is delayed you had hoped for. For starters, you the owner of the real estate are in charge of the pricing that Joe Or Josephine Broker have to work with. They go out and hit the pavement running. They do the marketing but how is the place priced? … (3 comments)
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selling maine real estate: Still Thinking About Being In The Maine Hospital And The Images In My Head. - 05/16/09 07:17 AM
Keep revisiting an image in my head of an owner in a hospital bed I saw last week. A lady that owns a Maine home is at the point where she really needs to consider selling it. She is in her early 70's, has poor health and may be heading for a nursing home. I sold her the home years ago, and over the last few years have talked with her about the possibility of another sale. That time has come and I trotted into the Houlton Regional Hospital after her call to get the home listing process started. And … (6 comments)
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selling maine real estate: Hitting 200,000 Points OR "Run It Thru The Meat Grinder One More Time"... - 02/12/09 08:04 AM
In broadcasting, the term is "drive time".
In all of advertising it is about impressions. Reaching lots of people and doing it frequently so your brand springs to the front of their brain. Your logo or mug is always fresh in their mind, the name always on the tip of their tongue. Doesn't matter if you are selling widgets, homes or diamonds, the princicple is the same. Be found on the myriad of marketing options out there.
Drive time audiences were original in AM and FM radio, everyone heading into work on the freeway in large urban areas that were … (4 comments)
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selling maine real estate: If You Grew Up And Had Your Home Burn Down As a Child...A Fire Department Is A Concern. - 01/23/09 11:14 AM
You may have had a Walton's like up bringing, free of much tragedy or drama. But say you had a fire as a little child that you remember, and everything was wiped out. That stays with you. The event imprints within you. As a REALTOR working with someone that had a fire as a child, you start to realize the fire department in your town is critical to this person. Others wonder about your library and judge your area first on what type of library you have and how it is supported. A buyer with a medical condition suddenly makes the … (4 comments)
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selling maine real estate: Maine REALTORS..They Do Way Way More Than Just List, Show Properties! - 12/03/08 03:09 PM
Early REALTORS had home made slide shows to woo the barbarian looking for a new cave or lair. Not much color, lots of rock on slate sketches. A modern Maine REALTOR goes beyond the sticks and stones of a home, or images of land, waterfront or business listing. He/she applies the logic of why this particular say, home, would suit someone in a certain situation or time in their life. For example, you live in an urban area, traffic, pollution, fast paced and riddled with high crime. You want to step outside of that commotion, to move to a place like … (4 comments)
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selling maine real estate: Selling Maine Real Estate..Being Just On The Internet Is Not Nearly Enough! - 07/31/08 08:48 AM
Continuously run into owners of Maine real estate who figure if their property is posted somewhere on the internet, that they are all set.
Selling real estate & promotion of it is not kid's play or for amateurs! Some owners spend vast somes for an insertion on a For Sale By Owner site that if you google it, it comes up 3089..if you use the right search term. False notion that there is a post hidden in some crevice of the world wide web that makes him on equal footing with every other property for sale out there around the globe. … (0 comments)
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