The Houlton Maine homes (cloud, mist around houses clearing) one place in particular. Is on a large acreage, dead end road. (Pause)

I don't sense many neighbors. Obviously a lousy neighborhood for trick or treating. Heck of a bike ride for the paper boy.

Wait, I see a set of home owners at the kitchen table.

The husband asking, no pulling his hair out. Kinda hot under the collar. Anxious. Pacing.

Pleading with his wife about having to find a way to make the place more attractive.

To fetch a higher Houlton Maine home price tag. 

Three times the true market value Andy the Maine real estate broker   gave them for a price range to plant their feet in.

To get the real estate sale wound up.

Propellers turning, spinning faster and faster.

For the launch into the MLS, other marketing platform pipelines. Out into the wild blue yonder.

The prices of homes around Houlton Maine are so so much lower than the rest of the World.

Part of the beauty of living in Southern Aroostook County. No mortgage or paid off quickly. For the free and clear feeling, oh what a relief. But the direction you are heading in the real estate flip a coin makes a major difference. If selling your castle in a hot market, in a city where you hit the real estate price wave just right. And bought low, sell high. Means you will enjoy the low or no home mortgage situation. Maybe a pin prick of the small payment pain. Not harpoon, pitch fork jab to swing, buy the property listing in Houlton Maine.

But surprise surprise, if selling here to wander into the deep end of lots of zero places of the homes, property listings in an urban area.

The concrete city jungle, where eight of our ten people live, work scurry. Hang their hat. Chase the dollar.

So the Houlton Maine home that the owner wants to shine the brightest in the herd.

Be the pick of the pack, best of the bunch, cream of the crop.

What are the easy steps oh fortune tell, psychic one to help guide the Maine property listing owner?

Here are the biggest mistakes Maine real estate sellers make.

That cripple, hurt the sale of their home, any type of property listing.

Often it is not throwing money at something the seller thinks would help in the Miane home sale.

And I (adjusting swaddling cloth turban hat with front peacock feather plume) say whoa, hold it to spending any more money on the Houlton Maine home just yet. Let's think this through.

The kitchen that has perfectly good wall paper with just a small missing piece down low thanks to Fluffy bored one day. But an extra roll to fix that has been found in the entry closet, do that minor fix. And the plans to paint the entire room or re-wall paper it because the owner always planned to and would enjoy the new look has to be deep six-ed. Cut, stop, change of plans.

The new memo to the Houlton Maine home owner outlines to paint the ceiling in the master bedroom upstairs instead.

That has wall to wall tea stains from the old roof that has been replaced. But the stains left behind make the buyers turn to whisper, point. To think roof still leaks dumpling, babydoll. It did, it doesn't leak now darling.

Get rid of the old stains with the Kilz, then new paint rolled light, bright, even.

Not in high gloss please that shows plenty and blinds harshly. Make it flat.

Apply paint here, not there. Instead of pouring the blood, sweat and tears into the painting the kitchen as you first planned Mr and Mrs Houlton Maine home seller. Shift gears.

The missing piece of trim here, the gaping hole needing a new door knob in the middle child's bedroom.

The fluorescent lights in the bathroom that make whoever peeks in look like someone from the morgue. Spooky, under the eerie glow, in the shadows. Let's get a new modern looking globe, track light, mini spotlight or other low cost fixture. To light the way for the rise and shine of the new property owner. Every buyer sneaks a peek in the mirrors of the place. Have you noticed that during showings? You want them sparkling in the reflection.

Potholes in the gravel driveway that hang on, rock and roll shake anyone driving into the front yard. Trimming tall grass around trees, removing over sized now mutant large gumdrop shrubs. That dwarf the front porch like too long bangs hide the eyes of a pretty lady. Clean those windows to be crystal clear. Swap the decks to be spit polished.

Remove clutter, boxes, that third couch in the living room. That makes the place so much smaller. And the cat, birds, smoke, fish. And smell of wet dog. (Sneeze) Excuse me.

Homes that smell don't sell. Unless your buyer has a major head cold, is breathing pretty much through the pie hole on the walk through. Or has walking pneumonia for the show and tell.

And the garage, Mr Houlton Maine home owners, make it possible to actually use it for vehicles, not just sporting the storage wars look when the door goes up, is quickly put back down.

But lastly what can I do to really jack up the value of my Houlton Maine home? Often it's need a trailer hitch on the place, to move it to Myrtle or Miami beach.

Closer to Boston or a population center where everything you know for house prices here multiply by three, four or more. Helpful tips for making your Houlton Maine home worth more, avoiding house owner mistakes, to sell quicker.

I'm Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker