Tanya Busch: Your Maine Home Expert
Maine Real Estate
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2012
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The bedrock of the residential real estate industry is the American Dream of owning your own home. Current market conditions have amplified another motivator: those looking for great investment opportunities. There have always been professional “Flippers” in the market but today shrewd buyers re...
01/30/2012
January 2012 Real Estate Market Update The median sale price for homes sold in Kennebec County Maine, or the Capital City area, held their own last year despite a slight statewide dip. While the number of homes sold in Kennebec country decreased over the prior year, I’m personally finding that t...
01/28/2012
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What the heck are these?!? They are QR (Quick Response) codes and they allow people with camera-enabled smartphones or iPads to scan the QR code into their device bringing them directly to a web page optimized for mobile devices. Sometimes these QR codes will link to a video or connect to e-mail...
01/28/2012
With an open floor plan and many renovations to the main living area, this 3 bedroom, 2 bath home located at 9 Barnett Way in Gardiner, Maine offers comfortable living on a lovely 1.3 acre lot for only $69,900. Situated on a level lot, the front yard is open and easy to maintain with room for pla...
01/24/2012
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Homeowners Helping Sell a home It’s winter – the days short, the weather frigid - and unless you are someone who is trying to sell a second home at Sunday River Ski Resort or Sugarloaf Mountain, chances are you understand this is a challenging time of year to sell your house. Fear not: with the...
01/24/2012
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Few will argue that buying and selling real estate isn’t a specialized business transaction, or that when you want to buy or sell a property in the Lewiston-Auburn area, hiring a Lewiston-Auburn real estate agent isn’t the most common way to get the job done. It may be an excellent idea, but it ...
01/16/2012
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Enough already! Economy this! Housing market that!. It seems like we have been bombarded with mostly bad news forever. Every month Lewiston-Auburn would-be home sellers and prospective buyers hope for signs that the economy has turned around, and this month was no exception. Despite the relativel...
01/13/2012
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If you are a Lewiston Auburn Maine property owner who is seriously considering whether to sell your house, you know there are many practical details that bear careful consideration. One of the first is the decision regarding whether or not -- and if so, to what extent - refurbishing or upgrading ...
01/06/2012
The term you hear most often is the simple ‘lease option’ – actually short for “Lease with the Option to Purchase”. It is an agreement made between a home owner and renter that includes a provision giving the tenant the opportunity to purchase the property at a pre-determined price at the end of ...
01/04/2012
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I’ve heard it said that there are really only two kinds of people in the Lewiston-Auburn area: those who make New Year’s resolutions, and everybody else. Now that we are fully launched into 2012, humanity will have already separated itself into the two camps. One group is automatically removed f...
01/02/2012
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