While driving around to showings and checking on listings this week, I had the pleasure of passing by several homes in the Lewiston/Auburn area that had been vacant. Some were foreclosures, some short sales, and others simply abandoned by their previous owners for various reasons.
To me, there is something sad about a dark and cold vacant home. They just seem depressing and unloved, as if they are crying out for someone to come and breath new life into them.
My drive this week was a pleasure because these formerly vacant homes looked happy and alive again. They had obviously found new families. There were lights on, cars in the driveway, and smoke billowing from chimneys. One previously empty home with a sad and neglected yard, had lovely patio furniture on the deck and festive lights draped around the porch. Another had a new fenced area with a couple of horses grazing and looking quite at home and children's sleds outside with paths where someone had obviously enjoyed an afternoon of playing in the snow.
Some foreclosed homes available in the Lewiston/Auburn real estate market have been winterized to prevent damage, some Maine short sales have been heated to keep them going, and some have been left to freeze requiring a masterfully choreographed dance of local heating specialists and plumbers standing by to warm them up and get them going again.
I am thrilled to see this level of activity come back to the area and hope that this is a sign of things to come. With incredibly low interest rates and a wide variety of available homes, more Maine home buyers seem to be taking the plunge and realizing their home ownership dreams.
Just like everyone needs a home, every home needs
someone to love it and make it their own.
If you think you might be that special someone who can breath new life into one of the vacant homes in the Lewiston/Auburn Maine area, give me a call. There is a special home out there just waiting for you!
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