Music soothes the soul, the food at the American Folk Festival in Bangor Maine is pretty tasty too. Hits the pleasure spot. May become one more of your happy places you like, need to go. What do you have planned for the weekend? How about coming up to Maine? If you can sneak away, attending the American Folk Festival in Bangor is oh so well worth the travel. Not just for the slate of performers, artists, musicians up on stage in Bangor, Penobscot County. But the cultural exchange of food, all those neat, quirky arts and crafts items at the folk festival. That are so unique for hand made gift giving, personal enjoyment too. Lots of reasons to check out, attend the musical gathering of World class talent.  To sample all the good stuff planned this weekend at the American Folk Festival. So... 08/19/2014

Maine is the lowest state for violent crime and fourth lowest nationally overall for the rest of the generic wrong doings, any foul play. That get tallied, added up, rolled in to the grisly crime statistics. In the head count for anyone destined for an all expenses taxpayer paid crow bar hotel stay. For three hots and a cot. Being schooled, adding a "license plate making 101" skill to your resume. But Maine State Police cruisers, you probably have seen a few. And not thought much about it. But they sure look familiar don't they? Not because your last trip to Vacationland you were a little too boisterous, clown like at happy hour. Or stole a car, robbed a bank or ended up with your best side, picture profile in black and white. Posted along with rows of other grim, long faced individuals... 02/12/2012

There will be a Benefit Dinner for the Breaking Bread Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry it wil be November 12 from 6pm-9pm the event is located at The Banquet and Conference Center 701 Hogan Road Bangor, Me the tickets to attend are $30 per person. 11/07/2011

Yes it is true that you can possibly save thousands of dollars with mortgage rates are at record lows with refinancing your current loan to a lower interest. With everyone always looking for some way to save money what better way than trying to reduce the interest that you are paying on your home loan. Just imagine what an extra thousands of dollars could do for you it could be extra available money to invest for your retirement or for your savings for your children's college tuition. Why hesitate in seeing if you qualify to refinance your current home loan your hesitation could be costing you thousands of dollars down the road. 11/02/2011

I know if you are starting to thing about buying a home you can start to do some research and you start hear terms such as Escrow Account, Private Mortgage Insurance, FHA Loan, Adustable Rate Mortgage, Mortgage Broker, APR, and the list could go on forever. Once you start seeing all these terms you can easily feel as though you are driving your car  in the middle of January in Maine in the middle of blizzard, but it does not have to be that scary while learing about the process of learing about financing to purchase a home. Let me inform  you of the whole process of financing a home purchae or refinancing a home loan and answer questions about the many different terms you hear on a daily basis. 11/02/2011

The FHA 203k is a great loan product for someone that is looking to buy a home that may need some repairs made to the home to have the home in a condition that someone can move in. It is also a great product for building contractors to know about because they will not have to worry about receiving payment for the repairs that they perform on home. So don't let there being some repairs having to be done to a home scare you away from a home that has a tremendous amount of potential. 11/02/2011

Servicemen and women around the globe, hunkered down and with a soldier's job to do and easily forgotten unless you have a family member in the same trenches. The 2 in the morning alert about a troop plane landing at your local airport gets volunteers, greeters in to gear. Sometimes the troop greeting is highly organized for one lone soldier. In Bangor Maine, there is one highly publicized network to make sure a plane full of troops if they are passing through BIA airport are going to get a warm, local welcome. Hands of the soldier taken, shaken and plenty of congratulations and grateful thanks for the job they do extended to GI Joe and Jane.  "Welcome home heroes" filmed about the the troop greetings at BIA and you will need a tissue. Guarantee this Maine video clip will choke you up, ... 04/09/2011

This is the West Broadway Bangor Maine home horror writer, author Stephen King owns with wife Tabitha, also a writer. Does the place with the iron gate, bats fit the person living there? And for real estate agents, brokers, REALTORS on Active Rain, would the place they call home match what you would guess? Like dogs, cats, pets that look like their owners thinking. Where do you live, why and is your real estate office part of, near by that home?  Years ago, our Houlton Maine office was in the end of a farm house I grew up in and now own. It helped when real estate buyers wanting a country home with land, a farm drove in and thought this broker is not working out of a second story chrome and glass typical office setting with egg shell painted walls and boring brown, earth tone colored in... 01/27/2011

Credit Repair in Maine National Credit Fixers: 330 Roberts Street Suite 402 East Hartford CT 06108 phone: 860-282-6181. National Credit Fixers boasts of 14 years experience repairing low FICO scores. Whether your credit has been damaged by a foreclosure, bankruptcy, slow credit, collections, judgments, repossessions, etc. we can help. We are the experts in credit restoration and credit repair. We have helped numerous residents of Maine and are experts in Maine credit repair. Are you a do-it-yourselfer?  Credit repair is one area that I always recommend people hire a professional.  There are too many pitfalls and traps that people who are unfamiliar with the process can make.  It's like going into court as your own lawyer - just plain and simple not a good idea!  Call me.  I would love t... 10/24/2010

Events in Maine, blog posts about what to do on weekends, what's coming up is part of the MeInMaine blog post collection, American Folk Festival covered in today's online news. Bangor Maine's American Folk Festival is more than music from worldwide entertainers too. Extensive food vendors offering more than the hotdogs and hamburger, typical fried items are another big part of the event. So are the local Maine artisans, craftsmen, dance routines. Free admission, four continuous performance stages by the waterfront of Penobscot County in down town Bangor Maine. Fun, music, sun, friends, family, neighbors all at the venue for a three day collection of musical talent. Performers who trek from the four corners of the earth to entertain, provide incredible musical presentations to a large, s... 08/20/2010

Credit Repair in Maine National Credit Fixers: 330 Roberts Street Suite 402 East Hartford CT 06108 phone: 860-282-6181. National Credit Fixers boasts of 13 years experience repairing low FICO scores. Whether your credit has been damaged by a foreclosure, bankruptcy, slow credit, collections, judgments, repossessions, etc. we can help. We are the experts in credit restoration and credit repair. We have helped numerous residents of Maine. We are experts in Maine Credit Repair.  Tough times usually mean people and companies coming out of the woodwork to take advantage of desperate people. Many credit repair companies are part of that group. But there are also a number of credit repair services services that are really in it to help out a client (and if they make a few bucks along the way t... 12/01/2009

     Maine housewives...around the 10 - 2 time slot listening to Bangor Maine Radio...liked to tune in to Z-62. Tim Comer was the crooner that had the following of this audience segment. I was Z-62 radio news director and did weekend music shifts after college.      The radio jacket Tim wore was embroidered with the expression "You are never too old to rock and roll?" He was in his early 50's at the time. Tim had goats, lived on a hobby farm with his wife and was trying to be somewhat self sufficient. But his on air Maine radio job was not like a job and he was good at it. In any product or service sale, your advertising has niche audiences but still overall, the larger the audience the better. Unless you are selling brain surgery tools, diamond cutting devices which are a pretty narrow... 11/18/2009

Home Value Update for Bangor ME Through September 2009 According to Zillow.com, the listing prices of single family homes have fallen 1.3% in the last 3 months, while listing prices of condos have fallen 0.9%. The current mean listing price of homes for sale on the market in Bangor, ME, is $155,000. Below is a chart of the trend of listing prices of homes for sale in Bangor, ME, in the past year through September 2009: Median List PriceMore Bangor Home Values   If you're looking for a home or condo to purchase in Bangor, ME, or in the surrounding area, then try this home search. You can still buy a home with no money down with the USDA Rural Development Home Loan program. With the FHA Mortgage program, you can purchase a home with as little as 3.5% down. When you're ready to buy a home,... 11/01/2009

Haunted houses in Maine or anywhere. Disclosure of past events, rumors, stories about a place and obligation to spin a tail, share the news and maybe in some cases capitalize on the local colorful history of a home.      This is Stephen King's home on West Broadway, Bangor Maine. Do you think he and Tabitha would have liked it more if it was haunted?      Do you think it could be and is that always a bad thing if you are a horror writer with a terrific imagination and writing skill? Maybe a living in a Bangor Maine haunted home would help the imagination, the creativity for another horror novel or book. Inspiration for material if you did live in a haunted home. What kind of treats await behind the bat front gate at the Stephen King Bangor Maine home and how many trick or treaters do yo... 10/31/2009

Get a Free List of Websites of Government and Bank Foreclosure Listings in Bangor, ME There are a number of websites that contain free listings of government and bank foreclosed homes in Bangor, ME. These websites contain descriptions, color photos, and addresses of the foreclosed homes for sale in Bangor, ME. And, most of these websites have government and bank foreclosure listings nationwide. There's no charge to search the foreclosure listings on any of these websites, and there's no 7-day free trial period either. Virtually all of these websites do not require any personal information to get access to the government and bank foreclosure listings. You can access these foreclosure listings anytime you want and as often as you want - free of charge!  Click here to get your own director... 09/29/2009

FHA, VA, and USDA Rural Development Loans in Bangor, ME Are you looking for a home mortgage loan in the Bangor, ME area? Then you’ve come to the right place! Northeast Community Mortgage is a mortgage broker serving Bangor, ME, and many of the surrounding areas. When you decide to buy a home or refinance a mortgage in Bangor, ME or in the surrounding area, your search for a home mortgage loan should start and end here.  With so many lenders to choose from in the greater Bangor area, you should choose one you can trust to find the mortgage loan that will best meet your needs. As a mortgage broker, we help our clients obtain a loan from the lender who has the terms that best matches their needs. In terms of mortgage programs, we specialize in FHA, VA, and USDA Rural Development loans. We ... 09/29/2009

The Mortgage Interest Rate Lock Advisory for Bangor ME for September 29, 2009 Here are some of the events affecting mortgage interest rates today in Bangor, Maine. What the Mortgage Backed Securities Market is Doing Today: The price of the FNMA 30-Year 4.5% MBS coupon opened down 1/32 at 101.31. The price of the FNMA 30-Year 4.5% MBS coupon closed up 7/32 yesterday at 101.34 (as shown by the white line). MBS wa down as much as 6/32 this morning, but is currently trading up 1/32 at 101.36 (as shown by the blue line). Remember, on mortgage backed securities (MBSs), as the price goes down, the yield goes up - and so do mortgage interest rates. I expect that mortgage interest rates will be 0.125% - 0.25% worse in price this morning as compared to yesterday, but may improve this afternoon. E... 09/29/2009

Common themes heard by a Maine real estate broker when traveling to and fro in the Jeep showing property or in emails, thru phone conversations. "The nice town I used to live in is not anymore and everyone on my street has moved".  What happened? People, lots of people.      Traffic grew on roads not designed for that bumper to bumper mob. Safety went down the tubes with the influx of people from all four directions. Insurance costs went up with the crime and the bright sky filled with nightly stars is not so bright anymore with light pollution and industrial smog. Schools, police, local government and housing sprawl happened. But there is an escape route. That's where Maine comes in.      You are not cowardly bailing out. The nice little town you used to live in is still in your head, ... 09/22/2009

The expressions...facts, just the facts in detective work, news reporting were the benchmark to seek for years, decades, centuries. To not introduce speculation, to let personal agendas to influence the news and to avoid drama, spin, sensationalizing was the basis of good factual news reporting years ago. Now as talking heads want to be the news as much as covering it to advance their career and as news becomes entertaining, flip, cool, the 5 w's are lost in the shuffle, the shift. Wrote an article on MeInMaine blog this morning about my life as an earlier Maine record spinners, news gatherer. Capturing live audio from the Bangor Maine, state newsmakers was a new thing for small time radio used to only reading/heading news about the local area if it was on the wire service. Does everyth... 09/18/2009

In Bangor Maine, August 28-30 is one big musical party in Penobscot County. Many stages set up with a variety of performers around the clock. Super ethnic food, running into friends, listening to music from performers around the world.  Summer weather in Maine. Learn more about the American Folk Festival in Bangor Maine.  Have enjoyed several years of wandering along the Penobscot River and visiting the different venues for a wide variety of music and artist. Everyone is heading to Bangor to take in the food, music, event that is worked on a year before each production. And the shows get better and better attracting a larger crowd, super talented musicians. Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, The Place To Slow Down, Enjoy Life. 08/06/2009