When the first time home buyer was kicking tires on homes for sale, she was in a relationship and thinking filling, feathering the nest.Each nine months adding a new bouncing pink or blue wrapped bundle of joy. Shortly after buying the family sized home with extra baths, plenty of waterworks, the turn in the road of life happens. And no longer in a relationship but the bank still expected that super sized payment designed for two incomes, not one s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d to the max and beyond. The bank manager who had four kids, a husband who died in the woods when a widow maker tree came down the wrong way.No life insurance safety net in place.Again, change of plans but still saddled with too much housing.This time not for size of floorplan but the weight of the payment.The needs of the real ... 08/10/2016

Time is money, folks are busy and the last thing a real estate agent or broker wants to cause is delay. Of any kind in getting the needed information about a property listing for sale or just as important the local community surroundings wrapping around the real estate being peddled. So marketing, it starts with a strong million watt signal that has long reach with a healthy frequency. It goes without saying that whatever is marketed on that powerful beam has something worthwhile for gawking at, for listening to so no time is wasted on the other end of the real estate signal. Information delivery, just like fresh, piping hot tasty pizza round the clock is critical to make the audience as large, wide and deep as possible. Not just local but no boundaries, without limits to who you want t... 08/04/2016

Ho hum in the presentation of anything in life does not make it memorable.What's for dinner, the taste improves with hunger. But there still has to be something worth grazing on. To satisfy a basic need. Real estate marketing is tapping into the needs of the audience. Satisfy that need by more thought, extra time going into the online listing presentation. If slam bam thank you ma'am.That lack luster spread will not make the buyer of a real estate listing return for more of the bland, without much flavor web insertions.Color, flavor, excitement and passion in anything gets noticed if it can be found.If the audience sought, the message harnessed, relayed to the right set of eyes and ears online.And folks like a story. To keep them hooked. Wondering where it goes, ends up keeping interest... 08/01/2016

The desire to raise your own food, to know what you serve up and put on the Maine farm house table.That is a strong emotion and satisfying to grow your own. To raise and use close to home, locally sourced agriculture that is fresher, healthier and just darn right tastier!This new 1883 US Rt 2A Bangor Road Linneus Maine farm for sale could satisfy your hunger, thirst to play in the dirt.To make value added happen in the rich soil of Aroostook County Maine.The bread basket for Vacationland and way way beyond.Up to 8 bedrooms in this Maine farm home just not enough you say?The attic is 40' long, has stairway and is ready to add more.Water works for powdering your nose, soaking in the tub after working the fields or fruit orchards, tending critters. Has plenty. With a 2.5 count for bathroom... 07/26/2016

The Greater Houlton Maine area does the fourth of July 4th celebration up in good fashion.For years, the Southern Aroostook County area has been a buzz with activities.Designed to appeal to all ages. And the costs are held down with lots of local sponsors that I am proud to be among thru the years.The fourth of july fair just gets better and better and the planning goes on year round.Thanks to some very dedicated individuals behind the scenes working their tails off.Functioning with very little sleep over the four days of fun in Vacationland's best place to spend the fourth of July bar none.Here is the schedule for the Houlton Maine Fair, fireworks, agricultural events.This link above outlines the events from the July 1st to July 4th celebration of our country's birth.Take part in some ... 06/30/2016

Speaking the lingo of the real estate buyer. Don't you love meeting someone that speaks lots of languages, is bi-lingual or 5,6,7,8 or more in the tongue communication department?In real estate our buyers are not from just a few miles around the property listings for sale in Maine. Your marketing better not be designed for only taking a property buyer seriously if they land in the agency lobby. Darken your door and say "I'm here". The buyers all out in the wild blue yonder and looking for your marketing signal. To tap into and get fresh, accurate, helpful time and money saving information.Providing the local that's the way it is is what local real estate professionals can do oh so well living, working, playing in the surrounds that wrap around the property listings.We have to be able to... 06/24/2016

Before an out of state Maine real estate buyer sets his or her cross hairs on the target in "Vacationland" for recreational or retirement or job promotion gotta move property, something else has to happen first. Lots of local information about my home town Houlton Maine. Like the third or fourth or more pass through a hot and ready buffet, load me up. What's it like where you live, work and play Mister Real Estate real estate peddler? Rather than tell me with the buyer's eyes shut, ears open and leaving it to the imagination for the story telling to take hold, we like to use the online resources available to our real estate office in Maine. We do lots of local Houlton Maine information insertions for online and email tag a long attachments when we tackle the Everything Maine FAQ.  So th... 06/21/2016

Anyway you cut it, real estate is handled best on the local level. And not just from the real estate professional guiding the process and setting the expectations.No no, local banking and all the other professionals brought into the real estate fray should always be local. Live in the local communities in Maine we cherish and preserve. From title companies to the repairs done by local tradesmen. Needed for mortgage lending underwriting for the thumbs up, clear to close memo to get circulated. Reach for local folks you know and trust, that are living near the property listings. We have lots of real estate gypsies darkend our door carrying sweets, fresh baked items to lure a piece of our business their way.And when they don't have local sticks and bricks they pay property taxes on.Or don'... 06/13/2016

When you vacation into a new area, you ask for directions, you look for help in figuring out how not to waste money or time. You want the most efficient, richest experience possible. Your local real estate agent, broker is the same kind of service provider. Efficient, helpful, knowledgeable because of experience.Because he or she lives where the property listings come on the market and head to a real estate closing. If handled right the conversations are had to share the local news on how things roll best. The lay of the land of the local turf that he or she knows oh oh so well. So besides the help arriving at fair market value, for exposure of the property listing to attract a buyer, more assistance happens from the lead reindeer with the REALTOR's "R".If. The buyer and seller will tak... 05/31/2016

The out of state buyer for a Maine land or any type of real estate listing has a frame of reference. The one from where they live now. Or have hung their hat before on the revolving blue and green marble gps coordinate. And that experience in their past is what carries over into their next location location location. With new construction on land in Maine especially, the fear and dread the buyer anticipates based on past horror shows is seen in the questioning. Over the phone, via texts and emails and in the office lobby, at the property listing showing. So much expectation based on a populated area with layers of players. Welcome to Maine, where we keep it simple. Less people, less hassle, a smaller stack of paperwork for the way things rock and roll. What a refreshing change huh? When... 05/25/2016

The road ahead, when it is a real estate sale needed, lots of excitement happens.The good and bad kind of emotion because "it is hard telling not knowing". The what to do and when is what a real estate professional helps establish. The expectations, the education of the process from listing through marketing to the sit down real estate closing. My favorite song of all time is Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now".Not many songs out there that work best to get you to the other side of a problem, a challenge, a lesson.Jimmy Cliff's version adds a bit of the island life, feeling like you are in the tropics which is good too. Liza Minnelli, The Hothouse Flowers, not doing so much in stirring up the insides in a good way.Buyer's of real estate need guidance and preparation to make a purchase... 05/18/2016

What to do and when if moving, a relocation to Maine property has to happen?A job transfer, retirement move or illness of a loved one that forces picking up stakes and putting down new roots. Everyone likes guidance in what order to do what when a property listing in Maine is purchased. And heave ho, here we go.To determine the skinny on how best to attack the problem of all these boxes and services being juggled.To handle them the best, most efficient way possible.Making the move, relocation to Maine.You gotta have a system and it is all about measure twice, cut once kinda thinking in Maine. In the plan ahead for the open road transport of personal things that will make the new house feel like an old home sweet home. So hopefully this approach to moving, relocation to Maine will help a... 05/12/2016

One of the most neglected, misunderstood marketing tools in the real estate property listing toolbox is video. Making real estate videos has some powerful advantages in the marketing of a property for sale. The listing is not just described with a fill in the blanks approach and some hurried uploaded series of pictures.More details and a feeling you are there, that it is an open house on demand happens with real estate video.Sight and full motion is a big component but the audio is 40% of the online experience for the real estate buyer on the other end of message.And way beyond the how big is the living room or is there a rec room, an extra bath, the story of the listing has to be told. Sharing in a conversational approach like you and I would exchange if we bumped into each on the stre... 05/08/2016

What do you do when it is time to buy and sell real estate?Advice for the best steps to take going in. And along the way what to adjust, tweak to keep the path to the quickest, least expensive and free of needless hassles. For the sit down, pass the papers one way. The listing keys the other please for a front row seat at a real estate property closing.No two situations are quite identical in real estate listing, selling.The marketing approach once realistic pricing is done, the staging is complete.Each single property sale needs special handling to make sure the treatment is the best it can be.You've heard about botched medical operations, legal cases that were seriously mishandled?The same less than perfect 5-6-7-8 can happen in a real estate list, twist, sell (repeat). It can be like... 05/06/2016

Personal property, the items in a real estate sale that are just there, in plain view and hanging around.Until a buyer ready, willing, able and qualified to raise their hand and say "that one's gonna be mine". The stuff inside the home like appliances, anything not bolted down or considered a pretty important fixture like say a cellar Maine furnace, the roof over head, the water pump to a private well out back.The buyer can think look at all this neat stuff. Ooh la la.They liked the home, had similar, matching  tastes as the seller and just goes hand in hand.That the cargo inside is pretty nifty too. Helps makes the pitter patter of the heart skip the beat just like the curb appeal did with it's magic.What can happen when all the stuff inside the cracker jack box of property listing is ... 05/02/2016

 Questions about shoreland zoning in Maine, the do's and don'ts and avoiding tearing down what you put up you thought was an improvement at your waterfront property in Maine.Can you put a boat house out front your future or present waterfront property listing in Maine?If there is not one there to resurrect or build over from the grandfathered in, built before the shoreland zoning rules, no, no your can not hammer and nail and put up a boathouse in front of your waterfront property in Maine. To slide in and out on boathouse rails whatever sleek motorized boat dazzler you ply the waterways with at your waterfront property in Maine.No motor, a kayak, canoe or sail boat works best. Is the much preferred, less damaging method of recreation if you polled the Maine lake loons, other furry and ... 04/27/2016

Maine land. There is an unending supply of it. In an under populated state parked up here in the upper right hand corner of the country, there is a vast sea of green, blue, brown and all the explosive colors of the "second bloom" created by Jack Frost each fall. Relax, settle down and take it all in. Get used to the space.Across the Maine land terrain where all the kinds of property acreage are available.Two ways it hits you, the availability of lots of Maine land.First living here, using it, enjoying it. Needing it. You get addicted to the elbow room.Land in Maine, the space to breathe deep all this fresh air and to take in the expanse of the natural unspoiled water options for recreational fun.It is all here, all the flavors of Maine land. When you live here. And the contract hits you... 04/24/2016

The buyer for real estate in Houlton Maine, anywhere on the planet is beaucoup busy. So open house on demand video tours, yeah, those work best for homes for sale in Houlton Maine and elsewhere on the blue and green revolving marble. Up on deck, coming down the cake walk of properties is a new listing, a home for sale at 583 Smyrna Street Houlton Maine 04730. Take the video tour of this Houlton Maine home for sale.The home is two miles out on what used to be called the County Road, US Rt 2. So right on the way to many lakes, the Houlton Community Golf Course. Big garden area, over an acre of land goes with this home at 583 Smyrna Road Houlton Maine 04730.The purchase price for this new listing, a Houlton Maine home is $107,500!Stick built, rugged construction and over 50' makes this a h... 04/20/2016

The real estate closing, what happens at the tail end of listing, marketing, here comes the pass the keys please. The actual real estate closing, if it is not a two part dance step where the seller signs the deed and owner's affidavit, anything else the banker or lawyer slides in front of them to scribble on and date.And the real estate buyer does the same but at different times, sometimes from a far away location. We have a lot of thru the mails, over the airwaves closings where there is no sit down, push in the chair and begin to work on a writer's cramp from initial here, sign here, here and one more time... here. And look mom, no bank.Because the price tags hanging off the property listings in Northern Maine for sale are so so low to the ground.A buyer can pay cash or won't have a m... 04/12/2016

Like a very important operation, keeping the real estate in Maine for sale property sale alive is of utmost importance. Do or die critical. Pretty dang serious. But the pathway from the listing through the marketing hurdles to get the clear to close memo circulated for a real estate in Maine closing takes delicate procedures. Lots of them and many thinking on your feet. Never is it set the dials and all done. Many things move the needle. Cause it to swing wildly to one side of the other. Sometimes to peg it and break it off from just too many factors.The longer the property sale takes, the chances of dying on the table despite the best of efforts can happen to a real estate transaction.If buyers or sellers are not told what to expect, they can get weak in the knees and run away. Decide ... 04/04/2016