Information is what all of us need quickly, easily, that with just a few clicks is neat and complete.Everyone is busy or just does not want to waste time hanging around the Internet water cooler to glean what they need. Googling for real estate property listings for sale, for local area community information is no different.Even if you had all the time in the world, you would not want to spend it sitting in a chair in front of an eerie glow.Or legs up, an afghan across them with a cat, mouse, lap top.Maybe  holding a small smart device jn your hand to access what you seek on the run.Show me, tell me makes our video channel the best marketing vehicle for the delivery of information. The image channels help in different ways to create the buzz, rattle and hum. But we stock the shelves on ... 01/05/2016

The audience for anything you serve up, like the movie theater silver screen, choices are critical.Blog post readers want selection and more than chocolate and vanilla only. Active Rain blog posts number close to 3800 but other channels with topics that really help local information surfers are critical. Could you put them all in one spot? I think it is like a radio station that's slogan is trying to be everyone's place on the dial to settle in.You can not.Try playing a Barry Manilow, then spin some NIN or Merle Haggard or Canned Heat or Patsy Cline and a little Daf Punk.You don't want to know how few listeners are tuned in on the other end of the signal after sitting through that collection in your play list.Granted you can hit home runs on each of the channels that stand out on search... 01/03/2016

Every year at the end of the calendar talk about how real estate agents are going to do video for their buyers.Property listing videos to make it easy, on demand open house tours on the buyer's schedule. Which I have found from the video logs, the busiest time of the real estate day is actually at night. To be precise 10:30 PM is the time the video channel useage spikes.Glows bright red and really hums. Because think about it, your buyer has the kids off to bed, the household chores for the day done. The clothes picked out and plan for the following day drawn up mentally. So legs up, blanket across the legs, recliner up up up and backed against the wall. As the lap top spills out the properties, community information they need for the "home work".Just toggle, listen, watch, learn. No ma... 12/28/2015

People buy, sell, trade properties and the Maine real estate listings better have unique features.Or extra helpings of this, that just like you and I do as the plate loads up during holiday dining. So special requests, yes real estate agents, brokers get them, take them. Not just ordering off the inventory menu happens. Makes the matchmaking of how about this, that Maine property listing home suggestion.Trying to find the right one like buying a present that is just right for someone special. That is hard to nail down in your guy feeling of will they really like this after the paper and bow get ripped off?The garden variety requests that come in over the phone, emails, texts and lobby personal visits call for the usual you would expect.Lots of Maine land heaped on and around the propert... 12/22/2015

Avoid the rush, get your real estate drone legally registered, it's own unique identification number. Dec 21st, 2015 the online FAA registration process starts. And like a Black Friday door unlock of the front doors, there will be a crush, push if over a million drones are added to the numbers out there. Is there a new drone, quad copter or one with more engines parked under your office Christmas tree?Adding devices to enhance what you do, how you do it always deserves some thought.Thank goodness they have GPS, remember where home is.Flying the friendly skies with your drone, hovering over your property listings, in the home town where the real estate listings populate.Drones have been around awhile but suddenly everyone wants one. To strap on a video or still camera to get high up and ... 12/17/2015

The Internet has made folks lots sharper, shopping savvy. The bottom line, the low price on any goods or service is not that hard to learn. Just spend some time driving the mouse online. Google it, Ebay it. Up and down the cyber aisles of Amazon.To know what is a good deal.To recognize where you are paying more than you have to on something needing your hard earned cash. The swipe of the plastic with the magnetic strip and chip.To get the best deal, using retail me not, third party or store coupons. Making sure there is free shipping. And some bonus points on the card you use or a store reward program for the added extra warm and fuzzy feeling. Knowing by George, you scored yourself the best deal. In the shop till you drop. And not without leaving any extra cash, wasting currency at the... 12/15/2015

Myths in real estate, they exist and sometimes someone has to step up to explain how things work. Behind the real estate marketing curtain. Over the holidays there could be real estate agents or brokers that want to be sipping the egg nog, munching on peanut brittle and moca balls. But the fact remains.The life of our buyers and sellers, of property listings, do not stop because of the tinsel, mistletoe and Christmas, New Years horn blowing. If an out of state buyer gets a job transfer, marching orders to proceed ASAP to your home town, be ready. When a seller of any of the Maine listings we peddle has to make something happen pronto, a little snow on the ground is not going to dampen the motivation.In fact, fear of frozen pipes and the drag of heating, snow plowing and all around worry... 12/12/2015

Survey says "ding ding ding", the value of your property is?The crystal clear pulled out of thin air figure to expect would be right now? The no doubt about it "what what would your home sell for today number" is ?  (Long pause, silence, you could hear a pin drop situation with the in house studio and at home audience all on the edge of their seats, mouths slightly ajar). Well now people, it depends.Because of the old Maine expression. Used a lot on the coastal areas Chummy. "It is Mister Man hard telling without knowing."All the missing puzzle piece information we don't have cause we don't even know you, your situation.Haven't met the property for a looksie, sneak a peek.In whatever condition and location it happens to be parked in today. As the real estate professional tapped on the s... 12/05/2015

So often the write up of a Houlton Maine home for sale dives into the room count, features, location, property taxes, how many baths. And add a couple images. Spice it up with plot plan, video link and then move on. To the marketing treatment of another Houlton Maine home for sale. Or other type of property listing from farms, land to waterfront and small mom and pop businesses that come up for consideration.So back to the hunt and peck subject of this blog post on Active Rain this morning as a busy real estate day gets underway.The owners of the property at 3 Weeks Street, Houlton Maine.Let's start by telling you about them.Because who lived in a home for sale is valuable information.The stuff you only get off the grapevine from neighbors.Not usually from the real estate agent or broke... 12/02/2015

A few days ago your real estate buyer was all approved for a home loan. But oh what a difference a day can makes. Especially a Black Friday. A Cyber Monday can mess you up too. Because you shoot yourself in both feet and bleed out financially. Limited your chances, hurting your odds of getting the set of keys please. To climb heave ho out of the rent rut.During the life of a home mortgage loan it is all about keeping your nose clean.Eyes forward. Just answer the questions. Nothing more.Dotting the "i", crossing the "t" time.Underwriting guidelines don't go away or suddenly enjoy amnesty. And the regulations for financing a Maine home only get stiffer.In the selling the paper packaged up for the secondary mortgage market how low can you go competitive house loan rates.If you think of the... 11/30/2015

Every day and night available to shop, the small rural real estate markets like the property listings in Maine are Black Friday specially priced.The reason?Gather around.Everything you know divide by three and four here for the norm in urban real estate markets.And compared to the associated higher cost of insurance.The pay scale for the tradesmen to fix and renovate in the concrete jungle landscape of no space, plenty of crime, lots of holler, pushing and shoving. Where flip the channel and sigh "whew". You made it.Relax, appreciate the friendly people, wide open space. Because in small rural Maine real estate markets it is not reach for your wallet or hang onto your purse. It is DIY. Call in a favor from Uncle Bob, your brother in law Zeke.To fix and repair without the bill but a prom... 11/27/2015

The four walls, floor and ceiling you call the Maine home, the needs change depending on the people living inside.Especially around the holidays. When all the leaves for the dining room table pin everyone to the wall. Or there is just not room for a table period.Or space. In other areas of the Maine home for sale. When the little ones pitter patter down the halls. Lunge far and wide out into a room with the johnny jump up. Hanging on the top door ledge of a kitchen opening.Or there is a MIA, APB issued to find the sleeping areas. The need for bedrooms in the Maine home. Is the count for places to put the head in the bed high enough to fit the increasing family size? That the stork air drops once a year?So back to bedrooms in particular. The subject of this real estate blog post.Take thi... 11/23/2015

The check list of what to do to make the real estate sign get the all important rider.Butterfly screwed on top for all to see. From  "Sale Pending" followed quickly by the "SOLD" panel showing up wasting no time.What needs to be done? To pick up the pace. To get to the property listing transfer sit down review of the HUD-1. For sliding the check one way. The other the keys pleasefor a real estate closing quick like a bunny. There are the long list of garden variety roll up your sleeves ways to get the real estate listing ready for show time.Things to do to make the place ship shape.To look it's Sunday best for the real estate video, the still images.For the all important walk throughs of serious real estate buyers and the lookie loos kicking the property tires alike.Declutter, deep six ... 11/19/2015

Using the many platforms to drive traffic back to your websites, email server, to make the phones ring loudly.Some platforms like Twitter,  Facebook get more of the oohs and aahs. But you do more than set up and let dust settle on the other social media marketing children. Pinterest, Flickr and other image board channel feeds often get neglected.Forgotten about because of too much time put on a few.When it is many that need feeding.Like the brood seated for a home cooked dinner or one of the other three meals at day.At say around the Walton's long wooden table. Feed them all.Obviously video is the 30 to 60 frames per second of "images, pictures" to showcase the area, the property listings for sale.Because the show and tell takes your buyer to the real estate, to the local community wher... 11/16/2015

Restful sleep happens when everything is okey dokey.Peachy keen and rolling smoothly. But when a real estate transtion, any change that big happens in a person's life, the Zzzzzz pattern changes radically. Especially when it is a parent with the head in the bed. Tossing, turning, churning with the wind up of the blankets.Trying to rest up for the action packed day tomorrow involving kids. Juggling their busy lives and all the activities they are in on the refrigerator calendar. Scribbled in in hurried pencil or pen.Change is part of life.When self inflicted it is easier to take.When it happens without your control there can be anger, sadness.Negotiation to bargain for the best you can do with what you have to work with for obstacles. For the best outcome that affects you big time when h... 11/12/2015

In a person's life, lots of changes means moving, relocation and sizing up or down to fit the season.But when a small town Maine real estate buyer is brand new and from out of state or the country. First things first. Tell me about your area before we mosey on to the subject of what's new on the market. The property listings in Maine for sale in those coordinates on planet Earth can wait.Real estate is all about lifestyles choices too.Quality of life always doubles back to the real estate location. The sticks and bricks and your personal space. Protecting it.If you shake and bake one way, you want the new area to fit properly with what you like to do for fun at this stage.Or dove tail with the all important why you are making the change in your life. To get on one floor, have an area fo... 11/01/2015

Too little time, so much to learn and glean when you can.  All of us struggle with time management and for real estate property listings buyers, video works best. Hands down, real full motion video with natural sound captured at the property listing is quick, easy, memorable. What is seen, heard in the show and tell is retained.Because no making the other end of the real estate for sale red rover red rover signal wait.Be confused, feel teased getting information.Or assuming this or that in a desperate hope because too much is missing in the transfer.Because of a skimpy write up, too few images, and no video link.No time drain in the read read like the wheels on the bus go round and round either.No hurry up and wait or 9-5 real estate office lobby hours to work around. Which is like the ... 10/29/2015

A house for sale usually has contents here and there.Needed to enjoy living there. Unless the moving van just left and the place is ready for vacancy by the new Maine home buyer. But even though some home owners travel light, or load it up like a beat the buffet while living in the Maine home, there comes a time. Where no matter how they lived and used the place, the lack of getting rid of old stuff means someone has to do it.Unless the new Maine home owner thinks this cargo is pretty peachy keen.Let's keep it around and sort through and reuse what we can.Maybe have our own continuous garage sale instead of using those bays for vehicle storage.Often the "toys" in the garage, sheds, around the Maine home can attract attention but cause the galloping gimmees. Would you throw those in for ... 10/16/2015

Stay happy, home in Maine.Not much need to slide, slump, ten and two behind the wheel of the family mini van with this Maine home for sale. Walking is quicker. Have plans to move to Aroostook County? To the Shiretown of County Seat Of Houlton Maine? Healthy kids, adults too is what happens here with the home location in Houlton Maine.Near parks and rec programs, the junior and senior high schools, the downtown of Houlton Maine.Walk to the Cary library, up to community park. Those hoofing it adventures lead to just pure enjoyment. Better living, stronger outdoor connection with the fresh air and scenery. Watch your back hand spin improve and your agility on the tennis court get way way better.Just walk across the street and voila. Basketball hoops for a little alley oop too.While all the... 10/13/2015

Streamlining the list and sell process of real estate means someone has to be the skipper.To point the ship, keep it away from the rocks and to see the mile stones along the way to the property closing. But like any process, there is education, expectations to set, and listening. Lots of open up your ears and be on the same level as your real estate buyer and seller. The real estate professional does this every day.That dog and pony wearing the blue and gold "R" is not the norm for a buyer or seller.Who only does this dance once, maybe a few more times in the course of their short time on Earth.So keeping a lid on the emotions or added stress from real estate drama. Means communication, availability and explanation on when, why, how. Looped email communications help everyone know where ... 10/06/2015