You are seeing lots of low cost property listings, studying the real estate in Houlton Maine. But before the actual purchase, buying anything you have lots of questions. Because it is just as important to know about the local area, the community surrounding the property listing. As the actual sticks and bricks itself right? Learn more about Northern Maine. And find, locate extra town information about Houlton Maine. Or for the easiest show and tell, to be brought up to to speed about the surroundings where you are toying with become a member of, watch, listen to Maine community local videos. What happens for fun, what are the people like in a new area along with tell me about schools, crime, neighborhoods in my area of Maine? Our blog posts help spell out how it all shakes down. And for... 09/15/2013

When you are brand spanking new to an area you don't know the professionals in an area like Houlton Maine. Smaller towns mean not a lot online too for the folks you need to reach out to when you are far away. And just don't know who to call, email. When you have deadlines. Find yourself out on a limb. And need to get things tidied up before the actual visit. So when you do arrive it is bang bang bang, with the ability to cross off the have to do's, the don't forgets on your long list. Of pretty important tasks that you are itchy to tackle if you just knew who was out there to start the process. To get the job done. So lining up the professionals, lists of businesses in Houlton Maine providing essential services might mean you need someone from the following group. Banks, Mortage Home Le... 08/28/2013

Real estate is a sport, passion, some say addiction. But whatever you call it, matchmaking happens. Or should. Not about mind control arm twisting and power of suggestion, smoke, glass, mirrors. Not being a black belt in savvy Vulcan mind melting buy this one skills...quickly. Down and dirty jumping to the point of purchasing. Like right now. It is not about making the job of the real estate agent, broker, REALTOR easier. For buyers to look at one and only one property listing. Single lone wolf place and scream, let's do the purchase and sale agreement. Write it up, full cash price, no contingencies. Sure, heck yes. We'll buy the entire house contents at whatever price they want extra. When's the closing? Be quick like a bunny. Make it happen. And the seller can stay after the sale ren... 08/12/2013

You want to embrace the newest property listing peddling, real estate marketing technology. And long ago realized real estate videos are the cat's meow. But the productions on your real estate video channel have iron poor blood. No oomph. And with six video channel views on this one, and eight on this other done six months ago, there is a disconnect. What is missing, how come the crowd is not shuffling into your video real estate tent? Lots of reasons. Like getting dressed in the morning, you have to coordinate the look. Dressing like a viking on top, Don Knots with the bottom half of a powder blue leisure suit is not a good combination. Confusing, scary actually. The people you meet would worry about the medications being missed, not taken. They avoid you. So what can you do in the app... 07/18/2013

When you sit down to put the feed bag on, what you eat, how fresh what you graze on is key, just like Maine real estate listings. Properties that have shelf life problems with over pricing start to mold. Crowd the selection process for the search of the good stuff. Listings that were placed on the MLS some time ago with snow in the exteriors and a lower corner orange date stamp that says 2008 on them are not so appetizing either. Look like left overs long forgotten. Pumped full of Twinkies formaldehyde. Shoved to the back of the dimly lit MLS refrigerator. With the buyer muttering "no thanks, I'll pass, not that hungry this time I guess." Would you rather have home cooked, made today fresh like Grandma made from scratch in your real estate listing delivery? Or rely on digging for dolla... 07/15/2013

When you live in a small Maine town, you know most of the local community members. This morning on the way to a Maine real estate closing, the hustle bustle of the downtown around Market Square and Main Street is because of Midnight Madness tonight. The area businesses put on their best sales, to invite and entice the shoppers to wander to the downtown. To see what they are missing, to socialize, to hear outdoor music, get some locally prepared food delicacies. Like a dough boy from Sadie's Bakery tonight. Laurel Veysey is sweeping off the Houlton Lodge of Elks front steps this morning. Vendors are one by one setting up their tents, tables to peddle their wares. It is like old home week, lots of reunions for schools, and plenty of wedding planning is happening at the same time the Fourt... 07/03/2013

When you list, market, sell (repeat) ME Real estate property listings, lots of requests come in along with the many round trips to long table conference room closings. It is not all about the imagery, information copy, videos we produce and upload to the slew of niche, specialized platforms around the online communities. No no. It is about the relationships you build along the way. And because every person is special, unique and has a different sets of needs, how we do the real estate hokey pokey varies depending on the situation. Hey. So like a waitress, radio announcer, hair dresser, do we take requests? You bet we do. Have it your way is the only way to roll these days. And quick like a bunny while you are at it because your real estate buyer lives the day to day blur like they are p... 07/02/2013

The creative blogging juices, sometimes the posts just ooze out the ends of the finger tips. The times when the blog posts are already written inside. Pour out in a flow of recycled electrons like warm honey. But when hunt and pecking on the Active Rain real estate blogging post platform, there is a teeter totter, a dangling set of scales in front of you. As you shape, craft, build a blog post. And in addition to the imagery, the video embeds, the helpful links, you shake and bake some extra seasoning. Sprinkled like moon dust to fine tune the final real estate blogging post product. To hit the target. To land it a spot on the front page search engine index. And then the fork in the real estate blogging road happens, appears. And you reach for the tone button. Adjust the bass, treble, ... 07/01/2013

The length of time to actually take a Maine real estate home property listing can be a full day long. When the home is surrounded by lots of property acreage, when there are multiple buildings to inspect, take good notes and capture images and video loops on. You have to know what you are selling and seeing the property, walking the lines of the Maine land acreage is key to doing that.  The standard empty shoe box ranch that is 5-3-1- for a room count and on an in town lot with public water and sewer is pretty easy. No owner that can either be helpful or just want to talk and wanders off track from the property listing itself. When you drive into the yard the head starts to crack around the neighborhood to see what is surrounding the new Maine real estate listing. And the thought of ho... 04/10/2013

The size of the monthly house payment on the Maine real estate home mortgage depends on lots of factors. Each individual case is different because of the amount of the household income, the spending patterns within the home. The old add-age of one week's paycheck or two and a half times the yearly income are home buying guides. Debt ratios banks for home loans are used as what history has shown is safe. Within the proper margins for income to installment debt to work and keep the Maine home bills paid. The house in Maine afloat.   So that beyond the Maine home loan monthly payment, the insurance, upkeep and to pay for utilities the owner of the house can breathe easy. Have money for kid's braces, groceries, gas and to go out to eat, to the movies once in awhile.  How much to live comfo... 04/09/2013

When you list, market a Maine farm, property that is ideal for raising critters, animals like the horses, cows, a small four legged furry collection help the cause. The impression of a horse farm in Maine is stronger, more apt to cause a sale if animals are in the video. Because it is like a town, city, that has beautiful buildings, parks, open community spaces, places but no people. Like you just missed an alien space ship and the blue light that just vacuumed every one native into the belly of a star cruiser and whisked them away. Barking dogs do not help a video sound track. Their collars jingling, wrestling and toe nails tick tick ticking as they pace and are excited about company in the house detract, distract. Cats lounging on the center of a kitchen counter or middle of a dining... 04/08/2013

Real estate is emotional and way way beyond just the sticks and bricks, the property acreage. It is the beauty of the area, the unique flavor of the community and surroundings. Your Flickr channel with a player on your sites can one by one drive home the point on what your area is all about. To fill in the cracks on what is missing, left out on an MLS insertion that has all yes, no, maybe. Mostly number fields and very very little room for remarks. More information about the property listing, the area wrapped around it is always a very good thing for the very busy, limited time real estate buyer to get up to speed. To chip away at the local natural beauty, what is available for recreational options. What is it like where you the agent, broker, REALTOR lives. I try to shoot, upload lots ... 04/07/2013

Maine seasons change slowly because all four are precious, special and we resist letting go. So Mother Nature lets us take our time. Like a child that is not ordered to stop right this second. But to finish up, that supper is almost ready. For a gradual segue from season to season  in Maine. I am glad I get to live in a state like Maine with four distinct seasons to shift it up. Spend the day to day differently. So nothing gets ho hum or predictable. Not routine. It stays pretty much varied, with the different backdrops, tarps rolled out to create the setting for a rich, full life in Maine. The state big enough to be a mini van, an SUV over sized, too big for the garage door hole. That has to be parked outside day and night. Because all the other New England states would fit inside whe... 04/02/2013

Real estate video is the by far easiest way to transfer information about your local community flavor, the property listings that populate your zip code. But slow to get up to speed even though using the eyeballs and eardrums in tag team for show and tell is over the top powerful. If done right. With consistency and the notion that this video is not going to win an emmy, golden globe, oscar award. Because the real estate video is not designed to entertained, but simply to be a marketing work horse. With a clear purpose, mission. And knowing there are going to be hundreds of the videos doing the heavy lifting. Not just a few on your most expensive property listings. Or ego inflating me me me talking head videos that really turn off buyers. Waste their time. And don't help your channel gr... 03/29/2013

Before the money if there is any to put into house renovations preparing for a Maine home sale, three simple things have to happen. For a Maine home to sell, in front of all the marketing hoopla to get the property out on the information highway to shock and awe, some basic steps need taking. Read all about it in the Mooers Realty Blogging Channel post today. Properties priced right, marketed full throttle with passion sell quicker and for more money. But the return on the sale and time frame for the passing of the keys on a Maine home at a real estate closing speed centered around the basics. Make it smell good or not at all. Light it up with all the rooms, areas like attic and cellar, garage bright, safe and easy to wander around. When a buyer needs to see what he is buying. And thras... 03/26/2013

Active Rain, being on campus daily and popping in and out of classes means the real estate education continues. Grows, and is not a once a month, or annual gathering like a REALTORS convention. Or continuing credits for real estate seminar. No no. Daily interaction like opening up the real estate newspaper, dialing in the channel on the tube that educates, teaches and improves how we do the list and sell of real estate today. Not so titillating real estate market reports for the hit and run blog posts don't get stopped at. But areas that an agent, broker, REALTOR needs to beef up on and is weak. Those are the refreshing stops to develop new skills. To cruise your facility and look for the slack. Finding new ways to remove it that starts with spotting it first. Because better use of tim... 03/25/2013

Okay, the video link in your blogging post needs to start at a specific point to tie in with the flow of words, images and just work best. But the video is a collection of loops, and you don't want all of them coming through the front door of your blog post. So this morning on our Me In Maine blog post, adding a little code to the link is an quick fix, easy remedy. To make the video link fired up, toggled to skip what is not needed. And jump to the chase, to the point in the video, this time a Phish song set to a specific song that's the dessert. That ties in with the blog post, what is happening in the story telling. Helping to add color, to make something that could come off mundane be a little more sparkle. You hope. In the case of this video link, adding "#=7m49s" was all the exten... 03/20/2013

The property list, market, sell (repeat) process in the real estate in Maine has changed plenty in the thirty three years I have been wearing the blue and gold "R". Like any industry, highly specialized and technical happens and you embrace new ways of doing things. Or stay analog in a digital society.  Communications have improved so much with up to the minute what's going on. And everyone is in the circle if online, with an email server to hit anytime. With updates on what's going to happen next and what each player's role in the real estate hike to the closing involves. Don't have to tie up lines playing phone tag to convey a message, make a request or one by one tap others on the shoulder in the twist and shout, list and sell process. The clock is ticking but making better use of t... 03/18/2013

The zip code for Houlton Maine, the Aroostook County seat is 04730. But when someone says the property is located, is in Houlton Maine. Okay. Maybe. But don't always expect the zip code for the mailing address to necessarily mean that is the case. Physically being in Houlton Maine, the six by six mile township parked on the Canadian US border at the beginning of Interstate 95. Houlton Maine is the gateway to the Atlantic Canadian provinces but covers more geography mail wise than just the 36 square miles of Aroostook County townshp. That is the Shiretown of the "Crown Of Maine". Because Houlton Maine's zip code of 04730 can mean the property listing, mail recipient is actually in parts of New Limerick, Ludlow Maine to the west. Or Littleton Maine, the part not handed over to Monticello... 03/10/2013

A lot of recycled electrons used in creating our Active Rain blog posts. Many types of property listings in Maine exposed in a good healthy way. The low cost real estate and small town values of living in a friendly Maine town promoted extensively. One reblog ever, no micro waved market reports, zip for an image and a one liner passed off as a fake AR gold star blog post. All home made, with sleeves rolled up, as much heart, soul, passion as could be mustered up at the time. For electron flow release, another media stream edition cast into the wild blue yonder for eyeballs, eardrums in the Global Village. As the 3000 posts on Active Rain blog odometer turns over, cylinder tumblers roll, click, lock into place, thought the topic for this post should be "they".  Without you, me in a Main... 03/08/2013