Heart of gold, solid sticks and bricks but the home for sale in Maine is not a stunner.Dirty but nice, has a bodacious yard, boatloads of storage space and closets everywhere you turn. But no 24 karat sparkle and ooh ooh there is a bit of the sweet and sour smell. When your buyers mutter "woof" during showings, how do you defend the place without arguing with the public that is always right? Price it to sell. Property for sale that is blue light special priced, the homes that are so cheap to cash and carry.Those low cost homes in Maine are popular. Because they are the second home for vacations in Maine scooped up by a group of buyers. Who are sports that hunt, fish, snow sled, four wheel ATV and just want an affordable location to avoid the motel and eating out costs.And around any pro... 01/30/2018

The audio track in your real estate video is pretty darn important.Don't think sound in your video for a real estate listing or local community presentation matters that much? Whoa. Are you still thinking "talkies" are a passing fad? That only a piano player down front is all you need when you settle into the chair? Looking up to take in a moving picture show on the silver screen down at the BIJOU and munching on popcorn, slurping a Moxie.Ever had someone turn the sound volume off the best part of a show or movie?How's it feel missing out on some of the important conversation? No big deal or the longer the dead air goes on, do you want to reach for something to throw to get that sound restored? A person standing in front of the living room TV screen is the same interruption that leaves ... 01/25/2018

Tips, tricks to help real estate buyers and sellers. It's pretty simple right?Doesn't it all boil down to real estate buyers just want to find the best house for the least amount of money? An updated home with the smallest job jar repair list and parked in the nicest neighborhood? And real estate buyers need to be able to see all the newest real estate listings inside/outside to completely slice, dice, filter. To figure out and easily spot which is the best of the bunch to make it their own home sweet home.Real estate sellers just want to know what is my home worth?Let's not mince with words or beat around the bush shall we?What improvements or house repair updates will help the sale happen fast?What is the quickest route to to take to get from the real estate listing to the property cl... 01/21/2018

Horsing around, wanting to locate and searching  for horse farms for sale in Maine?You've come to the right place because lots of land for little money is the way every real estate sale rock and rolls where I live in Aroostook County Maine. The first thing I notice when traveling in a city setting is how jammed in all the homes are.That's no way to live worrying about invading someone's space or the other way around.Rural Maine small town living is spread out and without the people, all the traffic, noise, and crime.Your neighbor right on top of you and why have windows on the sides of your home in the city landscape?Board 'em over, save your money on the high performance tinted insulated glass.Because all they do is remind you how close the reach out and touch your neighbor's house is ... 01/19/2018

Cheap Maine homes for sale under $30,000. Welcome to Maine where everything is low cost, nothing is stuffy. In small town Maine living, you don't see real estate listings with 3 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms either. The practical not showy properties have the greatest appeal. A garage to get your car in under cover, so you don't have to scrape ice off the windshield the next morning is a popular listing feature. A solid roof, good foundation, big lot or plenty of land acreage is what real estate buyers looking for a small town way of living ask for in their emails, phone calls, office visits.Learn more about simple living in Maine.The lifestyle that comes with all these low cost Maine homes for sale, the other property listings. We spend all four seasons outdoors. We know we are lucky to live i... 01/15/2018

How to buy a home with a small down payment home loan.Getting on the trail that leads you from renting to owning a Maine home. It used to be no twenty five percent of the home priced saved up, then keep renting until you do hit that savings point. Heck even twenty percent down is a hard task for most home buyers today. Even though way less secondary mortgage market lending hassles if you can plop that much down to buy a home. So living the dream of home ownership and to quit renting.Here's the quandry. Buying a home when there is not a mountain of money saved up and in the bank, tucked away in the mattress.For a down payment like back in the days of the twenty five percent squirreled away first routine before you were ready to consider buying a home. Today, it helps to be a veteran with... 01/13/2018

The location of your real estate buyer, the device they are using, their unique emotional needs dictate how to create the media feed.That you slice, dice, cook up deliver with a hot and ready information sizzle. Real estate is not just one house after another blur of sameness meal if the broker listing them creates a stand out combination of helpful, detailed print, imagery and video. Use your writing skill, image/video presentation marketing tools wisely. When building something solid and worthwhile for the real estate audience.Make it something that sparks emotion. Somewhere deep down inside the real estate buyer that grabs their attention. Holds their interest.Stirs and builds desire that leads to the jump start their heart call to action.You gotta get this new real estate listing to... 01/07/2018

If you and I were gypsies, nomads, pretty much slept under the stars with all we own carried around in our back packs. Born under a wandering star. In the back of a Greyhound bus. Housing would not be such a big deal. Our next meal, staying warm or dry, avoiding being eaten, taking a bath once in a while in a lake or river. Pretty much sums it up as we hit the trail. Just can't wait. Are on the road again as Willy and the boys sang.The home needs would not change and the debate McMansion or McCotttage would not be aired out in the open. But the reality of life is you and I DO need housing. And what works best for the sticks and bricks changes dramatically.Our home, it's features and location, condition impacts the quality of our life.Boy, how just an extra half bath could save fist figh... 01/03/2018

More space than a 5-3-1 ranch style home, this 2500' square foot Colonial home for sale is located at 171 McSheffery RD Houlton ME.Imagine how spacious a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath home sitting on a 4 acre country lot is compared to what you call home now. Open areas, no tight spaces inside or out of this Northern Maine new house listing. The counter tops in the pine kitchen are pure black granite! There is an six foot island and work station too!Open rear deck, front porch too compliment the one owner country home in Northern Maine.Living in Northern Maine means you get to tap into all that Vacationland offers.Learn more about the new house for sale listing in Aroostook County at 171 McSheffery RD Houlton ME property link. Or better yet, take the open house on demand 171 McSheffery RD Houlton... 12/20/2017

Real estate agents and brokers are in and out of all kinds of properties.Homes that you better remove your shoes that are white glove clean. Others that you may come out of them with bed bugs and fleas. We see the best and worst of what is out there that needs to be sold regardless of the condition. The pricing of the property better reflect the shape it is in and how it compares to others competing for buyers in the same market too. Leaks from fuel oil heating tank for the hot air or baseboard hot water are trouble regardless of the price bracket the property is being peddled on the MLS inventory merry go round. We list, sell, trade properties with odors.The good and bad kinds that hang around the real estate listings. Inside and outside. The ones from a farm yard or barn, out in the f... 12/18/2017

Seller's remorse, a scary feeling for a home owner. Who was Johnny on the Spot great guns to get this home for sale sold. But when the right buyer shows up to make their home sweet home, the current house owner cuts and runs. They thought they could but now they can't let go of the home. For a slew of reasons that cause the cold feet and night sweats. On the home sale the REALTOR has busted their gut to make darn sure a real estate closing happens. Elevating the task to  "do or die" important. Working together as a team pulling in the same direction with the same set of goals.To increase the curb appear and stage the premises inside and out. Fix this, replace that, make the home sparkle brightly and smell clean not like smoke, fish, kitty cat or a wet rover.Lots of other systematic step... 12/13/2017

The property for sale in Maine.Not every home is created equal and each of us has different real estate needs in the puzzle of life.Those features that rank high on the list change too with time. Here is a home in the state dubbed Vacationland. That could be a pleasure to call home in Maine for just about across the board for all types of buyers. Is the timing right for fireplaces, one floor living, open porches, sun rooms and MUCH MORE? Experience luxury, feel special in this home sweet home. Watch video for 283 North ST Houlton ME.The home for sale in Maine, the luxury house property details for 283 North ST Houlton Maine.Enjoy beveled glass french doors in the formal dining room, an attached double garage with direct entry to the living area. Paved parking lot, hidden on over 3 acres... 12/07/2017

The reasons given for easing into buying a home.Taking your sweet old time. Not rushing out to become a property tax payer in the alphabetical listing rolls for a municipality. Renting not owning a home. When is it prudent to hold your horses on rolling the dice to buy property to start the investment? If you can not get a bank loan, that is a good reason to keep renting a house or apartment. Because you don't have another choice. Or if you are relocating soon because of shaky employment prospects, maybe buying a home right now is not the best way to play your cards.Or you can buy a home, but in markets where affordable housing in your price range is scare, it's hurry up and wait. Take a number. Have a seat.Not wanting to mow a lawn, worried about paying utilities that you are used to b... 12/06/2017

When you list, market and sell properties in small town Maine communities the approach is simpler.The layers of players is missing. The prices for the real estate listings are lower to the ground. Which cuts out the need or money available for home stagers, landscapers, anything extra frill that is just not in the cards in the game of buy and selling small town real estate in Maine. Fill pot holes in the driveway, wash windows, replace dead or missing light bulbs and price it to sell quickly. The connection between the people in small town communities is strong too.There is a sense everyone needs each other, working together for the common good of the rural township or plantation.Crime is missing, so is traffic or grid lock during rush hour. Fewer or no stop lights, people are friendlie... 12/04/2017

Every real estate sale requires special handling, but divorcing property owners demand  above and beyond attention.Custom made considerations to be extra sensitive to what is going on beyond in the background of the real estate sale. Just listing, marketing the property for sale can be tricky enough but add on the high temperature environment of a nasty divorce. Put on a helmet, keep your head down and chose your words slowly or just listen. Divorce caused real estate sales tend to be a little rocky at times, details losts in translation because of all the folks brought into the split up from married to single. Together to alone. Or overlap, with someone new in the partnership.Fireworks, not the fun kind. Emotions can run high and trust goes to heck in a hand basket during a divorcing c... 11/30/2017

Frozen, stuck, not moving. Time is money and people needing to buy or sell real estate watch the clock constantly. Because everything is on hold in their life. Until the property gets listed on the market to start the trip to a sit down pass the paper closing. To make a move. Everything in the buyer and seller's life is at a stand still until the current personal real estate puzzle is solved. It is our job as the real estate professional to lay out the steps. When to pounce, how to avoid loss of valuable time and end up empty handed.Someone needs to take charge to lead, follow or get out of the way right?To advise the seller about what is the current market value and what loose ends need tying up and what projects the property owner intended to do that need to be scrapped. Now that the ... 11/17/2017

How long is the real estate listing going to linger on the current market?Hear a clock ticking? Time is not your friend and like food left out to attract flies on the counter or in the forgotten in the ice box, nothing good happens the longer it hangs. Waiting for some brave soul that can part with the money needed to make it go away. Waiting for consumption, absorption on the real estate market. Properties that linger develop real estate mold. Or are frozen in time. Hurry up and wait. And wait. Wait some more. The property buyer can almost see the ten foot pole marks developing on the real estate listing and form the conclusion something is wrong.The property is being passed up for a reason. Often the only issue is the price. Often it is lack of full throttle marketing. Or both come in... 11/08/2017

No matter how big or small your lot is, your property borders something owned by someone else.Unless it is an island. So when something bordering you comes up for sale, should you buy it? To add to whatever you own and gain space, more elbow room. Or to remove a less than desirable neigboring property situation. The guy up all night banging a hammer and running grinders doing auto body work or his kids screaming their lungs out like banshees.And don't forget the barking dogs, three of them that makes you wonder how can the owners be sleeping when you can not bag some ZZzzzz's from the bow wow racket outside your bedroom window?The neighbors don't mow their lawn next door, they hay it once a year or a flicked cigarettes burns the tall dry grass out front. Keep your home owner's fire poli... 10/30/2017

The home for sale at 17 Elm Street Houlton Maine 04730 is a new listing.The property with 2 baths sits on a spacious, level lot nearly 300' deep. And you could not be more ideally located with this handy spot a walk from community park. The ice arena, schools, ball fields and tennis courts, skate park are all at your fingertips to enjoy. Watch the real estate video for 17 Elm Street Houlton Maine. Features include 2 baths, up to 4 bedrooms, a laundry and porch room!More property listing details for 17 Elm Street Houlton Maine 04730.Kitchen appliances stay, the possession date is not going to be an issue.Move right in ready. Sun porch, laundry room, first floor bedroom option with 17 Elm Street Houlton Maine.The house for sale near the park, schools, everything small town living Houlton ... 10/20/2017

Maine has 4601 REALTOR members that list, market, sell real estate all over Vacationland.This year's Maine Association Of REALTORS annual meeting and state convention is again at the Samoset in Rockport Maine. Every third year this centrally located venue for a state REALTOR convention gets tapped to be the spot for learning.Lots of reasons to attend a MAR state REALTOR convention.For the continuing educational credits all in one concentrated swoop. From the seminars held through out the three day convention and for networking with other market leaders in local real estate from around Maine. For sharing stories around the tables eating meals and learning from others in the same real estate trenches. Lots of exhibitors and after being inside a room with no windows all day, those hospital... 10/12/2017