When you can buy a home for in the $20's, $30's, $40's and $50's, it is not hard to see why the housing market that has slumped in some areas is not impacted as much due to affordablity in Maine! Add in the four season beauty, zillions of things to do recreationally that have low or no cost a
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09/30/2008
The inside of this Sherman home was tweaked and reworked late last winter and early spring. But in scoping out the outside, your impression would have been it needed work all over. But with summer and fall weather, the owners have turned their energies into getting the outside squared away.
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09/29/2008
Most of us are brought up thinking there is a big world out there, that as a young whipper snapper you are going to set that world on fire. You have lots to contribute and the issue is only where and when you move right? Your parents help in the push from the family nest and support you me
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09/28/2008
Don't Be Nervous Or Scared! Making And Posting Video....It's Child's Play Once You Get Started! Had two down country Maine brokers say they are slow to get on board the video platform and I asked them why? I am amazed that nearly 350,000 thousand Youtube sets of eyeballs have scanned, digest
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09/26/2008
The media's effort to make a cartoon out of a complex series of events that put the country in this fine kettle of fish, has many twists and turns worthy of discussion in the financial knot we are buried in now. For example, part of the nightmare is that households with credit card balances i
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09/25/2008
Maine real estate buyers and sellers and their respective bankers and lawyers crowd around a conference table for the closing on a property. The seller's lawyer shows the check cut for the town the real estate is in, so the town office can credit the pro-ration of the property tax to the se
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09/25/2008
Fall is here. Everyone is economizing and many are wondering why didn't they run a tighter ship when money was freer and the economy was rosier? Being frugal and being cheap are not the same thing. Cheap is not paying your waitress much or anything for a bang up job of getting you served wi
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09/24/2008
Would you pay $75 dollars of your own hard earned money as a 15 year old for a pair of Abercrombie & Fitch pants? You know, the ones with distressed look, pre-made holes, faded, cool with all the buckles and snaps/straps? You can hear the wheels of a Maine teenager turning when he/she is cont
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09/24/2008
Before you make me a loan, you want to know what the money is for, where the house is, etc. And in the old days, the banker toured the place, no appraiser and he determined the collateral value was there and that I was a good risk. She/ he made a character loan based on my reputation and the pr
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09/23/2008
The brilliant fall colors in Northern Maine are starting thanks to the work of Jack Frost in early morning potato harvest weather. School is recessed for three weeks and the students are helping area spud growers get the golden nuggets harvested. Picking crews, if they are trained and atte
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09/23/2008
