I commute 32 feet to work. Where is your real estate office? In your car? Way in the back on the second floor and easy or hard to find? Initially we were a Strout Realty agent and located the office on our family farm. It worked out great because so much of what we do is list and sell Maine
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03/21/2009
You own a pair of handcuffs? Chances are very good they came from Houlton Maine or Springfield, Massachusetts. Those are the manufacturing facilities for Smith & Wesson's handcuff operations. The six millionth pair of handcuffs was produced in my hometown of Houlton recently. And the town is so p
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03/20/2009
Every morning, you have your routine. Alarm. Feed crying cat. Make coffee. Get kids fed as they wander one by one down to the kitchen. Turn on XM, get paper, scan and hit the last thing, the comics. Drink two cups of the brown stuff during the process. Watch the clock, hop in the shower at a
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03/20/2009
Win, place, show. Blogging with more than one voice or internet option to be found, be heard and draw comments. It's so easy with the many blog options available these days. Whether you have a Active Rain platform your eyeballs are now scanning or a stand alone, self hosted blog like my MeIn
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03/19/2009
Say you are an older couple retiring from a factory job in Connecticut. You may have been from Maine originally and went down to Pratt and Whitney, General Dynamics, Electric Boat and now coming home to small town country living. Safe, no traffic, low cost real estate, friendly people. And y
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03/19/2009
Hop up on that table, roll up your sleeve, tell me about your real estate inventory history. Bloated listing prices? Images from two seasons ago with unflattering snow, a dooryard full of cars or over cast day, dark images? Skimpy write ups lacking pizzazz part of the symptoms too? Ah huh. O
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03/19/2009
You are excited. You are going to own a piece of Maine, your own land. You have the money all saved. It has been a life long dream. And all land is the same right..just find a piece for the amount you have in your account and presto, right? All land is not the same just as all gem stones have
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03/18/2009
All kinds of projects, various themes, different directions. Excited kids, noisy gym, lots of teachers, many judges. This is small town and fun. And you know the students, some were on your little league team, others had brothers or sisters that had been friends with your older or younger kids. M
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03/17/2009
Buying a woodlot, or having it passed down to you generation to generation. And you give it to your kids in better shape than you got it. That is respect for land. That is good stewardship. And with waterfront property, being extra vigiliant not to use weed and feed, pressure treat lumber an
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03/17/2009
For years $250 an acre was a long standing benchmark when you bought a piece of Maine forty acres or larger. For the thousand acre chunks of acreage in Aroostook County the price per acre slid down as the price climb due to the higher the price, the thinner the buyers. Cut over woodland could
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03/17/2009
