If you live in an area of $200,000 and higher homes, the notion of a $30,000 Maine ranch you could live in can make you raise your eyebrows. Check out this US Rt 1 home in Amity Maine. See the value. Consider owning it as a second vacation home in Maine. It is one town away from Grand Lake, Maine
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03/12/2009
The lights are bright, a man with a shoulder camera and another with a mic with a furry muff for outdoor audio recording hover close to the broker and the talking head announcer. "So Mr Realtor...how's the real estate market?" Other newspaper reporters and wire service journalists flip open
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03/12/2009
And as an adult, do you think things have changed for these people that were a certain way thru out childhood? If you were used to being the center of attention, not taught to share or to develop basic manners like waiting your turn while growing up, what are the chances that suddenly a pe
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03/11/2009
The warmer days, stronger sun mean time to prepare for the 14th annual Northern Maine Soap Box Derby race. For five years running, the Houlton Maine race was the largest in the country with close to 200 racers each year! Race directors Danny/Leslie Emerson say its time to start looking for c
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03/10/2009
Had a visit from an owner of a property from an area in the world where it gets that hot, 130 degrees on a regular basis. We are selling a home for him in Aroostook County. He is an Iraqi working in the transition with the American occupation force and tells me the atmosphere around Bagdad i
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03/09/2009
You were so close to snatching up that listing, you could taste it. Hungry like a Maine black bear and ready to pounce on it. But Brand X got the listing and you thought you were a shoe in for the job. What happened? For starters, remember other brokers wonder the same thing when your sign g
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03/09/2009
(Looking around) You just arrived at an unknown location. That is the same feeling someone that stumbles on to your listings but is left in a fog on the area data. All your website, blog, podcast, your dog and pony show is homes, listings, but not area information. The reader, viewer, listener d
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03/07/2009
Showed a lake home in Oakfield Maine today to folks from outside of Boston. The wife is from this area. Three kids...12 down to 5. They want a lake place to show there kids life beyond the city. It's a 6+ hour drive but the prices are sooooo low and the fewer people, less noise and more pri
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03/07/2009
What is your target segment of the local real estate market? The entire market or a niche? Do you specialize in catering to investors, first timers and retiring/relocating buyers and sellers? Do you shudder at the thought of only selling homes and reach out into land development, waterfront, rura
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03/06/2009
You need more than just 3 bedrooms. So consider this 10 room Presque Isle Maine home. Extremely well built! Across the street, you see woods not houses. Along the street, well kept pride of ownership homes nicely spaced. Near the hospital too! And there is a fireplace, a slew of lighted closets,
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03/06/2009
