It's the 1970's -1980's and a Maine real estate broker plants a sign, lists a property. Ads in some large outside newspapers run over a weekend campaign, brochures printed up for tourist information centers and some direct mail and then wait. No internet blogging about the new listing. No in
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01/10/2010
You are working on your Joomla real estate site and an error message appears..lots of them. As you add another extension. Oh oh. Sometimes the error is due to a "unzip me" file in the zip file you download to that Joomla site. Many third party developers have a zip file within a zip file. Tr
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01/09/2010
Money in the bank if it won't buy anything has little value, is only good for starting a fire. When you really reduce it down to what you need..the Lexus, Rolex, Hummer and a box full of precious jewelry is not that useful. The condo is the islands, the vacation place in Colorado or Morocco is no
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01/08/2010
Buying a Maine farm just makes sense. You have to eat, you can grow food you know is healthy. Wholesome, tasty and you planted it. Watched it grow. Nutured it to harvest time. It came from the back forty acres. Not from halfway around the world injected with this hormone, growth aid, or gassed to
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01/08/2010
As a rural Maine real estate broker for three decades, having a fully stocked property wagon is the key.The yellow brick road to real estate success. No need to wear a loud plaid jacket. If you have selection, fairly priced and market it properly, the property sells itself because you fit a need.
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01/08/2010
Real estate that stops the clock, that you are ga ga over. In swanky areas of the country where money pours in to accounts from say computer software revenues, oil reserve deposits or the old fashion earning it way of inheritance, high price real estate may be a fairly common. In rural state
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01/08/2010
Two of the four kids home for Maine college break and loaded up the snow skis, boots, poles and headed out! In a Maine snowstorm last weekend we pointed the jeep to Sugarloaf USA. Imagine 29 inches of new snow since New Year's Eve at Sugarloaf near Kingfield ME. This is one of the premier Ma
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01/07/2010
Taxes on property in Maine. Get real estate buyer questions a lot on tax bill sizes. Most are "how come so cheap" and "back home in Massachusetts that same property would be ten times that amount". The buyers from MA usually refer to their home state as "Taxachusetts". I had a lady from Att
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01/07/2010
The pair of holidays we celebrate at the end of every year is not always a picnic of fun and joy. Not being able to celebrate with your family because you are a soldier stationed overseas could be a blue note. Remembering lost loved ones you used to celebrate Christmas or ring in the New Year wit
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01/06/2010
You can fish, throw in a line in Peace Brook across the street from this Houlton ME home. IF you are under 16 years of age. Over 40 years this Maine home has been enjoyed, loved, cared for by the same family. But the kids grew up, the owners spend half the year in Florida and it's time
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01/06/2010
