One new Houlton ME police officer from Southern Florida, the other from North Carolina and both say same thing. Where they came from, law enforcement was reactive...reacting to a crime here, there, all the time. In Maine, the 4th lowest crime state, both says law enforcement here is pro-active. They get into the schools for the DARE program, teach students police are not bad, or the enemy or someone to be afraid of or avoided.      There is a citizens academy where seminars on law enforcement and how the public can help are held in Houlton Maine. The participants of a citizen's group get certificates and understand better the job and challenges police officers have.      Where you have wall to wall people, crime comes with the territory as the population squeezes in, the traffic in... 06/12/2009

What is the local community like? Don't just tell them. Show them with local community videos of the area you peddle real estate in. Tell the 85% of folks who go on line to look for real estate, to search out and research a new area they know nothing about that you saved them the best seat in the house at the local events. Take them to school events, local sporting events, a tour of the downtown, a run down of the local banks, etc. Show them the local lakes, the video for all the local churches. Invite them into your canoe and take them down the annual spring races and serve them up a hot dog on the other end. Be friendly, be helpful, shoot - edit- post local community video. You the broker are the local tour guide, the guy or gal that lives here. Don't just write about, blog about, bra... 06/09/2009

Why real estate for a job? What lead to this decision and how many years have your been listing, marketing, selling real estate? What's your story and do you have one to tell, share? Other cultures want you to sit down, tell them about you, your family so they can decide if they want to do business or not with you. Unlike the American way to whip out a contract, tap your fingers with impatience and keep looking at your watch to try your darndest to speed the process along because you are busy, on the clock. What is your story? Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers 06/08/2009

They did it, the class of 2009 of Houlton Maine High School made it together to graduation at the Millar Civic Center Thursday night for the ceremony at 7pm June 4th, 2009. You are front and center in the best seat in the house to witness the event, the speakers, the graduate, the party afterwards during Project Graduation at the Houlton ME lodge of Elks. Great job class..stick together and never forget your hometown classmates, friends, relatives and experience in Houlton Maine! Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers Maine, Get Here Just As Quick As You Can. 06/05/2009

     What's an area built from, what are the schools like, how involved are the communities? This Maine Houlton High School Senior Last Chapel video helps show a glimpse of that.  Schools in small Maine towns are a vital part of the local community.      Parents, grandparents, friends, neighbors all take part in raising the youth whether thru little league, thru church, actual teaching or hiring them as workers.      A real estate broker in that small town shows the events that happen here on line with local community videos. Relatives many states away can take a peek at the events and feel connected, able to stay in touch. And folks considering moving here with children, can see how their kids will fit in, where they will be going to school, etc. Local Maine community videos are import... 06/02/2009

Lots and lots of new car racers for the Northern Maine Soap Box Derby Race. Watch the movie highlights of the derby tech day, trial runs to get the drivers ready for the big race June 20th, 2009. Houlton Maine's race was the largest in the nation five years running. Kids in this 14th day of racing on our own engineered hill learn the "Thrill of the Hill. Visit the NMSBD website. Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine is local community minded folks who cherish families. 05/31/2009

Grand older Victorian homes, or Colonials from back during the revolution. Northern Maine's Aroostook County is relatively young with Joseph Houlton cruising in back around 1807. So the historic, older antique Maine homes label means different things here than say Boston Massachusetts where Plymouth Rock reminds locals of the age of the places.  Houlton Maine is on the historic register and the downtown Market Square has the original charm and layout. Many towns during the 1970's rejuvenation process removed the charm, replacing it with chrome and glass and now regret that decision. Quick spin to show a glimpse of Houlton Maine banks and the local area video. Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine Living Is Healthy, People Helpful, Scenery And Wildlife Plentiful. 05/05/2009

   This past Saturday things were busy in small town Houlton Maine. Opening ceremonies for the Little League at the New Field Of Dreams Complex dedication, the local Meduxnkeag River Canoe Race started back in the 1960's, the 7th anniversary of the Southern Aroostook Farmer's Museum in Littleton Maine, and the Northern Maine Soap Box Derby fund raiser dinner at the Houlton Lodge of Elks. Yeah. Not much happens in a small Maine town. Right.      As Joe Broker, capture it, post it, get involved and share it with real estate buyers. They see it. May consider your area if you would just get it shot, edited, on line. Don't do it, and the neat place where you live is the best kept secret. Hop in the canoe. (Motioning) And here. Take this paddle and life vest while you are in the Maine canoe r... 05/03/2009

Around Maine, river races are a celebration of spring and a by product of winter snow run offs. Since the 1960's, Houlton Maine has celebrated spring with a canoe race down the Meduxnekeag River. Originally Ricker College was the intiator of the race, then passed the paddle to the Houlton Rotary Club and now the Houlton Dollars For Scholars group origanizes the race. This year, 84 paddlers negotiated the river, the rapids and enjoyed a sunny spring day on the river for a good cause. Watch the highlights here in a Maine community video. Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine Living Is Simple, Healthy, Low Cost And Fun! 05/03/2009

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Rivers and streams in Maine swell to their liveliest levels with spring run off. This is the season for faster water and a time to throw the canoe or kayak up on the roof racks and spend some time on a Maine waterway. This weekend in Houlton Maine the annual Meduxnekeag River Race happens and all ages from all locations mecca to Houlton Maine to take part.       From recreational family paddlers to black belt way way serious kayakers...they all enjoy the water, the beginning of spring in Aroostook County. Other Maine river races have been happening too so you have many to pick from each year to fit your schedule. And you thought you were doing yard work this weekend right? For years the Houlton Rotary Club kept the race going after it was started by now closed Ricker College. The race ... 04/29/2009

     Thought by counting quickly in my head and mentally go up this street, down this one in a town of roughly 6700, that we had a dozen churches. That's quite a few but worship with your family, small town community values a big part of living in Maine. I was wrong about the church count, closer to fourteen in just Houlton. That ios religious freedom, tolerance and part of why Houton is the Music Town of Maine, kids grow up singing at church, listening to the McGill's Band in the park playing all summer long. That's why year after year, Houlton is first or second in show choirs, jazz bands and anything musical. Music, worship with your family a big part of living in Aroostook County, in Houlton Maine. Watch the video on Churches In Houlton Maine. Happy Easter! Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooe... 04/12/2009

    Sure you list, market, sell real estate in whatever way it takes. But you live in a town or city with lots of local events, community experiences. Don't keep them a secret or hog all the local flavor for yourself. Lights. Camera. Action. Bring your trusty video camera along when you take in the next state event that's in your venue. You are the host location for a major state tournament, festival, trade show, new development or success with lots of people pouring into your area which is an economic boon in motel, restaurant, gas sales.      The video coverage of the event you are at anyway is one more "thread" in the local fabric that you weave to show folks on the "outside" as they raise their periscope, doing sweeps back and forth on the net for places. Some may be relocating to t... 04/05/2009

     After a Maine winter, part of the renewal process of spring is planning to be in your local canoe race. Some trips down the local waterway are done by black belt kayakers pushing to beat their time of last season. Others a leisurely drift following the current with boatful of family glad to celebrate the annual tradition. In Houlton Maine, the Meduxnekeag River Canoe Race was started by Ricker College, taken over and guided for many years by the Houlton Rotary Club and in more recent years, the tradition kept alive by Peter Blood and Clint Cushman, two local high school teachers. Todd Willard and Malcolm Nesbitt have taken over the reins for most of the race details now. I called Peter the other day to find out the date for this year's event and his cell found him in Florida enjoyi... 03/31/2009

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 proud of the S&W brand.  Plant manager Terry Wade I know well and had sold a waterfront cottage to, snowsledded with and see alot at local Chamber of Commerce dinners, etc. He makes sure his brand is a big help to local projects and is a very good local partner to make the area strong. The Houlton operation started out with 18 people in 1966 and has grown to 150 today. Several moves in town along the way and now to an expanded industrial building at the Houlton Maine International Airport. S&W is... 03/20/2009

     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 you like to play Bingo for one of your past times. It gets you out, you see people during the winter months, its is an easy social, low cost entainment. So show them the recreational events in your town, along with videos on the hospital, the police and fire, the 4th of Julys, etc. Not just homes.  Show them the area they may or may never have been to before. Here is a Houlton Rotary Club video of last night's annual event. Made money that the club gives back to the community in group study excha... 03/19/2009

    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 be as low as $100 an acre because of remoteness, lack of power and in some case, lack of legal right of way access. The loggers worked out a temporary right of way to access the land, yard out the wood. Or so few people that no one seemed to notice the in and out usage of the road.  Eleven people per square mile live in Aroostook County, the largest of Maine's sixteen. Aroostook is the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined.      What affects the value of raw land? Features like the amou... 03/17/2009

     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 car sponsors, digging out older cars to do the safety updates and to start thinking derby race. "The Thrill Of The Hill" is on a specially engineered hill modeled after the world series of derby racing in Akron Ohio. It makes it so much easier to have rallies in the spring and fall and to run the annual race. This year's race is June 20th.      Visit the NMSBD Site, All American Soap Box Derby Site and sit back..watch the highlights of the 2008 Northern Maine race below! Designed for racers 8 to ... 03/10/2009

     You have followed your sports team thru the grueling season..with one player in the line up with a torn ligament, another needing surgery during the off season. The pace of day to day grind takes it toll. A realtor who has been thru the ups and downs of the real estate season has the grit, stamina and recollection of lessons learned during the last challenging market dips.      In the 1980's, I remember 16% interest rates and comparing the real estate market today to the 1980's is apples and oranges logic. Currently mortgage rates are incredible. Four and five percent loans...yippee! If you saved some money over the years, there are some incredible sale prices, super selection  and the financing to go with it. These are the best of times if you prepared for them.       If you used ... 03/06/2009

     You know how you hear an old song and it takes you back to when you were younger and reminds you of being a kid? As you remember the fun you had growing up, do your kids have the same environment of living in a great place to spend their childhood? As a parent, you make sure the family traditions of holidays, church, chores around the home and routines are built into the raising of your family. You teach your kids values, common sense and to think about the bigger picture of what the road ahead holds in store.  You basically prepare the child to be a productive, contributing adult that has the same skills to raise his/her family or your grandchildren in this case. Houlton Maine is a small town in Aroostook County and I feel lucky to have grown up here. But you also realize the area... 03/03/2009