REALTOR Andrew Mooers' Northern Maine Realty Blog

Four Unit Houlton Maine Rental Property...Made To Be A Fourplex.

2009-11-13T10:55:00.000-08:00

In Maine, you see lots of grand older homes designed for larger families. Some even have servant quarters and an extra carriage house addition for in laws, gram and grampy.

Many of these dinosaurs are cut up, doors closed off to make them multi family rental units. This home did not undergo that kind of Frankenstein operation. At birth, during construction, the plans called for a brick solid, corner lot fourplex. Not something changed over the best they could to make it in to one. Scope out the 4 unit real estate video. Ask lots of questions. Four stall garage/carport too! Laundry hook ups and storage in the walk out cellar too! Looking for a multi family money making property? $199,500!info@mooersrealty.com 207.532.6573

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers

Maine Horse Riding Arena, 88 Acres, Victorian Home For Sale With Waterfront!

2009-11-11T14:43:00.001-08:00

Riding your horse in Maine, your kids having a pony or two too.

Black and white cows out grazing among the apple trees in the two orchards. Brook, ponds, view. Rolling 88 acres of fields, pasture, mixed woods. Quiet side road and talk about scenery. This Maine victorian farmhouse with 3 baths has a V I E W and is near many lakes. Drews Lake is just over the hill. Enjoy the Maine farm video. Updated everything from heating, wiring, windows, roof...and check out the third floor master bedroom / bath. Ask lots of questions. $299,500.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers

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The Pressure To Close Real Estate Tax Rebate Deals By November 30th Relieved But...

2009-11-11T09:22:00.000-08:00

You just figured out the eight thousand dollar tax credit to buy a home by the end of November and now what. An extension, and modification of what you knew to broaden the program. Scope out the new $6500 twist tax rebate highlights

The Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009 has established a tax credit of up to $6,500 for qualified move-up/repeat home buyers (existing home owners) purchasing a principal residence after November 6, 2009and on or before April 30, 2010 (or purchased by June 30, 2010 with a binding sales contract signed by April 30, 2010).

Know the ins and outs as a Maine real estate broker and help your sellers move houses, buyers get in to their own residence. I have seen banks jammed and bottle necks in shuffling paperwork in the scurry to get Maine home loans closed by the end of the month so the extension should give ME appraisers, Maine bankers a little breathing room, relieving some of the pressure.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers

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Houlton Maine Home Outside Town On US Rt 1, Watch The Video $60's!

2009-11-10T10:14:00.000-08:00

The Houlton Maine home is sided, has an acre wrapping around it. Plenty of storage in rear shed and outbuildings. Watch video. And lots of traffic on US Rt 1 if you want to capitalize on it by selling a product, peddling a service. $60's. But an extra 3 acres and grow vegetables, sell them roadside stand wise. Extra land $20's.

Aroostook County is on the Canadian New Brunswick border, at the gateway to the Atlantic Provinces. Call 207.532.6573 Log on www.mooersrealty.com Learn about Maine.

Maine, 36 Acres Of Land For Sale In Bancroft ME..Low $30's!

2009-11-06T07:12:00.000-08:00

Land in Maine for those three day weekends. To rest, recharge, spend vacations from working way way too hard at what ever you do where you slave away now to make that weekly paycheck. Own 36 acres in Bancroft Maine is our real estate land selection suggestion today folks. Watch the video in the link. For any Maine land, waterfront, farm, home or business property, check www.mooersrealty.com Or call today 207.532.6573 with your questions!

Maine, you can breathe deep, fill your lungs with air now.

Maine One Bedroom Ranch Home..All Your Need.

2009-11-05T09:33:00.001-08:00

A Maine real estate buyer told me once "if my kids call, you have not seen me." This one bedroom Aroostook County ranch home in Easton Maine would be an ideal candidate for a real estate buyer like that. Seriously, super clean home on a side road and comes with low low operating costs. Super insulated. Double garage too. Enjoy the Maine home real estate video. $50's!
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Movie Theatre, Buy, Own, Run One In Houlton Maine.

2009-11-04T11:21:00.000-08:00

Let's go to the movies. Nothing more fun than a good movie..action, drama, documentary, thriller. Imagine buying a Maine movie theatre, two screens and also income from 2nd floor office rentals, a living quarters and extra snack take out seasonal restaurant.

Scope out the real estate video. $395,000 buys an historic turn of the century brick downtown building in a New England victorian town that is right on the Canadian border. Email Mooers Realty.
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You Can't Buy A Maine Home With Out Some Financing, Money Going In.

2009-11-02T03:31:00.000-08:00

You don't need a lot of money to buy a Maine home.
Understanding the sea of intials, the HUDs, FHAs, VA's and the programs offered thru Rural Development (RD)for a home loan can make your head swim. A Maine small business administration loan, an SBA financing plan can seem incredibly complicated at first glance when you shop for the mom and pop grocery, that multi unit complex.

But you don't need to know all the program subtle differences. Just need to partner with a reputable Maine real estate broker and link up with a Maine real estate banker you feel comfortable with. To study the home buying options. With Maine land, many hobby farms and lots of ME waterfront properties for sale, owner financing to fit your budget can be an easy, home made option. What can you handle for a down payment, what monthly payment fits your real estate budget? Maine real estate, your best solid investment and unlike stocks that can disappear in value over night, it's always here to enjoy, come back to over and over. Maine, what are you waiting for?

Traveling To The Maine Woods, To Spend Time At A Log Hunting Cabin, To Snowsled And Ski Down A Hill, Across A Field..

2009-11-02T02:57:00.000-08:00

Sports greats like baseball star Ted Williams, Presidents like Teddy Roosevelt, George Bush Sr and Jr, and many Hollywood stars have headed to Maine frequently to hunt, fish, sail, play golf and get away from the throngs of people surrounding them in their day jobs.

What's the attraction to this place called Maine? Two sides of the coin that attract, keep folks coming year after year. Simple list on one side of what we have here. Clean waterfront, unspoiled deer infested woods, bluer skies, brighter stars, fewer but friendlier people. And plenty of wide open space with 11 people per square mile, the 4th lowest crime state honors.

On the other side of the coin, it's what we don't have. Besides safety with the low, no crime status in Maine, especially Northern Maine's Aroostook County, there is no traffic. And the scenic US Rt 1, 2, 2A and under used Interstate 95 that connects in Houlton Maine to the Trans Canada highway in to New Brunswick and the Atlantic Provinces of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Labrado and beyond, make getting around easy. Not wall to wall people here because Maine is a little further up the pike, at the beginning of peace and quiet, at the end of hustle bustle.

Come up for Maine fall deer hunting season. Take back a Maine Christmas tree and some lobsters, clams, a bag of ME potatoes. See a Maine lighthouse or two on the way up. Try Maine out for winter recreation like snowsledding, down hill and cross country skiing. Take in a hockey game or two and lace on some skates for that exercise your doctor keeps reminding you of needing. Plan that vacation that is way way over due. Make it a getaway to Maine.

Come on one of the nearly 100 cruise ships that park off our coast. To get wet, enjoy one of six thousand lakes, or a spot on a beach along the hundreds of miles of rugged, rock bound Maine coast. Make Maine a habit. Bike it, hike it, sample it and make it a yearly tradition. Once Maine gets in to your system, your heart will never leave. For low cost Maine real estate to land here often, to enjoy a second vacation home away from home, you have lots of affordable options.

Maine, It's Plain And Simple, Not Like This Everywhere Else, Anywhere Else.

Houlton Maine...Give Us A History Lesson Andrew Mooers.

2009-11-01T19:36:00.000-08:00

Okay, in 1957 in Houlton Maine, living, working and being raised in a family here in Southern Aroostook was special.
The new high school was coming, the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad had a local presence with offices and executives right here in Southern Aroostook County. Ricker College was in its hay day.

Trips to the many area lakes, like the Pavilion at Nickerson Lake where the Houlton Community Golf Course is located were part of summer. Local farms and wood cutters were active and anything you needed, you could find on the local level in Houlton Maine.

Being on the Canadian border means trips to New Brunswick, to Old Home Week in the old park off the bridge and on a river island near Woodstock. Helping local potato farmers harvest the crop, local youth learned work ethic, earned spending money. Houlton Maine, especially in the late 1950's was a special place to live, to be from. Would you like a piece of Houlton Maine for yourself, to sample a friendly small town?

Maine, You Need To Visit, Relocate, Retire Here.

Maine High School Hockey Programs Will Be Taking To Ice Soon.

2009-10-30T12:00:00.001-07:00

Around Thanksgiving each year, Maine high school hockey programs will kick in to gear. Thanksgiving tournaments kick off the hockey seasons for different classes depending on the school enrollment for the district.

This is a ME hockey website we maintain for the Houlton Hodgdon Blackhawks Maine high school hockey team and have to get the new schedule when the game. Videos of games are embedded, posted on the site and promoting the program is my job. If you are a parent of a player, being there anyway with a camera means capture it, edit the video, post the results. Make the kids feels like an NHL team.
ME REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, Family Is Everything Here.

Maine Sporting Camp, Cabins For Sale In Aroostook County ME

2009-10-30T11:09:00.000-07:00

Be a Maine sport. Get paid doing it. Check the images and see if you could be in them. We think so and will help answer the questions, get you thru the steps. Movie loop video on this one gets you inside right now if you are a few minutes. Call us anytime! 207.532.6573 Log on www.mooersrealty.com
Maine..it's just plain prettier, friendlier here in ME.
Scope out the images.Let us email more. $299,500.

In Selling Maine Real Estate, Copy Is Nice, Video Helps, But Sharp, Crisp Numerous Images Help Too.

2009-10-28T06:23:00.000-07:00

The horsepower to sell Maine real estate. This is Drews Lake over the hill from this Linneus ME farm that we have for sale, for you to own. With a home, land, farms, business property, you need the eye candy. Helpful detailed copy and well produced real estate videos all are supporting actors in the production, but images..large ones, lots of them for the fellow or lady on the other end of the wire or fibre options cable / wireless device is what they are hungry, thirsty for. This is a farm we listed in Linneus Maine...it had lots of photo opportunities.88 acres wraps around this Victorian Maine farm with barns, out buildings, a brook, ponds. It's the whole package. $299,500.
Watch the helpful video below.info@mooersrealty.com Log on www.mooersrealty.com Call us anytime 207.532.6573 Maine, it's what has been missing in your life, until now.

Selling Maine Real Estate Would Be Easier For Andrew Mooers With One Of These.

2009-10-25T15:22:00.001-07:00

You see them, private jets, in the movies. You know it would be neat to make a call and let your pilot Jeff know to have the jet warmed up and ready to take off to Colorado to ski on a whim in the winter from Maine. But at 15 million for this "pre-owned" 2005 model, maybe I'm in the wrong profession. Where would you go if you had one of these at your disposal? Who would you take along?

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, Stop Dreaming About ME..Get Here Quickly.

Maine Farm For Sale, Watch The Real Estate Video #7724

2009-10-20T09:28:00.000-07:00

Maine farm..you want a spread with land, woods, an old barn, a New England farm house. This 80 acre Maine farm has closer to 100 acres according to the town of Bridgewater ME.

$159,900.

Enjoy the video. It shows the brook. And There is a pond here! View of Mars Hill Mountain too that has a ski area, golf course. Ask some questions. 207.532.6573

www.mooersrealty.com Maine, It's Just Plain Nicer Here.

The Houlton Maine Rotary Radio, TV, Cable And On Line Auction.

2009-10-20T05:59:00.000-07:00

Thanksgiving in Houlton Maine means the Houlton ME Rotarians take to the air waves to raise money for Southern Aroostook worthwhile projects.

If you want something done in Houlton Maine, give it to the Rotary Club for success, for a push, for a helping hand. The Rotary motto is "Service Above Self". Here is the rundown with auction video on what the event is all about. The club has over 70 active members and is one of the larger ones in Maine.

Over the years the local Houlton Maine Amphitheatre, the Northern Maine Soap Box Derby Hill, expanding Little League Fields, purchasing blood gas analyzers for Houlton Regional Hospital, sponsoring a little league team and group study student exchange are just a few of the worthwhile projects support in the Southern Aroostook County area.
Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, It's Different..In A Good Way Here.

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2009-10-18T11:48:00.001-07:00

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Think Fish Grow Bigger If Their Bowl Is Larger? Maine Is Bigger.

2009-10-17T11:31:00.000-07:00

Space..not being jammed in a shoe box of a home. Houlton Maine homes are bigger, Victorian, and so affordable. Take this home..do the video walk thru right now since you have a few minutes.$126,000! And there is a carriage house apartment rental too! Here is the total splash..25 images/details/video link. info@mooersrealty.com Log on www.mooersrealty.com Visit our MeInMaine Blog too!

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Or come visit us at 69 North Street, Houlton Maine 04730

Winter Is Coming, So Martha..Might As Well Take The ME Real Estate Off The Market.

2009-10-16T14:45:00.000-07:00

Northern climates like Maine get white fluffy soft winter snow...

We play in it, enjoy the recreation options in Maine with snowsledding, ice fishing, hockey and down hill / cross country skiing. So when a Maine real estate owner or seller says, well, let's wait until spring to sell or take a current listing off the market, the act requires further thought. Marketing real estate is a four season job. Property promotion is a full time operation. If you the owner worry about moving in snow drifts, make the possession May 30th. But don't pull the plug on the outside marketing.

The blogs about your place, videos uploaded to social media platforms and heavy marketing over the late fall / winter and early spring months are crucial. The example of winking at a girl in the dark comes to mind. No lights on (no marketing) no effective flirting going on to get the girl's attention. Turn the lights on. Marketing year round is smart. Possessions can be terms of the sale to reflect possession you can sleep with.

But remember, most people wait until spring to list and do you want to head off the herd, use the winter months to attract spring customers or not? If you are ready to move quickly, don't think people do not buy homes in the winter. We have in Houlton Maine lots of customs, immigration, border patrol people who get transferred and have to get into a place now. It's not about what you would like to do or if you would move in the winter or not. It's what happens in your market and how do you effectively market real estate over the winter months. Right now rich fall foliage colors and green grass look pretty good in the videos, the images we post on marketing pieces. Do you want the dead, tan grass of early spring to be the image to project.

Get the jump on the rest of the typical real estate sellers who don't market over the winter. Advertise. Promote a season or two ahead and enjoy a sale because of exposure to more people who play pen pal with your Maine real estate broker over the winter months. Turn on the marketing machine. Broadcast and promote your Maine real estate with all out effort. I'm Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers. That's the way I have operated for 30 years this April 2010. Put me to work for you.
ME REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine...And You Didn't Think Places This Nice Existed.

Selling, Marketing Maine Real Estate...How's The Process Work?

2009-10-16T05:16:00.000-07:00

When a Maine real estate owner lists their property, the agent or broker has a mission.

It starts with what is the fair market value of the property and considering the motivation of the seller. If the owner of Maine real estate says, hey, I need to be at the closing table on this home within sixty days or less, then the pricing, marketing all reflects the ticking clock. Discussion of what needs to be done to the place, in the case of a home, is crucial. With land, bush hogging to dress up the front field that is brush over grown, or staining the log cabin on the lake topics are batted around between the broker, agent and property owner.

In college, had an advertising professor who said people are like cattle. They don't really know the direction to go, what they should buy and advertising, marketing plants the seed, the desire. Advertising and promotion to sell a product, service and coaxing the consumer to want it, need it, buy it. With social media, the marketing tables have changes. Instead of Madison Avenue ad agencies crafting clever marketing pieces to make the consumer look cook, see themselves owning this, eating this, driving this or drinking this or that, the internet has changed the direction of the marketing, the carrier of the message.

In broadcasting, there is a carrier wave that the audio or video is piggy backed on, all on different channels, frequencies. In say the 1950's, people were more naive, gullible even. They believe most of what the newspaper printed, lock stock and barrel. The radio and early television were the same way. If you saw it, you bought it. The media was the carrot and stick, the consumer the donkey.

With social media, web 2.0, the members of Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Youtube, Wordpress Or Blogger talk, post, create videos to tell their connections, new friends what they discovered, liked. The consumer is the marketer and you can not fool 300 million members of say Facebook...pretty close to the population of the US. If the product or service or song is luke warm, not so hot, people chat, post, tweet about that. If it's a hit, then it talk talk talk with that honest information..no spin. Homemade marketing from the consumer who is the research and development guinea pig now.

So how does this shift in the tractor beam that used to pull consumers in from traditional ads on the limited media, broadcast and print options that were all there was not so long ago? Now, a successful Maine real estate broker posts lots of information...not just real estate propaganda. It's not about the "sticks and bricks" and a local market. It's about the area the real estate is in. Blog posts about the area, videos showing the local community events, and the actual real estate marketing is video inside and out, tons of images. Clear, crisp, helpful imagery that is sharp, colorful, eye candy. Audio on the video is 40% of the message too. Hearing the brokers, agents, salesmans voice on the walk thru or tour of the land, small grocery, lake front cottage is crucial. It brands the agent who is no longer behind the curtain, holding the pen that wrote the copy, snapped the pictures.

Also, the broker has stepped in front of the camera to one on one, tour the place as if the buyer was the only one in the room. That buyer is a tired traveller stuck in a Cleveland, New York, San Francisco or Paris airport for hours. A guy needing a shave, a lady needing a good nights sleep but with time to kill on line with a lap top, a Blackberry or an Ipod to download a podcast about you, your area, your new property. They watch the open house videos, the local community video series on what you do for fun, where your kids go to school, what churches are in your town and weather information. The agent has become a tour guide, the first person they meet on line. The video tours mean when they arrive, the walk thru and around are a small formality. Their minds are pretty much made up.

If you are considering buying or selling Aroostook County Maine real estate, where prices are sooo much lower, the fewer people are sooooo much friendlier, I am here to help. I'm Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers. I speak Maine real estate and would consider it a privledge, an honor to help you buy or sell your property. My philosphy over the last 30 years of selling Maine real estate is if it is realistically priced, marketed fiercely, aggressively, the property will sell. It will fit the needs of the real estate buyer. The property sells itself with the all out, full throttle marketing. Rather than convince someone to buy, find them something they need, that just plain fits their needs, wallet, timing. Call me anytime at 207.532.6573 or log on www.mooersrealty.com Scope out our Maine blog too.

My Maine "Green Home"..What Is It Worth, Will The Market Reward The Seller?

2009-10-14T09:30:00.001-07:00

Used to be the term "green" was not always a positive. If I was described as a brand new Maine real estate agent, a little green, wet behind the ears with no experience to back up the license, green is not a flattering label. Over the last 29 years I have listed, marketed, sold Maine real estate. And the buzz term "green" incorporates lots of how we lived our day to day life anyway. Remember Maine is farm and woodland based living, and respect for the environment, our waterfront resources and being good stewards is what we Mainers are all about. Wrote a post on a sister blog this morning on a Maine Shoreland Zoning Buyer Resource Guide available to real estate tire kickers of Maine waterfront property.

Green lumber is material that has not been air dried or put thru a kiln to reduce the moisture content. It will warp and check and twist if put right in to a structure too soon, prematurely. Green appears alot in nature and is a neat word to label the movement to step up the protect the world thinking bantered about in social media circles, by talking heads on the tubes, in the print outlets.

But remember, as Kermit stated forlornly "It's not easy being green". And the real estate being passed off as green needs careful inspection. True use of the label means looking deeper in to areas you can not see with the naked eye. Reading about the energy star guidelines, the future system design codes coming out of universities and other learned centers in the country today. Here is what MaineBiz Says about green living development.

ME REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine. Just Maine.

Maine Land For Sale, Over 40 Wooded Acres With Big Lake Access!

2009-10-13T18:01:00.001-07:00

Sometimes Maine, being by yourself on those three day weekends, vacations is what has been missing. If you are finding yourself anxious, weary, thinking of being somewhere..any where with four season scenery, low priced real estate, consider Maine. Your heart is already here..left your body. Help the rest of your body parts catch up.

Over 40 acres in Maine.
Just $32,500.

Drews Lake is a clean, fish filled 1057 acre lake in three towns near Houlton Maine, the county seat for Aroostook County. Houlton ME is right on the Canadian border of New Brunswick Canada..the gateway from Interstate 95 to Atlantic Canada. Hike this land now...do it with the video now.

Maine Real Estate Broker Andrew Mooers - Maine, Relax, Your Almost Here.

Busy As A Maine Bee...Hey, Wait..Where Are The Bees?

2009-10-12T10:22:00.001-07:00

The pollen spreaders, the busy bees that pollenate the Maine blueberries, apple trees and sample potato plants, gardens. Mother Earth News honeybee story spells out the problems, the situation.

Growing up on a Maine potato farm, we saw lots of bees. The honey bee variety and the wooly, fuzzy bumble bee models. Mom would always says, you leave them alone, they will leave you alone. That they don't want to sting you as it kills them in the process of the barbed stinger coming out (Ralph Nader..poor design flaw alert bell going off, sirens, whirling blue / red lights) Here is a CBS "Where Have All The Honey Bees Gone" Story. Maine..it's waiting for your arrival.

Maine Victorian Home, Extra Mother In Law Apartment Rental For Sale.

2009-10-02T14:03:00.000-07:00

Space, Getting Fireplaces, Lots Of Baths, Bay Windows, Quality Older Home On A Corner Lot A Short Walk To Victorian Downtown. But Also Enjoy Income From A Carriage House 2 Bedroom Rental For A Professional Or A Loved One. Watch The Video! $124,900!
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40 ME Land Acres...In Maine, With View, Valuable Gravel For Sale. $20's!

2009-10-01T11:34:00.000-07:00

Land...Underneath All Is Land. Think Abe Lincoln reminded us of that fact. This 40 acre Ludlow Maine property is land with gravel deposits, view, farmland if the brush was cleared. House site in place too! Watch the video. $20''s! Ask some questions. info@mooersrealty.com 207.532.6573 Log on www.mooersrealty.com Visit our other Maine blog, www.meinmaine.com too.