Maine’s Bass Harbor Lighthouse Is One Of 68 To Explore.
For years you have worn a tie cutting off your air supply, been chained, pinned to the wall by a corporate office desk.
But no longer because years ago you invested in a Maine waterfront property. And now have the time, your schedule permanently cleared to enjoy it to the fullest. And because the Maine real estate is on the waterfront, the options to enjoy each day to the fullest are endless.
There is no right or wrong way to enjoy a Maine lake, a coastal park lighthouse, or just being riverside camping.
You decide what to fill your day to day in the four season outdoors of Maine. Investing in kayaks, bikes, hiking / camping gear, a set of down hill and cross country skis is a good start. You can add a motor to the fun with boats, snow sleds, four wheelers and dirt bikes. But the quiet to think, experience wildlife, natural sounds happens best when everything is turned off, unplugged in Maine.
Plenty of fun can be had at Maine local farmer’s markets, exploring the neat small towns and villages Vacationland is famous for round the blue and green revolving marble. But outdoors, not with a zillion people handy to your elbow or any one at all is where the peace, deep reaching experience happens.
Creating unique, taylored to just you outings is so easy. And no cost, low cost is the cherry on top once you live full time in Maine. Thinking of relocating, retirement or just investing in some Maine real estate? I know a broker who is ready to help you with that dream. To scratch that itch, satisfy the hunger deep inside you to get to Maine. Start tapping into the four season natural outdoor recreational opportunities you deserve, have earned in life.
Let Go, Listen, Gawk, Get Unplugged In Maine As Often As Time Allows.
Life is short, and Maine was made as a spot to stop, drop everything and relax.
Let go. Figure out things. Less people, more four season beauty and a place you can catch your breath. Stop the world for awhile and really enjoy life.
Biked to the top of Acadia National Park’s Cadillac Mountain Sunday and what a series of images to collect. To savor and enjoy as today back in the work week.
When you live in Maine, one week a year is not all you get to enjoy Vacationland.
Spending a measly seven days, a long weekend or two does not cut it. For me it is not nearly enough Maine to tide me over. To help me discover a true quality of life. And did the lime popsicles and Vitamin water taste extra good because of the pedal bike climb through the carriage trails of Acadia Park on the way to the top of Cadillac on a picture perfect day.
Nearly 100 cruise ships park off the Maine coast yearly and tourists on vacation often never get beyond the rock bound coastline. Discover the jewel called Maine. She has many facets and requires a life time to sample, enjoy, discover. Been away a long long time, then it’s way past time to reconnect.
Visit Maine as soon as you can.
Bring your camera to take home full living color, never fade memories along with Maine seafood, home grown produce too. Start out with Mt Desert Island, some walks through downtown Bar Harbor. A hike, bike or drive up Cadillac Mountain and you will be hooked. Addicted. Have to return over and over.
Maine is a state with more scenery, less people. Less wear and tear on the place when the neighbors are four legged and furry.
Maine is not a destination like a Disney Land or World entertainment complex. The fun is relaxing by an open camp fire after a day of tramping. Seeing maybe not many or any other people on the trails.
Maine is not traffic. Not crime. Not pretentious or snobby. Maine is friendly, folks that wave. Work hard to raise families instilled in values that will sustain their kids. Get passed on to the next generation after that with traditons that are honest, real, down to earth.
Maine, love her for what she has, the crystal clean lakes, ponds, rivers and streams. The oceanfront magic of rock bound coast lines. Mountains like Katahdin to climb, Sugarloaf to ski. But best of all, get addicted to her sense of peace, tranquility, wide open space.
Peace it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
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Maine, come for a day, stay a life time. Hurry, get here quick as you can. Find that one week a year is not nearly enough to tide you over. Keep you happy or content.
Maine Is More Outdoor Beauty, Less People Problems.
Renting a Maine home, and knowing that you would be a good renter.
There must be others like you out there right? But maybe if you would never trash a place, or forget to pay your rent on time, you become of the opinion everyone else is basically good, caring, considerate in the same way. Nope.
The track record of where did the person live before, what kind of a renter were they knowing your past is one strong predictor of what is ahead for drama. Litigation, no ones likes it, needs it. Except lawyers. Just be respectful of the property, keep your rent current and let the landlord know if a problem arises with the rental. That’s all the owner wants. Communication. Before lots of needless further damage happens because the property owner is out of the loop.
Call today from a Maine farm property owner wanting to downsize. To buy another home in Maine with 6 acres we recently listed for sale.
But he really needs to sell what he owns first. I explained Maine banks have lots of “bridge” financing home options. That they need to make loans. To put the money on a mortgage, out to work with monthly installments with interest added in for the cherry on top.
I said you could rent one place until it sells so not two properties to worry about exactly. But he had had a track record with rental tenants in his past. Still shudders and gun shy. He was a pretty capable state trooper retired kinda guy. But had one tenant, a mom with small child that paid the monthly payment for the rental ahead of time surprised him. When he visited the property to check on a leak, he was shocked upon stepping inside the unit. He had just remodeled a year before with new paint, rugs, appliances and some furnishings.
As he poked his head in the Maine apartment door, a shadow flew over.
A large parrot flying loose in the apartment made him hit the deck out of instinct. Then two dogs got his attention. That were taking turns, tag teaming the end of the shredded living room couch. Did not seem to mind him being in the place. As each lifted a leg to mark their territory. Three times a day at least from the smells of it. Eviction papers were quickly drawn up and the legal process started. Rugs, paneling and moulding trim hauled out holding his nose to fill the largest dumpster he could rent. For debris removal at seven cents a pound, destined for the landfill.
Renting a property in Maine short term. Ask lots of questions, do a credit check. Track down the facts, past making notations on a reporter’s ringed top notebook. Not just the current Maine landlord, but the previous ones need interviews. The current one will tell you anything to get the tenant six months behind on rent out. The one he is waiting for the court docket to open up for the forcible entry and detainer / eviction dog and pony expensive, slow legal circus.
Some folks are renters because their credit is shot but it’s never their fault. Like criminals in prison that are all innocent, set up, waiting for justice. Knowing the days of slum lords being able to have the upper hand are long over. And tenants crystal clear on what to expect. With rights, expectations from you to provide them housing whether the rent is paid or not. No matter if they treat the place with love and respect or not. Owning vs renting Maine properties.
Take notes with previous landlords, other neighboring tenants. Make a surprise visit to the place they are leaving and find out the real reasons why they are so anxious to get their foot in the door to the rental you have up for lease.
The best tenants have jobs, or are retired and brought up with a better sense of values. Taking care of property. Working hard for everything they have being where the pride, respect originate. The place is not to be a Noah’s Ark collection of two of every kind of critter. On the loose.
Get a month’s rent in advance for security and another pair of 1st and last month’s rent up front. That will separate the chaff from the wheat of who to let rent the unit you want to generate income, help pay the bills and come back at the end of the lease not looking like the set at the end of a Stephen King horror movie. And what happens to a rental deposit when no damage but landlord does not release?
And oh yeah, the guy who told me about the dogs, the parrot, he re-rented after totally overhauling the rental after less than a year from the same process before the cute tenant with one child moved in.
More dark clouds and bad luck in the landlord, renting business. Somehow a mysterious fire destroyed the center of the apartment within two months of the next tenant moving his things, duds, furniture in. I can see why he is a little timid from the track record experience of renting a property as the landlord, owner.
Maine, big state, simple living, lots of outdoor natural recreation.
Happy Campers, Maine Has More Of Them. Make The Vacation Trip.
The you that John Q Public sees, thinks they know, does your outside match your inside?
If you are busy making a living, raising a family, trying to squeeze in a vacation now and then. To make sure to get to church, say your prayers, count your blessings, maybe the inside of you still does not match the outside everyone else sees.
The person you talk to in the mirror each morning brushing your teeth… do they have a little black box that you are not so sure what is inside? Have you learned the combination to that history recorder or do you want to? Or does it matter? Have you ripped off the rear view mirror and moved on from anything painful in your past? Or are you stuck, waiting, wondering on the inside while the outside world rushes by?
Events, experiences, relationships that happen to all of us help shape the DNA we are born with.
And everyone goes through life differently. Values, beliefs, traditions. Gleaning a lot or a little depending on how open their heart is. Or considering how easy it is to change old ideas you held near and dear. But that no longer work and need discarding. Revamping, overhaul. It is okay to change your mind. But fear that re-examination of everything we all filter through our senses could make some tired. That is a lot of work. But maybe surrender is where the peace comes from, stays for a healthy, happier life. For a rock solid foundation to build something that lasts, endures, grows deeper.
When you spend time in Maine, the great wide open space, less people to bump in to means you get in touch with you.
The one that may have been on hold due to other pressing matters. Many that have wrapped up. Others that were not so pressing when you really sit down and take inventory of what is important, really matters in your life. Maine, a place to become a happier camper.
Don’t put off visiting Maine. Start the process of the inside work. That is needed to match up with your outside the rest of the world sees, knows. Maine, find your place in the space of Vacationland. Come for more than lobster, to see a Maine lighthouse or roam the wild life infested woods.
Watching The World Go By, Waiting For Days Without Alone.
When you visit with an older family member, that lives alone, you think gee, that must be hard.
But when you ask the person doing it about the situation some interesting observations come up in conversation.
For starters younger people in the working world, involved in community service work, raising kids can keep themselves pretty round the clock busy. Not be so idle. But consider if you are an elderly person, that can not drive and is house bound. Or has fear of driving. Does not do it at night so is limited on how far a trek to take. To get out, see how the rest of the world lives once in awhile. To shake the cabin fever. The “camp queer” being under house arrest spell.
Many older folks I run into with my job helping sell Maine family homes that outgrew the owner, that are alone, mention “sundown syndrome.”
They are fine alone during the day when busy with tasks. While the world is moving and shaking with activity. But about 6:30 it hits them. They are alone. And it the loss of a particular loved one is a permanent situation. And it is not a case of choice… where when as George Thorogood croons “when I am alone, I prefer to be by myself” either.
The recall of where their mate sat during dinner. That was his or her chair. This was the habit daily to sit down for a cup of coffee in the morning in the pair of rockers. And discuss the day. Or to take a break from hobbies and chores done jointly or individually. But to be able to compare notes. Know each was not alone. And after a sixty year marriage, it is not a case of trying to make the wrong one the right one either. The other was not perfect, but was perfect for the other. And each knew it completely.
But what you may not think about is the process, toll of being alone a long time.
Not just during a long winter when it’s dark, people are shut in more and not out, about. But when days go by without much contact with the outside world other than the boob tube. Newspaper, radio and often no Internet for the older age group in some cases. Especially the men who are not so eager to tackle the dot com, dot net.
My Aunt Molly told me when you are alone, you don’t talk to many people besides yourself. And in time when you are in a group, something rare, you don’t have much to talk about. You have new nothing to say. Because you are out of the loop. Been out too long. Don’t feel so comfortable around people because used to them being missing. Pre-occuppied. She lamented she just doesn’t have much for new information to relay of interest, of any use to someone else. When this ninety year old woman shared that I had never thought about the elements of being alone.
Lonely has many shades, degrees.
A little is good, too much can remove you from your surroundings, the sense of community, fellowship and needing others because no man is an island. Man is a social being. But alone is better than being with the wrong one you try to make the right one. To feel loved, accepted, understood.
Too many “married but living alones” walking the world today right? Doing the day to day in quiet desperation expecting others to make them happy which is an individual solo inside job. To make your outsides match the insides before you are ready to let another into your heart to trust with your inner most private areas. Freely giving the other the key to the long ago opened, sorted through little black box.
As I mow the lawn at the Maine farm I grew up at, the many flower beds still bloom that my Mom planted. Spent time on her knees tending with loving care. People live on in the courageous actions they took, the deeds they did while on Earth. That you don’t forget, that helped shape you and me. Embrace family. Help combat loneliness.
Reach out to a shut in, out of circulation family member and learn a wealth of information.
Unlike some cultures, the elderly of this overbooked, chasing material goodies country are often forgotten in the hustle bustle. Don’t neglect them, enjoy them while they walk the Earth. Are available to enjoy, learn from and for you to cause a spark, joy in their life too. Maine, we need each other in the space, the place called Vacationland.
