Maine real estate market. How’s the market today in Maine?
Buying, selling, trading Maine real estate is a fast paced process. Knowing what is going on in the market when it comes time to buy or sell a Maine home, any property listing is critical. So what’s the temperature of the Maine real estate market?
Maine Is One Big Beautiful State. Real Estate Prices Across It Vary Greatly.
This blog post zeroes in on today’s real estate listing sales activity in the great state of Maine.
To sum it up, too many buyers, not enough real estate listings. Prices up due to the shortage and house sales down a tad because of no inventory. Supply and demand keeps everything high and tight. Rental apartment units are hard to come by as well. Community leaders statewide are scrambling to figure out ways to create more affordable housing options quick like a bunny.
Every time the national media spreads the word of a Federal Reserve Bank interest rate hike, wishful thinking Maine house buyers think here it comes.
Finally. A flood of new Maine housing inventory to consider buying to stop renting.
Search For Maine Homes For Sale, Other Property Listings Here.
Or it’s now the right time to move up to something bigger and better or to downsize to housing that is smaller, more economical and say on one floor. But when the housing level cupboard is so bare and new listings across the board for size, location and price range are so scarce.
That’s the sad reality of how the market for real estate property listings in Maine works.
The shift from a seller’s to a buyer’s Maine real estate market will take a long time to happen when the inventory is missing.
Like a well that runs out of water, it takes time to recharge and refresh. The Fed’s latest benchmark interest rate brings it into a range of 5.25% to 5.50%. Since March 2022, the interest rates cost of lending increase 11 times. For buyers in the Maine real estate audience, it was wishful thinking. That higher interest rates would instantly create as endless supply of house listings to consider.
I just back from this year’s Maine REALTOR Association annual meeting in Rockland ME.
Northern Maine REALTOR Andy Mooers
Had a chance for more than continuing education credits for my Maine real estate license renewal in two years. Networking with other Maine agents and brokers in different real estate markets.
The try to sum up the Maine real estate market for statewide to apply to every nook, corner, cranny of Vacationland is impossible.
Because being an hour away from Boston, is a different real estate dynamic than up in Northern Maine. Or to the east or west section of Maine where everything rock and rolls differently.
And in Maine, it is not just homes, houses, condos we are analyzing up to the moment.
Land, just land listing sales happen in rural areas of Maine especially. So the price of what is listed and selling varies greatly. So does the type of real estate being peddled and purchased.
So how is the current Maine real estate market?
In a nutshell “demand for housing of all types in Maine remains strong. Real estate estate prices are up 9.41 percent and housing sales slowed 18.77 percent over the last August to August time period.
The Maine Association of REALTORS latest numbers reveal 1,510 Maine homes changed hands across the sixteen counties. The median sale price was $372,0oo indicates half the homes sold for more, the other half sold for less.
The problem with a short and street Maine real estate housing market report statement like above is the values across a state as large as Maine.
No, the median sale price of a typical home in say Aroostook, Washington or Piscataquis counties is not that $372,000. Depending on the region of Maine you are search for current accurate numbers, the figures vary greatly.
Maine Looks Pretty Affordable, The Simple Life Style Approach Highly Attractive.
Nationwide, the National Associaton of REALTORS is reporting house sale volume was 15.3 percent lower for the same time period.
Prices across the USA climbed 3.7 percent for a national MSP of $413,500 during the period. Sales in the Northeast section of the country slowed 22.6%. Read more about the latest Maine real estate market housing market number statistics.
Which segment, what area of Maine and the supply and demand dictate price increases and declines.
So do interest rates but not as much as the media leads you to believe when the price is so low cash is used, not credit to purchase. Rural Maine small town real estate markets are so different than something for sale in a city market location.
This week at the latest Maine REALTOR Association convention at Rockland Maine’s Samoset Resort. You get a true sense how wide and diverse the real estate market really is.
The 2023 Maine REALTORS State Convention Was At The Samoset In Rockland ME this year.
I’m at a dinner table or leaning on the railing at an after class hospitality suite talking with other Maine REALTORS.
This agent or broker lists property on Ocean Avenue in Kennbunkport Maine. The number of listing sales that agent has and the price point is so different than my real estate area of expertise in Aroostook County. Get closer to the ocean front and to a population center like Boston. Find more expensive happens. Remember, the closer to urban area, t6he higher the number of property sale price zero places.
The online marketing an area of Maine does can help the flow of tourists to a region big time.
Not just the lower priced property listings are the honey to use attract folks to consider why not take a trip to my corner of the big state of Maine. The friendly, hardworking, helpful nature of true Mainers who welcome you to their region of the state is well known around the World.
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Remember, the higher the price, the thinner the buyers applies to Maine real estate property listing sales.
And when you hear real estate sales are down, it does not mean there are lots available and the market has cooled. Inventory is very tight, a new listing does not stay active long in the strong Maine
Swapping Loonies And Dollar Living In A Border Town Happens A Lot.real estate sellers market.
Building starts are up and if a piece of Maine land acreage already has a water well, septic, power and driveway or building pad all established, that is a buyer bonus.
Getting a Maine home framed in and weather tight for the winter is what some local real estate buyers are scrambling to do.
Where I live, the strong US vs Canadian dollar also spurs cross border trade of building materials.
Lumber especially to build the new Maine home is in strong demand. Maine itself is 91 percent wooded so this fact coupled with lower cost of living in Vacationland is a big shot in the wallet or purse.
Lucky to live in Maine where simple living is the way we all roll. With all this natural beauty, with less population and more wildlife and low crime, no traffic, Maine is the way life should be.
This section of Maine has a major pull for instate and out of state residents alike. Over the weekend, headed out Friday night from “The County” to zip to Wells Beach, Maine. Then get up early to beeline to Pease Air Force Base For an airshow.
Love To Fly And It Shows? Thunder Over New Hampshire Air Show This Past Weekend!
Have been to smaller Maine airport fly ins and posted photos, videos, details before on this Maine blog.
Fly Over, Pease Air Force Base New Hampshire B-52H Display. Part Of Food, Fun, Flight, Force At Thunder Over New Hampshire Air Show.
So back to Thunder Over New Hampshire highlights. The Saturday weather was perfect, hot and clear to see the aviation acrobats overhead. I wondered about Sunday being cloudy and cooler if that impacted the overhead oohs and ahhs.
Seeing a B-52H up close and using the 185′ wingspan as shade overhead while munching on cheeseburgers and cheese nachos. My first big airshow and everything unfolded overhead in front of us.
Air Plane Jet 5-52 Specs At Thunder Over New Hampshire Air Show.
Families with connections to the military and lots of younger cadets starting their service careers helping out running the event. It was neat to see all ages, their t-shirts to give you a hint of why they came to the air show event at Pease Air Force Base.
I wondered if the particular B-52H sitting next to the runway might have been stationed years ago at Loring Air Force Base in Limestone Maine.
The placard spelled out the B-52’s entered service of the skies around 1961 while Loring AFB was in full swing as a SAC base. Loring was 9472 acres of military secrets that closed September 1994.This B-52H pictured is stationed in Louisiana and on loan like the helicopters, other aircraft on display. Or put to the test in the air over Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire this past weekend.
The Loring AFB closure hit the economy of Northern Maine very hard and in some respects, Aroostook County is still recovering for the population loss.
F 35 Jet Fighter Parked At Pease Air Force Base At This Past Weekend’s Air Show.
Food at Street & Company finished off the down and back weekend when lucky enough to live in Maine.
Clams, Seafood, Outdoor Dining At Street & Company, Old Port Maine.
To be able to zip to corners of Vacationland to sample other parts of Maine. Dining outside on the sidewalk and watching party goers ply up and down the narrow cobblestone side streets around the Old Port helps enhance the experience. Maine seafood is always a tasty menu selection when you are in the Old Port region of Portland ME.
Old Port Maine Dining Options, There Are Many To Consider.
Been to Maine for a quick or three day, maybe a week’s vacation?
Are you over due and looking for suggestions? Thank you for follow our Me In Maine blog posts. Trying to hit lots of areas of Maine to show you this is worth your time and consideration. Welcome to Maine. The way life should be.
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All ears and here to help hunt and peck with photos and videos places in Maine to explore. Lucky to live in Maine and proud of the state where folks are friendlier, neighborly, more helpful in part due to lower population and tighter connections. Maine small towns are really like large families. Get to Maine. Feel up close and personal and where you belong up in Maine!
The state of Maine is cited in lots of surveys as the top place to consider in relocation, to make the move to Maine.
This blog post outlines the reasons that motivate folks to make the move to the great state of Maine.
The urge fueled by many factors. Space is one of the biggest ones. To own and enjoy acreage, lots of Maine land is a major part of the dream. Life not lived shoulder to shoulder and where you actually have a back yard. Clean water, clear blue skies, look at all those stars because no pollution from factory smoke stacks.
Welcome to Maine.
The best kept secret are the rural areas deeper up into Maine.
The Moving To Maine Relocation. Often Starts With Renting A Maine Waterfront Property.
Space is freedom, elbow room is plentiful in Maine.
Maine is a sparsely populated state with 450 small towns and villages but only a handful of cities. 91 percent of Maine is wooded, miles and miles of trees and trails to explore. Maine is not just more roomy, less people but there is good stewardship practiced in small Maine towns. Maine is 450 small communities, only a handful of cities.
Your elders teach you how to respect the natural setting around and to never ever take it for granted. Don’t mess it up for the next generation and tread lightly is the ingrained approach to living in Maine. That’s just how we roll and it is way easier when over commercialization or sprawl population pressure is none existent!
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So Maine space is abundant, a given and not an expensive luxury like many areas around the country.
What happens to people used to being penned in and caged, herded? When they cross the big green bridge on Maine’s southern tip, the traffic thins. They begin to loosen up and it’s easier to relax.
What else happens when you relocate, move to Maine?
A more relaxed version of you develops. The Maine added space, reduced traffic, lower crime combination works its magic. Suddenly you are freed up to fill your life with more of what matters. Four season outdoor recreation is one of the major reasons to relocate, move to Maine.
For many, it starts as a simple vacation and like any addiction, grows from there. Before you know it, the yearly trek to Maine turns into more trips back and forth across that big Green Bridge. And instead of spending the long dollar staying at a motel, lodge or cabin, it’s time to buy your own piece of ME.
Hitting The Rec Trails In Maine All Four Seasons. That Is What It Is Like In Maine. Vacations In Maine Lead To More.
The transition from where you lived before to Maine can be bittersweet.
There are trade offs and mostly involving further away from family members left behind. But often, friends and family learn from your move to Maine. Their visits to see you can cause relocation for them too.
The fun in Maine is low or no cost.
We have so many opportunities to pitch in and get involved in community events. You don’t need lots of money to enjoy Maine the further you go to get away from the coastal tourist traps. Those areas near the shopping outlets are not rural Maine at its finest.
The friendly, down to Earth helpful people who live in small towns are the best. Hardworking, family oriented, ready to help you out when you need it the most.
Vacations In Maine Lead To More. The Relocation, Move To Maine Start Because Of Great ME Vacations! Clean Water, Fresh Air, Less People, No Traffic.
You have to have less people around you to get more from your Maine location. Go further north, east and west up into Maine to see what I mean. Small towns are like big families. Lower population areas of Maine show less wear and tear. Way way less commercial development and regulations.
That’s another carrot dangled to attract property owners to sell high and buy low. Cashing in the value of their higher priced property and taking the chips. Investing them with money left over purchasing something in Maine. For many, no mortgage is needed to buy the Maine property.
A family starting out looking for wholesome small Maine town values weighs the pros and cons.
Moving to Maine for less expensive everything.
A simpler life style that is healthier for their kids.
Your Signs, The Hiking Trail Blue Dash Marking. You Are On A Baxter State Park, Mt Katahdin Trail!
And with high speed internet, their old job becomes their new one. Packed along with their personal belongings for the new life in Maine. Telecommuting, working remotely is easy when a small Maine town or region has beefed up a strong IT infrastructure in place.
In small Maine towns, you don’t just buy a ticket and attend an event. You are somehow connected to the folks putting on the event year after year. Working behind the scenes, sponsoring some part of it. Home grown and the grass roots approach to building a Maine community is deeply satisfying.
The wildlife, the waterfront, the woods trails and farm fields in the great state of Maine.
Maine is lots of things that are all natural. Have you been to Maine and where? How was your experience? Visit Maine and see for yourself. Meet the friendly, neighborly, truly helpful people who call Maine their home. Thinking of Maine? Why relocate, move to Maine? Lots of reasons and most of them are found outdoors all four seasons in Maine.
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Everyone wants to come to Maine for outdoor recreation fun. But how does the state of Maine revenue tax folks look at your AirBnB, Vrbo or Craigslist etc vacation rental income.? Toying with renting out your private Maine vacation property?
This blog post about owner rules and regulations renting out Maine vacation property.
Not using your Maine lake cottage or downhill ski chalet and thinking why not rent it out for a few weeks? Sure would help pay the property taxes, the cost of insurance, maintenance and mortgage payments right?
Allowing others to stay, rent your cottage in Maine?
Casual Maine vacation rentals, what’s involved tax wise ? As a property owner you are in this group if letting other Maine vacationers stay at your place for 15 days a year or less.
What To Do For Fun Up In Maine On Your Short Term Rental Vacation?
You need to register, pay into the Maine revenue service . It amounts to 9% of the combined listing rental price and the on top cleaning and any guest fees.
Short term vacation renters are under fifteen days, long stays rentals considered 28 a days a year or more.
The words “Maine” and “Vacationland” are interchangeable but the state only has a handful of cities, 450 small town communities or plantations.
The major tourist traps, er I mean venues have local requirements. The bulk of the state’s lesser known tapped into vacation hot spots do not. The rental lone arranger operator has to get a permit too for your AirBnB, Vrbo, Craiglist property listing.
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So moving on to what other tips to share in whatever length vacation rental in Maine, here are some top considerations.
Like any vacation rental property, you need money in advance to assure payment for the stay and a security deposit to cover damages. Standard cleaning fees can be added on to the vacation stay charge.
Clear as a bell, spelled out conditions of the stay help misunderstanding or legal remedies from happening.
Check out time is noon on Saturday at the Maine vacation rental property for example.
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Much like the way a cruise ship whisks you off the floating vacation experience with steady pressure and amazing efficiency, your little one, two or more bedroom private hotel needs a procedure.
Check in time is 4PM in large bold print in several places avoids the needless calls asking when it is over and over. Also avoids chance of guests arriving and interfering with other happy camper stays or the housekeeping staff doing their tasks.
It’s like after last call and the bright lights come on and someone says “We don’t care where you go but you can’t stay here no more no more no more”. You the property rental owner want a good review to help attract more happy campers. Their friends on social media see and reach out because of what they like shared around the channels everyone haunts.
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Maine is a returnable bottle state but where does the property owner want those containers put? Bins for bottles and cans can generate funding raising help for a local Maine small town cause. Where do you want the vacationer to stash their beer suitcases, wine or pizza boxes?
Renting out your property for someone’s vacation use? Makes you nervous?
What to do for fun on vacation in Maine?
As a local insider who knows your way around the lay of the land “inn keeper”, put the suggestions in a loose leave binder. Have the tourist information brochures in a rack, local eatery lists with their menus.
River Rafting In Maine. Hang On, Paddle Hard, You Will Get Wet. Vacations In Maine Might Involve A Watery River Raft Ride.
Farmer’s markets, musical events, museums, rec trails to hike and bike, public landing waterways to access.
The what to expect for costs to activities all part of the neighborly hospitality.
Make your short term rental property user feel like they are getting more than just lodging accommodations and all the fringe benefits. Where the locals go for this and that.
The best family day trips, go here for fishing and hunting spots, pizza, burgers, steaks, seafood, dairy and pub style bar lubrications and panoramic photo moments.
Small Town Living In Maine, What’s Like? Home Made, Local Talent, Volunteers Pitching In.
For a family with kids, cottages for rent near amusement parks, go carts, carnival rides could be attractive.
But for an older couple, you want the total opposite. Who is the target audience for renting your vacation property in Maine?
Invite your lodging guests to local venues they might not be aware of that locals enjoy. Check out the three golf courses or ski areas here on the map. Help yourself to the corn hole and board games. Try your hand tossing iron trying to get ringers down at the horseshoe pits.
Personal recommendations and tourist information goes a long ways in helping your vacationer or extended stay resident feel right at home.
There’s a rope swing on this lake the kids will like.
Use the kayaks and canoe down at the shore, the gas grill on the open deck. Everyone coming to Maine wants to see a moose. Hear a lake loon or two. Where are the best odds for that near your Maine rental property location?
What a great picnic locations to enjoy the natural beauty of Maine while you munch on a chicken salad sandwich or crunch cucumbers, an hand picked wild apple or raspberries, blueberries, field strawberries? Know of any local community potluck suppers tonight?
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Many in the Maine tourist crowd want lobster and fresh Maine seafood.
A slice of wild Maine blueberry pie or fresh picked dish of strawberries or raspberries.
The video and media displays to share on social media promotion for your “home away from home” must have digital links.
Tap Your Toe, Sing Along. Music Made Locally And Live Is Huge In Maine Communities.
Maps to help your short term property user get out, about, there and back with ease erases worry or confusion. To anything and everything about what to do for fun on vacation up in Maine. To this particular corner of Maine.
Post the snowmobile and four wheeler ATV maps on the wall with the circled “you are here” X marks the spot.
Three reasons for the give your guests fun tip suggestions in the area around the Maine vacation property rental.
One, you are an ambassador to your state of Maine, county and local community. You are proud of your piece of ME and don’t hesitate to toot the horn on what the vacation day trip options are.
The local history of your part of Maine. Share it and help promote the pride and excitement. Immerse your traveler into everything local. You don’t get the spirit of the area staying a few days at a franchise motel by an interstate truck stop.
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Make the overnight, multi day experience better for your guest vacation up in Maine.
Two, while your rental vacation guests are out of the property or out on the waterfront it might be parked next to, less wear and tear happens. The neat thing about rental properties is the folks who pay for their week of heaven up in Maine are moving around sampling it.
Help them know what there are for entertainment or dining options to enhance their stay at your Maine rental property.
In small rural Maine vacation destinations, not everything appears on a glossing four color tri fold tourist brochure.
Pot Luck Suppers In Maine, Using Natural Ingredients.
The social media splash for things to do for fun in small Maine towns is what is shared online for reviews.
The images and videos tourist in Maine on vacation post get a lot of eye ball and ear drum impressions on the social media grapevines.
Help feed those channels. Local merchants, non profit museums and clubs will thanks you for the media exposure too.
Every local Mainer tries to protect their community and regional economy. Each vacation tourist dollar in Maine turns over six to seven times and helps all of the locals living here in Vacationland year round.
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The third reason to share the fun around your neat Maine vacation rental is for repeat visits. The online reviews, photos, video clips. The same people rent the same week at the same vacation property. Why?
Whoever stays at your place leaves wonderful reviews or never returns for one or many reasons. They had fun thanks to your neat, clean, affordable accommodations. And your helpful showing them around to assure they have a memory making experience worth repeating.
Your board games, photo albums, maps, lists of locals to call for goods and services are valuable to your out of town or state or country house guests.
Or if no advance information or help to know what to do after they arrive on vacation is provided, the property renter’s expectations were not met. No one wants a lousy review about an AirBnB or Vrbo property in an area you are proud of right?
Maine, The Way Life Should Be! Welcome To Vacationland! Common Sense Still Used In Our Daily Life. Not Outdated.
It’s the little things in your hired out personal lodging to make some extra money and provide additional area Maine rental income housing.
Get your Maine vacation renter up to speed, feeling like they know a thing or two about your area. The more they feel like they right at home and things are familiar, more higher quality relaxation happens. Hey look, a bottle of Frank’s hot sauce. Don’t have to buy salt, pepper and there’s a Keurig coffee machine.
Blueberries For Sal, Don Fendler’s Lost On Mt Kathadin, local Maine eye candy photography surf and turf books.
Splay them around the wire spool coffee table just so. Your wall art, magazines, loose leaf binders with how to have a super vacation in Maine.
How you decorate the simple or ooh la la vacation rental property in Maine considers someone brand new. Not as familiar with where everything is located around your local Maine community. Create the experience so they never forget what it was like up in Maine.
Tight Corners, Out On The Open Asphalt Go Cart Track. Welcome To Coastal Maine’s Attractions.
Give them something Maine four season outdoors or inspirational to remember their vacation.
Self help books and exercise healthier living in Maine equipment make your guest feel you do genuinely give a hoot about them. That they can help yourself because you trusted them with the key to a property you are proud to share.
Maine. Fresh air, clean water, no crowds, one of a kind all natural.
The Portland Seadogs Baseball Team Plays Home Games At Hacklock Field, Portland ME.
The vacation property can be an ideal extended stay, something besides a small same old local motel rental option when no vacancy happens.
Make sure your insurance policy covers vacation rentals and what inspections need in place to comply with the coverage rules, regulations, regulations. Safety first and last. Deck railing strong enough to protect your camper from leaning back and ending out in the pucker brush beside your lake property?
A visit to the local ER is not the recreational fun your Maine lodging guest signed up for right?
Have gas grills, kayaks, a couple bikes, binoculars or outdoor recreation tools and toys help your vacation renter enjoy added conveniences. And not need to pack a lot of extra bulky stuff on top of the Pinto or piled high on the trailer hitch tray on their old school International Scout.
The Coastal Fishing Zones That Slice & Dice Maine’s Craggy, Rock Bound Coastline.
Lastly, how many occupants in what you let the World consider renting for Maine vacations or extended stays? You don’t want three families horsing around and the added stress on your septic system. And using the place like Animal House community center.
I list, sell, manage and own waterfront properties and a rural farm rentals in Maine. The repeat, already know what you have property renters are trained and start to feel like your place is their own. It is or should feel like that if you go above and beyond to partner up to assure your property user you care about them.
The cottage, camp, timeshare vacation property renter appreciates the red carpet VIP local welcome to my hometown treatment.
The place to rent in Maine has to be clean, tidy and maybe run to a higher standard of housekeeping than where you call your real home.
Front Row, First Class Seating On The Maine Coast. Borders Little Machias Bay Downeast Maine.
If one burner only works on your cook stove. When the refrigerator spoils food due to can’t keep the temperature cool. Substandard conditions with real and personal property at your vacation property rental means bad reviews, no returns from the same lodging guests.
Same rules apply to rental properties in Maine that long term owners face.
Like an apartment house, what tenant are you after? One that trashes the place or treats it with pride and respect?
Do the neighboring owners thank or dislike you for all these crazy partying tenants?
More than the square footage or septic system was designed for chasing the almighty dollar? Was there value for the monetary exchange? What price point are you going after in your vacation property rental market? Does the place measure up as a value or someone feels short changed?
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Wouldn’t you want to return and spread the word back home about where you spend your Maine vacations if you have a great time?
Does the leave a comment or list some of your experiences on vacation book on the kitchen table show everyone had fun?
All people vacation differently due to interest, mobility, budget. Just sunrises, sunsets, a camp fire with a circle of lawn chairs. Gazing out over the wooded mountainside, rolling farm fields, the sparkling waterfront.
Paddling or swimming on a Maine lake or pond is enough for some.
Others want to know is there a casino, head to the water hole bars. Can you tell me Mister Host or Hostess is there an outdoor movie theatre, places with pulled pork and fish tacos or boiled lobster, maybe steamed clams, mussels or oysters.
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Always what are we going to do for fun today depends on the weather forecast.
Your current guests in turn return the favor for the next ones. Everyone uses your what to do for fun in Maine vacation suggestions. And who knows, if they like it that much, let’s look over the vacation property listings and buy our own.
Who would you use for that search, comparison shopping to purchase a Maine real estate vacation property to enjoy and maybe rent out carefully?
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Hope these blog tips on short term casual vacation rentals in Maine provided something you can use.
You probably have booked, stayed and enjoyed a few AirBnB or Vrbo rental properties to write down the list.
What did you like that your lodging guest would too? Questions? Thinking of investing in a vacation property in Maine of your own? To use a little until you retire but enjoy rental income to pay it off? Hardworking Maine real estate vacation properties from simple cabins to way way more plus everything in between.
Reach out, here to help find vacation rentals in Maine to lease out or even buy!
In rural Maine, it’s go easy on the host. Everyone brings a covered dish that is known community wide as their piece de resistance that gets rave reviews. Look at that long row of covered dish surprises at a potluck supper in Maine. It’s never take you chances or settle for “potluck”. No no, only the finest from each chef, cook, household prepared with love from the many Maine kitchens.
Early Maine Farm Life At The Homestead, Surrounded With All The Land. Pot Luck Suppers At The Church Or Grange Hall.
At Maine potluck suppers, it’s remarkable how the selection of items is perfectly balanced too.
Not three bake bean pots and no potato salads. From past experiences and because everyone has a signature dish to create and bring, everything rounds out on it’s own. Plus you have several dining variations on a theme. More than one of everything for a true home made hot and ready buffet.
Grange Hall pot luck covered dish suppers also required your BYO silverware and plates.
When done, slide them all in a bag. Return them to your home to wash and put back in the drawer and up in the kitchen cupboard. Nothing lost and way way less wear and tear on the pot luck supper host.
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The potluck covered dish come and get it delivered to the venue carried in with pot holders and oven mitts.
Zipped into insulated warmers. Maybe tucked away in a picnic basket. These pot luck suppers not a once a year tradition but held on a regular routine. It’s social too, more than another just meal to brain storm create and put together all by your lonesome.
It is a lot of work to host a party at your home in Maine. House cleaning, grocery shopping, decorating. The tidy up and set the stage, tear down the extra tables and folding chairs is a lot of work.
Maine. Small Word, Big Place, Lots Of Unspoiled Space. Folks Are Neighborly, Friendly, Socialize. Community Pot Luck Suppers Happen Around Small Town Rural Maine .
Attending a potluck supper, toting a covered dish with serving utensils is one efficient buffet variety meal to enjoy.
The lots of people who come together at the pot luck supper makes the meal memorable. Not just a table for two tucked away in the corner of your favorite restaurant haunt experience.
Some cooks excel at pastries, breads, your pasta salad, their artichoke dips. Others are grillers, their skill set is for casseroles, soups and chowder. Crock pot jack pot slowly simmered and ready to serve at the community meal. Who brought the smoked salmon or toasted crab cakes or brook trout?
Small Towns, Food Vendors Working Community Events. MMmmmm Good. Sometimes The Dining Is Pot Luck Covered Dish Home Made!
Maine garden home grown farm to table platters of vegetables, fresh fruit with a floral center piece completes the menu.
Dig in but leave room for the buffet array of desserts of all kinds. Carefully created by many that migrate one by one, two by two and more to land in a small Maine community or family pot luck supper location.
Add a couple local Maine musicians for background music and the setting is complete.
Tap Your Toe, Sing Along. Music Made Locally And Live Is Huge In Maine Communities. Some Potluck Suppers Offer Live Local Background Music.
The lack of shelling out a hundred dollars or more to settle up the bill only improves the take away taste from the potluck supper, covered dish experience. Maine is 450 small town communities and villages, plantations and only a handful of cities.
Small towns in Maine are masters at simple living, keep it friendly and neighborly. “Excuse me, can you pass the sweet potato casserole? Did you make it Marge?”
If you are moving, relocating to Maine, get ready for an invite for the potluck supper in Maine. The more the merrier.
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Would you be ready for a potluck supper where everyone totes a hot or cold covered dish to your home in Maine?
All take a turn and today, many might say no way. Not at my house.
I’ll contribute something good to eat homemade or store bought and gladly ring you up at your place. Just not mine. My house is a wreck, has been for quite sometime really.
Maybe a potluck supper, opening up your place to take a turn would be just the fire lit under you to make it ship shape. Clean as a whistle and the housework done for the week or spring cleaning now complete. The potluck supper can be a holiday tradition with decorations to make it festive.
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Growing up, my Mom from a family of 11 living on a Northern Maine farm who stayed close for life.
Each Sunday noon after church, each family member took a turn. This week Uncle Frank and Aunt Charlotte hosted the event at their Benn Hill in Hodgdon farm location. Or opened up their Nickerson Lake summer camp for the family meal time tradition. Kids splashing, boats plying by and the folks inside waving. Outdoor fire pits at night for the talks after the potluck covered dish supper time meal. Like group therapy!
The cousins socialize just like the parents.
Every Sunday it was a different family venue and we all stayed in touch growing up in a small Maine town. Each and every one of us in the family got to know each other better. In part due to the pot luck supper covered dish tradition and the variety of food it offered us.
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The ease and simplicity of the bring your own plate, cup, silverware and covered dish contribution.
Not a small group, but the best way to handle a large one. So one cook is not overwhelmed with the meal time task.
Public or private, the take away is the same. Too much home cooked food. Lots of people grouping together for a family event meal or a public fund raising supper. We did not go to a restaurant to open up the menu and dine with a few people.
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You opened up the Grange hall and arranged the tables and chairs.
Turned the heat up a little higher in the winter. Or opened up the place in early morning to bring in the cooler air. For lower temperatures that noon or by supper time when we used fans, took a dip in a Maine lake to cool off. Not just cranked up the AC when the weather was hot in our cars, office, homes.
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Maybe too many cooks in their own familiar kitchens creating what’s for dinner or supper is a good thing.
When they wrap the dish in a towel or slide it in an insulated cozy. Bring it hot out of the oven wearing mitts or chilled to perfection right out of the refrigerator. To beeline to the pot luck supper. Families in Maine had the standing invitation. This week’s pot luck supper is at this Aunt and Uncle’s home. Next week, we trek to Aunt June and Uncle Cecil’s camp or home depending on the season.
Bigger homes, larger families, more people living nearby in small Maine towns.
The pot luck or potluck suppers help families stay in touch. To not just break the bread and dine together. But to exchange what’s new in each and every family members life and to help each other share joys, endure setbacks. You don’t feel alone living in a friendly, neighborly tight knit Maine small town.
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These covered dish meals were like group therapy sessions in some ways.
They avoided isolation and created regular contact with family members and anyone else invited to come along. Card tables set up, crock pots plugged, lots of potato, pasta, green, three bean salads.
Coleslaw, fresh from the garden platters, relishes, dips. Home made rolls and breads. Casseroles, trays of finger food. Samplings of small portions to fit on your plate. Better double up that plate if it’s paper to carry the load. Too much good food. Way way too much variety makes it like holiday dining. Large, 2nd and 3rd size helpings expected from the local cooks who “super size” everything.
Do you eat too much at a covered dish, potluck supper?
It’s tempting, hard not to over indulge. Those paper plates are pretty flimsy when overloaded like a Maine trucker’s trailer load of Aroostook County potatoes. Who brought the home made lemonade or iced tea? Is that gluten free? You eat plenty and can say because you don’t want the cook to think it was not the best you ever had. Often it is and you hunt down that same meal selection for the potluck supper because you are addicted to their style of cooking.
Save room for the hand churned ice cream.
I think it’s grape nut and chocolate for choices. To ride high a top that warm, hot out of the oven slices of blueberry, raspberry, strawberry rhubarb pie. Is that cheesecake? Gotta get her recipe and print it out to share on the Maine cooking blog I follow.
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Oh look, are those date crumble squares? Home made pumpkin, chocolate chip cookies, whoopie pies.
Picnics along the road traveling. Had to before the Interstate and those canopied table rest stops to munch on a chicken salad sandwich. Maybe grill a hot dog, burger, some chicken.Marsh mellows on top of the sweet potatoes. More of a Christmas dish but might as well let me try a small scoop.
Jello with carrots suspended inside. Lemon squares. Everyone contributed to the potluck supper. 2nds? Heck 3rds. It’s all cook and makes the covered dish cook smile ear to ear.
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The pot luck or potluck covered dish tradition applied to weddings, funerals, graduation, reunion, anniversary event too in a small Maine town.
Or maybe to celebrate one of the four seasons, a successful harvest or holiday as a community. When is the last time you brought something home cooked to a potluck supper, covered dish event?
Flowers On Maine Farms. Some Tended, Many Come Up On Their Own.
I grew up on a Maine farm and the flowers around the 7 buildings pop up like clockwork.
My Dad orchestrated the field planting. My Mom wrangled the flower beds around the farmstead.
Years ago, bought the same family farm in Maine from my three older brothers. The rich fertile Maine farm dirt getss tilled, planted and cultivated tended with crops of organic produce of all kinds. There are sheep in the fenced pasture behind the second storage barn on the Maine farm. The chicken house had egg laying operations producing way way more than any family could possible consume.
You have to protect the chickens and ducks from predators like a fox. The fox has a family that likes chicken or duck dinners.
Mom and Dad are gone and relieved from the Maine family farm chores.
The farm field fields need yearly managing by others but Mom’s flower beds pop up right on schedule each year. While mowing the large farm lawns one early evening this past week, I noticed Mom’s and Mother Nature’s tag team handiwork.
This is pair of images of one flower bed closer to the road at the set of farm buildings that are set back off US RT 2, Houlton Maine.
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The simple, fragile beauty of flowers hit me as I carefully mowed around the many Maine farm beds.
Mom had many and enjoyed the beauty the Maine farm flower beds produced. I miss and appreciate my Mom in many ways but realize the flowers returning year after year is a comfort reminder of her handiwork. I can see her being industrious and on her needs planting, weeding, tending the farm flower beds. Looking back, knowing the hectic schedule of farming in Maine year round, I wonder how she made time for her flower beds.
On her knees, digging and transplanting in the Maine farm dirt.
That is one recurring strong memory of many about my hardworking and loving Mom. Both Mom and Dad grew up on Maine farms and instilled in all four boys the love and beauty of the soil’s bounty.
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Do you have a garden?
How green is your thumb? Would you like to own a Maine farm? A small scale truck garden with a roadside stand to peddle the produce is a wonderful thing. Locally sourced, farm to table home grown produce and a relationship with your local grower is key to good health. Yours and everyone in the community that trades with you.
At the local Maine farmer’s market, lots of your “sales” are bartering this for that with other local community agriculture vendors.
Where your food came from, what it was not sprayed with this growing seasons.
How the local Maine foodstuffs were raised from seed to final harvest to served up on your family meal time table.
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When you reduce it all down, what you eat and in what quantities matters most to your health right?
How your food is prepared. It all determines your focus on you and your family’s personal health. Too much salt, sugar, fat. Not good. Easy does it. I am glad I was raised on a family farm in Maine and my four children learned valuable lessons from the raised around the career / lifestyle choice.
Watch another farmer’s market in Maine video for inspiration.
Please support local Maine agriculture.
Consider scratching, tilling, planting, tending, fertilizing, watering and harvesting local produce on a Maine farm. Even wild flowers like lupine grace the Earth on the Maine landscape.
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Watch a video of a small Maine farm for sale in Aroostook County.
Off to bush hog the farm pasture sections around the crop fields and along the roadways that define the boundaries.
The practice around the 4th of July is something my Dad would appreciate me doing to carry on the tradition. Keeping the Maine farm ship shape and presentable. Pride in your farm fields, keeping buildings in top repair. But also fragile, fragrant flowers on the Maine farm. It’s all part of the managing a farm property in Maine.
