Category: Maine Small Towns

Small Town Living In Maine

Small town living in Maine.

Living In Small Time Maine. Volunteering Is Big. Crime, Traffic Is Not.

The attraction of Maine small town living is stronger than ever. The longing for space, a sense of connection and being needed is part of it.

The joy of volunteering and helping others is a way of life in Maine small town living too.

Volunteering is a way of life in small town living in Maine.

All ages involved from youngsters helping little ones. Older active seniors training those middle age workers. The volunteers of all ages are the community fuel. Baking for fund raisers, coaching a youth sports team, working on a community event you’ve been a part of for years.

Small town living in Maine is not boring, never dull because you are invested.

The feeling of being needed and relying on the talents and consideration of others is security, contentment. You can feel you make a difference in small town living in Maine.

You are needed.

Folks count and rely on each other for the greater good of the area.

In small Maine town, you can make a difference.

Serving on local community boards and shaping policy. Combining personal talents and collectively guiding the community is its own personal reward. If you don’t do it, who will?

Each season living in a small Maine town there is plenty to work on that improves the quality of life.

Floats to decorate and put in parades, practicing for an upcoming community band concert, playing a role in a community play.

Small Town Community Plays In Maine. One More Way To Volunteer.

The folks who choose to live in a small Maine town step up and contribute their time, money and ambition.

Not once in awhile but all the time due to deep pride for their community’s small town living in Maine lifestyle way of life.

Volunteering at the local Salvation Army thrift store, ringing kettle bells, distributing local food to families who need it most.

Maine, Vacationland Means Lots More To Do For Fun And Recreation. Small Towns Are Friendlier. Volunteering To Help Out Happens In Local Small Towns.

That’s part of living in a small Maine town. Our local Rotary club sponsors a literacy volunteer program.

Taking turns, the club members visit local Maine area elementary schools to share the joy of reading. To cause a spark to get new readers in the habit of reaching for a book.

Who says young children today don’t have the attention span to read a book? Literacy volunteers give away so so many books through the year.

Our local small town library in Maine has a summer reading program.

And a children’s section of the library to foster reading for its many lifelong benefits. Christmas stories around the holidays are part of the library festivities. When someone dies, money is channeled to the library to purchase books in memory of that individual. The sticker label in front of what is bought helps you get a sense of what this person loved and enjoyed.

Local businesses contribute funds to put on free weekend movies too.

For families to enjoy a free Christmas theme movie. For kids to munch on popcorn and watch the flick on the silver screen while Mom and Dad can Christmas shop locally in privacy.

Businesses Donating To Local Maine Small Town Movie Theatres To Create Free Holiday Matinees.

Small town living in Maine.

You have a deeper awareness of more than the open space, the clean air, fresh water and wildlife. Exploring the recreational trails and being close to nature is what Maine is all about but who needs help. Those in your small Maine town that are struggling with an illness, loss of a family member or spouse. That’s where folks get together to make sure the person or family suffering is getting the help and support they deserve.

Maine Is Outdoors, Nature. Small Town Living In Maine Is 4 Seasons Outdoor Recreation.

I think you have greater obligations choosing to live in a small Maine town. There is a sense of duty and like I said before in this Maine blog post. Volunteering is a way of life. As you step up, as those around you pitch in, everyone looks for ways to help. You feel the personal responsibility to make a difference if you are able.

Asking if you can give a neighbor a ride to medical treatments down country.

Or to feed their cat, keep the driveway cleared or the grass mowed. While another neighbor offers to shoulder some other burden chore to free up a community member.

Lots more local communication happens in small Maine town living.

Try to pop into the hardware store, dash into the local Walmart or a grocery store for what should be a quick easy task. Chances are, you will bump into lots of people you know and the next things that happens is a conversation. Often about something only those living in the small Maine town would care about or know the individual or event being discussed.

The upcoming big high school sports game, the local weather. How’s your garden growing or your recovery from surgery going? Knowing the names of all your kids and asking about where they are? How everyone is doing keeps the small local town population current in their local community conversations.

Where is there a job for kids to make some spending money? All kinds of those opportunities in small Maine towns.

Money From Working For Area Farmers. Picking Potatoes In Maine. How To Make Your Own Money, Not Spend Mom And Dad’s Important Skill.

Front porches in Maine small towns get used for local new updates.

Folks out for a walk stop by and chat. Same thing happens in small Maine down towns. On sidewalks, or rolling down the vehicle window to talk about small Maine town events and the people living in it. It’s not nosy (usually) and it’s caring and sharing for the most part.

Getting Fresh Air, Spending The Day Outdoors In Maine. Kids Do That.

Living in a small Maine town means more covered dishes and public suppers.

Less trendy chic dining at a slew of local eateries. You need a bigger population to support the greater choice of places to pay to dine. But the local eateries we do have in small Maine towns are well supported and you know or perhaps are even related to the folks you see eating or that put on the apron to work there.

Public Suppers At The Local Farmers Museum. Volunteer To Work Them, To Dine There To Raise Money.

I think there is a greater appreciation for the small things living day to day in a small Maine town. Because you are more involved, there is more sweat, love and tears poured into the local community.

Each of us knows the quality of life living in a small Maine town depends on the individuals.

Home grown not store bought. That describes living in a small Maine town. Fueled on volunteers stepping up and pitching in to create the sense of community.

Window Shopping, Tooling Around A Small Maine Town At Night. Mom & Pop Operations, Not So Many Franchise Set Ups.

Living in a small Maine town means Saturday you help gather folks to get behind a bottle drive.

Or a spring clean up or attending an important meeting. Working or attending on a snowmobile or fish and game breakfast, a farmer’s museum fall harvest supper. Buying a magazine subscription from a youngster who knocks on your door from down the street.

Fitting in when from away in a small Maine town.

If you had problems where you live out of state now fitting in, often the reasons you left follow you to a small Maine town.

The Small Town Maine Local Events. Like Dance Recitals. Everyone Goes. Or Is Working It Behind The Scenes.

Small Maine towns are protective and highly invested in their communities.

Make an effort to get involved and with a positive helpful attitude, you can blend in wherever you live right? That’s pretty universal and along the lines of if you want friends, be one.

If you are highly critical, pretty much self centered and like to whine or dominate a conversation where everything has to be done your way or it’s hit the highway.

Well, there may be a real estate for sale sign planted shortly after your initial move to small town Maine. If you think folks were not friendly, you have to make an effort to get involved. Pace yourself because there are so many avenues of service to consider.

Small Maine Towns, Food Vendors Working Community Events. MMmmmm Good.

Many people start small.

Investing in a simple vacation property to try out small town Maine on a part time basis to see how they like it, how the simpler lifestyle fits for maybe longer periods.

Expectations, what caused your desire to move to Maine and leaving where you used to live before?

Maybe you were raised in a small Maine town but left for college or job advancement and poof. Next thing you know, four or five decades whirl by before the return to your small Maine town roots.

Tap Your Toe, Sing Along. Music Made Locally And Live Is Huge In Maine Small Town Communities.

The older we get the more change is resisted and maybe the small Maine town experience is not going to be exactly as you remembered it years before you left.

Interstates and Internet have impacted small town life in Maine in good and not so healthy ways.

In life, there is a constant stream of trade offs and where you would enjoy living most is a highly personal decision that only you can make.

Attending Local Sporting Events, Alumni Games Are Popular. For Fans Of All Ages.

So what to plan for as you bite the bullet and make the leap into living in a small Maine town?

If you used to let your fingers do the walking through the yellow pages looking for a long tall list of contractors. Well, welcome to small town Maine where anyone good is busy and worth the wait. All about timing. You need to be the first guy or gal out of the gate in the spring for home building.

Keep Your Eye On The Black Circle. Dangling It Skating Down A Maine Ice Arena Contest.

Or hit it right just before winter getting the groundwork down to construction a house that is weather tight from the elements. And you slowly finish it off as local tradesmen become available. Not into the slow cooked, think it out, easy does it approach to building or house repairs? What the delay causes is folks to develop and sharpen their own skill set.

Tired of waiting? Let’s attend another session of YouTube University to DIY as much as we can ourselves.

If you are used to hiring everything done and highly skilled in one discipline and pretty much helpless in all the rest, it may be like the old TV slow “Green Acres”.

Traveling Instate Maine To Enjoy Mini Vacations. Easy When You Already Live In State Maine.

Heart ache and frustration and longing for where you used to live that offered different taken for granted luxuries.

In Maine, independence to control your destiny and not be so tied to others to help and serve.

It is a strong deep running trait of folks in small town rural Maine. Used for more than survival but for the joy in making more of your own decisions. That’s satisfying and custom made to what you want your life to look like and not so helpless just bumping along seemingly out of control.

Out For A Walk, Gradual Climb Up A Waiting Maine Ski Area.

Lack of traffic because you live in a small town in Maine with only one or two traffic lights.

Because that’s all you need to direct the flow of traffic that is slower moving and more considerate.

Lower cost of everything because money is tighter and not spent so freely in small Maine town circles. That’s part of what you get in the Cracker Jack box of living in a small Maine town. Let’s face it, the way of life in small town versus large city is very different. It depends on where you are in your life cycle of what works best and weighing the pros and cons.

Gathering, Squeezing Local Apples To Make All Nature Cider. Do That For Fun Where You Live Now?

Community owned and not privatized for profit.

Where I live in Maine, you see a lot more of that. Our local electric utility is a co-op and not for profit. If the local electron power juice provider makes money, there is a utility price reduction. Less exploitation and more for the greater good.

Small Town Living In Maine, What’s Like? Home Made, Local Talent, Volunteers Pitching In.

Maine Is Farms, Lots Of Land, Less Population, More Wildlife.

Money is not the end all but managing it is in living in a small Maine town.

Jobs in small towns in Maine can be less varied but the need to make lots of money from a highly specialize vocation is not so important. Housing prices, no cost for parking, less concern about personal safety, low crime all have their own reward in small town living in Maine. Barters, no money exchanged is huge. Some folks are hard to pay back too and very generous. Which is contagious.

Telecommute to work remotely online from Maine to anywhere.

My small Maine town has it’s own broadband Internet provider too. Wired wall to wall and beyond with speed of thought connectivity is a beautiful thing. High speed Internet connects rural Maine to the rest of the blue and green revolving marble quite nicely.

Mt K, Maine’s Highest Peak! Fun To Climb, Memorable Climbs Up And Down Growing Up In Small Maine Towns.

The audience does not know I am blogging this early morning post from a wireless laptop pausing to peer out over the misty, magical Maine lake today.

Unless I tell them. Or show them to let the cat out of the bag.

Peaceful, Quiet, Magical Mist Enjoying Fresh Coffee Early Morning On A Maine Lake. Priceless.

The move to small town living in Maine often is due to where is the best place to raise a family. We don’t worry about the white van sliding open the big side door and snacking our kids in the 4th lowest crime state in the nation.

Walk to school, ride your bike to the movies, library or little league practice.

Would your kids be able to have that kind of independence? Get that kind of exercise outside the house and off the eerie blue glowing screen living in a big city setting?

Crisp Clean Air, Pond Hockey Or Cross Country Skiing, Snow Shoes Strapped On For Exercise. Small Town Maine Populations Don’t Hibernate.

Healthier, not just your kids but everyone gets out to enjoy the four seasons of living in a small town in Maine.

Instead of climbing on the commuter train and all the time stuck in traffic to get to any destination, walk. When your small town home location is a block from the corner store or a place to eat a meal, hoof it.

Your backyard in a small town in Maine lifestyle is not a few feet with a tall fence to define it.

There is no need for a fence. You are not in a 300 lot subdivision with snarky HOA bylaws living in a small town in Maine.

Small Town Living In Maine. Means Trail Rides With Your Family And Friends.

Most of the neighbors you can’t see spaced well down the country road live in homes not weighed down with a mortgage. Their cars and pickups, SUVS have many miles on them but are owned outright.

Spending money with impulse control is taught early on with kids earning their green bills wearing the dead Presidents.

Money not doled, handed out like candy by parents to meet their kid’s every needs.

Voting in a small Maine town is taken seriously. Being in line to cast your ballot and knowing by name the folks in front and behind you. To be in a large polling place and not know a soul living in a large urban area would not be the same experience.

Artistry Thanks To Mother Nature. What You See On A Walk In Maine.

In a small town in Maine there is pride and also concern on problems we need to tackle together.

There is not a feeling of hopelessness or of what good would only one person be in the outcome. No matter how small the group, band together and make the situation better than it was in whatever way you can.

You don’t just blend in with the landscape or step back to avoid responsibility in small Maine town living. Not everyone gets along peachy keen all the time and like families, there are squabbles and division. But there is a shared love of the small town way of life in Maine communities.

Spring Means High Fast Water, Canoe Races.

The parents in small town living in Maine don’t fear their kids.

There is mutual respect mixed with love going both ways in the family connection. It is true the village really collectively raises the child in a small Maine town. Small towns in Maine are really like one large family.

The stigma of living in a small town anywhere comes from feeling trapped.

FOMO, fear of missing out. Or due to early on being told by family and teachers that you have to leave after high school. See what’s out there, travel, relocate for perspective. But never let anyone make you feel somehow you are local townie loser for choosing to put your heart and soul into living in a small town in Maine.

Small towns are walkable and safe.

Maine Looks Different Captured From The Air, Using Real Estate Drones.

People wave, smile, stop in traffic to let you cross streets in small Maine towns.

Holding doors open, striking up a conversation. Friendly happens in small town Maine town living. Less fears, more comfortable and no one ignores others. Social happens in small Maine towns. Lower population means closer to all the special places folks flock to Maine to tap into on vacation.

No crowds at a lake boat launch or need to reach for your wallet.

Parking in a small Maine downtown is free and plentiful.

Everyone Outdoors Meeting, Greeting, Attending Local Small Maine Town Events. Click For Farmer’s Market Video.

Restaurants, stores are mom and pop unique not always franchise branded in small Maine town.

The economics of small Maine towns are not rich and flashy. More simple down to Earth practical. Using common sense for survival and Maine humor applied in large doses. Locals are fierce about supporting their friends and neighbor’s business establishments. Every dollar spent locally turns over six to seven times.

Trading with each other in a small Maine town feels good inside.

Like being current on property taxes, casting a local ballot, supporting the many fund raisers around you. There is a shift in more and more working remotely and an exodus from expensive, impersonal city living underway.

Walks, Talks, Everyone Brings A Covered Dish To Enjoy After The Outdoor Exercise. That’s Small Town Living In Maine.

Have you thought of where to move and Maine comes up in conversations or in the thought process?

Glad to share what we know as a life long native of small town Maine! Here to help answer questions about what small town living in Maine is like as a local insider.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

November 9, 2022
St Andrews By The Sea, New Brunswick Canada

St Andrews By The Sea, New Brunswick Canada.

When you live in Maine, quick frequent trips into Canada happen. Why do Mainers cross the border into Canada? Lots of reasons. The dollar is worth more than the loonie. The Canadian provinces are beautiful and people who populate them friendly, warm, genuine.

Lots Of Shops, Not Franchise Set Ups. One Of A Kind Old Originals.

And if you check your family lineage, I bet you will find a DNA connection. My Dad’s mom for instance was 100% Canadian. That means your Me In Maine blog post writer has Canadian blood in the hemoglobin mixture of the red stuff.

This blog post is about a quick but fun trip to St Andrews By The Sea, New Brunswick Canada.

Honeybeans One Neat Breakfast Stop While Vacationing In St Andrews By The Sea. Maine Border Towns Can Mini Vacation Easily Due To Their Unique Time Saving Locations.

Being close to the Canadian border living in on the International boundary line is a real perk.

Houlton ME is a border town with the province of New Brunswick Canada. Just like if you live up in the St John River Valley in the “Crown of Maine”, frequent trips from both sides of the border in Maine and Quebec occur.

I tell people new to the area that living in a Maine border town is like a two nation vacation.

They Did Not Make Ford Edsels Very Long. Don’t See Many Station Wagons.

COVID did put a slight damper on the trotting back and forth border crossings trips between Maine and our Canadian cousins.

Had two boys that chased the black circle, played hockey with half their games over on a solid polished sheet of Canadian ice. It was not uncommon for four times a week or more to be crossing over from Maine into Canada with a Jeep full of young hockey players. But this past weekend’s mini vacation from Houlton ME to St Andrews By The Sea was an old travel habit resumed.

Like before COVID and from back in the hockey game at a different Canadian hockey arena days, it was a nice return.

Where parents have as much fun as the skaters. My two boys played winter hockey tournaments in St Andrews and it looked different with less businesses open and some white stuff on the ground.

Two Scoops Of Bounty Please. Unique Flavors, Tasty Ice Cream At St Andrews By The Sea.

The border crossing was a super pleasant experience.

The ArriveCAN app to make your appointment to cross the Canadian border syncs up quick and easy with your shot records and passport. If you’ve had your COVID shots, the crossing a border between Canada and Maine is nothing to fear or avoid. Red maple leaf rover, red maple leaf rover, come on over.

The Way To Ministers Island. Just Follow The Tide Charts And Ocean Floor Roadway. Looks Like A Jeep Commercial Doesn’t It?

And both sides of the border are all for the commerce benefits the crossings provide consumers eh?

So leaving Houlton ME, sliding into the port of entry lane entering New Brunswick Canada on our way to St Andrews.

Leaving Houlton ME, Entering Canada Where I-95 Connects To The Trans Canada Highway. This Is The Scene Leaving The States, The USA.

When leaving Maine, you pass right by the Houlton or whatever border town port of entry.

They will be seeing you on the return back into the states for the questions. The “where have you been, anything for firearms, alcohol, plants? Bringing anything back to declare or picked up on your trip over into Canada?”

Just like TSA, don’t be a comedian, easy on the irritation tone from lack sleep or over spending on your vacation.

For national security, the border crossing customs and immigration people are just going their job. Help them do their routine and everyone behind you can be on their return from Canada way with a little empathy!

When you get on the Trans Canada, switch your cell phone to airplay mode to avoid Canadian cell phone tower roaming charges. Learned that one on ski trips to Crabbe Mountain in Canada. There is lots of commerce happening back and forth across our common Maine Canadian border.

Entry To Canada After Leaving The Houlton ME Port Of Entry Border Crossing.

Two hours, sixteen minutes or 113.8 miles heading from Houlton ME to St Andrews By The Sea, New Brunswick Canada.

Easy trip with lots of scenery and everything on road signs in metric numbers and not forgetting those speaking French as a major language. You have left Maine and suddenly everything changes a tad in a good way. So so lucky to live this close to Canada and hope folks on the other side of the border feel the same way about Maine in the International connection.

This last minute dash into Canada on a Labor Day week found the Algonquin Hotel was booked solid at St Andrews By The Sea.

Algonquin Hotel In St Andrews. Rich History As A Passenger Train Destination Like The Hotel Frontenac In Quebec City.

This blog post about another grand yesteryear hotel that my family made trips to during Winter Carnival. We stayed at the Hotel Frontenac in Quebec City Canada.

But back to the St Andrews and making this more of a photo blog post so you can sample the eye candy and flavor of this quaint seacoast harbor town.

Harbor Scene Of St Andrews By The Sea In The Maritimes Of New Brunswick Canada.

In For The Night, St Andrews As Dusk Arrives In A New Brunswick Harbor Town.

The salt air, change of scenery, meeting new people doing the same getaway before school goes back in. The change from summer tourist season waiting for leaf peekers looking for the red and other changing color maple leave of early fall.

Each trip into Canada or Maine is a different experience depending on your season and whatever is happening in your life at the time.

Every been to Canada on a vacation and aren’t you long overdue for a Maine getaway to unplug and recharge?

Ever Had Dulse? Big Treat In Canada.

My Godfather Ralph Black was from Canada and became an American citizen and move to the states. Ralph, a World War 1 veteran who wore a few pieces of shrapnel in his lungs and knew first hand what mustard gas was in the trenches. He loved dulse. Dulse are a different kind of seaweed. Meg and i opted for the seafood. Had a bucket of mussels and then moved on to one of the best seafood chowders I have ever tasted.

Neat Little Apartment Like Cabin Units At The Seaside Beach Resort, St Andrews, Canada.

We stayed at the Seaside Beach Resort and loved the lodging set up, the ease to walk the street to our meal venue. Neat location and no car to drive again once you arrive. Or well, until we decided to head over to Ministers Island the next day before returning to Houlton Maine.

One Highly Recommended Place To Stay In St Andrews… Seaside Beach Resort.

St Andrews New Brunswick Canada. Fun Mini Vacation Destination.

Ministers Island, doesn’t that sound like a place for clergy to be? Part of this 500 acre island was once owned by an Anglican minister but bought by an American hired to build a new section of Canadian railroad. This railroad executive got the job done before the deadline and under budget. Read more about Sir William Van Horne, a big cog in the Canadian Pacific Railroad.

Bald Eagle Trolling For A Fish Dinner In St Andrews By The Sea. Photo Capture On Way To Ministers Island, St Andrews Cross Ocean Floor Roadway.

You have to watch the tides to visit Ministers Island.

Ministers Island St Andrews. 500 Acres Farm Estate With Impressive Buildings.

Traveling by foot, car, bike, you can cross the ocean floor that when the tide is out, you don’t have the 14 feet of seawater to contend with overhead. You will see one massive barn and a 17 bedroom mansion with 42′ x 30 formal dining room for all the guests.

Ministers Island, Summer Estate Of Sir William Van Horne, St Andrews Canada.

Meg and I loved touring the big yesteryear smasher sized home with all the furnishings of period.

Bought With The Million Dollar Bonus Given To Van Horne For Early Railroad Completion Under Budget.

The Wood Cook Stove On Ministers island Summer Estate. No Glass Top Easy To Clean Surface Here.

Many Course Meals Served Up In The 42’x30′ Formal Dining Room At The Van Horne Summer Estate.

8 Ball Corner Pocket. No Netflix, HBO. More Game Playing Inside And Out.

Rack ‘Em Up And Sink ‘Em One By One. Crochet, Billiards, Ping Pond, Making Puzzle Time. No Devices. Communication By Post, Telegram Not Text.

Be sure to tour the barns, stables and farm outbuildings at Ministers Island.

Not Your Average Farm Barn. And Carefully Preserved At Ministers Island.

Very impressive and well kept, over designed and not your average farm operation barns or accessory buildings at the Van Horne, Ministers Island summer estate.

Van Horne Estate’s Barn Stable Creamery Buildings. Like No Other.

I own and cherish a Maine farm barn and buildings, land around it but nothing on the scale of this St Andrews estate’s set up style and size.

Masonry, Rock, Beams, Posts And Iron. The Barns, Stables On Ministers Island.

Inside The Van Horne Summer Estate Farm Barn And Stables. Lots To See And Transport Back To The Early 1900’s Way Of Living.

Grain Silos, Farm Barn At Van Horne Ministers Island Vacation Summer Estate.

Warm Up In Late Spring, Early Fall. This Estate Only Used Summers. Not The Dutch Ancestry Motive Of The Fireplace Tiles?

Hope this little travelogue to St Andrews By The Sea gives you inspiration to tour Minister Island, the seacoast harbor surroundings.

Water, whether in Maine, Canada, everywhere fixes everything right? See you next installment of the Me In Maine blog!

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com | MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

September 8, 2022
High School Class Reunions In Maine | How To Make Attendance Higher

High school class reunions in Maine.

How to make attendance higher at Maine high school reunions? This blog post about a recent high school reunion in Maine I attended and reasons why or why not classmates attend one.

For starters, COVID messed up the in person Maine high school class reunions for a few years.

High School Reunions In Maine, How To Make Attendance Increase?

Or you could argue more people could attend a cyber class reunion using ZOOM technology. But we all know online meet ups are just not the same. How do you mingle and move around the room in a ZOOM meeting?

You don’t get to make the rounds to personally see and talk with your high school class group sitting up straight peering into a video camera.

So high school class reunions in Maine. Here are tips to make the attendance the best it can be. What to do and what to avoid to cause great participation at a Maine class reunion.

First, in small Maine towns, lots of the high school classmates still live local for the reunion.

Some of them moved away, climbed up the ladder, joined the service or left for many reasons. Some away classmates relocated and then later in life returned to their small town Maine roots for a simpler lifestyle.

High School Class Reunions In Maine, How To Improve Attendance Numbers?

Cheaper Maine real estate and cashing in the chips with high priced urban properties.

Trading it all in for no crime, no traffic the push to return back to small Maine town living.

If you already live local and are in the biggest group, a high school class reunion should be a piece of cake to gain large attendance.

This is the biggest group yet often the hardest to get to attend your class reunion. Why?

Fear of I am not quite successful enough to attend my high school class reunion.

Not wanting to be judged or comfortable with your answers to “what have you been up to since we graduated from a Maine high school?”. Some classmates attended their fifth or tenth class reunion and got a dose of “why did you stay in your home town” questioning. I thought you were smarter than that is the inference from anyone in your class out to impress you with their Worldly success.

High School Class Reunion, Where To Have It In Maine?

Made to feel like a “loser local” or hearing continuously about me me my success in life by just a few not so warm and fuzzy classmates can be disastrous.

For some wanting to see old high school classmates but secretly hoping a few just don’t make it home to attend they view toxic.

Some argue the high school class reunions are not so needed due to social media keeping everyone up to date. Heck, you even get notifications when it is someone’s birthday. People already feel connected and can catch up or get updated online on a regular basis.

Were you active in your high school class or moved away before graduation?

Were there several clicks in your high school or one big happy family with lots of spirit? Let’s face it, some high school classes just were tighter knit and the chemistry more connected.

High School Reunions, What To Serve Up For Hungry Classmates?

Small high school class size in Maine towns has something to do with it too. When your graduating class was in the teens or under one hundred, you were closer. No one forgotten or lost in the shuffle. And smaller class size Maine high school graduates I think make a bigger effort to attend.

It is harder to miss who did not come in a small high school class then one from Maine’s handful of city larger class size reunions.

High school class reunions in Maine, it’s a lot like a family reunion too.

The bigger the family, the more like a reunion it feels when more make the effort to show up on the magic day. With all the generations in the family bringing their covered dish or whatever contribution to the family party celebration.

What To Serve up To Eat During The High School Meet And Greet?

Some families are closer than others just like Maine high school classes. With families, who married into it can be a blessing or cause division. At a class reunion, who they married does not impact the attendance as much. Unless at the last reunion someone drank too much or flirted or just did not like all the old high school information shared with their new spouse.

So, was the high school reunion experience a good one for the classmate?

If yes, why wouldn’t they want to attend each and every reunion? Unless sickness, distance away or timing was an obstacle, some classmates from far away always make the most effort to attend the reunion.

The high school classmates handy to the reunion who do not attend.

Have they forgotten the ones from out of state and feel they get to see everyone local already? Unless you pick up an old high school year book and thumb through the images once in a while, it is easy to lose touch. Until you see or hear about a classmate’s death, and feel we need to have a high school reunion. It’s later than you think and none of us is getting any younger by the day right?

High School Reunion On Drews Lake In New Limerick ME!

So more tips to improve attendance of your Maine high school class reunion.

Pick a good easy to access high school reunion venue, like Tall Timber Lodge in New Limerick on Drews Lake. There is a cost for the out of town or state classmate to attend. But regardless if local or not, a personal contact by email, snail mail, social media postings have to happen. Watch a video on Drews Lake island property sold a while back but that gives you a feeling of what the Northern Maine waterfront location is like.

If you want to improve attendance, effort to show each and every classmate no one is left behind has to be obvious. The classmates that were in the flock until eighth grade or moved away should be invited to the reunion too. Those that were in one high school but finished the education in another. It can be like a ball player traded mid season and like a man or woman without a country in not feeling like you belong. The class reunion attendance improving approach has to always be “not member left behind”.

Who’s Changed The Least, Most? Who Traveled The Most Miles To Get To The Class Reunion?

“Also, no one let me know until the last minute. “

That’s a huge excuse for why some classmates missed the Maine class reunion. But is it the truth? When high school reunion notices were mailed, emailed, with follow up texts and personal calls. Even getting your family to sound the bugle charge to retreat, return to your class reunion.

Or what if the high school experience was not so much fun or you were not so social, not a scholar or an athlete? For some they ran away from their home town high school or parents relocated, divorced and severed the connection.

Why would you want to go to the expense, take the time to hang out with a group of classmates and a high school you spent years trying to escape?

Is that how you feel about your high school class? Let’s face it, some of us are more social than others. Or high school was a struggle for lots of personal reasons.

Maybe a few in your class are the last people on Earth you would want to spend a few hours with after all these years. Or do you fall in this group “I attended the 10th high school reunion, found little in common with my fellow classmates who I shared those four years of high school. Went to the 20th reunion under pressure from my best friend and it was even worse.”

“Everyone Line Up, Tallest In Back, Shorter Ones In Front Class! “

So now there may be mini high school reunions where a few in your class stay in touch and it is pick and choose. If the “reunion” is a few classmates critique members in a not so favorable way when they do “meet up”, that could be a big reason why so low a turnout to milestone events.

The cost of the reunion, especially in the early class meet ups can be a factor.

Was the event lavish and expensive or simple and low cost to appeal to a larger audience? Did the high school reunion committee work long and hard or was their disention in the planning ranks? Too many, too little planners for the reunion?

The many little reasons that help or hurt attendance means awareness of how people decide should I go or not?

The more reunions you miss, the harder getting classmates to go becomes. Some don’t view high school graduation as that big a deal. Many argue I “peaked” outside of the halls and classrooms of their high school. Done, finished, not going back to their high school reunion.

Hopping Table To Table To Meet, Greet, Catch Up At A Maine High School Class Reunion.

Or what if your small Maine high school is no longer?

Lost are the game balls in a trophy case, class colors and the gym, classrooms, cafeteria because the school is no longer. Merged with a larger school administration district SAD or RSU.

I’ve been told “you feel out of the loop”. The feeling only intensifies the more reunions you don’t attend. So just go to the next one, l heard someone whisper in the blog post audience. Like a church invitation that is always open for you to attend.

The invite that says “you can always come home”.

All’s forgiven, here’s this week’s program and all the church bulletin happenings to get you up to speed and back in the flock. Many who do attend class reunions is because they sincerely want to reunite and see old friends, recall school stories. These folks wish there were more class reunions.

“I’m over weight, just went through a divorce, or oh, I wasn’t that close to anyone in my class.” Good excuses and how some decide I’m not going to this or any of my class reunions. For some, I could wait to get out of town and after the graduation, I high tailed to the big city lights. Rippe3d off the rear view mirrors and never looked back.

I didn’t graduate from this Maine high school.

Was that the reason not to go or were they even invited to the class reunion? Don’t overlook anyone in your class and make an effort to find their location. In this day and age of Internet connection, it is easier than ever to “Google” someone. To search Facebook, other social media platforms to find your classmate. Without the “return to sender” experience.

High School Class Reunions Deceased Members. Sad But Part Of The Reunion Head Count And Catching Up Process.

Calling other local classmate’s family to get them to help invite the MIA’s is good recruiting too.

You really ought to go to your class reunion Maine high school.

And put an extra emphasis on if you have not been to any class reunion, you especially are missed and classmates so happy to see you. Or your spouse helps push you to the event with or without them.

But what if that spouse views your class reunion as torture being in a room where probably half the attending have no connection to the class. Or maybe they do and married a classmate, someone a couple years older or younger who is anxious to attend.

Time of year, trying to schedule a class reunion for your Maine high school when out of towners are home anyway helps your attendance.

Cost, menu, venue, timing impacts attendance whether everyone has a good time or not.

Class Reunions For Your High School In Maine? Do You Go? Why Or Why Not?

The program for a Maine high school class reunion, how do you make sure everyone has a good time? The year you graduated music that is like a time machine transporting your class back to high school. Alcohol, can it help or hurt the class reunion. Everyone comes away glad they came and thinking about the next reunion because of the success.

And isn’t the entertainment beside music is good food, the classmates themselves?

Remembering the good times, paying respects for those you lost as the Maine high school class year size of the living shrinks?

Apathy, because of overbooked living or because high school classes differ? Some more rah rah rah school spirit and others “meh”? I know some high school classes that just were tighter, like one big Maine family that stays together closer during and after graduation.

Maine class reunions, the effort to attend important or thinking the high school event has gone the way of the hoola hoop, chia pets, cherry cokes, drive ins, mullets, bobby socks, penny loafers and cracker jacks? What’s your experience with high school class reunions and any tips on how to increase attendance?

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com | MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

September 6, 2022
Buying A Home In Maine, Rising Interest Rates

Buying a home in Maine with rising interest rates.

How does the increase in interest rates charged by Maine mortgage lenders affect the buying a home in Maine today?

This blog post is about the Maine real estate market.

How’s The Market? What’s My Home Worth? Interest Going Up, What’s That Do To Home Sales?

What is hunt and pecked here is not for some other area of the country. It is not a blog post to try to generalize for the nation and is specific to rural Maine. Real estate news is part of the blog posting here on Me In Maine blog. Time to update that corner of the blogging platform. Underneath everything is the real estate right?

Maine has a handful of cities and over 400 small communities.

In small town Maine real estate housing markets, here is what is happening. Pre-COVID, the Maine real estate market was healthy and robust. During the COVID pandemic, the market in Maine for real estate only got hotter, faster, more intense.

Desperation to get to Maine, to high tail it out of the crowded city living became the mantra.

“Move to Maine”. “Gotta move to Maine NOW”. The urban real estate dwellers could cash in on high prices and shrinking housing inventory where they lived. And cross the big green bridge on the southern tip of Maine to relocate to Vacationland.

Maine House Hunting. Higher Interest Rates, Less Real Estate Listing Supply. Still Hot Market In Maine. So Much Lower Priced Properties Than Other Areas Is Why.

Buying a new home in Maine, maybe build on a vacant piece of land and not even need a local bank mortgage. Heading in the direction of Maine means for many, “free and clear”. Look Mom, no mortgage.

Interest rates if you needed a home bank mortgage were at historic lows in Maine, everywhere.

The cost of housing in Maine was still so so far below the market the out of state buyer put in their rear view mirror.

So with interest rates increasing a few notches, what has that done today to the Maine real estate housing market? It did not slow down house sales, it increased the panic to get a Maine home before rates climb higher.

Anything On The Maine Waterfront Is A Popular Real Estate Search. Hot Temps Help Fuel That Market Segment.

The increase in interest rates for bank financing home buyers only caused greater pressure and stress to get a house under contract. To entice a seller to enter into a signed purchase and sale agreement.

And remember, Maine real estate values as you get away from the coastal and population centers goes down down down.

To match the local pay scale and distance away from major markets that you enjoy the deeper up into Maine you travel. We don’t like debt, avoid mortgages that drag on forever. Debt is like a cancer to most true Mainers.

Not Cooling Off In My Area Of Maine Real Estate Wise. Low Prices, Big Demand To Get To Maine Makes The Local Market Hot.

Equity loans are through the roof in my smaller Northern Maine real estate market.

Talk to any of the local six lenders and they all say the same thing. Struggling to get home mortgage loans in the pipeline processed and issued a clear to close memo for the local attorneys. Scrambling at the same time to write home equity loans to get their home owner’s the best interest rate available today.

Add to it the pressure for a seller who has way way too big a house and who worries about the cost to heat it this winter. That seller wants to cash in on the brisk real estate market in Maine and get this oversized property sold.

Parked On The Maine Coastline? Waterfront Real Estate Prices Still Hot. Never Ever Enough Supply Of Property On The Water.

When a real estate home buyer has less to select from, the pressure to buy whatever is available increases.

There is competition from other home buyers, not from too many house listings to pick from today. Multiple offers, buyers upping the ante to make their purchase and sale contracts the most attractive possible is the only course of action.

How do you make sure your offer to buy a home in Maine has the best chance possible of being accepted by the owner?

Think like a seller. What would you do if you were the house owner and had lots of written offers to buy your home spread out before you? This offer has a dollar deposit, that one wants to negotiate the price by half. When not much for sale in the housing supply and demand, forget trying to wheel and deal and get a lower price.

Living In Small Maine Towns. Local Pride, More Hands On Community Involvement Happens.

What’s that I heard in a loud whisper from the back of the Maine blogging room?

You said you have never paid list price for anything in your life and are not about to today? Bow out, take a break, wait for a different real estate market that is tilted to favor a buyer not the seller.

As Linda Gifford, our legal beagle who used to head up our Maine Association of REALTORS hot line told us at an annual meeting a couple years ago.

“Put on your big girl and big boy pants”. It was advice for her own adult children who wanted to buy a home in a hot market with little supply and too big a demand.

Maine REALTOR Conventions, The Next On October 11-13 At The Samoset Resort.

Linda’s sage advice for buying a home in a hot real estate market was don’t try to nickel and dime.

Don’t have a slew of contingencies that no home seller in their right mind would accept today. Wasting time for you, your seller, their agents and no listing home sale the result. That’s what happens in today’s real estate market where you have to go above and beyond.

Gathering Maine REALTORS To Discuss The Current Market, For Continuing Education Credits, Networking.

Bigger deposits, heck put the whole purchase price in escrow if you are sure you are going to buy a home in Maine.

That’s send the strongest signal possible to help a home seller know who to pick from many offers. A purchase price higher than list and no delays, zip for contingencies other than clear title. Those cash purchases look pretty attractive to a Maine home seller. Make his or her eenie meenie miney moe task quick and easy.

If you don’t have the stomach for that kind of multiple offer bidding war mentality to buy a home in Maine, bow out and wait.

I remember interest rates to buy a Maine home when they were 16.5% adjustable. Commercial rates even higher than that.

How’s Your Local Maine Real Estate Market? State Conventions A Way To Poll The ME REALTORS.

Heck, my first home was an attractive at the time 12.25% fixed Maine state housing mortgage rate.

She was a cute as a button 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath cape with fireplace, hardwood floors and garage. When interest rates are high, the inventory begins to pile up as the real estate market cools off and slows down.

When there are more buyers, as interest rates climb, the shift to a buyer’s market with more selection and less chance of a bidding war happens.

Today in Maine, the housing market is still tight. More than ever if the out of state buyer can sell their home and cash in the chips, they are heading to Maine. Especially if the new home they buy in Maine is served by high speed Internet connectivity. Working remotely, telecommuting to their online job from Maine is the dream of many employed home buyers.

Living In A Small Maine Town. Getting More Than A House, Developing A Strong Local Connection Happens.

They don’t need a job in Maine, they have one they pack up and bring along if the wireless, copper or fiber Internet signal is long and strong. Or some retired, going to start a business in Maine to create a job or two.

The retired Maine home buyer from out of state is ready for less crime, no traffic and the friendlier help each other out neighborly feeling.

That’s what living in rural Maine real estate markets with less people and cheaper housing prices is like. The emphasis is off money, needing lots of it to fuel the day to day. More hands on, DIY and prepared for a recession around the next corner kinda thinking. Common sense, simple approach to living and making the most of any situation life throws at you.

Music Town Of Maine. Welcome To Houlton ME, Aroostook County!

When the out of state real estate market slows because rising interest rates start to erode the buying power of the pool of purchasers, the Maine housing market will cool off. Inventory supplies will increase, building material costs will come down. The days on market (DOM) number will increase and new home listings will not go under contract within hours after going on the market.

But as long as the supply of homes for sale in Maine is about 1.3 months worth if nothing new was listed, sellers are looking forward to a favorable market.

And buyers are still under the gun to find an affordable home to buy in rural Maine.

Maine Small Family Farms. You Know Your Local Farmer In Rural Areas Of Maine.

Do the best you can with the market that is. Owning not renting is your best course of action. You can always remortgage or pay ahead on whatever mortgage rate you secure in a Maine home loan. And in time, the higher cost of lending if interest rates go up up up will only cause a better selection, lower house prices to reflect higher mortgage rates.

Too often the news you get about the real estate market is from a west coast new source or some area that does not look anything like the Maine property listing landscape. Thinking about buying or selling a home in Maine? Wondered how interest rates increasing affecting the local Maine real estate market? Hope this blog post on Maine real estate, the local markets around the state and how interest rates fan the flames is helpful.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com | MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

August 16, 2022
Farmers Markets In Maine, Locally Sourced Home Grown Food

Farmers Markets in Maine, locally sourced home grown food is a beautiful thing!

Farm to table is nothing new to Maine communities. Home grown garden and farm field food is one of the perks to living in an area with lots of fertile land soil. Vendors that set up displays at local Maine farmer’s markets are not just veggies or produce either. Expect to see everything from cut fresh flowers in floral display, home made arts and crafts, baked goods, oils and home remedies of all types too. Cheeses, poultry and dairy product items too are common at local farmers markets in Maine.

Maine Amish Families Help The Varied Selection Of Local Farmers Market Offerings.

Maine has a lot of Amish settlements and these local farm groups make sure the trip to the weekly farmer’s market worth your while.

Kids, older adults and everyone in between age wise host the farmer’s market tables. In the Houlton Maine area, the Community Farmer’s Market event venue is beautiful historic Market Square.

Here’s a local community farmers market in Maine video from Aroostook County put together from last Saturday.

Do you grow a garden or live on a full time, maybe a hobby farm in Maine?

Lots of the requests for Maine real estate are buyers on the hunt for something with land. The more Maine land the better and if it is not a cut over woodlot and has open pasture fields, all the better. Cultivating soil that is ready to work means more time to spend at the local farmers market in Maine location.

Clearing a woodlot to create a Maine farm pasture field is a lot of work.

Maine Farm Pasture Field Of Red, White Clover And Wild Flowers.

But unless the present Maine land owner has kept the ground in cultivation or hays or bush hogs the property, trees happen. Young brush, vegetation and trees pop up quickly. Fallow worn out land in Maine is not so quickly forested. To farm it means putting back the soil amendments to make the Maine agricultural land productive. Like to own some land in Maine?

Being a good steward of the Maine farm land is key.

To maintaining top production land value and to reduce erosion and anything that hurts the quality of the farming operation. Giving your land in Maine to the next generation of loved ones in better shape, or at least as good as you received it. It is a sacred responsibility for Maine farmers no matter what size of operation they til, tend, weed, water and feed after spring planting.

Agriculture, farming in Maine can mean crops, critters and it is not always just meat and potatoes simple.

Farmer’s Market, Local Community Agriculture Served Up Farm To Table.

Strawberry patches, blueberries that are wild or cultivated along with fresh farm corn, cukes, carrots, squash, onions, lettuce, beans, peas if you please. As the season progresses, the selection of what’s offered up at the Maine farmer’s market increase in variety.

Farmers markets in Maine expand and contract depending on the weather and where you and I are on the calendar.

Canned preserves, dried fruits, pickled vegetables and anything else destined for the root cellar is fair game to peddle at the farmer’s market in Maine.

Farmer’s Market Fresh Flowers. More Than Just Fruits, Vegetables, Baked Goods.

Community Market Farmers Market In Houlton Maine.

The bounty from the harvest of the Maine agricultural farm setting. Leaf lettuce, radishes, fresh garlic, scallions, a slew of vegetable and fruit offerings await at your local farmstead manned by family, friends, your local neighbors. There is so much sense of community doing business at a local farmer’s market in Maine venue.

Early on, dry beans, product from last growing season canned and pickled may be what’s for sale early on at the local community farmer’s market.

But as the stronger sunshine overhead works it magic with time, seed, water and fertilizer, more local produce, fruits and vegetables combine with the fresh eggs, baked goods and other items.

What’s For Sale At The Local Maine Farmer’s Market? New Vendors, New Offerings Each Week To Check Out.

Each week, lots of bartering and farmer market exchanges happen within the vendor community too.

Like one farmer’s market vendor in the Maine community video says, he issues lots of personal IOU’s. Has never been burnt or come up short in payment. That’s shows you the quality of the local Maine people who shop the farmer’s market. Or that he is a pretty good judge of character.

More on the area of Houlton Maine where this local community farmers market event happens each and every weekend in Market Square. What’s it like living in Aroostook County, Maine? Here’s a blog post on picking potatoes in Maine.

More Than Peas And Carrots And Ears Of Farm Fresh Corn. Lots To Check Out At Maine Farmer’s Markets.

Thank you for following our Me In Maine blog posts.

Hope you get a sense of what living in Maine is all about from the entries. Sure am glad I live, work and play in Maine and try to share that simple way of life that happens here day and night. This blog post on Maine farmer’s markets is an easy one requiring less hunt and peck wordage. Images can say a thousand words. The video takes you to the local community farmers market in Maine event.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

August 11, 2022
High Home Heating Oil Costs, How’s Your Maine House Insulation?

High home heating oil costs, how’s your Maine house insulation?

Everything Goes White When Winter Weather Arrives In Maine. Heating Your Maine House, Being Prepared Is Key To Enjoying, Not Dreading Winter.

In Maine, heating with wood is not a new fad.

Maine is 91% wooded land, covered with mixed and softwood trees of all species. If burning wood to heat your Maine home is nothing new, the high price of oil gallon packs less of a sting. You hear lament from those who don’t have a wood or pellet stove about how expensive heating their Maine home is going to be this winter. Time to think about insulating more. To spend less on Maine home heating energy costs.

Many of Maine houses were built when oil heating prices per gallon were in the teens, the homes very large to fit in all the family members. Heating with wood is nothing new to most local Maine house owners.

Heating Your Maine Home With Wood. Saving On Energy Bills Putting Another Log On The House Heater Stove Fire.

Less money spent on something else the plan to shoulder the weight of extra expense heating the Maine house.

Assume the position and open up the wallet wide. To pay for the higher heating oil from the beep beep beep backing up tank truck with the long hose and screw on nozzle. Most Mainer home owners don’t take the price hike of heating oil laying down. They go into battle stations to do something about lowering the house energy heating costs on Maine homes.

But if you are elderly, not so spry hefting a 16 inch or whatever size piece of hardwood to feed the Maine house heater stove.

Those are the really vulnerable Mainers on a small fixed income where there is no slack to tighten up the finances.

Folks who want to continue to age in place in their own home sweet home. But worry about how the heck are they going to heat the Maine house this winter? With the extra burden of high heating oil per gallon costs to tackle?

This blog post is about making your Maine house easier to heat and the added benefit, to coo the home.

Bigger, Older The Maine House, The Harder To Heat The Home. Maine, Affordable Housing But It Is On The Larger, Yesteryear Vintage That Can Suck Up Energy.

Insulating the older Maine housing stock and ways to economically stretch hard earned dollars. To cut back on heating oil consumption with some effort in beefing up the Maine house insulation.

Oh great, another blog post on insulating your house in Maine.

I heard the groans and loud audible whispers. Haven’t we got a slew of those that come up in a Google search already? I think more push to better insulate our older Maine housing stock and ways to underwrite it for the home owner is critical. Rather than just roll over and just complain, paying the long dollar for heating oil. Let’s get into insulation battle mode to attack the aging housing stock in the big, drafty existing small Maine town communities.

It’s supposed to be 83 degrees today on a July Maine summer day. But in the back of my mind I have been worried about what needs to be done now.

To prepare for Maine winter and knowing more insulation also makes the Maine house easier to cool. Not just tied to heating at whatever adjust house thermostat setting.

The Solitude, Peaceful Feeling Of The Maine Woods In Winter. Just Because It’s Winter, We Don’t Hibernate, Are Outside Every Day Of The Year To Enjoy Vacationland.

Mainers get up early, open all the house windows to capture the cooler temperatures.

Then shut the blinds, close all the doors, darken the place up to enjoy the cooler temperatures as a Maine summer day as the sun rises heating up the outside of Vacationland. A smaller one room air conditioner is installed. Maybe the Maine home owner is lucky enough to have a heat pump to cool a portion of their place. We don’t try to heat or cool the entire Maine home. Just the living absolute necessary portions then closing off the rest no one is using.

Hot or cold temperatures wherever your home in Maine is located and how to cope best with them.

It is way way easier to maintain a comfortable Maine home’s inside temperature if there is less living area to worry about and adequate insulation is in place. How much insulation is up in the Maine home attic, the cap over the ceilings over your head and under the roof?

Maybe some shade trees could help shield the home in the summer months and are needed. Insulation, be warm, save money.. that’s what Efficiency Maine is all over to reduce your energy costs.

Smaller Maine Town Living, More Outdoors Happens. Heating The Home Usually Involves Fire Wood If Oil Energy Prices Hike Higher.

When was the home in Maine insulated last and with what material?

Usually, the not knowing is because it’s hard telling accessing your attic area under the eaves. Many times where the square scuttle hole is to get into an attic is missing. Not easy to find or not out in the hall obvious. Maybe it’s stuck in one of the bedroom closets filled to the brim with clothes, boxes, luggage.

No hatch after looking everywhere? Make one, then let’s get a ladder. Open up that hatch on the Maine home. To see what’s in the attic for insulation. Now that you have access to the attic, what should the insulation R-value be? The pull down stairway attic entrance are quick and easy to access the attic. But when they are not being used during the winter months, they better be thoroughly sealed off to avoid lots of precious heat loss.

Treasure In The Woods Getting Your Firewood To Heat Your Home! Old Cars Past Their Prime. Hanging Around For Hunters, Hikers, Land Brokers.

And just as important, to avoid expensive warm house air hitting the cold roof line and forming condensation, the ice hanging off the Maine house eaves.

Ventilation is a twin sister to insulation issues and just as important as you button up the Maine house from the outside weather elements. Staying warm over a long Maine winter, the state got 25 million energy saving weatherization dollars last November to help fight the cold.

What Maine weatherization programs are out there to help elderly, anyone low income to improve their home’s insulation?

Making a Maine apartment the tenant has to heat is just as important to be proactive in reducing heating oil, electricity, gas, etc consumption. When Mainers are under stress, they don’t sit on their hands and feel helpless. Lowering the cost of heating the Maine single family or multi unit rental apartment house, where you work, a school, hospital, any building is priority one.

What other areas to improve for your Maine home or apartment building insulation?

Getting Around In Maine, Lots Of Options In Vacationland. Fire Wood One Option For Winter Heating Maine Houses.

Basement walls insulated four feet down, with the Maine house box sills filled too will help some of the heat loss.

Storm doors, a campaign to update not just the windows but the cavity around them all help make the Maine home more efficient to heat and cool too. More tips on insulating Maine houses to not over spend trying to heat them.

Statewide in Maine, I think more effort to tackle the insulation values in all the state’s housing just makes perfect sense.

Spending a little money to save a lot of it is common sense. Plus it makes Maine jobs. Someone has to feed the insulation hopper out in the yard with bags of cellulose as the guy or gal on the other end of the hose carefully fills the attic cap. Or taps the drilled holes in the side of the Maine home that need some insulation love filling the wall cavities.

The Wedding Cake House In Kennebunk Maine, One Of The Most Photographed Homes. Costs A Pretty Penny To Heat.

Here is another important link to visit to get help with insulating your Maine home.

Also places to check out for energy credits, deals on buying the insulation product you need as we wage war on the high cost of heating / cooling Maine houses.

How are you doing making your Maine house more energy efficient to beat the heat costs, to enjoy warm winters and cooler summers?

Share the ways you are shaving the energy costs so everyone can stop shivering and warm up to pro-active measures to insulate the Maine housing stock. Like a Maine farmer always thinking a season or two ahead, Maine home owners do the same thing. Even with 80 plus degree summer temperatures, you see Maine home owners with woodchuck like high piles of woods behind their houses.

Next Year’s Wood Pile In Tree Live Form. Ready To Knit On, To Slowly Cut And Split Into Just The Right Stove Lengths. Mainers Stay A Season Ahead With Their Wood Stash.

Cords of cut, stacked, seasoning wood for the next heating season is just boy scout readiness and making the most of any situation coming up the pike. Kinda partial to Jotul wood heater stoves. What’s your favorite brand? Thanks for sticking around to the end of this blog post on Maine heating, insulating your house.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

July 23, 2022