Category: Maine Small Towns

“As Is Where Is And If It Is To Be It Is Up To Me

“As is, where is” and if it is to be it is up to me.

Your approach to day to simple living in Maine is different in rural parts of the Pine Tree state. When you are raised working hard for what you have and respecting other people’s personal property too. Life becomes crystal clear.

Using What You Have That’s More Than Enough In Small Town Maine Living.

Your appreciation for what you have and what is really important in life starts early in small town Maine.

Independence, a skill set to not just survive life but to glean lots of enjoyment from it means hands on training. Shaping the right attitude and take away from life events now playing around you. How dependent are you on others? Even say replacing the inside toilet valve with a new one when even jiggling the handle won’t stop the run run run of supply water to the tank.

Or shingling the garage or porch roof when it needs it before it leaks. You climb the ladder, strip the shingles to prepare the roof for a new protective layer. The lawn work is done by members of the family not hired out each week. Our exercise is win win because it’s not at a gym on a tread mill boring. There are line items on the chore list accomplished at the same time. But saving money that maybe you just don’t have… That does not stop you from tackling a DIY project like the low cost Maine home for sale with 4 acres of land below.

The video for that one to sneak a peek and check out for $27,500 if you are ambitious and full of fire in your belly to bring it back to life.

Do you know how or can you round up friends who exchange the bartering help to perform the task?

Or are you highly trained in one discipline and pretty much helpless in all the rest so you have to stop everything. And wait, and wait some more for a someone hired to do the simplest of jobs?

Survival Skills Living Up In Small Town Rural Maine. Locals Have A Larger Skill Set. And A Better Approach Daily Attitude To What Life Brings Their Way.

I grew up on a small Maine family farm and all the household members pitched in and had important roles.

Working together to perform tasks also meant more time for conversations to learn about the family. To have the older family members teach the younger ones what they learned to save time and do tasks correctly around the four farm seasons.

Had a fellow from the Windham Maine area come into the real estate office lobby this past week.

He shared with me how he learned to sheet rock. He was young, a teenager and his uncle was low to the ground short but tall in reputation for hanging sheet rock. This uncle known for his expertise at applying just the right amount of joint compound mud after lift after life of sheet rock was skillfully put into place. With just a couple men in the crew, an entire single family Maine home was sheet rocked in a day.

Moving on like gypsies to do it again and again as the work week progressed in southern Maine hanging sheet rock to prepare the place for the first home owner.

Living In A Small Maine Town Like Say Patten ME. Kids Learn Skills, To Pitch In And Everything Not Handed To Them.

How did you learn when starting out green I asked this jack of all trades seasoned Maine carpenter?

Quickly was his answer. It was like sink or swim or no time to fuss or coddle. What does coddle mean? The word definition …

Coddle is an old word. Originally, it meant to cook gently in water that is near boiling, as in coddling an egg. It most likely gained its association with pampering and taking care of someone via a drink made for invalids that was prepared by coddling. “Mollycoddle,” a synonym for coddle, originally meant a person who coddles himself, or an effeminate man.

This fellow says his uncle had no doubt whatsoever that the nephew was going to be a quick study and a true asset to the sheet rock hanging crew. There was little time for pampering or “there there counseling” in the early on trial and error A – A indoctrination. To develop valuable skills in how best to hang to tape to mud and sand sheet rock placed on the walls and ceilings of his uncle’s job assignments.

Big State, Small Town Values, That’s Maine’s Approach To Simple Living.

Knowing that confidence comes from within not outside forces.

As you yourself figure out if it is to be, it is up to me approach that works best. The nephew says he watched the hanging, the finishing process in action all around him. As he lifted on one end of the sheet rock board to deliver it room by room to where needed.

Seeing, listening and watching any task performed in action is lots better than just reading about it. Before the first day on the job was done, the uncle moved the nephew into the closet. No no, not for punishment or attitude adjustment for misdeeds like a time out corner after a melt down occurs.

Why moved to the home under construction closet?

To sheet rock where it shows the least behind all the clothes and in the darker regions of the house. To begin the building confidence and developing the skills that would stick with him for life. Then after the six or so closets in a typical 5-3-1 ranch style home, to move on out into the ceiling and wall work through out the house.

Outdoor Simple Living In Maine. Is Lack Of Space And Too Many People Sapping Your Quality Of Life?

Too much attention and too few boundaries back when a child is being raised. Spoiling a child does not just mean giving them everything and the Sun without working for a thing. The approach behind the eyes and between the ears in simple living rural Maine is to be grateful for what you have that you worked hard to obtain.

As a child growing up in a small Maine community, you know in the family you are loved conditionally but that life comes with rules.

It is not all about you. You have to pitch in. It’s about others. You don’t want to be known as lazy or self centered.

Being tough skinned but tender hearted helps not to take things personal. And instead of any delay looking around for someone to wait on you or for help or coddling, a Maine youngstercan quickly moves forward. No fuss, more get the job done and do a good it like you were taught. The self satisfaction feeling just opens the door to learn more if a parent will not deprive the child of chores and the skills needed to do them.

You Hear What Time It Is In Small Maine Towns. The Circles Are Smaller, The Connections Tighter Around You.

Feeling good about yourself starts way back in childhood and avoiding over indulgence. Meg and I had the privilege of taking care of a two year old granddaughter last night. I am proud of the parents who are teaching this hair of gold one of three grandchildren to be responsible. To gently remind her to pick up toys when play is done, that the household has structure and routines without being militant about it. They practice what they preach in a playful but firm consistent way.

Please and thank go a long way in creating an atmosphere of healthy appreciation in a household.

Instant gratification does not mirror real life either. And sticking with it, you can do it encouragement helps the child clear the life hurdles with too much parental intervention.

Fast forward to buying a Maine home and the buyers and sellers I deal with today.

It is no secret the Maine real estate market listing inventory is selling faster than the supply replenishes. There are shortages of all types of real estate categories and bidding wars are not uncommon.

Home Grown, Local Everything DIY In The Small Maine Town Living Approach. The Quality Of Life Is Pot Lunch Rich And Satisfying.

To win the bid to get the price, the house or land or lakefront property in Maine.

The buyer must put on their big girl and big boy pants if they hope to be selected by a Maine real estate seller. In this hot seller’s market, the property owner does not have to agree to much other than conveying with a clear title.

The last Maine REALTOR’s state convention before the COVID pandemic arrived, legal beagle Linda Gifford who shepherded our group for many decades told the large room at Sunday River in Newry she had to counsel her own kids. On just how to approach buying or selling a home in Maine.

Her kids were making an offer on a property and loading up the wish list of what they expected the seller to do in their contract property pitch. Linda reminded them think like a seller. Would you accept a heavily loaded up Christmas tree list of pork barrel purchase and sale agreement items if presented that way?

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To win the bid and expect success negotiation the real estate sale. Up the size of the deposit, do the top to bottom inspection rounding up your family members you trust in the trades to know what you are buying without the home inspection contingency. Keep it simple, even pay over the listed price “as is where is” and roll up your sleeves. To ‘if it is to be, it is up to me” thinking on your approach to buying a house, anything in life. To make your offer stand out from all the rest and to help the seller in the pick me, pick me please.

Expect more from yourself, less from others and you won’t be disappointed.

Pull the focus off the outside World by working instead to a shift from within. As Dale Carnegie reminds “it isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what are doing that makes your happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

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No place for “stinking thinking” especially during this time of high school and college graduations as a new crop of students enter the workforce.

I think growing up in small town Maine really prepares an individual for the wild blue yonder. Life skills come from experiences and being taught how to do it yourself with confidence. Never giving up but being patient and realistic is just common sense right?

As is, where is and if it is to be it is up to me approach to each new day. Hope you have a great week Me In Maine blog post readers.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

May 23, 2021
Maine Small Towns Are Really Just Big Families

Maine small towns are really just big families.

You know the feeling when you crowd into a large, noisy expensive restaurant. Now, compare that experience with what happens when just a few people dine around you. The mom and pop owners go out of their way with home cooked food and personal service.

Maine Small Towns, More Like One Big Family Then Just A Community.

Their Maine small town establishment with the owner in the store is not a franchise outlet like all the rest across the land.

No no, one of a kind and personal, intimate, connected, genuine. No cheesy smiles or poor attempts to act like they were born to serve you. Plus you don’t have to sell a duplicate organ to pay the tab. You don’t just darken the eateries door when it’s your wedding anniversary or birthday celebration. You also leave full and content. Not thinking of hitting a drive through restaurant on the way home. Or peering into the refrigerator to track down a snack. Because your stomach feels short changed from tiny portions and high prices that made your skip considering anything from the dine out dessert menu.

Sharing The Bounty And Feeling Grateful For Where You Live In Maine.

The Maine small town business owner lives where you do and knows your struggles.

Shares the same goals for their small well knit Maine community. The circles we travel in small Maine towns are smaller and bumping into each other happens a lot. During the week you and the owners who put in long hours for lower pay are ready to serve. Their reward is the appreciation they feel by your continued patronage. The time and money they put into outside the business that benefits the entire community. In all the local productions of any type, it takes the village to pull them off. You don’t pay to just attend an event. Usually you have a hand working behind the scenes at whatever is going on in your Maine small town.

Small Maine Town Productions, Everyone Pitches In With Talent To Stretch The Budget.

Maine small towns, where everything done is not paid for with green currency.

Often you don’t know who dropped off the extra garden vegetables. Or the hot out of the oven fruit pie that someone knows just happens to be your favorite flavor. The local Amish settlement in Smyrna Maine makes Thursday “Community Day’. Each week, you leave your farmstead and band together at someone else’s spread. To get their barn raised, the leaking house roof shingled, their crop harvested, whatever is needed. You return the favor the next Thursday when someone else in the community gets a visit where many hands make light work.

“Rotary Auction, What Item You Looking At, To Bid On Tonight?”

When you live in a Maine small town, everyone bands together.

Sure, something that happens years ago might have ruffle your feathers. But the eye is on the bigger prize of what happens when we all work together. Because it won’t get done unless everyone steps up to do their part. The big thing is all of us are works in progress. No one is perfect and we all have flaws and lifelong struggles that shape and define us. Attack the problem, the need and not the person is discussed around the family dinner table at meal time.

Your Local Small Towns People, Family And Friends In The Local 4th Of July Celebration Parades.

In Maine small towns you really get to know the community members working on area projects of all kinds.

Everyone invests time, money, creative energy because of their fierce love of their community. When you hear at the corner convenience store picking up a pizza that one of your community members is in the hospital, what to do to show you care and to help out today. That’s what gets kicked into action as if a community air raid siren sounds and you kick into gear. Your neighbor down the road plows out the in need’s winter driveway and shovels the walk way and steps without being asked.

Barns In Maine, Some Store Bought From Sears And Roebuck. Others Hand Hewn Post And Beam Created On Site. With Help From Your Neighbors To Put Them Up And Keep Them Sturdy.

Others join in to share the same task to give you a break after a few days when a long illness or recovery is underway.

Everyone is busy but not too busy to extend a hand and show they care. Chances are they know the feeling of the ground swell of generosity personally or witnessed it extended to a family member or neighbor. All the small rural Maine community members think hard about what’s needed to create the slack for your small town member who is struggling. A benefit supper is organized to raise much needed funds.

Covered dishes are delivered like clockwork to free up the meal time planning. Because calls to doctors, setting up appointments and working the logistics of how to get the kids to school while away all needs to be coordinated. You don’t feel alone and everyone is needed in a Maine small town. We all treasure the natural beauty and unspoiled land and water in this place called Maine.

Preserving History, Protecting Maine Small Town Country Living Makes The Local Connection Strong.

The Maine small town community member probably is related to you somehow.

None of us wants to be a burden on others or put them out or ask for help. But when you and your family are on the receiving end of the much needed aid, you never forget the feeling that my Maine small town cares about me So step up and do your part for others when it is your turn to do a good deed or two. Less people makes the connection stronger in under populated Maine. You and others in the small Maine community attended most of the same weddings, funerals, graduation, church services or community events in some capacity. You vote together at the rec center, cheer for the same home team up in the bleachers.

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A church member or neighbor brings you breakfast and a sympathetic ear while you convalescence from surgery or to heal from a loss.

Three community members had a hand in creating a lap robe quilt so you won’t be chilly until you gain the strength to get up and move around like your old self. Someone from the local fish and game or snowmobile club stops in to see if you need anything or helps bank your house or to finish cutting, splitting, getting your winter wood in to the shed or basement. They quickly swing in and mow your lawn, pick up a prescription or deliver the local newspaper, a quart of milk and whatever you ran out of today.

The target of the attention squirms from the hubbub fuss. Feels there must be someone else more deserving and is just not used to being a recipient of the communal help when they need it most.

But stay tuned. They will be up and at ’em before you know it. Back on the chain gang to assist others which is the comfort of having a chance for pay back. Turn, turn, turn, it all comes around full circle.

Eating Outdoors, Not Jammed Between Four Walls Inside. Maine Is Outdoor Dining, Exploring, Everything.

You never feel alone in Maine small towns.

Too much to do and for years you have been part of the events that happen in your community. Many tasks handed down from other older family members who can not longer do them. Playing in the community band, helping decorate a float for a 4th of July parade entry. Raising money for project graduation by cash or food item donations of say home made pan of scotcheroo squares or a big pot of baked beans or loaf of just made bread. Everyone has a trademark talent.

Maybe it’s making cribbage boards out of local wood. The donator’s ability to weld and braze a specially designed trailer for say the local soap box derby race. Or to create a routered sign, to get your car running. Maybe talented at sewing a play or dance costume or knitting a pair of wool mittens.

Outdoors, Year Round. That’s Maine Four Seasons Simple Living.

When you see Maine small town members industriously pouring lots of effort into a task, there is no way to stay on the sidelines.

Pitching in and volunteering is a big part of the Maine small town experience. Planting and tending a vegetable garden way bigger than you need so you can share Nature’s bounty. Delivering extra eggs from hens to those who need them most. It is a take what you need and pass on the rest approach to everyday living in rural Maine. Easy does it. Tread lightly, respect and give what you are entrusted with to the next community or family member in as good or hopefully better condition. Think good thoughts and avoid stinking thinking as my Mom called it that does no good for anyone in a Maine small town living experience.

Living Off The Land, Simple Living In Maine. Our Population Is Low And Scattered. The Community Spirit Tight And Well Connected.

You don’t just live in a Maine small town, you are really a part of the big family of residents who create the community experience.

Everyone likes a helper, when they see you take on a duty that benefits the town without wanting any recognition. Advice for anyone moving to a Maine small town? Pitch in, work hard and help out to share skill set and your special talents. Since COVID gripped the globe, folks in crowded impersonal city population centers intensified the search for their plan “B”. Putting a lot of thought into where would I move and relocate to if the pressure becomes too much. For when quality of life is missed and it’s time for a new address like “up in Maine”.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

May 12, 2021
Real Estate Market In Maine

Real estate market in Maine.

Since COVID came into our day to day living, what’s happening post pandemic in the Maine real estate market? Like most news reports about a hot topic, what you read and hear does not always tell the whole story. Hard to sum up in a few words or learn much from a quick headline or clever sound bite. And the news article from a half a year ago or more deserves a return feature update to be current and factual information.

More Wildlife Than People. Lots Of Space To Be Naturally Socially Distant During COVID And Beyond In Maine.

Let’s face it. Buying and selling real estate in Maine is big deal in any market. It’s the largest single investment most of us ever make, real estate. The buying and selling of Maine real estate is affected by supply and demand, the local economy where the property listings are located. And the push from out of state real estate buyers to buy a piece of Maine when COVID locked down city living.

This blog post takes a snapshot look at the real estate market in Maine post COVID pandemic.

Just how buyers and sellers are adapting to the COVID pandemic, and how does the Maine real estate property listings come in to play. To begin with, the small town local Mainers approach to day to day living is loaded with common sense and practicality. Early on in life, our children are taught valuable skills on just how to make and manage their own money. Saving for dips in the road and those rainy days means to expect setbacks and delays. So we never go that far out on the limb and saw it off without a lot of thought before hand.

For Many, The Real Estate In Maine Search Starts With Land. Just Land.

Mainers are used to economizing and have pretty good impulse control on the spending. Taught early on to work hard, take care of whatever is purchased and don’t spend money like a fish drinks water. A simple approach to living with emphasis on not living in excess and more independent, self sufficient and a solid piece of the local small town fabric.

In January of 2020, the state off Maine had a total house listing inventory of slightly over 13,000 units.

This past January 2021 the supply number was not much over 3,000 units. As kids, we all played musical chairs and know what happens when where to sit in a hurry is at a premium.

Other than a handful of cities, Maine’s vast number of small town communities had an ample supply of affordable housing before COVID hit. The absorption rate of that low cost Maine housing supply is causing bidding wars. I recently sold a modest country Maine log home with nine real estate contracts of sale. The seller took her pick and ended up with $20,600 more than the listed price of $64,500. Lose out a number of times bidding until it hurt when you need a Maine home causes stress.

Maine Looks Pretty Affordable, The Simple Life Style Approach Highly Attractive.

The buyers can be demanding, edgy and expecting quick easy real estate closings.

When the local Maine bank mortgage lenders and lawyers doing the title work are pushed to the max like a MASH unit field hospital, a line for services grows longer. Take a number, have a seat.

A cash buyer able to close quickly trumps the home buyer bogged down by the bank loan process.

Cash is still king. And as real estate in Maine inventory shrinks and nine months supply becomes three and dropping, desperation sets in.

The Maine home is affordably priced but needs a new heating system, exterior paint, a new roof to replace the one now leaking. But banks selling the mortgage paper to secondary market investors do not want to finance homes with large job jars attached.

The deficiencies to a place are why the property is in the low price bracket it is.

The buyer who wants to take his time fixing a place up is sadden to learn lending on no or low down program picky loan programs don’t work that way. Repairs, a visit from the real estate appraiser to make sure the loose ends are tied up take money and time for the corrections. All needed before a real estate closing can take place.

Home sellers in Maine don’t have to wait and many other buyers are in the wings flush with cash to take over where a bogged down bank mortgage home buyer leaves off when no more contract extensions is announced.

In the real estate market pre-COVID pandemic, many Maine property buyers with just enough money for the down payment and closing costs are stuck.

They looked to the seller to help out and save the day but in today’s real estate market in Maine boom, the property owner does not have to for tickets to a closing. So many buyers leaving expensive city living loaded with money, many with cash and ready, willing and able to close on cheaper Maine homes.

It makes it hard for local home buyers with meager savings to buy the house they can afford that is not up to par to pass muster with bank lending mortgage underwriting standards. Some are lucky to have support but many lack parents to help the offspring obtain their own nest competing with COVID caused migration into Maine from outside cash buyers.

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Just go out and build if you can not find an existing Maine house for sale to call home you say?

Well, whoa, hold up and hot so fast. At the same time that existing affordable housing supply inventory is hammered hard post COVID pandemic, the cost of construction materials to build your home Maine home spiked thirty percent and higher. Plus try to get a carpenter, plumber, electrician and the guys and gals pushing the Earth moving machine levers to create a building site with all the amenities. Those tradesmen are all right out straight and it never let up like it typically does over a Maine winter lull to catch your breath thanks to the post COVID real estate market in Maine.

The Maine real estate market before the COVID headlines started was already a healthy, robust one.

The virus just threw the conveyor belt into warp factor five speeds. Like someone hit the nitrous blue button in the center console of a fast and furious car movie. Bidding wars, like the multiple offer situation shared above is very common. They used to only happen around Maine waterfront properties that are never in large enough supply. The real estate market in Maine is always anemic in the number of listings bordered by water. But that same faster than most buyers need for time to buy a new to the market home listing is just not there.

The new listing appearing for sale this morning is gone by sunset.

Off market and waiting for a closing, wearing a sale pending, under contract sign rider.

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Low interest rates, the affordable housing in Maine combined with our simple outdoor approach to four seasons living.

It is not hard in a rural state as vast and unspoiled as Maine to keep your six feet apart CDC directive. The COVID numbers are low, the Maine population is way ahead in vaccine inoculation compared to our Canadian cousins across the International border. In Maine, we already were socially distant and love the peace and quiet of space out on the water paddling a kayak. Biking a trail at Acadia or hiking on on Mount Katahdin. All that was found in real estate online Internet searches about how lucky we are to live in Maine. Maine, the way life should be right? If you are going to be stuck in a state during COVID, Maine is pretty hard to beat for no or low cost outdoor recreation.

Folks already working from home remotely thanks to the COVID pandemic restrictions in a city saw a chance to make a run for it.

But where? Hey, I heard good things about Maine. Liked it on vacation and why not Maine? Cash in and sell for big dollars whatever you own in a hot urban high priced real estate market. And then take your same online job to Maine to telecommute and buy a property outright for cash to avoid the strings attached and time delay caused by a home mortgage. That is what I see happening over and over in current Maine real estate market sales scenarios post COVID pandemic. Many in the audience are retiring early, opting to take the watch and the golden parachute benefits package to high tail head to Maine. Police offices in groves are retiring as early as possible or looking for safer places to protect and serve.

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Maine already had a pretty good reputation for vacations, for raising a family in wholesome fashion and where the village has a hand shaping the individuals in a good way.

No one spoiled, everyone pitches in for the common good and has a vital role living in small town Maine. There is a good work ethic and favorable discrimination when someone from Maine gets picked over someone that is not in a job interview. Our connection is stronger, people travel smaller circles and get to know each other deeplyin small Maine towns. The telecomute to Maine with your online job means keep pushing that last mile of Internet.

Populations of small Maine towns will increase if a job you already had out of state can follow you to your new small town community.

The new home buyer likes the sounds of 4th lowest for crime, no gangs, no violence or crowded highways in this northern most New England state of Maine. Less restrictive living and lower cost real estate in Maine are all in the mix to where to move.

But what happens if the supply of affordable Maine homes dwindles, if the cost to build new ones to sell with reasonable price tags can’t happen due to high priced building materials?

Enter the new generation hybrid homesteaders. The micro farmer and folks that used to have one primary job skill and hired everything out beyond that. They are being forced out of their comfort zone in society. If you own everything around you, life is not so scary. The passion, if what excites you is no cost, not a latest model gadget that soon is outdated and loses its artificial luster. When being outdoors in Maine is possible without the long drive over the big green bridge. Control of your finances, empowered to be more hands on and involved in your day to day destiny. Neighbors helping each other, bartering skills takes place on a regular basis. Money is not so important or valuable when removed from the daily living up here in rural Maine.

Skiing, Outdoor Fun Is Low Cost Like The Real Estate In Maine.

Small town living in Maine makes a person feel worthwhile and a part of the community because they truly are.

Those people and all their individual talents and willingness to pitch in to improve the area are the community. Not the empty buildings on Main Street or the map rows of streets and road. The community needs people who want to be here. Especially after living in a high cost city landscape. Those folks appreciate Maine even more than a local who has lived here most or all their life. Many out of state home buyers are from Maine but left for higher paying job opportunities. COVID just sharpened the focus of everyone that did the soul searching. Asking the question of where am I best off living? Maine?

Even though there is a say Connecticut blue vehicle plate, this Maine real estate broker often learns this is a native returning home.

And they always intended to when they left but some returning to help elderly parents early. Or because of COVID or to just retire early because the Maine economy is much cheaper to stretch the fixed income.

For Maine real estate buyers it starts with find a piece of land for low cost camping vacations and then in time, much more.

Hard work but self inflicted by choice to reduce, reuse, make a smaller carbon footprint up in Maine. Winter can be sobering. But with global warming, that time around the end and beginning of the calendar is way gentler than I remember as a kid. Winter in Maine is easy when prepared and expecting it, embracing it. Mainers are year round happiest outdoors creatures. Just with a change in wardrobe and the number of clothing layers worn or not.

The real estate market in Maine is strong coming out the other side of the pandemic.

Because people feel safe, worthwhile, hands on in Vacationland. COVID, the election, lots of factors make Maine popular for a popular real estate buying state these days. Multi-generation Maine real estate buyers are on the increase too.

I just listed a 1434 acres Kingdom lot that would be ideal for even the largest multi generation family planting roots in Maine.

Do it yourself. If it is to be, it is up to me thinking.

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Hardships experienced early in life temper a person, broaden their resiliency and deepen their passion.

Kids raised in that simple rural environment learn what is important in life. Not what is the result of highly effective marketing to create the carrot to attract the masses. Since COVID, the Maine real estate market has flourished. Local schools, businesses, community members embraced the challenge to not let COVID negatively effect their life. They did not have time to whine and complain or sink into pits of despair. Like most obstacles in life, with a little patience and lots of creative experience to draw from their upbringing. True Mainers come out the other side happy and grateful.

Many who owned seasonal properties in Maine have been like spider monkeys converting them to year round real estate use.

That’s why the best thing Maine leaders can do is invest in Internet. Tap into all the available funding out there to hammer away at that last mile of fiber or copper. Or boost those wireless tower signals to make the connection long and strong. Thank you for following our Me In Maine blog posts and hope this inside look at the local real estate market was a worthwhile read.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

May 4, 2021
Small Town Office Managers In Maine

Small town office managers in Maine.

These one man or woman municipal rural Maine offices look after their small communities. You could get a call from Marge who reminds you the vehicle registration on your snow plow truck expired this week. But not to worry, because she’ll be in the local town office Saturday morning and will have all the paperwork ready for you. Or I’ve seen a small town office manager make a call that was overheard while I was studying tax maps or gleaning property information. Fran told the taxpayer on the other end of the phone that she would drop off the fishing hunting combination license on her way home tonight. That’s door to door service neighbor to neighbor grass roots style.

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Like a mother hen that keeps the chicks in line. Or a border collie who shepherds the lambs on a small Maine farmstead. The small town managers in Maine are a special breed. Fiercely dedicated to their small township that is just a dot on the Maine map. These unsung heroes single handedly struggle to keep up with the heavy paperwork load of new regulations. To keep it all straight and coach the revolving door of selectmen who step up to take their turn in community service.

Small Towns Make Their Own Music! Local Bands Entertain At Close To Home Events!

Small town office managers in Maine, some of them opt to raise and wave the white flag.

To surrender and come out into the daylight from small patched together office with raised hands in the air. Too much expense, too little revenue to keep the small Maine town identity alive and vibrant. More on deorganization of small Maine towns.

Small Towns In Maine Where The Locals Are The Entertainment! You Know The Musicians In Maine Communities.

If the small town in Maine can’t keep the municipality structure held together, instead of deorganization, joining forces with a larger community happens.

For example, take the small township of Hersey and Moro Plantation in Aroostook County. The communities hire the services of Patten Maine who is already open for business. And two more property taxation books get A to Z set up and any expenditures for raising or spending money are handled through the town of Patten.

The small Maine communities don’t lose their identity and duplication of municipal services costs are avoiding linking up in a regional approach to town government.

I remember Anna Schools, one neat small town office manager in Maine, in the community of Littleton. With Millie the cat soaking up the sun while napping, Anna with her hair in curlers and watering the Christmas cactus says hello. As I dropped by for a tax card copy or to check up on a building permit from the Littleton ME planning board. Often there was no need to look up an address for a property owner. Because Anna would smile, clear her throat and recite the address from her keen memory.

Trailside Dining In Small Maine Towns. Local Home Made Food Tastes Best At Church Suppers Or Local Eateries.

Single handedly, Anna kept the books, collected the real estate property taxes.

Wrote out the checks for school tuition, filling potholes and to keep the winter roads clear of snow. Bids put out for town services were handled by Anna and during weekend selectmen board meetings.

A discount on your property taxes for early payment was figured by Anna too.

To avoid tax anticipation loans taken out to keep things financially afloat. Small town office managers in Maine, Anna went asked when are you going to get a computer. Her pause, then clearing of her throat before speaking with a smile response? “I am the computer”. She was like the Mother Goose for entire six by six mile Maine township.

In Drew Plantation, one man, in his 80’s makes that community hum.

But Drew Plantation is one heart beat away from deorgnization. When all the towns around you are too small or already gone the deorgination route, you feel pretty much on your own with few options. Bancroft next door to Drew Plantation already let’s the County government run the numbers and bid out the services.

Drew Plantation has a population of around 45 souls last head count. So not exactly a long line of public servant community minded folks to pass the baton to and carry on town government traditions. Small Maine towns are your best sized communities to invest in, for the intimate connection and no disconnect.

The small town office managers in Maine.

There are over 400 of them and dwindling numbers of Maine town office. The town manager of Drew Plantation, the head selectmen keeps the home fires going… literally build a wood stove blaze to prepare for the office use. But most of what happens is right in a corner of his living room. His wife helps too and like a big family, the duties are shared. The animal control office is at this number if you spot a dog at large chasing a white tail deer.

You need a fire permit to get rid of that brush pile that is getting taller behind your home?

Call Snapper at this number but remember. All these auxiliary town leaders have full time jobs doing something else forty or more hours a week. Much of what happens in a small town in Maine is “managed” at night or on weekends. On the fly with quick calls, text messages or emails. Sent to wherever they have their real source of household income to pay the bills, their own small Maine town property taxed homesteads.

More Wildlife Than People In Small Rural Maine Towns. More Outdoors Happens.

In a city, you pay to attend an event. Small Maine towns are different because you step up to volunteer to put on the yearly event.

Everything is home grown and covered dish pot luck public supper like approached because money to hire it all done is just not an option. Plus it is so much more rewarding to be personally involved in a community happening. You miss all the fun planning and improving the event and you get the kids involved, the shut ins are not forgotten either in small rural Maine towns. The collective creative juices get poured into what’s going on through out the year. From the spring canoe race or the 4th of July celebration to the annual Christmas caroling.

Maine License Plates Tell The Story! How The Driver Feels About Living In Maine Is Obvious.

Often the small Maine town event is handled by several who wear many hats. The local churches all have a part and so do the school children, the little league team coach. Retired folks especially with the lifetime experience who may be seasonal snow birds but that have time to pitch in to add to the community events. In the small town office, the usually one person staff that’s me, myself, I … the town manager you sense how busy he or she is.

Fielding non stop ringing phone calls, with one ear on the police and fire scanner to see if a call comes in for a grass fire on the south end of town.

Licensing vehicles, issuing marriage licenses and copies of death certificates, tags for your dog and a stick for your boat or snowmobile. Fire burning permit for the old house torching on purpose Saturday or the EMS training in the school gym coordination.

Many small Maine towns have a one or two room office or use just a small corner of a large vacant former school house.

The local school building no longer needed due to consolidation when the educational census dropped too low to cover the education expenses.

In the Haynesville ME town office you see lots of boxes and sometimes smell everything from crayfish to produce odors. Free food to help subsidize the local grocery costs mean the small, cramped multi purpose town office is used for a community food pantry.

In small rural towns, folks pray and worry about the community members of all ages.

There is strong connection and sense of caring you just don’t feel in large urban population centers. Small groups on ZOOM meetings are much more rewarding and productive than large ones.. same dynamic. And because you work with Tom and Sue on so many local community events and serve on the same boards, the small group “knows” each other personally.

It is not uncommon to hear the small town manager asking Bob as he licenses his boat and trailer how his mom is doing after her surgery.

Maine Small Town Artists Crank Out One Of A Kind Items. Like This Maine Theme Handcrafted Window.

Or when is little league starting up so I can post it on the town’s social media channels Zeke? Zeke and his brother in law Stanley are the little league commissioners for the border league youth ball team. The one that needs uniforms, practice sessions and the dug outs painted this weekend heading into another baseball season. Nothing done for the money. Because the salary is purely the goodwill your volunteering provides the town and your own sense of purpose and inner well being.

Fundraisers are big to create the money raised locally at public suppers of community breakfasts.

From car washes to candy sales to raffles on a rifle. Or something like a snow sled or four wheeler or a tank of heating oil, a cord of seasoned fire wood. Somehow, the funds are raised writing grants. With well organized haunted hayrides or from Christmas tree sales to pull off funding another community event.

Veterans who served from the small town are remember dead or alive with monuments.

Fishing derbies, canoe races, hunter contests. Christmas parties down at the sled club or fish and game or American Legion or one of the local church worship flavor locations. There is much that goes on behind the small communities. The graveyards are kept mowed. The grounds maintained in respect of past community members buried in the small Maine town cemetery plots.

Small town office managers in Maine, they have a big responsibility.

They and all the volunteers that work hard behind the scenes are a special breed. Wanting no attention for themselves, but all about pride and respect for their home town of whatever else in Maine.

Carrying on tradition, enjoying growing up in the small Maine town pushes them into stepping up and performing a service.

Local Artist Cynthia Taylor Creates Greeting Cards, Maps, Local Maine Lifestyle Products.

Contributing, making the small Maine town the special place each one is because in main part because of the people who live, work, play there.

Taking turns at different roles in the Maine small town leadership of all the departments.

Holding down two, three or more “titles” because it’s efficient and not a lot of folks stepping up to replace them after their term ends. Setting up and running voting booths during election day.

Volunteering on the fire department and going out on calls to help their community. Creating the parks and recreational programs, setting up town signs, supporting the school children, veterans and elderly needs.

Just working together behind the scenes for the greater good. Time that most have no idea about how long it takes to pull it off consistently and often single handely.

The small town office managers in Maine are the cheerleaders to put the community on the map.

To educate property taxpayers about homestead, veterans or tree growth property tax reduction programs. Finding a community block grant for a failed septic system that the local taxpayer can not afford to replace.

To organize the locals to tackle the new roof the elderly widow needs to stay in her own home.

And avoid the forced move to an assisted living facility many townships away from her community.

The small town manager in Maine gets visits and phone calls or emails from folks doing ancestry searches and is a town historian.

She or he helps the school alumni plan reunion events or guides the who to call for what and where. Quickly reciting contact name and numbers as the local insider expert chamber of commerce welcome wagon operator.

They have a very big job and juggle many balls, wear many hats. Thank you for sticking around, reading this blog post on the very important role small town office managers in Maine play.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

April 17, 2021
Maine Colleges, University Campus Tours

Maine colleges, university campus tours.

Have you tooled around any Maine higher education options lately? With COVID19, the Maine college and university tours still happen just in an abbreviated fashion. You don’t get to see as much of the campus and stay clear of crowded university areas. It is important to find the best fit for the next educational step in a young adult’s life. Going to a Maine college or university campus tour soon? Too expensive from lots of angles not to do your “homework” before landing up in the wrong place. No reason to wait, cram and pull an “all nighter” right?

Picking The College Or University Campus In Maine Means Touring Them One By One.

No cafeterias during meal time on your cruise, everything taken in from a safe distance in the college and university Maine campus tours.

Long list of questions, signing off and temperature taking protocol in place on your college tour which eats into the tour time. The one on one campus experience shared with student enrolled at the Maine college or university is so worthwhile. You are not part of a big herd where the folks upfront heard that last answer, the next question. More personable and scheduled like clockwork these days on college, university campus tours in Maine these days.

Parked, Refreshing, Taking A Break From The Maine Ski Slopes. It’s A Hard Life.

Then it is on to crunching the expense numbers for any of your Maine college or university campus tours locations. When the nitty gritty talking with the admission’s office personnel happens on the college campus tour.

Many Maine high school seniors have lots of college credits from completed courses.

Taken before entering whichever higher education location in Maine gets selected. You just hope the college study hours are transferable at whatever school you end up attending for the sheepskin diploma.

How many college or university freshman know exactly what they want to do for work in life?

And since you attended a Maine college or university, how much have they each changed? Remote learning got a hard rear kick in the pants since COVID19 came to town. To see and compare, you have to do Maine college, university campus tours.

How tech advanced the college or university is matters a lot more these days. And vital stats on who has the best cafeteria food, is near a ski area or other recreational venue. Where’s the best night life, what’s the ratio of men to women, everything gets discussed.

Who had the best live concerts back when you could put that many people together under one roof or o one playing field? The best sports team record gets lots of press and adds to the appeal. All that enters into where today’s student decides to attend for a slew of reasons.

You are not going to avoid having a little fun while in the four plus or minus year higher educational bubble right?

Were you one that knew early on that this was the best career choice fit for you?

Did you plan to learn more and then double back to apply it all working in a family business? It can be scary when you know you need a college, university degree but just not sure in what field of study. The high cost for a Maine two or four or more year college or university education. That only increases the nervous level in students and parents partnering up to pay it all back.

Had four kids of my own that went on to college and remember that experience of visiting campuses, working hard to improve SAT scores.

The study of FAFSA (free application for federal student aid) and setting up Next Gen 529 college accounts in Maine created at birth and funded religiously. As the two girls, two boys approached the college and university education mode of their living and learning for the brave new World ahead of them. The number of siblings in college or university in one family at the same time can help when the FAFSA folks do the number crunching for student aid.

One daughter went to Columbia, another to Simmons. The oldest son to George Washington and the youngest to Colorado College.

Colorado College Ice Breaking Introduction For Students, Their Parents Too That Tag Along To Orientation.

It used to be that if your high school student finished number one or two in their class, then free attendance, no cost for college or university happened IF you stayed in Maine.

I went to UMO where my Dad, two brothers attended. Now many kids would never ever want to go the same place their parents did for some reason. Great to look at college and universities campus tours all over creation but how are you going to pay for it? How big are the loans you carry for years after the experience stops and real World happens? I see lots of folks forced to rent longer. Because the educational payments and student debt drag them down. Too much debt means no room for a house payment according to the debt ratio analysis.

Maine colleges and university grant large subsidies in merit based scholarships.

Maintaining a 4.0 grade point average (GPA) enables a good chunk of the tuition bill to be eliminated. Add in work study if your student qualifies and need based financial aid. And the cost of college or university gets a further bottom line reduction.

Dual enrollment in high school or online local college courses taken in Maine’s gear up program saves thousands of dollars for many students. Already having a year or more of college course credits under your belt. That gives the student a major leg up in reducing the time and expanse of higher education. So did CLEPing classes which my kids did to get some of the credits earned early before starting the Maine college, university campus tours.

Over the over the last couple months, trips to the University of Maine at Orono, Husson and Thomas College have been going on. In depth study of the business programs of all three have been different.

How hard the college or university recruits and why in the form of letters, cards, socks, masks, t-shirts, knapsacks, pens, key chains, lanyards shows how hard the fishing is. The constant contact shows sincere interest. That the higher education recruiting show goes on full tilt despite the pandemic creating the need to be more creative in the information gathering.

Sabra talked with recent graduates of the three colleges and universities under consideration. The faculty one on one talks were very inspiring as she considers the best pick for a college or university. It helps her feel ready for the next life challenge as her senior year winds down. Competition for students is not just based on grades.

Being a good soccer and basketball player has caused local high school coaches to make an effort to reach out to her after games.

To casually recommend going here or there where they hope she would suit up to play on whichever Maine college or university campus tour team is being promoted. Not just the campus tour

Dangling, Handling The Ball To Advance Up The Maine High School Soccer Field!

The best education is not just in the four year Maine college or university bubble.

I was lucky to have known in high school what I wanted to do. Broadcasting at the age of fourteen working at a local radio station owned by Howdie Doody of early black and white television fame. That’s where my head was at and planning to work my way up the broadcast ladder and seeing a future working in bigger markets out of state.

Being able to work in the Bangor Maine broadcasting market during college was financially and educationally rewarding.

The degree in broadcasting and journalism was valuable from the University of Maine at Orono campus. But living in a fraternity house, the college experience and hands on working in the real World commercial setting. Besides classes, all that was part of the take away experience. When I was at UMO, the Alfond Ice Arena was just being built! The Black Bears hockey team went higher higher getting into the frozen four national play. RIP Shawn Walsh the coach lost too early to kidney cancer that took the UMO hockey program on a heck of a ride.

Sports In Small Maine Towns Starts Early, Carries On Into College, University Studies.

Not everyone knows what they want to do the rest of their life before heading off to college.

Before committing to lots of educational loans to earn a college or university degree in whatever field, you need a plan Stan. Hitting Governor’s Restaurant in Old Town for the hot dog blue plate and a blizzard shake, shopping for convenience items at Wadleigh’s Market. Creating a pretty amazing vegetable garden at University Park. It was not all walking to eight o’clock class, to the library nightly to study. Where it was lots quieter than being in a UMO fraternity house.

Living in the Bangor Maine area for six years through college and being year round full time on 370 College Ave Orono ME at Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE).

And then a spell at University Park apartments were worthwhile in shaping the direction of life. Sampling another area of Maine broadens your perspective and every region of Vacationland is a little different than the another.

Bangor Maine’s Paul Bunyan Says Welcome!

As it turned out, the getting married, thinking about starting a family changed the dream of leaving Maine and advancement in a broadcasting career. Raising kids outside of Maine did not seem the best for the family. So shifting to get a Maine real estate broker’s license right out of college became the fork in the road.

The early media training and writing blog posts and creating videos all helped the ever changing Maine real estate operations.

Working in radio at WABI, WLBZ, WACZ and running camera for Eddie Driscoll and the six o’clock news at channel 2 was fun and educational. Bill Green, Eddie Owen, George Hale, Mighty John Marshall were all Maine broadcasting influences too.

WABM, Eventually WHOU Radio In Houlton Maine Broadcast Studio Image. Everything Was Live, Local In Black & White.

Being raised on a farm in Maine did not hurt either.

Exposed to hard work and stick with it training through all kinds of ups and down agricultural markets helped season and weather me. The education never stops and I don’t care what field or endeavor you find your groove in. Everyday that career is reinvented to stay fresh, fun, pertinent.

What’s your purpose in life, where is your education taking you? Technology in the information society has lessen the need for more of one field. While opening up lots of new exciting ones to consider for young minds to lack on to and run with hard. Is your job just a way to pay the bills? Is there fire in your belly and passion in what you do? Maine colleges, university campus tours! Been awhile since you did a one? Even where you may have gone does not look anything like you remember it if it has been awhile.

Is volunteering and helping others in service work something that excites you in your community? In Maine, lots of personal satisfaction is found at work and volunteer efforts. Plus we live in Maine, four seasons of lots of fresh air, clean recreational water and safe friendly S-P-A-C-E.

The Maine Barn Like The Fort With All The Other Farm Buildings Surrounding It. Where I Grew Up And Still Own Today In Houlton ME!

A lot of the kids I went to college with in Maine that were from out of state ended up staying here after they got out.

The college and university experience outside of their higher education class room study was everything Maine offers. Maine, the way life should be for lots of reasons.

What do you want to be when you grow up or do you plan to ever stop learning and become an old fuddy dud? Not me. In small Maine communities there is always plenty to do pitching in and helping out at work or play. Small towns in Maine are home grown and hands on volunteering strong. Because the money to hire it all done would not be half as rewarding. Plus it just is not there in the local budgets to fund the many small struggling Maine communities.

The coronavirus has helped make folks stop and consider are they were they want to live.

Maybe where they call home was the best option at one time but maybe not anymore. I believe instead of our children being the greatest export to look for good jobs, that the Internet is changing things.

Instead of eight out of ten folks living in a city. Because that is where the jobs are, the option to work remotely with online jobs is stopping the leak. The turmoil and uproar of the past year’s media coverage of the World’s events. Lots of noises and hubbub has made many consider where to go and maybe Maine works best. Thank you for following our Me In Maine blog posts.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

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

February 1, 2021
Moving To Maine, How’s The Real Estate Market ?

Moving to Maine, how’s the real estate market?

You are not alone if Maine is on your where do I want to live now radar. The thought of of picking up lock, stock and barrel and relocating to Maine may be on your mind. These days especially, folks are looking for down to Earth family values and seeking our communities that provide quality of life. COVID19 and the Maine real estate market, the pandemic just added fire to what was already happening.

Time To Paddle On A Bottle Smooth Glassy Maine Lake. One Reason To Move To Maine.

The virus with the number accelerated the hunt for someplace where social distancing is easy.

Less people, more space and all this four season outdoor living. It easily makes Maine a top contender answering the where do we want to move next for quality of life question.

Maine is clean air, fresh water and not crowded.

The real estate is low cost and affordable housing happens all day long in rural Maine communities. Land to enjoy space, the same ground affords planting and harvesting good wholesome food. Or land is used for a life style and explored in recreational pursuits.

The attitude in Maine is tread lightly.

Easy does it. Respect the environment and pass on your property in at the very least as good but hopefully better than you received it. Mainers are good stewards and when using the trails across the land of others they realize it is a privilege not a right.

Respect operates round the clock and on the national scene today what’s broadcast does not mirror that simple Maine living theme. There is fear and anger and sensing something is seriously out of whack.

When you are surrounded by lots of land, the urge to roam and discover Maine nature is easy.

Especially when the low or no Maine population factor is figured in. Freedom, recreational trails, hills and mountains to hike. Ponds, rivers, lakes and streams to paddle, fish, swim or wade in happens. No parking problems or expense. Less waiting around in lines. Keeping your wallet in your back pocket or down in your purse. Everything does not have dollar signs attached living simply in Maine. Life is hands on and less hired out up here in the Pine Tree state. Is life like that where you hang your hat now?

So big step, moving to Maine.

Outdoor Living, The Space. The Biggest Reason To Move To Maine Is For Personal Space.

It often starts slow and small. Just a couple acres of Maine land is purchased.

The land used for low cost vacations for now. But in time, life events like retirement or just an itch to move from an urban area kick in. To make the once in awhile used recreation Maine land become something more. Either full time in the move to Maine or part time when you spend half your days here, the other half somewhere else. When you move to Maine whole hog and make Vacationland your zip code after living in a higher priced one, you are headed in the right financial direction. The move to Maine. Using the one 207 area code, and often with plenty of money left over from your out of state real estate sale.

How’s the real estate market in Maine today?

Strong. Because to own and enjoy some it is so much lower cost to buy real estate today in Maine. Part it is the long hike up the pike that insulates us. And part is due to the fact we have more wildlife than people. Vacationland is not spoiled or over commercialized. We safely parked up in the corner of the country. Like a thumb stuck up and almost in Canada. Like the other states of Alaska and Hawaii, kinda by ourselves and out of the cross fire of day to day ups and downs.

Space Where You Can Hear Yourself Think. Maine Is Outdoor Four Seasons Natural Beauty.

The Maine people are friendly, helpful, hardworking.

That’s the best treat that comes with the Maine real estate purchase. The further up into Maine and away from the expensive coastline, the cheaper the price and more property you get. The best value for Maine real estate is found in the small town living experience where the population is four thousand or less.

Telecommuting to work online remotely at your cyber office job means bring your employment with you can happen.

Internet broadband connectivity is the number one questions from those in the Maine real estate audience that depend on tethered or wireless connections to the copper, glass strand or through thin air. Pack up your job and bring it along. The Internet over the last thirty years sure has changed our I list, market, sell Maine real estate. It’s helped the move to Maine possible when before it was not in the cards.

Low crime, no pollution, no gangs, no drive by shootings, no traffic. Maine.

The big attraction in the move to Maine is not just the salty sea air, the steamed lobster, baked potato, fresh blueberry pie. The scenery is drop dead gorgeous. Money to enjoy Maine is not the end all and having lots to just survive is not necessary. Real estate is not the only item that costs less. Insurance on what you buy is lower, just like the premium on what you drive. Less crime, lower property values all reduce the need for lots of green stuff to spend. We don’t spend money like drunken sailors. Kids are taught to manage it better and see their parents doing the same. All circles around the respect approach to living life in Maine.

Hiking, Climbing Maine Mountains Gets Kids Off The Couch, Away From The Boob Tube.

Respect Nature, enjoy the four seasons around us and easy does it on the spending.

To prepare for setbacks that will happen right on schedule ahead. More do it yourself and developing a skill set to avoid being highly dependent on others to help you through life. We pitch in and volunteer and make being in a small Maine community worthwhile for our families and others around us. Positive not negative is the atmosphere all of us strive for to enjoy life not simply endure it until “The End”. Moving to Maine, lots of folks are soul searching that topic these days.

Pure and natural is big attraction and major positive change for many who have gone without it for far too long. But what we don’t have, that long list of what you don’t want all adds into the decision to move to Maine. Maine’s low population makes traffic, crime, pollution and heavy layers of building regulations go away. Common sense still rules the day. We strive to make our days worthwhile and fruitful and a lot it is simply worth ethic. Lessons learned in the woodlot, out on the back forty farm field or in the barn.

A Wicked Witch Of The West Spent Summers Hear. Maine Cast A Spell On Margaret Hamilton. Who Also Pushed Coffee Not Just Flew Blooms And Terrorized Dorothy, Her Little Dog Toto Too.

Running a small business, maybe on the docks or the skipper of a fishing boat off the coast of Maine.

Or making a living sharing the experience with tourists sampling Maine on their vacations. Simple living, hard work, not needing a lot to be content. Isn’t that the best approach to life when you reduce it all down and stop trying to keep up with the Jones’s or what highly effective marketing tries to convince you that you need and lack?

Many move and relocate to Maine in retirement.

To replace the forty hour work week with close to the same amount of time spent differently. Their days and nights split between relaxation and volunteering in their new Maine community. Moving to Maine is not just for the space, the lower cost real estate. It’s a whole new lifestyle that is thrown into the mix when you move to Maine.

Moving To Maine, You Ready For Some Of This?

How’s the real estate market in Maine?

Are you in moving to Maine mode? Good time to list and sell in definitely a seller’s real estate markets outside of Maine. Healthy, vibrant and listing sales fast and furious is the temperature of hot real estate sales in Maine. You get more for less in Maine. The real estate market sales are up because so many folks don’t like where they live now outside of Maine for lots of very good reasons. And Maine real estate buyers are able to sell for top dollar, often over list price because of bidding wars with multiple buyers. Maine. I admit it, I am spoiled and feel so lucky to live in Maine full time. Thank you for following our Me In Maine blog posts!

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730

January 13, 2021