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  • Buying Maine Land, Dividing It Up, What’s The Process?

    Maine Is Unspoiled Natural Beauty, Lots Of Green And Blue.
    Maine Fall Leaves Changing Colors Like 2nd Bloom, Extra Natural Fireworks.

    You are buying a big piece of Maine land and wonder how can you carve it up, divide the property.

    Here is the latest on Maine subdivision laws, regulations. More from the state of Maine subdividing land here.

    The first step in dividing land is to figure out interior access roads needing to be built, constructed for everyone to have a way in. Or better yet, buy, purchase a property in Maine with long long road frontage so the “slices”, parcels each provide adequate frontage. And visibility for a driveway.

    Blind spots won’t be approved and where to put the driveway may be dictated by a Department of Transportation site review.

    Lots of accidents in this area on a blind curve could mean no driveway permit issued for your own safety. This is part of the “blood on the highway” legislation for your own safety and usually on busier roads in Southern Maine.

    Making 500 acres of land, property in Maine split in to smaller pieces could be complicated by wetlands, more restrictive regulations in an unorganized town or plantation. Or more beefed up local town code ordinances and neighboring property owners input.

    Soil tests for septic systems in Maine and waste water run off is a big concern.

    Maine, we like to protect the environment. Pass it on to our kids in better shape than we received it. The is called good stewardship and a dose of common sense, respect, appreciation for the four season natural resources of living in Maine. We are buggers about erosion, run off of silt that chokes fish, spoils any of our 6000 Maine lakes.

    With less people, being insulated from the population centers where you carry a taser, worry about gangs, Maine is attractive, unspoiled and safe. Our schools don’t have, need metal detectors and our police don’t work out of, have offices there full time like many places in the country.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • The UMO Professor Handed Us 100 Feet Of 16 mm Film, Wished Us Luck.

    Pintos, Had Two Of Them Growing Up, Until Raph Nadar Showed Them Dangerous, Prone To Car Fires.
    Maine College Kids Ride Of Choice…Orange, White Ford Pinto.

    The University of Maine film class was on capturing life, being creative with a little drama.

    My UMO film partner and I thought about capturing something a little less textbook. More unique than how to build an entertainment center or swing set. Like the real life of a Bangor Maine taxi cab driver.

    Now a 100 feet of film is not much to create with.

    Little film gets left on the editing room floor if you are serious about creating anything worth watching.

    We had envisioned being on the second story of a downtown Bangor Maine building. Slowly pulling back from cab driver waiting for his fare. Adding sound to the optical audio track about how lonely waiting, sitting thru any weather must be while away from your family at all hours.

    By yourself waiting, or driving alone but glimpses, meeting a variety of people, some fares real characters. Vigilant, at your post behind the wheel, being in a cab as a Maine taxi driver service industry worker to get you where you need to be. That was the mental storyboard for the film scenes. We thought as we climbed in to my orange and white Ford pinto.

    Andy Kozinski and I heard Orono Maine fire engine sirens as we headed down Stillwater Avenue. Rolling down hill on the way to Bangor, we made a field decision. To shift gears. Save the gas to Bangor due to the never being flushed with college student cash, money situation to “cover” the fire. The smoke from the burning Maine home, the school bus air brake sound as the kids living there get dropped off with large eyes. The growing concern as the reality of the event sinks in. Neighbors gathering on the lawn, silent, watching, seeing themselves in the same situation and what they would or would not do.

    Flashing lights, police and fire sirens, two way radios blaring in the background. I thought whoa, what if that was me as an eight year old getting off the bus. Seeing home sweet home so smokey.

    Red, orange, yellow fire flames snarling out the window of the room I called mine on the second floor.

    What contained my most precious possessions, what Santa had brought me over the years. My world in that room being consumed, fire destroyed, blackened. How it would affect me? Our 100 feet of black and white 16mm film captured the scenes, sounds, reality on a small local Maine town scale. We got an “A” for the project. Video of a Houlton Maine electrical fire a while back a deja vu event.

    I know a fellow who lost his wife and two kids in a fire. That will not sleep upstairs and is haunted by the tragic lost. I have never seen, felt, experienced fire up close and personal. And hope I never do.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com.

  • We All Are A Little Bit Green In Maine.

    Maine Is Natural, Four Season, Green Living.
    Make It Green, Swim In The Color In Maine.

    Living green in Maine, with a life and death awareness, urgency.

    Because its more important than that. Mainers are built, wired, grounded with the four seasons that swirl and nurture around us.

    Survival meaning you can not white flag it, no running out and just buy the solution option.

    Take care of what we have, respect for your surroundings and others. That is the axiom that is kept simple in Maine. So all the green green living this and that buzz talk makes Mainer’s smile. Being green saves money.

    It goes back to living on the farm, growing your own food. Heating with equal length, split chunks of beech, maple, birch, oak fuel from the back forty woodlot. Composting waste vegetable peelings, anything organic. Spreading animal manure fertilizer on fields. Using the sunny breeze to air dry your clothing, laundry.

    Blown away by the natural beauty of whatever season in Maine happens every day when you live here. Spoiled with our rich local beauty with 6000 lakes, all that that wildlife but conserving the resources around us.

    Helping our kids to learn the same respect.

    Passing on the green tradition we called country living…before everyone else applied a color to it.

    Taking nothing for granted. Always knowing how lucky we are to find ourselves in Maine. Maybe before you get here its like living partially, or fully paralyzed. Maine, get here quick as you can. The attitude, its happy for all we have, it’s all good here.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com.

  • If You’re Happy And You Know It, Move To Maine (Clap Clap)…

    Maine Youth, Kids Work The Potato Harvest And Don't Feel Picked On, Taken Advantage Of.
    Maine Potato Harvest Workers, Kids In The Fields Picking Spuds.

    Watching a movie last week with my oldest son Alex, the main star was asked where is Hell, does it exist?

    The questioner was looking for a place and the response was “Other people are Hell”. It sounds sad to say we make our own misery being ungrateful or thinking we did not get a fair shake in life. But happy, it’s a full time job, decision to live our lives. Show our kids, local communities.

    Stephen Hayes has his happiness viewpoint perspective to share. I believe where you live, the surroundings have plenty to do with your happiness meter reading. To avoid the “tilt” light from glowing, coming on, Maine offers more scenery, less people. Maybe that combination provides the daily playing field we wake up to, leave behind when the Sandman visits.

    My job as a Maine real estate broker is to provide tons of information on properties with boat loads of images, helpful links and blog post copy and video productions of the area and listings.

    But just as important as the property that I make my bread and butter from is to sell, the area of Maine, Maine itself, the place and people just as big a part of the marketing, story telling.

    If you love where you live, you are in your right place. Your job, day to day is not a labor, tedious. Like the glass slipper Cinderella was made to wear, Maine is one big beautiful unspoiled state to consider. Move here, retire and relocate to Vacationland. Low cost investment with wide open four seasons return is what Maine offers for folks serious about fun, family, being happy.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Maine Potato Farmers Raise, Grow 55,000 Acres.

    When you live in Maine, you don’t eat a lot of rice growing up
    Picking Maine Potatoes Starts Early.
    New Maine Potato Pickers.
    on a potato farm in Aroostook County.

    Nothing wrong with rice, but with potatoes all around you on the Maine farm, its just a big part of most meals.

    This year the day after day of sunshine from spring planting through out summer cultivating, hoeing, spraying had some concerned about the effect on the yield, quality of Maine potatoes. This season with roughly 85% of the crop out of the field, in the bin or on the way to the fresh market, Maine’s potato farmers report success. Hurricane Earl and local potato field irrigation pond water relief to parched spuds made all the difference in the spud season finish.

    Between 1928 and 1958, Aroostook County alone produced more potatoes than any state in the nation. But the eating habits, methods in raising spuds have changed. In 1960, my dad a potato farmer told me 50,000 railroad cars of Maine potatoes were annually shipped out of Aroostook County. But then trailer trucks and overnight service kicked in with the “just in time inventory” business practice model adoption.

    The Maine Potato Board provides lots of history, details on the spud industry primary headquartered in Aroostook County.

    Instead of an hour or more to bake potatoes, the house wife or husband needs something already mostly cooked.

    To pop in the microwave, warm up and wolf down to get Jimmy or Jill to the next sporting, musical, school event or part time job.

    Head to a Maine potato field, watch this family spud picking video.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Bar Harbor Maine Early Morning View, Fall Foliage.

    Another Day In Bar Harbor Maine, Hancock County Starts With A Fall Sunrise.
    Maine Is Scenery, Four Season Beauty, Rock Bound Coastlines, Vacationers.

    This is the view that greeted agents, real estate brokers as the Maine State REALTOR’s Convention in Bar Harbor ME wrapped up today.

    Maine is one big state with varied back drops of four season beauty, scenery. But the same down to earth, friendly, family oriented hard working people no matter where you go in Vacationland.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com