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Tag: Aroostook County

  • You’re Lucky Enough To Be Able To Drive, Cruise, Fly In To Maine, Aroostook County.

    Maine Lakes Are Unspoiled, Fished Filled, Soothing To Be On, Look Out Over.

    Aroostook County, the top of Maine, the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined.

    Somehow, by fate, coincidence or just sheer luck you get to spend a day in the “Crown of Maine”, in Aroostook County. What to do to make the best use of your time, to hit the highlights? Like a cruise ship that floats to three islands, and you collect all three t-shirts getting off to sample each venue for a day. Your cruise ship is in Aroostook County, parked, waiting for you to get back on board, to sail south.

    You are not going to be doing the Allagash Wilderness Waterway trip. Too many days and that is an advernture for the next few day vacation you set aside on your return to Aroostook County. The Allagash trip is technically in Piscataquis County if the truth be known. Just like Baxter State Park is technically in Penobscot County’s northern most regions for the north entrance to climb Mt Katahdin.

    So you are only here for a day which means a quick trip across the Canadian border in to New Brunswick, Quebec that both border us could be in the short time frame. Just to say you’ve been there, read the metric signs, learned a little roadside French. Collected a loonie or two for a sourvenir. If you had little kids with you, a climb up Horse Mountain, an easy trail in Baxter State Park would be memorable. Or a similiar hike up Echo Mountain at Aroostook State Park, Haystack Mountain in Caste Hill would give you scenery, exercise in the short period you cruise ship is anchored in Northern Maine. Outdoors is big in Maine. All four seasons. If you landed here in the winter, snowsledding to really cover ground would be a possibility. That adventure gets you to places not accessible by car and loaded with wildlife, scenery.

    Just spending the day on one of the many lakes, ponds, rivers in Aroostok County could be what you had it mind. Put your feet up, lean back on a lake deck and peer out over the water.

    Just relaxing without any huffing and puffing in Northern Maine.

    Low key, but still with water in front of your, along with fish jumping, a coffee in your hand while the sun rises, birds serenade you. You saw a moose, deer, black bear all from your open deck or while driving around Aroostook County. Bean suppers at local community churches or say the Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum are not a bad use of a few hours during your trek thru Northern Maine either. Or if you land here around June 19th, you could watch the Northern Maine Soap Box Derby Race in Houlton Maine. It was the nation’s largest five years in a row!

    The best part of Aroostook County is not the unspoiled rolling fields, woods, waterways and long views. Not the wildlife in Northern Maine either or watching the changing of the seasons. It’s the people. Hardworking, family oriented, down to earth and interesting. Simple living by choice, but anything but simple mentally. Mainers have their feet on the ground, are focused on taking care of the neat region we are blessed with. We enjoy where we live, who we are, and want to meet you too. You will come away from Aroostook County’s day visit with a sense of peace, hope. Knowing there is a place where the pace of life is not 200 miles an hour, other people matter and time out to enjoy the four season beauty of a place like Aroostook County really happens. You’ll be back from your day long taste to spend more time here. To get to know Aroostook County..the “other Maine”.

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

  • Maine, Maybe That’s The Ringing You Hear In Your Head.

    Bail Of Where You Live Now, Relocate To Northern Maine, And Watch Your Health, Attitude Improve.
    Bail Of Where You Live Now, Relocate To Northern Maine, And Watch Your Health, Attitude Improve.

    Time to move from where you live now to Maine.

    If you have a ringing in your head that is not going away, and is getting louder, maybe if you listen closely you hear the distinct word “Maine”. If you can not sleep and the high pitch humming, ringing, buzzing, headaches and depression, mood swings, testiness, increasing state of anxiety is beyond a concern, maybe where you live is the reason for it all.

    Maybe nothing medically is wrong, but geographical you are experiencing urban sprawl, over development. Or just live in fear of gangs, numbed by the news of non stop stories each night about kidnapping, drive by shootings, crime on the upswing.

    Maine is the 4th lowest crime state. Aroostook County where I live is half of that pretty stellar crime statistic again.

    Why? Simple. Way way less people, more open space and all around elbow room. You jam rats in a small area and step back, watch how they behave. Same dynamic. Or it’s like you become a bear living with one, or two many in tight quarters. Man, the machine was not designed for cities, tight spaces, a corosive or hostile environment.

    Second reason for low crime, keys left in the vehicles parked in the yards is local Mainers work hard for all they have. They are proud of, brought up to respect the value of that hard work. The items you, anyone buy with that hard earned money and sacrifice. Don’t waste resources..yours, mine, anyone’s. Period. Basic, black and white pride of ownership, the way we roll. And not wanting to have someone trash your personal property and returning the same favor of leaving something not yours alone. Or even protecting it and getting involved if something does not look quite right at your neighbor’s down the road. Get a plate number, make a call. Even go up to the property, confronting the out of state vehicle at Mr Jone’s hunting camp with 100 acres to the south of you. We ask the guy what’s up, are you a friend of Mr Jone’s and hear the story, the yarn spun. See if his breathing increases, his eyes avoid contact with our own. Decide whether a call to the Maine state police or local sheriff, police department is in order. We have the neighbor out of state on cellular speed dial and the property owner appreciates the keeping a look out for something strange, out of place at their property.

    Pretty hard to beat the natural four season beauty of Maine, the sense of personal safety and that your property won’t get tampered with, anything stolen after a break in.

    So back to the ringing, the just not feeling your self these days. Get pure, real relief in Maine. Less noise of traffic, industry, more sounds of nature. Wind in the pines. Birds chirping happily on a sunshine rich day. Loons singing or crying depending on your perspective or their mood at the time on a Maine lake under a brilliant, intensed dotted black velvet fabric with more stars than you ever knew were overhead. What you have been missing due to all that light and air pollution where you call home now. The place that no longer is the neat little burg you moved to twenty years or more ago. Time to move, relocate.

    Maine, that’s the voice in your head, the sound being made inside. The volume increasing between your ears because you body is unhappy you are just not taking the cue to vamoos.

    Ask me about low cost Maine real estate on a lake, river for full or part time recreational use. Get healthy, get to Maine, the way life should be. Watch the Maine videos of local events and see what you are missing out on in so many ways, so many levels of your life.

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

  • Questions That Come Up But Don’t Apply To Aroostook County, Northern Maine.

    They are good questions. The issues they raise out of concern for public safety and investment protection would be standard in other areas.

         For example, if someone asks where are the bad areas, or shady seedy crime riddled areas to avoid in Aroostook County, or Northern Maine, you have to smile. The poser is thinking city, crime, shanty town areas of gangs, no respect for personal property or even human life. You know, the kind of areas in cities where you don’t go through unless you absolutely have to.   And you roll through those stop signs, keep your eyes front and center, don’t make visual contact and avoid anyone you meet becoming skilled at the survival tactic of not being noticed. Non confrontation, like a spec of dust masterful of blending in, passing through, fearing for your life. We don’t live like that in Aroostook County.  We wave at each other, help each other, need each other, respect exists for our neighbors, friends, and in many cases family members.

         You don’t carry a taser. You car and home are not even locked.  The keys in the vehicles sitting in the yard may look inviting to someone who’s brother owns a chop shop if we were in an urban setting. But we are not. Never will be. Our location insulates us.  Stolen cars are common place in population centers. But consider a map of Maine (pointing to Houlton Maine, on the Canadian border of New Brunswick)…and ask yourself, who is going to travel this far north, to not find many exotic cars to steal knowing there is a variable arsenal of local law enforcement that is ready but not faced with this problem?  No need to

    Maine Rivers To Canoe, Kayak Can Be Like Glass Smooth In The Early Morning Hours.
    Maine Rivers To Canoe, Kayak Can Be Like Glass Smooth In The Early Morning Hours.

     curb a situation that does not exist. In the case of Houlton Maine, the Troop F State Police are headquartered here, there is a sea of white and green striped US Border Patrol agents exploring the highways and back road border crossings, local Aroostook County Deputy Sheriffs, local Houlton ME Police and one other key element for crime that is missing here. We have respect for other people’s personal property, respect for how hard folks work and how you would not want something stolen or vandalized if the shoe was on the other foot.

         So when I get asked a common question as a Maine real estate broker of where are the bad areas, the neighborhoods to avoid, I smile.  There are no bad towns, no crime infested areas. With 11 people, not a 1000 good and bad folks per square mile, crime is the country’s 4th lowest for the Pine Tree State.  The northern most county, Aroostook is half that state percentage again.

         The only “bad town” is one located further away from work or health care or the school activities your youngsters’s are in because of the drive time distance and extra cost of gas getting to and fro.

         It’s the hassle and gas, car wear and tear element, not crime that concerns folks here. For example, Haynesville Maine has 136 folks in an area six by six miles.  It’s 22 miles from Houlton Maine. Last check Hersey Maine had around 45 folks full time in the same land area, the typical grid for all over this part of the state.  People get along and there is space, not

    Picnics, Enjoying And Respecting The Maine Countryside And People.
    Picnics, Enjoying And Respecting The Maine Countryside And People.

     tension or squabbles over being jammed in or any need to defend every square inch of real estate. It’s like being at Disney Land, and no line at Space Mountain, not many people for that matter to get in the way, to watch out for or avoid. The situation does not exist which comes with the territory of elbow to elbow urban areas.

         Another common questions that might need to be raised in other parts of the country. This one not involved cities. Do the mineral rights in Maine, the water, everything under the ground come with this property?  Yes, in nearly 30 years of selling northern Maine real estate, I have had two instances where some older codger thought there was gold in those hills and mineral rights were excluded, not conveyed in a deed. Two out of thousands of transactions which shows the question is not posed very often.  Aroostook County Maine, get here quick as you can. This Maine FAQ video may help you too!

    Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers