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Your Maine Home Is Not Selling (It’s Not What You Think)

You are in love with the place, worked hard to improve it but your Maine home is not selling.

What’s up with that? Is it really just the price is too high? And you picked the absolute worst wrong colors at the local paint store? So quick like a bunny. Hop to it. Change just two things. Price. Colors. Done.

Really, that’s all that’s holding up my Maine real estate sale?

Chisel away at the house list price. Tone down the Mopar high performance color intensity and voila.

Better Real Estate Market, Not Just Price, Not Just House Color Keeps A House On The Market, Not Selling.

Get the “sale pending” real estate home sign rider ready.

Like a baby, gonna have one any minute now. Stick around. Here comes a home sale buyer contract.

So right house price and play it safe easy on the eye colors, oh and maybe a little staging.

That’s how to hit the real estate house sale trifecta? Cool. I just can start filling the beefed up heavy cardboard packing boxes.

And quickly check to see if any new house listings popped up overnight in the Multiple Listing Service MLS feed.

Gotta hustle. Time to start making offers to find my next new home address.

The reasons your Maine home is not selling.

Looks Good, Priced Right But Days On Market Racking Up, How Come Some Maine Homes Don’t Sell? Reasons For House Sale Delay (Not What You Think)

How much time do you have?

This Maine real estate blog post drills down into what impacts how long your home lingers on the local market.

Many factors work in your favor or against you in a home sale in Maine. (Any agent in another real estate market location has their own different advice to share because it is not one size fits all for the country.)

Days on market, a high DOM number is your primary indicator something is drastically wrong.

Nothing says “ten foot pole marks” to potential home buyers than the bloated DOM statistic problem indicator.

What’s wrong with this house, why is it still on the market and what am I missing?

How You Tell The Real Estate Story, How Far Reaching Your Marketing Is. It All Speeds Up The House Sale In Maine!

Why is my Maine home not selling?

Like unclaimed luggage circling round and round the carousel long after all the tired passengers leave the airport terminal. Left behind, abandoned, cold, lonely, unloved.

The buyers jump to the conclusion the home has major problems.

Has to be something wrong. Not sure just what but just a deep dark suspicion something mechanical, very expensive needs repair.

Stay away from this one.

How Long Is By Maine Home Sale Going To Take? Looks All Spiffed Up And In A Lake View Picture Perfect Setting. Should Happen Drive Thru Quickly?

Must be the roof, foundation, heating, electrical or plumbing all messed up in that one.

Heck, could be haunted. (Wait a minute. Doesn’t that make it worth more?)

Keep your distance seems prudent based on absolutely not enough information, the wrong reaction to the DOM.

Sometimes A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words. Other Times A House Is Drop Dead Gorgeous But Still You’re Not Privy, Sure Of The Reasons Why It’s Not Selling.

Every home for sale unless new construction is a “used house”.

They are not perfect, not all the same. Most home buyers have a price range to stay within or it’s keep renting the roof over their head.

So it’s always a do the best you can with the current local housing inventory you have available in any market. Feast, famine, inbetween supply situations unless you are brave enough for new construction, to build a house in Maine.

Buyers, try not to be too picky or seek perfection.

Sellers. the current market comparable houses sales like your place are priced here and you want to get double or triple that?

Real estate agents, please tell the homeowner with all due respect, you cannot meet their price point expectations.

Don’t clutter the market with hopelessly over priced house listings that are not going to sell.

You cannot always help them get a seat at the long shiny real estate conference room closing table.

Whew! Pull Up A Chair, You Made It To Another Successful Maine Real Estate Closing!

It’s not the house is good or bad. It’s more about the motivation of the buyer, seller and even the real estate agent.

(Or a simple hidden title problem discovered late in the sale. Maybe a just surfacing boundary line dispute with a hostile neighbor.

Learning the rental tenant is not leaving but digging in to force a drawn out legal eviction process that costs a home listing sale.)

What does the buyer bring to the real estate listing sale equation?

Better Far Reaching Marketing Helps Sell A Maine Home Faster. But A Home Buyer Not Bank Pre-Approved Can Waste Lots Of Time And Ending Up Having To Bow Out. Next Home Buyer Please.

Make sure you are pre-approved at a local Maine mortgage lending bank first.

Clean up any pesky issues stuck on your credit report before falling in love with the home of your dreams that you can not buy today.

If a house for sale goes under contract with a buyer that is NOT already bank approved, the days on market time suck trap starts.

Tied up so no one can buy it while maybe the buyer does or does not get the green light thumbs up approval.

If that buyer gets denied for lending, back on the market the house goes. Which makes house seekers wonder what’s wrong with the property listing? I thought it was gone, on it’s way to a closing?

I instruct, coach every Maine home buyer once they are bank approved, under contract to buy a house, don’t make any major purchases.

If you car dies, hitchhike. Do no increase your debt ratios. Stay away from charging a purchase for that new living room or master bedroom furniture set. Those added monthly payments means you were qualified but not home loan approved to buy anymore.

It goes without saying not to lose your job, not to change professions or get served with divorce papers. That all has to wait until the day after the closing if you want to stay bank approved.

What does a seller do or not do that impacts the sale price or getting to a real estate closing at all?

Price the property in line with the local current real estate market. De-clutter and deep clean room by room. Up in the attic, down in the basement, out in the garage too.

A little sprucing up with a paint brush where chips happened, washing windows, getting rid of cat boxes. Replacing dead light bulbs all helps the presentation. So does not delaying showings. If the house is rented, the difficulty finding a suitable time for the tenant can miss home selling opportunities.

Reasons Why A Property Listing Is Not Selling. (Not Always What You Think) Buyers, Sellers Make Demands. Real Estate Agents Or Brokers Can Drop The Ball.

What about the Maine real estate broker agent?

He or she is the lead reindeer. Lighting the way from pre-listing to the final real estate clear to close memo and passing the house keys.

Communicating through day and night to keep buyers and sellers meeting their responsibilities. Pivoting around obstacles, meeting deadlines along the way to keep the home sale on track.

Everything is time sensitive in real estate contract sales. Buyers and sellers can not wait forever.

Other attractive house sale situations come and go and real estate home sellers, house buyers get testy.

Lots of advice coming at them from hairdressers and brother in laws who think they know a little something about real estate listing sales.

Buyers and sellers pull the plug and move on if the sale is getting too emotional, is dragging out for lots very good reasons.

If the real estate agent does not make or answer phone calls, text messages or emails. That MIA agent can actually hurt the sale, stall the process from neglect of duties.

That’s it, that simple. As long as everyone does their role mentioned above another successful house sale happens? I just explained the roles of buyer, seller and real estate professional and how to assure a successful sale if followed?

Heck no. What happens in the local economy, the size of the housing inventory of houses just like yours that hop on the market to compete for buyers. That impacts house sales, the days on market DOM statistic.

Like sailing, adjusting the canvas to harness what wind you have is needed.

Adjust To The Wind, Shift And Pivot Quickly In A Real Estate Sale. To Keep Heading In The Direction Of A Maine Real Estate Closing.

To quickly tack. The right moves, certain adjustments are easy to make when the real estate professional has been through several years of on the job training experience.

The real estate marketing is everything.

If only a sign planted in the front lawn, the house has very limited exposure. Today more than ever your house needs better story telling descriptions, imagery, video. Your real estate buyer is very busy and living an overbooked exhaustive life.

That wannabee home buyer looking for a place just like yours needs to know about your listing.

If he cannot find it out in a wider, larger audience of home buyers, if he does not know about it. Well now, it’s like winking at a woman in the dark. Gets very poor results.

Over pricing, poor condition, lack of exposure, stale weak marketing, difficulty in quick showings, an untrained brand new agent, a rotting out should retire older one.

Completing A Maine Home Sale. Sometimes Bumps In The Road, Detours. Maneuvering To End Up At Long Closing Conference Room Table With All The Chairs.

All of these factors hurt your chances for a quick profitable hassle-free house purchase sale.

They each have a role in why a house fails to attract buyers and hangs around the local Maine real estate market

Go online and study real estate listing presentations.

AI slop in real estate is not helping the sea of sameness.

If everything starts to blur and look the same, your place deserves way better than that.

To stand out and get serious attention, the real estate marketing has to pull them in from the curb.

Real estate full motion video with sound is the best way to give buyers open house on demand showings around the clock.

And without boring the heck out of you with technical details, there is so much going on behind the scenes. On how the real estate website IDX can make a major difference being found on the front page of a search index.

How blogging and social media on a daily basis helps the real estate marketing momentum, reach and exposure.

If you are thinking of buying or selling a home, any kind of property, I would love to talk with you.

What’s your real estate puzzle and let’s hear the questions that I can help give advice from past listing sale adventures.

I love this real estate profession, but admit the learning curve has not stopped over the entire 45 years of all kinds of experiences.

You have to have fire in your belly, keep studying and be willing to embrace new ways to do my job better.

You have to feel like you can’t wait to begin another new Maine real estate day.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton Maine 04730 USA

March 14, 2026
Blogging About Maine Small Town Peace And Quiet

Peace and quiet, Maine small town living offers plenty of both.

At a state Maine REALTORS convention this past week in Portland, it was great to be in Maine’s largest city for lots of continuing education credits. To rub shoulders, to compare notes with other professionals from around the state is invaluable to my small Maine real estate operation up here in “The County”.

Congratulations to Martin Cates, Maine Association Of REALTORS “Realtor Of The Year” Awardee.

REALTOR Of The Year In ME Broker/Agent? Martin Cates Received The Maine Association Of REALTOR 2025 Award!

Well deserved for years of community volunteering, real estate listing sales mentoring service Martin!

Lots Of Maine REALTORS Attended The State Convention In Portland Maine!

Heading north up Interstate 95 after this year’s MAR convention wrapped up, I thought about all the many areas of Maine there are.

Hard not to as the mile markers rack up and township signs flash by the jeep passenger side windows.

One session speaker had done the math, counted over 480 communities in the great state of Maine.

That’s a big number of small towns. A lot of little communities in Maine.

The common denominator for many seemingly is lots of peace and quiet all for season.

A commodity not so plentiful in population centers outside of Maine. But don’t believe the low bidder ad agency that often wins the contract for providing out state generated tourist information.

I like see, hearing about the real deal Maine. Not the re-constituted spun kind that regurgitates old not accurate story lines.

Here’s the A-Z of what Maine offers in cartoon form.

Maine Is Low Cost High Beauty Real Estate! Welcome To Small Town Maine Simple Living!

Too many paint the picture that small Maine towns once were thriving but not anymore.

Change is inevitable in life and Mainers adapt, retool and press on in highly creative ways.

Squeezing more from what they spend is a life skill learned and earned early in life.

Picking in the potato fields, raking in blueberry barrens or harvesting seafood in fishing villages that dot the rock bound craggy Maine coastline.

One Basket At A Time! Picking Maine Potatoes Skills Learned By The Lucky Youth Growing Up In A Fall Harvest Potato Farm Field.

Please don’t get the wrong impression about what it is like in Maine.

It’s an easy trap to fall into when many are waving their fingers and flapping their tongues. About something making them hot and bothered on the national stage.We don’t make everything about who you did or did not vote for last election, the one before that.

When from our perch in a small Maine town, we think the peace and quiet out in the vast low population setting is the key. To stay balanced and aware of what is really important in life.

Volunteering and helping others is what Maine simple living is all about in Vacationland.

Preserving family traditions and making sure the next generation is taught more than just how to survive life. But to enjoy and cherish how lucky we really are to live in a place so beautiful and unspoiled and not crowded.

Details, Fine Workmanship, Small Maine Towns Are Special! The Community Is The People, Not Empty Buildings.

Maine small towns are not sleepy but many just don’t get the press.

Nothing ho hum or boring. Undiscovered small Maine communities often feel like a step back in time by design.

What’s important is preserved and the respect passed on. All the members of the small Maine community have important jobs besides what they do for work.

Volunteering and signing up to do the task year after years helps all of us get to know the other community members. There is so much local talent and nothing needs to be “hired out”.

Can I Help You? Here To See A Maine Moose? You Are Seeing Double!

Small Maine towns surrounded by serene peace and quiet are left alone by politicians too.

Not enough voters to bother with and too much travel or ROI for their support. Everything is local, grass roots and home grown. Garden fresh close to home always beats out trucked in store bought right?

Simple living in Maine has a lot of advantages.

So waking up on a Maine lake, slurping my hot coffee and peering out over the water, I feel blessed.

Maine Lake Loon Fishing, Feeding It’s Young. Living Here You See The Skill Taught To Baby Loons On A Maine Lake.

Have my do list for the day back from the Maine REALTOR convention hammered out, am wrapping up the blog post on peace and quiet simple living.

Feeling energized to rise above and seize the day.

Knowing I really am so so lucky to live in one of the many small communities that make up the vast majority of the state of Maine. Where we talk not just text.

And most locals don’t suffer from FOMO.

Our energy is saved for the big challenges of day-to-day life.

Not feeling sapped, always filled with the fear of missing out and anxious that somehow, we are missing out on a perfect opportunity. That desperation only leads to hurried or financially unsound decision making.

Laugh. Laugh Loud. Maine Small Town Comedy Is The Most Entertaining!

Small town Maine living teaches you what priorities to keep straight and never forget to deep down contentment and happiness.

What really matters?

That easy living happens with peace of mind. That practical is not square. That debt is a cancer. Knowing relationships matter and need to be tended like a garden. And enjoying what you do for work, valuing your time is the secret. Thank you for reading, sharing, 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

October 10, 2025
Maine, Live Here, Work Anywhere

More and more real estate buyers are thinking Maine, live here, work anywhere.

What’s It Like In Small Town Maine Rural Locations? Each One Shines Uniquely, Brightly.

The Maine real estate calls into our rural Aroostook County office tell the tale.

It’s families moving in, houses filling up, schools gaining student enrollments, and small businesses welcoming new customers.

Remote work is turning Maine around — not just in Portland or the coast, but right here in Aroostook County, all the sixteen counties.

It’s no longer the old story of “no jobs in Maine.” It’s a new story: “Live here, work anywhere.”

Welcome To Maine. You’re Here. You Made It!

Online living in Maine but working anywhere is a reality.

Reliable high speed Internet connectivity is the game changer.

No longer does a young family wanting to raise their kids in wholesome Maine pack the wagon.

Have to leave for more higher paying jobs in a population center.

Remote worker employment often means higher incomes than the local average, which helps support schools, municipal budgets and small Maine town community programs.

What’s the roof like on a property or is there a garage is just as critical as another question asked with greater frequency.

How’s the Internet broadband service at that Maine real estate property listing location?

Remote work is reshaping opportunities. Maine no longer has to rely on job loss replacement for timber, paper mills, potato farming, fishing and small manufacturing industries.

Grab a bar of soap and keep it handy for the local resident that still growls or mutters “no jobs in Maine”.

Ask many young people who outward migrated to southern New England for higher paying jobs if there was more employment opportunities, would you stay in Maine?

Remote work is a game changer that shifts the focus away from lack of traditional, in-person small Maine town and rural county employment opportunities.

The rise of telecommuting and online work is showing geography matters less.

That you can hold a job with employers in Boston, New York or even California while calling Maine your home. Many big companies are seeing it is cheaper to sub contract the freelancing, consulting, online business functions to online remote telecommuters.

Maine Is Small Town Friendly Living. Who Would Trade That For High Crime, Over Populated Not So Friendly Areas To Live If They Had A Choice?

Before Internet connected the state of Maine, rural meant woods, water, wildlife, few people.

Off the beaten path, taking hours to travel back and forth and a harder option for rural remote Maine to compete for business.

The Internet removed the “too far away” aspect. Blew open the Maine real estate market restriction to an audience that is now global not just local.

It made it easier to deliver information on Maine tourism.

To serve up personal experience testimonials from case after case of telecommuters who packed their current job there.

And moved it along to a new Maine location with all their other personal belongings and loved ones to “Vacationland.

Remote work makes if more realistic for younger Mainers or newly relocated to the state folks to stay, to buy homes and contribute locally while working globally.

Maine markets itself as a “quality of life” state. Loaded with natural four seasons beauty, the 4th lowest crime stat, no traffic and an intimate small town community vibe.

With remote work, these unspoiled Maine advantages tug hard on the heart strings of workers who are fed up, sick and tired. Who no longer need to be near corporate urban bub population centers. Local communities, organization and the state got on the bandwagon early. Live here, work anywhere. Maine.

Rural Maine where I live is ahead of the Internet connectivity curve.

In the East Grand Lake region as a recent example, Fidium has strung glass fiber high speed Internet broadband all over the northern Washington and southern Aroostook County. You want 500 meg speed of thought Internet connectivity? Pioneer Broadband Internet is another local Maine company options leading the charge to offer Internet in places that did not have it.

Perks Of Living In Small Town Rural Maine Spelled Out A-Z.

Dial in the speed like remember the old Sunoco gas pumps? To boost performance with street legal race track high performance octane 360 grade in your muscle car back in the 1970’s.

If you work online remotely it is a given that all your higher income goes to support the local small Maine town economy? Probably not. But having the Fed Ex or UPS truck deliver whatever you used to get in the higher population city setting is part of the decision making moving to work remotely in Maine.

You no longer have to trade off all the perks thanks to the same Internet connection that offers go away you want to live employment options.

The influx of new remote online works has helped cause the shortage of affordable housing and the knee jerk for local contractors and communities to get behind new home construction. The what is being built to sell though has to match the market.

How Many Times Have You Climbed Mt Katahdin? Do You Hike, Bike, Climb The Rec Trails? Use The Maine Waterways Or Hunt, Fish?

Your typical Maine home buyer is looking for affordable not luxury unless parked amount the pricey coastal zip codes of Maine.

The Internet has helps home buyers consider their lifestyle choice and where best in Maine to live it out completely.

Like say your passion to ski. It meant the Sugarloaf or Sunday River area built golf courses. Uses the snow ski lift for fall leaf foliage color peeking. Other events added to the local Maine landscape to make what used to be seasonal resorts into to year round full service ones.

Horse lovers are invited to build a new house complete with a stable to bring Flicker or Bullet with you to ride the Maine mountain woods trails.

Want To Horse Around, Life A Small Homestead Farm Experience In Maine?

Remote work can reverse out migration trends and help young Mainers stay home while building careers.

Working remotely helps attract newcomers drawn by Maine’s quality of life. Clean air, community spirit, safety and outdoor year round recreation. The higher income strengthens small local community economies.

Freelance, consulting and digital businesses are giving people more job employment options than ever before.

Crossing Country Skiing, Snow Shoeing, Getting Outside In Maine To Fill Your Lungs With Fresh Clean Air. Is That Possible Where You Live Now?

For Maine, the benefits are telecommuting and working remotely retains young people who want to stay close to family but still build careers.

The challenge is building new housing stock to fill the needs of local and new incoming house buyers. Developers have to consider what the market needs, what is lacking and would quickly sell if it was built to meet the price point.

The building a house in Maine loaded with a slew of convenience features is great if you can afford it and for your own personal preferences.

A New Maine Lake Home Being Built From The Ground Up. Starts With A Foundation. How Many Angles And Jogs In It Drives The Price Up Or Down.

But simple, affordable ranch and cape style house structures are what is needed in rural Maine. Maine is 450 small communities, plantations and a handful of cities and the housing stock

Living Here, Working There. Your Local Life Can Include A Global Job With High Speed Internet.

has to match the need and price range the new home buyer can afford.

Can You Do This Where You Live Now? Everyday In Maine Is A Vacation.

It’s now new jobs not no jobs in Maine.

For years, people described Maine — especially rural Maine — as a place with “no jobs.”

The story was familiar: paper mills shut down, farms consolidated, manufacturing moved away, and young people left for Boston, Portland, or beyond in search of salary and career opportunity.

But today, that story is changing in Maine.

Live in Maine, work anywhere!

Remote work and telecommuting are quietly reshaping our state — and a Maine real estate broker, it is exciting to see the change up close, every single day.

Young Mainers that had to leave the state to “make a living” are returning home.

Their current out of state employer does not want to lose them and their rural Maine work ethic. The moving back to Maine family brings the job they already have.

Out of state buyers are moving in, sometimes sight unseen, because they can pack their current job and don’t need to replace it.

Retirees looking for a slower pace now have child or grandchildren who can follow them north because remote work is possible.

Today broadband availability in Maine matters as much as proximity to a mill or employer once did.

If Maine leans into the shift from live here, work anywhere. And if she continues to invest in broadband and promotes the clean unspopiled, simple lifestyle and supports new housing development.

Then Maine can turn “no jobs” into “new jobs”. Housing demand in Maine is the earliest signal of population and job trends. And the job trend is move, stay, live in Maine, work anywhere.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton Maine 04730

September 17, 2025
Lake Home In Maine For Sale

Nothing compares, it’s not the same unless there is water at your lake home in Maine for sale.

Waterfront properties offer a ‘hole ‘nother life experience. They say “water fixes everything”. Morning hot fresh coffees looking out over the Maine lake. Finding yourself talking and sharing in a circle of chairs by a lakefront campfire cures what ails you.

Maine Fall Colors, Harvest Foliage. This Land Has Private Maine Lake Access.

Let’s face it. Many of us work too hard, pulled in every direction and just need downtime. Time away from the office, a string of days or even weeks to unplug and recharge and gain life perspective.

Vacation mode at the lake home in Maine for sale.

Paddling a kayak, walking along the shore, diving into a Maine lake or lucky enough to be out in a boat fishing for trout, bass, salmon.

Maybe the kids are up for water skiing lessons this afternoon at the lake home in Maine. Dream of being in that kind of Maine real estate setting?

Dip your toes, soak up to your neck and feel the refreshing cold spring fed Maine lake property you invested in.

Vacations In Maine. Try Something Rock Solid, On A Maine Island Coast Line.

Maine real estate lake homes on the water are highly sought after and always in short supply.

Many would argue there is no better Maine property investment than something next to the waterfront.

Here’s a new Maine lake home listing to consider using real estate video to easily show and tell right now.

Welcome to 101 South Shore Road Drews Lake in Aroostook County.

What you get? 4.15 acres of level to rolling wooded waterfront land to develop and surrounding you for extra privacy protection. Your family can come up to the lake home in Maine location and park a camper trailer up back.

All the details on 101 South Shore Road Drews Lake. The property listing on the water that straddles two Aroostook County Maine towns… New Limerick and Linneus.

Besides one beautiful lake home at 101 South Shore Drews lake, you also own two outbuildings already in place.

Modify them into bunk houses for the overflow vacationing quests. Easily place private guest camps behind your lake home or park RV’s on your 4.15 acres connected by existing camp roads “up back”.

Lake properties come in different size waterfront containers too.

Looking For Up Close, On The Maine Waterfront?

Are you looking for a Golden Pond or a big ocean like experience large body of waterfront? Every waterfront listing in Maine is not created the same due to a slew of factors.

Looking for waterfront property in Maine with a vacation log home plus extra lot to develop?

Here is another lake shore listing just like that on at 134 and 138 Sandy Beach Road East Grand Lake.

One more with 10 acres of land, 300′ on Hot Brook Lake that is a log cabin shell.

Check out this Hot Brook Lake Property In Danforth Maine.

Lake home in Maine for sale, is that what you are after and dreaming about today?

Tap into the Maine waterfront property real estate video playlist.

There is nothing like being on the water, parked beside a Maine lake any season of the year. The sound of it, the wildlife that swim, fly, wander over to it all part of the Maine waterfront experience. The setting in rural Maine, in simpler living locations is a pleasant surprise to many without that luxury that may not be so lucky.

All Natural, Outdoors In Nature. That Is The Big Maine Attraction.

Looking for a property on the water in Maine, say a lake home for sale?

Other kinds of water bordering your property in Maine can happen too… streams, rivers, oceanfront, not just lakes or ponds. Here to help in your search for anything Maine real estate related!

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

July 9, 2025
How To Start A Small Farm In Maine, Why People Homestead?

How to start a small farm in Maine, why people homestead?

Space, less or no regulations, no home owner’s associations, low crime. Is it time to trade the chaos of city life for simple living, no traffic, and the natural beauty of rural Maine? More and more people are moving to Maine for peace and quiet, affordability, and a wholesome way of life.

Getting Out Of A Maine Real Estate Office, Not Pinned To A Wall By A Desk. Me In Maine Blog Author Andrew Mooers Does!

Maine, The Way Life Should Be. One Big State, Lots Of Special Hidden Areas To Discover.

So the idea to start a small farm in Maine, to try their hand at homesteading.

Running a farmstead like maybe some family member did years ago in their family.

I talk to many who remember as kids coming to Maine on summer vacations.

Helping their grandparents with chores on a Maine farm. And these folks think they want their grandchildren exposed to the same self reliance and feeling empowered working the Maine farm land.

With the fourth lowest crime rate in the United States, clean air, and a strong sense of community, it’s no wonder that Maine is drawing families, retirees, and those looking to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle.

What if you could wake up each day on your own piece of land, surrounded by rolling fields, towering pines, and the sound of birds instead of sirens? Low-priced farm properties in Maine offer just that. Whether you’re looking for a small homestead, a fixer-upper farm, or acres of land to build your dream home, rural Maine real estate is still surprisingly affordable.

Small scale farming in Maine isn’t just about growing crops—it’s about building a way of life.

Families are rediscovering the benefits of multi-generational living, much like the classic Waltons-style households where gram and gramp, kids, and grand kids all share the same homestead. It’s not just cost-effective; it creates a support system that modern life often lacks. Imagine having loved ones just steps away, sharing chores, meals, and memories in a way that strengthens family bonds.

Here’s a video to watch for 40 acre farm property in Maine with two houses as an example of a current Maine real estate listing.

Maine’s small towns feel like a big extended family.

Neighbors wave as you drive by, people help each other, volunteer, and come together during hard times. Every person, with their own quirks, skills, and stories, contributes to the fabric of the community. Whether it’s a local farm stand, a town potluck, or a group gathering to help bring in the hay, there’s a strong sense of belonging here that’s hard to find elsewhere. How to start a small micro farm in Maine.

For those seeking a healthier, more active lifestyle, a Maine farm provides daily exercise, fresh air, and farm-to-table quality food.

Maine offers four distinct seasons, each bringing its own charm. The crisp autumn air and vibrant foliage, the snowy landscapes of winter, the lush greenery of spring, and the long sunny days of summer all make farming in Maine a rewarding experience. Your small farm in Maine.

Country Home, Your Outbuildings On The Maine Farmstead. Could You Build Your Own Slowly?

If you’ve ever dreamed of living off the land, raising animals, growing your own food, or simply having space to breathe, now is the time to explore Maine’s affordable rural real estate.

Whether you want to homestead, create a retreat, or start a small-scale farm business, there’s never been a better time to invest in a piece of unspoiled Maine countryside. Buy an old farm tractor, yesteryear equipment and work the land, til the soil.

There is lots of Maine land to buy for little per acre cost. See the buildings, the wide open space in a Maine town with less than 30 people in it? Never going to be Walmart in Drew Plantation, Maine.

Maine Homestead, Looking For A Relocation To Vacationland?

It’s smart to get a mix of land like the video above that is 40 acres total but 10 acres cleared pasture farm land and the rest mixed woods. The clearing wooded land and removing stumps, rocks is a long expensive back breaking process. Start with cleared open land or bush hog the pasture farm field starting to grow up to golden rod and mustard. Start small, think big, think independent and farm to table.

Quick Facts On One Maine Farm Property For Sale!

Why keep putting off the dream of owning or building a home on Maine farm land?

Farm properties in Maine are still within reach, but as more people discover the benefits of country living, demand is growing. Find your perfect farm and start building the life you’ve always wanted—wholesome, peaceful, and connected to nature. For many, the news has them nervous, the high tailing it to small rural Maine and getting below radar looks pretty attractive.

The farm property in Maine you buy does not have to be like the one in Green Acres.

Homesteads, Farm Properties In Maine.

Funny show but we don’t climb telephone poles to make landline calls anymore in Maine.

No mortgage, no high cost of living and more wildlife than people in vast under populated areas of Vacationland. It’s no laughing matter and folks are getting serious about making a change in where they live. Would you like help finding the best affordable farms in Maine? Let’s talk about Maine real estate, my real job when not blogging about the Pine Tree state.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

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

March 3, 2025
Maine Open Space, Less People

Maine open space, less people.

The perks for moving to Maine are many.

Often the reason for relocation is all caused by people. Too many people and the traffic, crime and hub bub where they are trying to move away from today. Just too many folks in a small area jammed together is it’s own torture. Maine is wide open space, unspoiled and common sense still works here. Folks are on the hunt feeling they are notin their right place under the Sun. Life is short and should they pack it up but to go where? Maine, open space, less people. Find low cost inexpensive property to go hide up in Maine.

Why not move, relocate to Maine they ask daily on the phone, texts, emails and actual office visits?

Less people, lower population has it’s reward. Much of what you don’t like about an urban setting goes away replaced by wildlife, recreation trails and crystal clean lakes, rivers, ponds. And the people we do have are family first, hardworking and down to earth friendly.

It’s why this Maine real estate video caught the eyes and ears of 300,000 YouTube users on our video channel.

This property on a Maine mountain with an off grid log cabin and private lake lot waterfront access checked off all the boxes for many in the audience.

The 39 acres of Maine land and getaway property quickly went under contract. In Maine you get a lot more land with every property sale. Like extra helpings of Thanksgiving dinner but happening through out the year as a given. Maine, open space, less people!

This blog post about conversations I have in my real job listing, marketing and selling Maine real estate.

Life Is A Lake In Maine. They Say The Waterfront Fixes Everything.

Today a caller from North Carolina asking about Maine real estate.

Home On The Range… Er I Mean In Maine! More Space, Lower Maine Real Estate Prices, Less People Than Wildlife!

I’ll let you listen in and eaves drop on what he is sharing from his end of the signal. Jerry tells me when I moved to my small town in North Carolina, it was just 3 houses total on the country road. There was a peach orchard on one side of the road, another one loaded with apples across from it.

Friendly, small rural NC community where the couple lived stopped behaving that way.

Then it happened. The town’s 10,000 population doubled. Maine is not going through that kind of pressure or change but lots of states are!

Suddenly 4 subdivisions started up and here come traffic lights, slowing moving roadways and all these people. With the influx of population, the local government starts adopting lots of zoning regulations. Rules, ordinances and that’s what is needed to control growth and make things happen in an orderly fashion. In a short period of time, the neat friendly rural area in the country loses the charm.

What happened that caused the phone call to start the home work on Maine property listings?

Many Home Grown Reasons To Consider Moving, Relocating To Maine! Farmer’s Markets!

People showed up in groves. Lots of nice people, families, retirees but just too many people. Crank your head and lose count of all the new faces and names. Suddenly showing up and not just for a week’s vacation. They are here to stay. It’s time to cash in the poker chips. Push away from the table and travel light to a place like Maine. As you get older and think retirement, Maine looks pretty attractive.

Why Maine?

Because the further up into the state you go, the less people, the friendlier folks are. And old time values returns. Manners, courtesy and smaller circles where people care about each other happens again. As you get away from being an hour or two from Boston, Maine gets sweeter. Rural means less or no people. You are not bothering anyone if the people thin out and why not let the World think nothing up here in say Northern, Western, Eastern Maine regions. (Smiling).

Had A Hard Day? Make It A Double, No Triple Black Raspberry Ice Cream At The Dairy “Bar”.

The next caller from Florida, lived there thirty five years and same story line.

Was a happy camper when their area of the Sunshine state area was smaller. Back in the days when everyone was personable, friendly and your property location was safe. You did not need to lock stuff up, install multiple security cameras to monitor brazen porch pirates. This potential Maine real estate buyer lost his brother who died in his early 50’s. He is thinking better make adjustments to enjoy however many years and quality of life he has remaining.

Then right after this call from Florida ended, on hold another inquiry on the other line. Picked up, a real estate office caller, another one from Montana. This real estate caller today told me he and his wife had sold a house in Wisconsin, another in Minnesota. They live in Montana and want to sell there to move to Maine. Both grew up on farms in Wisconsin.

Lower real estate prices, lots of water, all kinds of trees and less people are part of the Maine attraction

This out west Maine real estate buyer had been studying the community videos, reading blog posts on life in Maine. Over the back to back end of the year holidays, many are thinking I gotta move and why not Maine? These are just three of the new daily prospects considering Maine for the move and relocation. Others plan to make the move to Maine when their looming retirement date arrives!

Why do people want to move anywhere in life?

Economics because it is cheaper comes up near the top of the list. Number one is the setting, the four seasons natural wonder of unspoiled Maine. Less people is a driving force causing the move to Maine too. Here is a moving relocating to Maine checklist to consider to streamline the transition.

Years ago the move to Maine was often for religious freedom. For the offer of free land to help build new communities. Maine was not a state until 1820 and part of Massachusetts til then. Today moving to Maine is all about a quality of life. For raising a family or to enjoy retirement tapping into the countless recreational options. A lifestyle on a lake, being in the deep woods, on a farm, ski slope, in a river raft or kayak. Riding a horse, hiking up a mountain trail, sailing out to sea in a Maine coastal harbor. Take your pick.

Just wrapping up this hunt and peck Maine blog post when notification down in the lower right hand corner about a new out of country email. The real estate email reads ….

Hello!
I saw your video about the 40 acres with cabin in Linneus, ME, (69,000 USD) and was wondering if the property is still available?
We used to live in Maine and own a house in Biddeford, but I currently work in Switzerland.

We are interested in purchasing an off-grid plot with a cabin back in Maine (The Way Life Should Be). If that particular lot is no longer available, we would love to hear about other similar properties.

Thank you and Happy New Year!

Curtis

Are you living in Maine and grateful to be here?

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Other outside and locally know how lucky we are for what we have and what is missing you don’t want.

It’s more than just a case of grass is always greener to move anywhere else. Happy New Year! Take inventory of how lucky we are to live in Maine. But realize what we have here is not like that many other places. Kids learning life skills and work ethic is one of the perks. Maine, open space, less people is not the norm, I hear how rough it is outside on a daily basis.

So if the low or no cost fun outdoors in Maine.

I went skiing with my youngest son and grand daughter Saturday at a small local Maine mountain. No charge for her being under five. $25 dollar lift tickets not $75 or higher for the adult skiers won’t break the bank.

Hearing her giggle and witnessing her down hill skiing skills steadily improve in just her second year of swish swish.

She is only four. It does not get much better than that. There is no better place to raise your kids or to start a business or to vacation or to consider retiring in Maine. It was a fun day at the downhill ski slopes. Get off the couch, shut off the device! Get to Maine, the way life should be! Maine, open space, less people.

Trying to showcase the four seasons of Maine and her drop dead gorgeous charm and natural beauty. To provide you readers with what is it like living in Maine’s nooks and crannies! Trying hard to stock the information shelves with what it like here along with the photos, videos to back up the type. 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

January 2, 2024