your investment, consider joining this group. Small woodlot owners in Maine own 33% of the Pine Tree state's wooded sections, or 5.5 million acres of property. More on managing your woodlot with the federal government's help here. And saving money burning wood in Maine? Double click here! In some towns, the outdoor boilers have been controversial so check with local ordinances before buying your oudoor wood boiler in Maine! And for buying Maine woodlots, visit here. Ever acre in Northern Maine's woods can generate a cord of wood a year. A cord is 4x4x8. If managed corrrectly with tree growth forestry plan in place, the wood lot investment can be maximized. The idea is to invest in a woodlot with hardwoods now and to give it to your kids in better shape than you received it. All the while enjoying heating your 1400 square foot home with five cords of wood from your own Maine woodlot. Remember, there is a large penalty for removing a woodlot from tree growth program that reduces your yearly property taxes.100,000 People Can't Be All Wrong...
In Maine, 100,000 small woodlot owners band together to manage their properties. If you want to maximize your investment, consider joining this group. Small woodlot owners in Maine own 33% of the Pine Tree state's wooded sections, or 5.5 million acres of property. More on managing your woodlot with the federal government's help here. And saving money burning wood in Maine? Double click here! In some towns, the outdoor boilers have been controversial so check with local ordinances before buying your oudoor wood boiler in Maine! And for buying Maine woodlots, visit here. Ever acre in Northern Maine's woods can generate a cord of wood a year. A cord is 4x4x8. If managed corrrectly with tree growth forestry plan in place, the wood lot investment can be maximized. The idea is to invest in a woodlot with hardwoods now and to give it to your kids in better shape than you received it. All the while enjoying heating your 1400 square foot home with five cords of wood from your own Maine woodlot. Remember, there is a large penalty for removing a woodlot from tree growth program that reduces your yearly property taxes.
your investment, consider joining this group. Small woodlot owners in Maine own 33% of the Pine Tree state's wooded sections, or 5.5 million acres of property. More on managing your woodlot with the federal government's help here. And saving money burning wood in Maine? Double click here! In some towns, the outdoor boilers have been controversial so check with local ordinances before buying your oudoor wood boiler in Maine! And for buying Maine woodlots, visit here. Ever acre in Northern Maine's woods can generate a cord of wood a year. A cord is 4x4x8. If managed corrrectly with tree growth forestry plan in place, the wood lot investment can be maximized. The idea is to invest in a woodlot with hardwoods now and to give it to your kids in better shape than you received it. All the while enjoying heating your 1400 square foot home with five cords of wood from your own Maine woodlot. Remember, there is a large penalty for removing a woodlot from tree growth program that reduces your yearly property taxes.
3 comments • Andrew Mooers | Northern Maine Real Estate / Aroostook County Broker • August 26 2007 09:27PM"And Like I Said....And Like I Said.....Like I Said..." Been In This Loop?
How do you handle the conversation with a buyer or seller that tells you twice, three, four times and more the same thing? You agree with them, you acknowldge you understand, but sometimes the other side of the conversation starts a continuous loop...nothing new is added but rehash of the same retort...perhaps to get themselves used to the plan or stategy on their real estate need or situation. To avoid twenty minutes lost here, lost there time leaks without being rude, you will have to be able to pull away letting the other side know you have it, are in agreement and are ready to put it into action. Same with phone conversation where other end may want more images, maps and information but as long as you are on the phone hearing the "loop", you are not able to get the call ended and the email sent. That is unless you let the other end ramble while you type and perform the task with additional data sent while you let the other side know "ah huh", "sure", "okay". Other lines could be ringing, fire alarms could going off in the back ground...but nothing can seemingly stop the ramble that can stall production. Just sit there and listen? You may have to at a point let them know you have enjoyed talking with them but have to sign off now to get on to their task. If this does not work, you will need to let them know you have an appointment you are going to be late for ...the appointment is getting them back into their life on their end while you attend to their need on your end by breaking the "and like I said" routine. Know the drill? It is hard as you do nor want to cut them off or hurt their feelings. At the same time, take a gander at your conversation skills, have you gone over and over the same point? Why? Didn't think the other side understood or needed a repetitive "like I said" litany? Now you know what it feels like to be on the other end of the "like I said" loop!
0 comments • Andrew Mooers | Northern Maine Real Estate / Aroostook County Broker • August 25 2007 12:02AMBrokers & Agents That Only Sell Property They Like Are Limited In Market!
You are Joe Agent..meeting with young couple asking you to see a simple trailer to avoid renting for a few 
more years. What's your attitude ? Not excited or helpful because you would not like to buy a trailer yourself? Too small a sale for your time? It is not about you and your preferences...sell them a trailer..find them a trailer to get them owning something and out of the rent rut. When you excercise your preferences, you limited your audience and hurt your brokerage abilities due to your own bias. Think customer. Think how the trailer or starter property saves them beaucoup dollars or wasted rent money stopped. Think they are working their way up...that they flip this humble home for something higher up the home ladder..think of it as a stepping stone whether you ever lived in a trailer or not. Like life, it is not about you..it's about others and their needs / budget. Put yourself in their sneakers!
3 comments • Andrew Mooers | Northern Maine Real Estate / Aroostook County Broker • August 21 2007 09:19PMMarket Strength Affected By New Real Estate Licensee Property Pricing Too!
You are a brand new real estate agent...you sport a new brief case from Santa, 500 business cards wih a thousand watt smile and a provisional license for a year. You are ready to take to the open road. Listings, listings, listings...collect 'em, get those sellers signed up pronto. With the news of nationally a soft market, new agents can add to the sluggishness of that market in many pockets of the country. When agents ask the seller what they think the place is worth, nothing good comes out of the resulting over priced property listing. Many part time agents are happy to just have their name plastered on a sign rider somewhere in their burg. They put food on the table with another full time job outside the real estate arena. Do you want to just list the property to eventually lose it to another agent / broker who eventually prices it correctly so it has a chance of selling? The over priced property starts a land slide of other sellers thinking hey...if that place is worth that, 
then mine is ten times the property. The folks down the street decide to list and throw back objections when you show them them the fair market value of their place. "Well Joe Green down the street has a home worth $200,000 so my place should be $300,000 at least right?" Wrong, basing your property value on what another is LISTED for is destined for heartache. Makes for touchy ground when you start building a case with comp sales for what their home is worth but without coming right out suggesting what is happening in the local market with the sky's the limit pricing strategy of many many new licensees. If you have made your living full time selling real estate and know the market, you step back in amazement with the sea of over priced property that starts to glut the market. The local market can freeze and become more sluggish due to a glut of over priced property. Then buyers new to the market start to wonder what is wrong with the property they drive by daily that has curb appeal but sticker shock. The only thing wrong with the property to keep it from selling is a way way too large unrealistic price tag that can snowball with agents continuing to list over priced property. It can quickly become monkey see, monkey do pricing which was not what was taught in real estate valuation 101. Don't follow the trend of whatever the seller wants pricing. Anything will sell if realistic priced and marketed correctly...
then mine is ten times the property. The folks down the street decide to list and throw back objections when you show them them the fair market value of their place. "Well Joe Green down the street has a home worth $200,000 so my place should be $300,000 at least right?" Wrong, basing your property value on what another is LISTED for is destined for heartache. Makes for touchy ground when you start building a case with comp sales for what their home is worth but without coming right out suggesting what is happening in the local market with the sky's the limit pricing strategy of many many new licensees. If you have made your living full time selling real estate and know the market, you step back in amazement with the sea of over priced property that starts to glut the market. The local market can freeze and become more sluggish due to a glut of over priced property. Then buyers new to the market start to wonder what is wrong with the property they drive by daily that has curb appeal but sticker shock. The only thing wrong with the property to keep it from selling is a way way too large unrealistic price tag that can snowball with agents continuing to list over priced property. It can quickly become monkey see, monkey do pricing which was not what was taught in real estate valuation 101. Don't follow the trend of whatever the seller wants pricing. Anything will sell if realistic priced and marketed correctly... 0 comments • Andrew Mooers | Northern Maine Real Estate / Aroostook County Broker • August 20 2007 04:58AMHad Your Hand Licked Lately? They Are Always Glad To See You!
Man's best friend? No...its not a real estate broker...its a loving cat or dog. In the Southern Aroostook 
area, the Houlton Human Society is active, healthy and now housed in a brand new facility. Funds raised in the Houlton area from individuals and civic groups like the Houlton Rotary Club that saw the need to take good care of man's best friend. Visit the Houlton Animal Shelter for new adoptees and organization news. You may find a furry friend you want to share your home with too! For more articles on pet food recalls, animal care and links to tons of hepful pet sites, visit here ! If you are in the Houlton Maine area, drive out to the new shelter built with state of the art materials on the Callaghan Road. Cathy Davis, the head of the non profit group says many folks shy away intially because of fear they will want to bring all the animals home. Have you recently lost a pet? Or a mate? Consider adoption says Davis. Visit on a Saturday morning when all the animals are mingling while cages are spiffed up..you can see how they interact, how social they are and to help pick the right one for you and your lifestyle. Pets...after a hard day at the office, a cold nose awaits you...they are always glad to see you..especially when the cat open starts or you are in the fridge hunting for that nightly snack. Never eat alone again!
0 comments • Andrew Mooers | Northern Maine Real Estate / Aroostook County Broker • August 20 2007 04:31AMWhere Southern Aroostook Plays Ice Hockey...Millar Civic Center In Houlton, Maine!
When the ice storms of southern Maine caused long power outages, northern Maine just received a thick 
blanket of white snow...so much that the arena where youth play hockey caved in. Luckily no one was inside and FEMA money plus insurance funds helps make a bigger, better facility with ice making! For youth hockey news visit here. For high school hockey news, click this site!
blanket of white snow...so much that the arena where youth play hockey caved in. Luckily no one was inside and FEMA money plus insurance funds helps make a bigger, better facility with ice making! For youth hockey news visit here. For high school hockey news, click this site! 0 comments • Andrew Mooers | Northern Maine Real Estate / Aroostook County Broker • August 19 2007 05:17PMNorthern Maine Soap Box Derby!
Ready to race your soap box derby car? Cars, kids and parents come from all over the country to experience gravity racing to win points to go to Akron Ohio for the big world series of racing! Houlton's fall race application available here! Registration form here!
NORTHERN MAINE SOAP BOX DERBY
HOULTON, MAINE
SATURDAY NIGHT UNDER THE LIGHTS"
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8&9, 2007
LOCATION: DERBY HILL, HOULTON PARK, HOULTON
TIME: CHECK-IN 7:00 TO 8:00A.M.: OPENING CEREMONY, DRIVER & PARENT MEETING
8:15 A.M. RACE BEGINS PROMPLTY AT 8:30 A.M.
REGISTRATION:
PRE-REGISTRATION ONLY: REGISTRATION MUST BE RECEIVED BY WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 5, 2007. PAYMENT TO BE INCLUDED WITH REGISTRATION.
3 DIVISIONS - STOCK, SUPER STOCK & MASTERS, MAXIMUM 32 EACH DIVISION.
$85.00 FOR ALL THREE RACES OR $30.00 FOR DOUBLE AND $25.00 FOR SINGLE.
DRIVERS WHO ARE NEW TO RALLY RACING MUST SUPPLY A COPY OF THEIR BIRTH
CERTIFICATE.
ON SITE CAMPING IS AVAILABLE - PLEASE CALL OR E-MAIL WITH MORE DETAILS.
HOTEL INFO - IVEY'S MOTEL - 532-4206, STAR DUST - 532-6538, SHIRETOWN MOTOR INN -
532-9421 (ASK ABOUT SOAPBOX DERBY DISCOUNT)
SETUP:
2007 ALL AMERICAN RULES ASPEN STYLE FLOORBOARDS
LANE AND WHEEL SWAP NEW STYLE HELMETS ONLY
COMPLIANCE INSPECTION TROPHIES TO TOP 8 EACH RACE
MAXIMUM TAIL WEIGHT DIFFERENTIAL: 15LBS. MASTERS TROPHIES TOP 3 PLACES
DOUBLE ELIMINATION
LIFTING HELP IS EXPECTED AT THE BOTTOM
WHEELS MUST BE RETURNED TO OWNER
BEFORE LEAVING.
FOR MORE INFORMATION/QUESTIONS CALL CHRIS HOLMES AT (207) 532-9889.
EMAIL - c_holmes@verizon.net
CHECK PAYABLE TO : NMSBD RALLY AND MAIL WITH REGISTRATION FORM TO"
CHRIS HOLMES, 3 BROOK ST., HOULTON, ME 04730
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CONTESTANT NAME ___________________________________________________________
AGE:_________DATE OF BIRTH__________________RALLY ID#(IF AVAILABLE)__________
ADDRESS_____________________________________________________________________
TELEPHONE___________________________________________________________________
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2007 - DOUBLE: STOCK______ SUPER_______MASTER_____________
SEPTEMBER 8, 2007 - SINGLE: STOCK______ SUPER_______MASTER_____________
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2007 - DOUBLE: STOCK______ SUPER_______MASTER_____________
TOTAL $ ENCLOSED__________________________
0 comments • Andrew Mooers | Northern Maine Real Estate / Aroostook County Broker • August 17 2007 10:32AMBanking Financing That Suddenly Happens When It Was Not An Option Before!!
As brokers out in the market prior to the sub prime derailment that is everywhere in the news now, it did not come as a surprise. As a broker...we had many situations where we list a home, find a buyer who is in the process of local financing but not completely thru....and then find out from banker, oooohhhh we have problems...can not make loan. Buyer goes to other local banks that have same banking guidelines for the most part and not a lot of giant risk takers on the lending level in conservative Northern Maine. So what happens...Deal dead until credit improves right? Wrong. Buyer gets on line and find a zillion banking options...finds outlet that will finance easy as pie for higher rate. And yes, they tell buyer..."You're gonna love this variable rate!" As a broker, you had to wonder how could buyer get financing when no one else in Maine would touch them with a ten foot pole. The buyer would spell out their credit woes and in the past you worked with them with local lender who guides them back to credit health to get a loan...it could take a year or more. These were borrowers who you knew they were not just a little iffy but that any local banker says no one will be able to underwrite this one with the federal guidelines we have to work with. But voila...loan made. But the same credit woes that plagued them before purchase have caused three of these kinda loan situations locally that I saw go to closing last year become empty foreclosures needing alot of clean up this year. One in Smyrna Maine I am amazed at how much damage in so short a period was done on the home. And it was left like a pig hovel to boot. But these" hit the fan" homes loans that were made by lenders no longer in business last year represent a new crop of homes to consider..many are "dirty but nice". 
So when you hear market is down, etc...remember there are deals out there and repo companies that say move 'em out quickly. These sellers are way more flexible on offers than the average Joe Home Owner who says I have to have this amount or I can not move..period. A home we sold last year in the $80's is suddenly in the $40's partly due to condition for short time buyer was in the place but also due to liquidation attitude of holding company that says dump it before winter...Watch for a large crop of these as the autumn leaves start to fall. Get out your check book and keep your credit clean..like the last savings and loan crisis, banks will suddenly have new legislation / regulations requiring tighter money constraints due to looseness of the sub prime frenzy!
So when you hear market is down, etc...remember there are deals out there and repo companies that say move 'em out quickly. These sellers are way more flexible on offers than the average Joe Home Owner who says I have to have this amount or I can not move..period. A home we sold last year in the $80's is suddenly in the $40's partly due to condition for short time buyer was in the place but also due to liquidation attitude of holding company that says dump it before winter...Watch for a large crop of these as the autumn leaves start to fall. Get out your check book and keep your credit clean..like the last savings and loan crisis, banks will suddenly have new legislation / regulations requiring tighter money constraints due to looseness of the sub prime frenzy! 0 comments • Andrew Mooers | Northern Maine Real Estate / Aroostook County Broker • August 15 2007 01:24AMFeel The Breeze..Of 28 Wind Generators On Mars Hill Mountain!
Maine's first wind farm...with 115 foot blades over 260 feet in the air! The Mars Hill Maine wind farm can meet the energy needs of 45,000 homes and more projects are in the hearing stage on the state level in other parts of the state. Maine is positioned to be the number one leader in wind farm generation. Quite a sight to see. Saving the town taxpayers money in help to the town budget with revenue generated too! Learn more here. Mars Hill Mountain where the ridgeline is dotted with these giant energy producers is used in winters for down hill skiing and in the summer/fall for a scenic backdrop to a golf course. Mars Hill borders Canada to the east and the mountain claims to be the first place in the US to enjoy a sunrise due to its location and elevation. Mars Hill Maine is in Aroostook County, the largest of the 16 counties and the northern most one in the Pine Tree State. Iage below courtesy of www.mainewind.org from a live mountain cam made possible by WAGM TV8 and Pioneer Wireless.
0 comments • Andrew Mooers | Northern Maine Real Estate / Aroostook County Broker • August 13 2007 08:18PMAmerican Folk Festival In Bangor Maine! August 24th Thru 26th!
Over two dozen nationally reknown performers / bands playing a slug of musical flavors across five stages on Bangor Maine's waterfront. Have no plans for that weekend, August 24th-26th? Forget mowing the lawn, pack 
up the station wagon and head up Interstate 95 to Bangor Maine. Enjoy the tons of food vendors, the sounds, the Penobscot River waterfront and dance, sing and socialize with music pumping in the background. Make it the bright spot of your summer....and a tradition! Thousands of festival goers year after year take the mecca to Bangor Maine. You should too. Come sample the people, the music, the region and see local craftsman and muscians as they entertain the gathering thru this community volunteer effort in Bangor, Maine! More on the Bangor folk festival here!
up the station wagon and head up Interstate 95 to Bangor Maine. Enjoy the tons of food vendors, the sounds, the Penobscot River waterfront and dance, sing and socialize with music pumping in the background. Make it the bright spot of your summer....and a tradition! Thousands of festival goers year after year take the mecca to Bangor Maine. You should too. Come sample the people, the music, the region and see local craftsman and muscians as they entertain the gathering thru this community volunteer effort in Bangor, Maine! More on the Bangor folk festival here! 0 comments • Andrew Mooers | Northern Maine Real Estate / Aroostook County Broker • August 12 2007 10:12AMContent © 2009 'Frequent Contributors'. Design © 2009 ActiveRain Corp.
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