Carry your camera everywhere you go...cause you never know when wildlife, sunset, or better image of the property you listed a few months ago comes up...don't get caught without your camera. If you have a huge one...get a little guy you can slip into a pocket and be on the war path for better images in the area you serve 
and of the property you market. The better your imagery and that of every other broker in your area, the more sales all will enjoy. You are a cheerleader for your corner of the world...your place in the sun. Brag it up, take images to their best perspective so others get excited as they tour the area on line...a super image may make the difference of whether they make the trip with $3 gasoline in the back of their mind making them hesitant these days. Give the viewer eye candy. If every local broker stocks the shelves of realtor.com and their real estate websites, it starts a stampede of folks wanting to make the trip. Maine is a beautiful state with so much to capture that will interest and captivate folks that are not use to the unspoiled beauty of this off the beaten path part of the country. Find something in your area that you can get excited about and capture for others to catch the enthusiasm. If you are not adventuresome in your imagery and write 
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how is John Q Citizen going to get cranked up and excited enough to call, email or come north to knock on your office door with funds in hand to make that purchase?
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Maine continues to shine as healthy, home sale wise despite the contrary in many spots of the nation. In the last quarter according to MREIS (Maine Real Estate Information System), sales are up 7.56%. Compared to last year, sales increased 12.55 % for a median average sale price statewide of $139,000.
Labatt's Blue (or is it Bleu?) and Molson Golden. Ski at Crabbe Mountiain in Upper Haynesville, New Brunswick and saw the movie Titanic in Fredericton when it came out. Toured Dalhousie in Halifax with one son who almost went there. Hope I don't get booted. Used to buy Clearly Canadian water and my god father was from Woodstock and tried to get me to like eating dults (dried seaweed or kelp?) and pink peppermints. Wonder if dults was spelled right? My kitchen came from Canada, we ride a sea doo that we bought in Centreville New Brunswick and have been to Winter Carnival in Quebec several times. Four honda 70 mini bikes for the kids came across the border..with a little duty cause they were not made in North America. Watched my share of Hockey Night In Canada and in the country could only get two US channels, two canadian signals. Learned about all these towns as a kid on canadian tv and I finally travelled to Halifax, Moncton and other burgs now as an adult. Hope I don't get black balled trying to join the Canadian realtors group. We have worked on this side of the border with owners of canadian real estate to co broke with New Brunswick brokers on that side to make it legal and there has been a great spirit of international cooperation. God save the queen eh?
You cruise thru the current blogs, see a headline that grabs your attention..you stroll in to scope it out! Then you see some comments on one of your contributions..so you check out the Rainer who pinged you. While checking his/her blog home, you scan thru the groups they are part of. You catch the list on the left quickly but get a strong first impression. It's like a military cluster of medals or casually looking thru CD's at a home you are waiting for your buyer at to show. The first impression of what groups the member is part of and the number of groups give you lots of insight. Ever noticed how similiar or vastly difference the flavor of the roster is? Here's what one Rainer that had quite a collection jammed in the book case of their profile library is into these days...how to pick the right 
consider with your spare or vacation time in Maine? Focus your peepers on this 
Real estate brokers can find themselves in the middle of a deposit return squabble like wrestling with a Maine black bear over a jelly filled day old donut..when deal goes south. Both parties can get further entrenched with finger pointing and accusations that would make a pirate blush as time marches on and deposit is just sitting in a trust account. Some buyers and sellers go on and on thru court systems while Joe Broker who can not get a release of deposit signed off by both parties waits in the wings for mutual attorney instructions on what to do with the deposit. Many times, after parties go thru several sets of attorneys that get hired and fired along the way, the final outcome is dismissal of case in court with neither party found at fault. Each party signs off with or without prejudice and finally you as the broker are done..cut and dry right? Noooo...make sure the courts indicate what was suppose to happen with that deposit, clearly spelled out so you can take steps to do the appropiate release. If it is not a clear cut case of clear title or bank financing for contingencies but more involved, then the issues surrounding the extra layer of what each party expects from the other makes the matter hot and contested. Remember both parties involved are not attorneys, that they don't usually deal every day like a broker, attorney and banker. So there is a ripe breeding ground for misunderstanding, flared emotions and fatigue as it drags out in the slow moving wheels of justice. Small claims for small deposits are easier to resolve and utilize an arbitrator. Mediate...don't litigate is taking the high road and so much more productive. In small claims court, all the defendants and plaintiffs gather before the judge, and one by one their cases are called to make sure both parties are present. If one is missing, the judge rules in favor of the one that showed up and makes a judgement reward that is put on the record. If both are present, if no resolution is forthcoming right then and there, you are instructed to wander down the hall for an arbitrator to hear both sides and help craft a solution so parties can get on with their life. Many times, by this time when you may be at the two year mark, with no resolution that satisfies either party, a mountain of legal bills and this issue stick stuck in your craw, it has come time to end it. The arbitrator is part of the $55 filing costs. He or she is one of 70 professionally designated Maine people that help work to a resoultion...many times with a compromise where neither party is happy...but it gets resolved. Unless you like being the star on Judge Judy and the drama of keeping it going, you can be done, signed off and back on the road of life within an hour or two. It helps if both parties are ready to resolve this issue that has been hanging...sometimes both parties are just tired and have new issues to worry about today. If as a broker you have a sizable deposit, you may wish to implede the court to let you hand it over to a judge and to pull back and get on with your day to day of peddling property. This is when you have done your job and both parties are mad at each other but have no axe to grind with the broker. This eliminates the every few month visits from both parties indicating what a jerk the other is and keeping the roller coast rolling with you in the middle of the front seat trying to hang on to your lunch. It allows you to get some other productive work done that helps you buy groceries, gas, heating oil and other luxuries like that.
waterfront cottage on their remote pond. They want to enjoy the scenery and to learn to relax while they are still healthy enough to have a saner life. Restore a queen anne turreted victorian or open a mom and pop business. The common theme is "Get me away from city people". Some are having a mid life crisis. Want to control, alternate and delete the course they are on..the busy impersonal high speed conveyor belt city pace. They just pull the rip cord and consider Maine and other less densely populated states. They want to forget reality television, abandon fast food for organically grown nutrition, avoid traffic and start thinking about raising a family/enjoying grandchildren in a small value based community that just makes sense. No more drama at work, at home, among the wall to wall sea of people where they live now. Some buyers are home schoolers. Some are telecommuters with their website and high tech gadgets packed up in a brown box to set up in the front den in their new way way lower priced home. Some want good health care but slower healthier lifestyle in the golden years of their life. The motivation beside more economical living is less people...less pushey rude people. Less drama, less threats or anger...just peaceful living in a community they can make a difference in. Sound like something you find is missing in the wall to wall, faster faster impersonal place you may find yourself in on the planet today? Trapped? We need to talk. You have just stumbled on what is missing in your life now and clearly seeing the changes needed to get the boat to stop rocking. Saddle up your donkey...Maine is calling your name. You have a home waiting in Maine!
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