You have been jammed in for years, on a small postage stamp lot. People here, buildings there, squeezed in and finding it harder to breath, relax, find a comfort zone with adequate spacing.

These possible real estate suggestions change all that. All price, all locations, all different and unique for your consideration as you ponder investing, moving part or full time to Maine, the way life should be.info@mooersrealty.com 207.532.6573. See all our 315+ videos of Maine real estate & local community living at www.youtube.com/mooersrealty

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Recently listed a brick cape that is in tip top shape but brick homes in Houlton Maine not so common.

Makes them extra special and hope the video gives you the low down, a feel for the place. Check out our many Maine real estate videos/local community movies. $70's! info@mooersrealty.com 207.532.6573 Log On www.mooersrealty.com

The huff and puff factor for this one is way way high and just what folks scared of wolves are looking for.

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Standard operating procedure in your day to day? Do you get into habits that on the surface save face and sound good, attempt to make you always come out on top, smelling like a rose, and landing on your feet?

Spin, insincerity, propaganda. Everyone does it, and it's an art form for some right? I am waiting for the day of a college four year degree in "spin". Oh yeah, political science major...it already exists to manipulate, power broker, to weave, bob, snake your way to the top. That is not the America the country started out with or maybe the founding fathers preserved in time as noble, altruistic, not self serving did get their hands dirty or cross the line. Billy Joel reminds us "You are only human, you are suppose to make mistakes".

     The point of this post is do you take the attitude that you are always right, that you do not make mistakes, that you are not responsible when things go haywire and mess up royally? It can be like the youngster who starts lying early on and after awhile, the lies become his reality, he convinces himself that what he is saying is gospel. That is not salesmanship. 

     I made a comment in a blog that made me thing about a car dealership where I needed an oil change, and the tires on my 1978 Pinto (woo hoo) balanced. When I picked the car up as a lowly broadcaster, finishing up my college degree in the same profession, I noticed the tires were really hopping. Way way more than when the chariot was dropped off. I asked the service manager who I knew from being a mechanic for my dad who had eight trailer trucks about the road test I took afterwards. He immediately started in on that was the best the mechanic could do, that they could not have added anymore or less weight and maybe the rims were bent, etc.

The assumption was something is wrong with the car, it is the customer's fault if the service was not performed right. Or that the dealership does not make mistakes, does the best they can and this was the best they could do.

I had got done on my knees to scope out the tires...all four. The wheel weights had been removed on the wheels...and I checked both sides just in case they had added them to the inner half of the wheel to give the dealership the benefit of the doubt. There were no wheel weights so all the potholes from Maine spring driving meant the wheels plainfully needed weights in the right places as determined by a spin balance. Someone forgot to put the wheel weights back on. Period. When I stopped Al in this canned speech to make me think that is the best it could be and the dealership bent over backwards to go beyond the call of duty on this wheel balancing, he looked so surprised, like a Maine deer in the headlights. His expression changed, jaw dropped when I said simply "Al. I checked. There are NO wheel weights on the wheels at all." But instead of lets look the car over, or even considering maybe the dealership in a hurry had made a mistake, an iron wall of "we did the best we could, it could not be our fault and maybe something is just plain wrong with the car and not fixable" was the posture taken. Standard operating survival mode or quickest way to get this crabby customer, all customers who come back unhappy out the door and on their way to another dealership. It made me think about real estate and every occupation.

     Is it a habit for lots of people in their business and professional life to just not be wrong, responsible, able to correct a situation they botched up? Ever? And do folks just not consider first that maybe the guy in the mirror each morning makes mistakes and ownership of them would save alot of time, make the person being snowed not feel insulted because the wool is being pulled over their eyes? Aren't mistakes if acknowledged the way we learn, the lessons that humble but in the long run improve, help our career success and reputation? Or by avoiding them all together as ever existing, don't we hurt ourselves and our kids watching the bad habit? Is the country just frowning on being wrong, or making mistakes in the first place in the struggle for perfection, a perfect score, a gold medal, a home run? Rotarians recite weekly "Is It The Truth...Is It Fair To All Concerned.." And maybe getting back into the habit of applying this gold rule template in business and our personal life, our family day to day has been lacking as a nation? Is it considered not right and deceit but the cowardly way to handle your day to day affairs?

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers- Maine, The Way Life Should Be. Get Here Quick As You Can.

There is plenty of plain jane real estate that is hard to be creative to describe and wow the real estate audience.

But when you list a property that has the stained glass, the turrets, the patterned, different colored hardwood floors and tons of intricate woodwork, the eye candy and real estate copy is easy.

The property sells itself if presented correctly in a video.

In smaller rural areas where there are not tons of "castles" it is especially rewarding to be able to present the cream of the crop, pick of the pack, best of the bunch real estate. It's like a surgeon being tapped to do the intricate, life and death operation on someone famous, or a diamond cutter given the go ahead to painstakingly cut up something like the Hope diamond. These are two examples of those type of listings in the Houlton Maine real estate market currently. info@mooersrealty.com 207.532.6573 Log on www.mooersrealty.com

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Actual real estate brokers are pretty well versed on lots of topics.

There is the usual legal, financing, marketing, copy writing skills we pick up on. We get pretty good at handling folks that are on a happiness scale...well they are not on that happiness scale. We wade right into situations with real estate buyers and sellers in a divorce, that have recently lost a loved one. We try to deal with folks in a forced sale, that lost their job, that have juvenile delinquent kids with emotional problems that do damage with power tools to take out their frustrations or to get attention. We run into the evicition of a tenant that owns a pitbull...three of them that are behind the mountain of garbage, hiding, waiting, hungry for a fresh, juicy Realtor. 

In our travels, we run into some pretty interesting cats. We talk about a myriad of topics on the way to and from real estate.

When listing a place, you learn about the career of the retiring folks, you see the hanging pictures, diplomas, citations for a long life of public service. We deal with new buyers starting out with young families. A real estate broker runs into transferring government employees or corporate workers climbing their way up the ladder or forced to relocate back to family with health issues needing their attention. You form relationships, friendships with many people you list with, sell to and rub shoulders with thru the real estate closing.

     Had a fellow that was a recently retired airline pilot for 737's who came in this morning to thank us for the recommendation of a carpenter that he said both he and his wife puddled up and eyes watered when the process of building was done. They enjoyed the company of the carpenter who did a first class job and was a stickler for every detail. Just what he needed as a pilot. His wife was a stewardess.

In his visit today I asked him about the pilot who died at the controls recently and does that happen often? He said six months ago the FAA raised the mandatory retirement age of commercial pilots from 60 to 65. This pilot that died was 61.

He further indicated NASA did a survey of pilots and concluded that pilots that did retire at 60, has a whopping majority that died at 61, one year later! He also said if a pilot gets an OUI, they lose their pilot's license. Period. And when I asked about the news you hear about booze in the system of some pilots when tested and why that happens he said it was the tension of flying thru weather, getting all hyped up and attending to the details and at the end of the flight, late at night, some think they have to drink to settle down to sleep. Our talk had nothing to do with real estate now after the purchase he made from us but due to his expertise, I got a glimpse into what it is like behind wheel in the cockpit. He further said all the pilots on a international flight, like the Air France plane that went down, are equally skilled at flying because all three pilots take a turn in the different legs of the flight. On domestic flights, there are two pilots. From the media reports, you get the impression one guy is the pilot for the entire flight, and the other pilots have been in the simulator but a kid in the coach section out back with Xbox game skills could do just as good a job putting the flaps up, the landing gear down.

     Why quiz the people we deal with? You learn alot, it shows you care about them. It helps us understand all the people, all the walks of life we run into and to know a little about this, little about that and maybe be a better conversationalist. I let him go by asking one more question regarding the awful trade towers 911 accident with a pair of planes hitting the building in New York City, if that would be pretty hard to do. He said at 500 miles an hour and that a building is a pretty small target to line up for. Iit was incredible that one or both did not just graze the twin trade towers and do tons of collateral damage all along a New York City downtown boulevard. He said you could slow to 150 if you dirtied it up, whatever that flight lingo means but said it was tragic but still quite a feat of flying when you realize how much space you need to turn something way way bigger than a single engine Piper cub. He was making a statement on the technical aspect from a flying not Hollywood perspective based on his experience behind the wheel.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, Full Of Interesting, Special Hard Working People.

    

Ho Hum...you are parked dead in the water at an open house. Whatever floats your boat.

The place is so quiet, the clock on the mantle reminds you of the time you are trapped there. You scheduled  a two or three hour block of time when it worked for you and the owner's time frame to be away shopping at a mall two hours distant. Garaged, stored for the three hour stint and having called everyone and their brother to make sure to stop in for a tour, for some award winning donuts and coffee that tastes like warm water with a brown crayon dipped in it. Ahhhh....open houses. You could make some calls, sketch out the layout for your new real estate website, your next video storyboard or idea for blog posts. You could work on the laptop as if you were at the office catching up on emails. But you are parked at an address for the next two or three hours. Now do a whole 180 degree approach to the open house thinking. Are you with me? Instead of the front door being open and ready for the world to see during a small chunk of time without an appointment, now comes real estate video. Think of the buyer warehoused, waiting with time to kill for three hours at a major airport with wi fi who has the time but in a different time zone than on his Mickey Mouse watch. This guy is working way way too hard. Who wants a place on a lake in Maine or your state, your hometown. Who wants to retire before he strokes out, has a heart attack to a place on a lake that you have just listed.

    

The video you produce that has live narrated audio layed down at the scene, conversational, not rehearsed, not scripted. One on one while he sits slumped in an uncomfortable airport concourse row of seats, watching, listening, learning.

Your video has a story board with the facts, just the facts or highlights spilling out in plenty of time to read and digest them. He meets you Joe Broker, hears your voice, sees you smile genuinely and realizes this guy on the blackberry or lap top wants to help in his real estate quest. This guy on the screen has weaved into the video open house an aerial shot, an easy to read map of the real estate boundaries. He has the video of what the place would look like if this guy was walking through the open front door, around the back yard or over the back forty of the farm. He sees the shoreline of the waterfront cottage. Hears the loons, the singing birds, the water lapping against the dock, crickets, a fishing heading by. The sunset is not a picture still stuck in time, it shows the trees moving, the geese taking off, the water rippling, the sunlight dancing off the lake. He is at your open house that runs 24/7 no matter what his time zone is. He has never been to your hometown, until now.

      The video even has some short clips interspersed with audio tidbits about your area. When he finishes one "show", he checks his watch and has time for a few more. He sees the related real estate and local community videos from you Joe Broker. He bookmarks your site, wants to come back, wants to email the link to one video in particular that made a deep, lasting impression to his wife that is soon watching the same lap top video. As they talk privately on their cell phone about the place and what each thinks about it as it runs, reruns on each video screen they are holding or in front of. They ask each other what the other thinks of the place. No pushy broker standing over them. They are able to shop in the privacy of their own space.

     Real estate dominos snowball like a property avalache. The wife in her housecoat at her home at 10pm on the west coast while you Joe Broker is sawing logs, bagging some zzzzz's, emails the link and comments to her parents. You know to the people who are going in on the real estate buy fifty-fifty who you may never meet but that feel they now know you thanks to the video you uploaded.  You the broker smiles as the views accelerate over the short time the video has been posted. (And you post it in a slew of places to be found and wind your way into buyer's hard drive.) Isn't this the real estate drive thru that you want open and easily found when the buyer is ready for an open house? Or for many open houses on their limited time frame? This guy at the airport and countless folks like him with a little time here and there has been to your open house. He downloads and watches them on his ipod every day for the month on the way to work on the train before his trip to your area. He comes in well versed on the properties because you gave him some open book take home home work. You know folks are watching it and so does your seller by the video view coun. You see the emails caused by this video spark. It's about the customer. Not you the broker. Not the owner of the property.

     The real estate customer now has something  trumping the mantra "location, location, location". It's "timing, timing, timing". The buyer's timing who is suddenly right to purchase somewhere and it might as well be from you. But this timing is limited and not lasting for ever. He is hot to trot. Ready, willing and able to buy. He did not make it to the open house you had eight weeks ago and does not live in your area anyway.... or he doesn't just yet. Don't you want your sold panel screwed to the top of your real estate sign that is parked for the world to see on his new real estate acquistion in the area you serve so proudly? Don't keep the place a secret or reserved for locals able to drop in during the limited three hour time frame  this coming weekend. Produce the real estate video with everything about the place, about you, about your area salt and peppered in every 30 frames per second, every audio bed.

Maine Real Estate Broker/Owner Andrew Mooers - Mooers Realty, The Place For ME Homes, Land, Farms.

    

His best band we followed over the years was "Bootleg" in Bangor Maine.

When you make music for a living, or to subsidize your living, you see quite a cross section of life from a stage. As you set up for a gig in a bottle club, or  wedding or for a charity dance, my brother Steve said it let you see all ages showing up to move and groove, shimmy and shake. Friends meeting for a drink, to joke. Cougars trying to capture some youth. Three piece suits, blue jeans. Long hair, short hair, no hair. They come to laugh, to let go for a few hours, to forget, to socialize, to let their hair down. To get higher, to go lower. Getting along like the animals to the right.  It's a party and new friends, old friends, ones you have not made yet. All in the same room, same event, same venue for a few hours. Assembled for entertainment, enjoyment, to get lost, found or looking for something they need or think they do.

    

Some of the crowd are happy campers, some have had hardship and it shows in their face, their steps. Some want to fight, carry baggage with hair trigger latches.

But for a few hours, they suspend from what they do day in and day out, they walk away from personal problems, bad marriages, problems with health or their children's issues. Or they just take a break from a good life, as a distraction, a stress release valve. My brother Steve who was a singer, a keyboardist said you would look out over the crowd from the stage and see the lady removing her wedding ring, the guy getting a few too many drinks into him and his voice volume increasing, his words slurring. You saw folks really excited when you played a request they made that was very significant to them. And here comes the husband as the night progresses and the boyfriend getting suddenly scarce.

     Brother Steve said you made sure to brag up the hardworking bartenders, the waitresses and reminded the audience to tip til it hurt as they workers there and the band breathed in two packs for each smoking patron of second hand smoke a night. Tearing down the equipment at 2am and heading home to hit the sack with songs, images, videos still playing from that night's gig which is now history as they split the take among the band memebers. Life as a musician. For some it's a job, a hobby and others wanting to be in the top 1% who make it big, touring worldwide for awhile. We are all colors, shapes, sharpness like a box of crayons as an earlier AR blog referenced. We are all in the same box. And have to get along, learn from each other. We entertain each other, make each other feel good about ourselves. Smiling, singing with your heart not your head. Caring, sharing with others.

     Like Billy Joel in the "Piano Man" song,  everyone has a tale to tell, a life to lead, things to do. Mistakes made, success bragged about. Lost opportunities, lucky breaks. It's your life. Do you get out and dance, do you laugh with friends, are you having fun besides just working your fingers to the bone? Do you worry too much? Not enough? Would you like to be in a band and what type of music do you like? My kids have 3500 plus songs in their ipods and exposure to that big a library and earlier days in radio and I'd be pretty hard pressed to find a type or genre of music I don't like. Right now taking in a Farm Aid concert with Neil Young telling me it's time to get back to the country, the place it all started. And now Dave Mathews is jamming and hitting a chord within that says small town rural living, growing your own food, raising animals and crops and teaching your kids work ethic, responsibility are not that bad an idea afterall. Where would we be without music from Steve Earle, Harry Chapin and others that make your think, reflect, consider your course in life?  Music is the mortar for your cracks and helps connect the dots, making what is vague crystal clear.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, Slow Down, Live The Good Life And Get Here Quick As You Can.

    

Whenever traveling, as I watch the news waiting for kids to get out of the shower, I am amazed at the headlines of murder, drive by gang violence, theft on a large scale and tragic events at schools.

You expect the amazing twenty car pile ups due to the traffic of a city, but the violence you see on the tube and read about on line, in the local city newspapers makes me feel sad, slightly sick. Not used to that one right after another coverage of events. 

     In today's local edition of the Bangor Daily News there are lots of community events, friendlier happier news coverage. But for the darker, but tamer set of uglier headlines here is what I scan eating wheaties with my two eyeballs..."Houlton Maine woman hits tree in single car crash", "Boy rides bike into side of pickup in Eastport Maine", "Fire from light damages Milo Maine Methodist church."  "Amity Maine man and son hit moose, both wearing seat belts and are okay but moose killed at scene." That's the best I can do digging up tragic, crime filled headlines boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen.

You have to wonder if the news is dire, the crimes horrendous day after day, do the readers/viewers get "tone deaf" or "numbed" by the severity of the headlines and the crimes themselves?

Does it make you the citizen bitter, hardened, more pro gun control or militant, defensive and shopping for a new concealed taser for you and your loved ones? Doesn't protecting yourself and your family, business from crime waste energy, money and give you less of a sense of safety, freedom, peace in where you live? Does your home where you live have triple locks, a security system? Or like most Mainers, would you have no clue where your house door key is? And the car keys are always, always left in the ignition when parked in the yard, or while you shop at the local grocery? Or with heavily covered crime news areas is it assumed it is like this all across America and around the world?
Do you think there is no escaping it, that like a cancer, you live with in fear with it? Doesn't fear make you old before your time, make you nervous, anxious and affect your quality of life? Is it worth it?

Maine is the 4th lowest crime state and Aroostook County is half that state figure again. Less people, a friendly less desperate population translates into folks that volunteer and work hard to make their area shine, safe, and a happy place to make a living, raise a family. If you like to read about and live among folks that are involved in daily violent crimes, you won't be very happy in Maine. We are family oriented, spend our weekends volunteering for youth events, not heisting a bank, stealing a car, or making other negative headlines in the local newspapers/television newcasts.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, No Crime, More Blue Sky, Fewer But Friendlier People.

It was a little wet but you sure could not see where the water dampened the spirits of the boys and girls racing in the Northern Maine Soap Box Derby Race! Visit the NMSBD website. Local community events with families, friends and youth are a big big part of living in Maine...we make our own homemade fun in a crime free, smog free recreational paradise.

Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Maine, Family Recreational Fun Is Everthing Here.

Why Wait Until You Are 16 To Drive A Car.

The Video For The Houlton Maine, Derby Hill Northern ME Soap Box Derby Race And We Saved You A Seat Track Side, Under A Tarp With Some Good Food, Friendly Race Fans And Local Community Aroostook/Penobscot/Washington County Family Sporting Fun! This Is One More Local Events That Draws Racers, Their Parents, Supporters From Two Hours Away To Experience "The Thrill Of The Hill!"

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