Maine State REALTOR Convention In Bar Harbor ME Winding Down....

Up to admire the sunrise in Bar Harbor Maine, to get packed to head back to Houlton ME after this morning's MAR state real estate convention wraps up.

Today the real estate update from the National Association of REALTORS, a super breakfast to get the Maine real estate agents, brokers ready for one more class. Linda Gifford is the Maine Association of REALTORS "legal beagle". Worth the price of admission alone forget the continuing education credits, the networking options when you live in Maine. She will outline new laws and what is in committee at the Maine legislature that affects the economy, the state real estate industry. She is a REALTOR, past real estate broker and MAR's "on retainer for life" attorney running our "legal hot line" for clarification, seasoned guidance. To avoid box canyons Maine real estate agents, brokers need to avoid in the day to day property quick sand situations, Linda Gifford is always, always only a phone call away.

Since Maine is a pretty big state, one of the biggest benefits to the state REALTOR attendance is to rub shoulders, compare notes with other real estate professionals doing the same thing day in and day out.

But in a slightly different area of "Vacationland" where the flavor is a little not quite the same, but still very tasty, unique, memorable.

We all sell property, promote the state of Maine. But when you are parked on the coast of Maine with "lobstahh" and lighthouses and cruise ships chugging in and out, the landscape is not the same as when you list, market, peddle properties on a lake in Northern Maine.

Or around Mt Katahdin, Sugarload Mountain, Acadia or one of Maine's 30 state parks. Here are Bar Harbor Maine images, hundreds of other shots of Vacationland.

One Maine real estate broker I sat thru one of many classes yesterday is very very close to the New Hampshire border. Can see Mt Washington from his Maine home and is in the foothills of what becomes the White Mountains.

I live in Maine, and don't know every single nook and cranny.

But the friends, the networking with other REALTORS on the county, state level is crucial. These state of Maine REALTOR meetings put on are a class act by MAR.

Our state head Cindy Butts, a veteran of 23 years at the helm of MAR and all the support group from Augusta Maine are a blue ribbon class act.

Noticed, relied on at the national level too. Not just helping the 7000 plus real estate licensees in Maine.

We are in Bar Harbor Maine for this 2010 convention, Hancock County. We were in Rockland Maine, mid coast last year. And rotate thru the Bethel / Sunday River, or Kingfield / Sugarloaf area ior somewhere new. Hope someday to have the group travel to the largest of Maine's 16 counties, Aroostook.

With 11 people per square mile, all that woods, potato farming and proximity to the Canadian border, sometimes the questions other Maine REALTORS ask make me smile, grin, wonder.

The folks who have sampled our snowsled trails, found out about how different it is than say the Portland's Old Port section, or the beaches around Kennebunk, Sanford, life in Bangor, Brewer or Lewiston Auburn or Waterville, etc come away with a sense of awe.

Maine is one big rugged state and not a lady you can describe with one or two words and nail it perfectly. Maine, big, beautiful, down to earth and 4 season outdoor simple. Get here quick as you can to sample it, all of it yourself.

I'm Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers