Back Off Jack, Living With Zero Lot Lines, Real Estate Listings Jammed Way Way Too Close.

Up close and personal, ever have someone in your face, that you back away two steps, they take three toward you?

Living parked shoulder to should at your home.

Driving to work the same "sardines in a tin can" packed tightly in rows and rows of bumper to bumper is not for me.

The folks in those "in your face close" homes and cars are not as a rule the friendliest either.

Hand gestures, but not the how you doing friendly kind.

I live in a state, Maine, in the top ten for largest home lot, property sizes.

I like to pick a real estate neighborhood, in another state far far away to study the way the local real estate agents, brokers, REALTORS market.

Both the local community, the individual property listing. Eyeballing the substance of the copy, media used and the marketing tools kicked in to gear for the "home delivery". And some images of homes for sale are painfully close. Not what I am used to at all. In areas where real estate is miserly metered out by the inch, not the acre like I am used to in a Aroostook County, with eleven people per square mile.

The on line burgs out of state I visit more often than not with a home to the left right on the property line. No real estate buffer, missing any side yards.

Roof eaves dripping rain water on your land. Casting a shadow of darkness in the morning because it is east of you. Then afternoon's the focus shifts with the sun to the right of you over head. That house on the other side soon keeping the sunset from touching, splashing on the subject listing home the same way.

Way too close. Why have windows on the east, west? They are not allowed to work, function like a real window that offers a view of something besides the next home's siding. Or what's going on inside it. Windows that let, actually can allow daylight to come in to the room the contractor framed them in to is what I grew up with, am used to experiencing.

Maybe you get used to the prison like closeness, proximity of the property "cell" next to you.

Maybe like labratory rats, folks that have their personal space robbed, missing, lacking start to do things they normally would not do. Like road rage, neighborhood squabbles over the littlest of things. All because the four directions around you, your personal space is severely squeezed. All the time. Like missing a vitamin, mineral in your diet, you test positive for lack of space. Day in, year out.

I grew up with 300 acres of land around me on a Maine farm.

I bought the Maine farm from my three older brothers when my Mom passed away. And to hop on a tractor in the late summer, early fall and bush hog some of the soil conservation (CRP) land makes me feel free. Just me, the 1953 Super M tractor older than me going back and forth as the sun rises, sets. While an occassional moose or deer wander through the field. Or a hawk flys over head hearing the metal triangle dinner bell ringing. As mice scurry because the tall grass is crew cutted with the rotary bush hog mower being hauled behind the Farmall.

Supply and demand and wallet size is the problem in many urban real estate markets, where eight out of ten of the country's real estate professionals work, list and peddle properties. I am glad I live where a healthy does of back, side, front yard is the norm. And we measure the lot size by the acre, not by the meter, or square inch. Head in a half mile in any direction from the center of a small town and you are in the country. Often with your home out of sight of another in the smaller towns of Northern Maine, around Houlton ME where I am some kind of glad I live, work, play.

Shot the real estate video for a new 130 acre Monticello Maine farm listing yesterday. The large area inside, around the property outside in Aroostook County can easily make you think it is this spacious way everywhere. I know it is not from vacations, my out of state, on line pick a new real estate market and the take it apart, study it exercise.

Maine Farm Real Estate Video, 130 Acres Of Land For A "Back Yard"

I'm Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker