Andrew Mooers | Northern Maine Real Estate / Aroostook County Broker

Like the box of chocolates you give your sweetie on Valentine's Day, a real estate agent, broker needs to be offering more than caramel, cherry filled property listing sweets.

Everyone likes something different. No longer an age of one or two flavors and that it.

And everyone reaches for a handful. Want the whole bag of chips, destroying the entire container of Ben and Jerry's Chunkie Monkey.

Maybe Cherry Garcia or whatever flavor it'll be tonight during re-runs of Law and Order. (DUM DUM).

Oh no, the real estate listing inventory has to be across the board, Heinz 57 variety loaded with the good stuff.

All prices, types, locations of real estate.

Flip top, soft pack, or bulk. Little bottles, big jugs, designer labeled, or just plain yellow mustard big and cheap.

A variety of products, delivered in a zillion ways because America like choices, selection, variety. And not now, but right now. "Quick like a bunny, scoot scoot" as the kids were reminded getting their teeth brushed, stories read, prayers said nightly.

And the delivery van for your property listings on the Internet information highway better be DOT overweight, loaded to the gills.

Springs sagging, creaking and the rig chocked full of the A-Z the real estate buyer is hungry for, on the prowl to cure a sweet tooth.

No matter what time of day or night, geographical location or situation. On whatever device the buyer finds himself holding, able to use to tap in to your signal. When the urge hits and he, she is some kind of real estate property listing hungry.

And has the munchies, needs a real estate tid bit, morsel, some snackage to graze on.

So you stock the cyber real estate property listings shelves with lots of chocolate boxes, not just one.

And all open easy so what's in each box of chocolates the real estate agent, broker is offering can be sampled. Nibbled, chewed on slowly.

Kicked around and considered as food for thought with more than one reached for in your eye candy display of what you are peddling for properties. The age old expression is "you can not sell meat from an empty wagon".

The same applies for real estate property chocolates. (Opening up box, pushing your way)

"Go on, have one.

No no, on second thought, dig in, take a handful.

Really, we have lots. Will never run out of the ones you like, have some property listing inventory that is some kind of sa-WEET!

That's what they are here for.. to try, explore, discover and maybe, just maybe decide you want another, just one more."

Maine, the voice in your head, heart is only going to get louder the longer you put her off. She'll get in your system, never lets go and you are glad she doesn't. For the best in eye and ear candy, sample our Maine real estate properties, local community videos.

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Maybe the real estate buyer and seller have been talking to all the wrong people.

Maybe they just have some ideas that don't work in today's market. Or maybe never did.

Like pricing a property listing when you sit down at the kitchen table with the property seller.

Or real estate buyers who have watched way way too many Sunday morning, how to buy a home, no steal a house informationals too need to know what's what.

Thinking, expectations for a home beyond what they can afford. Buying it with just the loose change they find in the couch.

Coupled with funds from only the returnable empties deposit. And negative three hundred credit scores, no job, in the middle of a divorce, on trial for a major crime. Tell them. Fess up. Spill the beans, let them know how this real estate story with unhappy ending wraps up.

Or real estate buyers who have books, tapes, videos. And top notch hair dressers and barbers telling them this is how you do it. To hit a "home run". How to buy a Maine home at fifteen cents on the dollar when we live in the 46th lowest state for FSSR.

It helps as the real estate agent, broker if you are candid. Using candor in your real estate dealings, day to day activities. Do you? Candor, honesty and what the buyers, sellers need to hear. Not just want to have you say. Keep it simple. As Dave Chappelle reminds "keep it real".

Whoomp... there it is.

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Maine is the lowest state for violent crime and fourth lowest nationally overall for the rest of the generic wrong doings, any foul play.

That get tallied, added up, rolled in to the grisly crime statistics. In the head count for anyone destined for an all expenses taxpayer paid crow bar hotel stay.

For three hots and a cot. Being schooled, adding a "license plate making 101" skill to your resume.

But Maine State Police cruisers, you probably have seen a few.

And not thought much about it. But they sure look familiar don't they?

Not because your last trip to Vacationland you were a little too boisterous, clown like at happy hour. Or stole a car, robbed a bank or ended up with your best side, picture profile in black and white. Posted along with rows of other grim, long faced individuals at the post office. Sporting a long trail of numbers underneath that mug shot where you need a shave, some sleep and your hair washed, combed. On that vacation, you just came for the lobsters, lighthouses, friendly people, drop dead gorgeous scenery right? Did not break any Maine laws. That you can remember.

Horror writer Stephen King lives in Bangor Maine. Z-62 is part of the "Dead Zone" broadcast holdings I worked at many moons ago.

King owns a radio station or two. And because his work, his haunts, his books, screenplays center around Maine, the Pine Tree State gets showcased front and center a lot. In an uneasy, edge of your chair, anxious worried, uncomfortable sort of way. Because you never really know how this book, movie is going to turn out but you know it is not going to be pretty. Things are going to get messy and the best home stager will suggest better burn the set of the last house used for one of his movies. It's thrashed and trashed, toast, history. Dead, needing a white sheet and a toe tag.

Because of all the King exposure you have witnessed, enjoyed in a twisted sort of way you might think boy, Maine sure has an awful lot of strange happenings. Amidst the spirits, mixed variety of blood types, the macabre and all around evil that surrounds you when he is fictionally in the room. As his work shows up on the big silver screen down front. Or now playing on the projector between your ears. Splashing on the back of the inside of your head. Creeping out of the open book you nurse, absorb if you can keep up with his prolific literary and film works.

The Maine state police cruiser that stopped you, pulled your over in the upper left hand corner of the blog post. Watch video below to see his extreme patience, professionalism at work if the field.

You no doubt recognize the color blue they are painted. Except maybe not the sneakier, unbranded ones that ply the highways of Maine.

300 state troopers total in Maine and some of those guys wearing badges, guns and a big hat work the weights and measurements end of enforcement.

With an APB out for over weight trailer trucks. Or some go back and forth like an old typewriter, or eating fresh corn on the cob. Just working the Maine turnpike as their stomping grounds.

Or have office jobs and are inside. Not as much in the public eye like this obsenity laced video below shows.

Okay, your paperwork appears in order. I clocked you on radar reading a little too fast, skimming and missing some of the information in this blog post. Others like it in traffic around you so you just get off with a warning. This time. Have a nice day and push a little less on that pedal to the metal. No texting, cell phone calls or recalibrating that GPS navigation while driving... promise? Think it is hard when a real estate buyer or seller gets extremely upset, beside themselves and up against the wall?

It happens a lot with the job of being a Maine state trooper and you never know what you are in for when you fire up the blue flashing light bar, get out of the cruiser.

Last Warning.. this actual police video recorded from the Maine trooper's police cruiser is loaded with crude, vulgar, graphic obscene language not suited for everyone in the audience and you've been put on notice. But it proves a point of what the job entails out on the open highway.

Maine State Police Routine Traffic Cruiser Stop Video.

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The Maine statewide real estate market report, what do the statistics show for today, right now county by county?

Well 2148 property listings under contract, 81 open houses happening today.

New Maine property listings in 2012 number 3037 and real estate properties with signs having a SOLD rider screwed on them tightly number 1074.

This is more Maine real estate statewide market reporting broken down with a 16 county play by play of the MLS ME Listings current, fresh statistics. Maine, all natural, drop dead gorgeous four season beauty awaits you. Get here quick as you can.

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Purchase and sale agreements, real estate closings with an attorney or title company or or escrow agent.

What you use for terminology that says pretty much the same thing in the real estate day to day.

Where you "practice" real estate now.

( I know I know it sounds like you and I are amateurs when using that in the classroom word "practice").

How do you say sale pending, under contract.

Real estate professionals have a lot of acronyms like CMA, GRI, FSBO and talk about the R, T, Z and CL a lot.

Like it's Sesame Street and today is brought to you by the letter "R", the hardest working one in the alphabet.

Many real estate agents, brokers talk pretty fast too so the buyers and sellers we work with might be out of the loop part of the time. Wondering what did he just say, what did he or she call what we are waiting for? Something about a clear to close?

And what the heck is an addendum? Is that part of your intestines, something to do with food digestion? Can't live without it so not like the tonsils, appendix.

ER talk, "We need a real estate contract addendum over here stat".

Can you get a late model, pre owned low mileage one on EBay if we did a search or Googled for one on line?

When you deal day to day in the hurry up important real estate world, it is easy to forget that when a couple agents, brokers get to conversing, others may sense it is like the New York Stock Exchange floor banter.

Like eaves dropping on the conversation of your cab driver in a foreign country where you know enough of his language to be dangerous.

If you and I exchanged where we list, market, sell real estate, swapped locations. Packed our bags, tooth brush and high tailed it. Giving up where we are licensed to sell real estate now to beam to some place new. How different the day to day would be. Not just the local area subtleties but prices for the same type properties just not matching up to earlier experiences elsewhere.

The local list of what's important real estate buyers so different. Maybe the top three or four must haves are all in the personal safety, gated community standards to be safe from crime is the end out in this real estate market. But in another, where there is no crime, lower population, a big view, bordering waterfront gets to ride in shotgun position in the front seat.

Ever seen Active Rain members use terms that are different due to their locality but when sifted down mentally, you have the same instrument, tool but its called something a little different?

Like Canadians offer you "a tin of pop" and I ask you if you want a soda, a snort of something fizzy? Maine, she's big, naturally beautiful and some kind of friendly.

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