Looking around, sniffing out what is on the market for Maine homes, houses is always the first plan of attack.

But what if nothing trips your trigger? Causes your heart to pitter patter a little stronger. Then building a new Maine home could be in your future.

Having it "your way" may be cheaper than buying an existing Maine home that is just not cutting it.

That requires the expense, labor, inconvenience of undoing, redoing, and sometimes make doing with someone else's dream of how a Maine house should be built.

We are all different just like our family dynamics, personal preferences so in the long run, building a new Maine home could end up being cheaper.

And if in no gun to your head with a ticking clock hurry, pressure to whip it up faster than you would like to please a bank for a mortgage, just go slow. Can be a fun experience. If you have the luxury of stretching it out, thinking it through slowly. Creating a new Maine home on a patch of dirt, some land.

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Living in a smaller rural state like Maine, the real estate promotion is done so differently than a luxury agent or broker would approach the same marketing exercise.

The way way lower price tag, smaller size on Maine real estate property listings is one reason. And because the folks buying the properties would not be able to stomach the same approach luxury peddlers of property apply.

With the stilted style air of "you are better than most, have earned the right... no privledge to know, experience luxury few ever will in a lifetime".

"Be the envy of others. Flaunt, show them your high success with this exclusive blah blah blah". Reaching for the air sickness bag, excuse me. 

The luxury real estate agency interviews the owner to decide if the property is good enough for their high standards before accepting the listing.

 Because someone not quite blue blood enough could tarnish their prestige, image. And the buyer if a red neck, would be discouraged even with the new found wealth of a Beverly Hillbilly type. From even setting foot in certain neighborhoods for fear of social decay. The anarchy it could cause in the surroundings of these planned neighborhoods of silver spoons. If the nouveau riche were infected with the undesirables neighbors of such poor breeding. 

The Maine real estate agent, broker, REALTOR spends his time talking about the best approach to the marketing.

Saving money, time, getting value in the transaction. Knows where the best financing programs for all of us Average Janes and Joes are managed. After listening to the sellers, buyers motivations and expectations in the Maine real estate sale. No spin, no stretch, just a meat and potatoes marketing efficient approach to get the job done. Having fun in the process of sliding the home keys.  Passing legal papers at the real estate closing for homes, other types of property listing transfers.

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When you live in a big state like Maine and tour it, a real estate broker has to admire housing stock not just in his own market place.

Because it's what we do, home sales in Maine along with apartment rental houses, farms, waterfront, land and mom and pop business property listings.

But the Maine homes, the old grand Victorian ones capture the interest of peddlers of properties, listings.

Not just Maine real estate home buyers.

On a recent trip back from dropping off the youngest son at the Portland Jetport to fly back to college, collected four lighthouses in Maine.

But along the way between those coastal jewels, items along the way had to be shot. Captured and shared with you Maine blog post readers.

Some homes in Maine have widows walks, for sea captain's wives to scan the horizon for the husband. Who worked on the water and gone for weeks, months, longer.

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When a Maine real estate broker enters an empty house that looks like Stephen King made a movie there.

He has to wonder what happened here. And no one on the premise to quiz. To interview. Ask questions to put the missing property puzzle pieces together.

So as you look around, sometimes with the buyer on board, together you see patterns. Figure out what happened and why, when. You recognize the causes for desertion. No one home.

No power to a place and lack of fuel is a big incentive to leave a cold Maine house in the dead of winter.

If the owner has lost the property from lack of payment, foreclosure, short sale, repossession. Actually, Maine is the 46th lowest state for FSSR though. And with low cost Maine property listings, we just don't see as many vacant houses.

Or left in the middle of the night in a hurry Maine home situations. Apartments that might look like a twister went through.  That Dorothy, her little dog too could relate to on her way to Oz.

The Maine home owner or the renter that lost the keys to the place usually moves along peacefully. Without a sea of personal belongings left behind. Or damage. Or refrigerators full of not so tasty stuff as when it was first bought at the local supermarket. When the power goes off.Days go by, heat of summer happens. Hope you have a bad head cold during the showing.

But the legal delays in the Maine property eviction. Then follow up court processing when the tenant or owner does not move. Back up the court house steps. To get the legal fireworks to back up the order that was not followed through on after the sheriff delivered judgement. After all the legal zig zags. And just plain slow wheels of lady justice with the blindfold and scales come to a halt. That's where the Maine real estate agent, broker, REALTOR comes in. When all the roadblocks to a property listing sale are exhausted.

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