The real estate agents, brokers that only get to list, market and sell houses, homes, residential property listings are missing out on all the fun.

Variety is the spice of life and the same logic applies to Maine real estate listings. Maine land sales are a big part of what we have done over the last 32 years as a real estate broker in Vacationland.

Because in a less populated state like Maine, land is king and queen.

Plentiful, attractive, varied, low cost Maine land surrounds this real estate broker's property operation. Not just the cute cape and rambling ranch style home that gets promoted by our Maine real estate agency.

Maine land, the kind you can enjoy in retirement, those long three day and week long vacation getaway trips. Your time off.

To invest in some property acreage that is on a lake, river, pond or the oceanfront in Maine. Makes the ho hum simple home and house residential market not the only flavor of real estate we serve up to Maine property buyers.

Land in Maine can mean just an acre lot is plenty.

 Come closer (whispering) an acre is all you need of Maine land. Because we have plenty of space around it. If all you want, can afford is a simple acre of Maine land as a base to explore, discover, you are kid in a candy store like in luck. The folks around each and every Maine land purchase are not wall to wall. Not elbow to elbow so more space is not something you are going to wish for, lament over. Especially in Northern Aroostook, Washington, Penobscot, Piscataquis Counties Maine when considering a land purchase.

Southern Maine has a people per mile density of forty four. (Slide show carousel advances one notch, bright light then image of "the Crown of Maine" splashes overhead). But more wildlife, less people with only eleven folks per square mile spacing in Northern Maine. It's what keeps the four season beauty unspoiled. The little extra mileage up the Interstate 95 means the Maine land price per acre goes down proportionately too. Drive a little and save a lot is the simple matter of fact, what it all boils down to situation. When you are panning for Maine land, low cost property acreage "gold".

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The look, feel, smell of real log homes from Maine.

Cabins, cottages and houses, sporting lodges that are loaded with eye candy cathedral ceilings, balconies, lofts.

Walls of glass and exposed purloins, log support beams. For simple living styles on classic settings.

So extra neat, cozy when parked on large amounts of Maine real estate land.

Where wildlife abounds, people do not. 

Maine land overlooking a lake, on a wooded hill side with a drop dead gorgeous view and setting.

Lots of folks have that dream. You are not alone.

I hear the request on the phone, in emails, in the Maine real estate office a lot.

"Got any log places with open porches, open living design on a Maine lake or hidden on forty acres of land?"

Yes, yes we do. But just land in Maine is an option. And building the type, style and square footage of Maine log home, a small simple cabin can happen. The place just the way you have envisioned. Been carrying around in your head. Between your ears. For some time now.

Simple wood stove for camp heat. Or massive field stone fireplaces spiraling up the center of the Maine log home. Open on both sides so the living room crowd can enjoy the fire. So can anyone feasting in the formal dining room. Fire crackling, the flames dancing, patterns on the interior walls and ceiling glow.

Added to being on the waterfront, a lake or river land in Maine.

Suddenly, nothing can go wrong with that kind of setting. All is good, very good in Maine, Vacationland. I can help you with this back drop.

Winter in Maine is a time of fun on the down hill ski slopes, hockey games, ice fishing and snow sledding.

 And many Mainers heat with wood. The kind cut, split and stored in the cellar for a furnace. The pellet stove version with stoves and fireplace inserts. The outdoor boiler kind where longer sticks of Maine wood can heat a home.

But when you own a Maine home heated with oil, and are not here to check on it, accidents happen. Had a call late yesterday afternoon from Dead River, the oil supplier for a home in Houlton Maine.

Voicing concern that the home we had sold a Connecticut buyer years ago for his Dad to live in had only taken sixty gallons of oil in yesterday's delivery.

I was on my way up by to watch a Blackhawks hockey game at the Millar Civic Center ice arena so I told the owner I would stop on my way by and report back what was what from an inside peek.

It has been pretty mild Maine winter, over all, temperature wise.Pretty slim pickings for snow fall amounts, low levels this year on the ground for accumulation too.

The Houlton Maine home owner was hopeful that at the 45 degrees he had left the furnace thermostat set on, that maybe that accounted for the low furnace heating oil usage.

When I unlocked the door from the glass side porch to the Houlton Maine home, I could instantly tell the inside house temperature was not what the furnace thermostat had been left set at....

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(Looking out over the wild blue yonder ME real estate audience. Around the blue and green revolving marble.)

Raise your hand if you want high cost real estate, a property listing that you will paying on for forty or more years. And hoist high that same arm of approval if you want to live where there is big time scary crime. Where you, your loved ones, kids and parents have to carry a taser with the safety off. To be on guard all the time and worry about your personal well being.

And if you are some kind of excited, happy about multi lanes of slow or non moving traffic every day as you race, trying to get to work by nine (BTO playing in the background).

Step forward, signal with a big "heck yes".

Getting home to that three mortgage house late. Eating, grazing mostly at drive thrus to and from that wicked long long expensive commute. If that is pretty much your today dog and pony let the rest of us see you. Speak up and ask about there having to be another way to lead your life.

There is. Maine, the way life is supposed to be, how it use to roll in other places. Helter skelter hurried is not healthy. Not fun and you may feel locked in a boxed canyon that there is no way out of easily. Consider trading it all in. Sweep those chips you earned the hard way off the table. Push back hard. Get up and away. Relocate, retire, invest in some low cost Maine real estate. Property so inexpensive, cheaply priced you don't have a mortgage. Don't have to work three jobs to pay it off.

Maine is the 46th lowest for FSSR  (foreclosure, short sale, repossession) for a reason.

Add to it a gold star 4th lowest of all the states in crime statistics too. Isn't that a better place to be to live, work and play? Where doors don't have to be triple dead bolted, heavily chained and barred shut. Where folks, your neighbors wave, smile and are friendly. Rather than elevator like, everyone looking away, down and ignore. Not making eye contact. Strait jacketed, hemmed in a way way jammed square labratory rat like cubicle. Get the elbow room, space you need to breathe, stretch out, to relax in Maine. Leave the urban life experiment.