Lake Association Meetings...What Do They Talk, Worry About?

You made an investment in Maine real estate on the water. It's on a lake, filled with fish, offers lots of recreation with a kayak, sailboat, swimming, water sports like skiing. So when the lake association gets together, what do they talk about? Tonight our Drews Lake Property Owner's Association swings into the New Limerick town office to discuss erosion, watershed drainage, community block grants for septic updates, building codes, shoreland zoning regulations.

The DLPOA meetings involved discussion about the roadways, dues collection, signage for 911 and safety and sets up clean up days and public landing "housekeeping" tasks. In the case of Drews Lake, the public dam was turned over the association for a dollar and we built a new dam, raising the funds privately and to make sure the water level did not go up or down to impact the shoreland. What do Maine lakes "hate" if they could talk, what would they let us know loud and clear on? Lawns. And most lawns have enough phoshorus and do not need weed and feed. No milfoil in these lakes, and that problem is four hours away luckily.
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Maine Lakes Hate One Thing More Than Any Other...Lawns.

Weed and feed enriched bright green, manicured lawns.

If you asked a Maine lake what makes it happy, if that lake could talk it would gurgle that rolling, sloping, sweeping lawns make that lake boiling mad. The Drews Lake Property Owner's Association annual meeting is July 7th, 2009 at 6:30 at the New Limerick town office. The DLPOA Maine lake group educated, protects and promotes good stewardship for this 1057 acre water jewel located in New Limerick, Linneus and Oakfield Maine. Watch what living on Drews Lake is all about Maine lake video and remember another name for the lake is Meduxnekeag Lake which is Maliseet for "Rocks At Its Mouth". Over the years the Drews Lake group with is pro-active, not reactive stance has kept the lake clean, replacing under-sized culverts, installing plunge pools to slow the water and erosion of soil to the lake. Over $60,000 in grant money from the soil and water conservation district in Southern Aroostook has help stablize the soil erosion and control none source point pollution.
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(Wiping Doctors Forehead, Monitors Beeping In Background) Is Real Estate Like Surgery Life And Death?

Time matters. In surgery, in a game with a clock ticking. If you are held up in a real estate sale when you need to start a new job eighteen states away, and have an empty home causing a major financial strain keeping you awake nights with worry, a sale is life and death. If you don't sell, you can jeopardize the whole financial health of your personal affairs. A bad renter who does not pay, trashes the place, piles up garbage and interferes with the sale process can cause the owner who is nip and tuck with all the other demands on that weekly paycheck in uncertain economic times to titter. I have seen a renter I did not pick but inherited in a sale process destroy a place and cause foreclosure to happen. So a sale of a home or other real estate can be like a surgeon who makes one move a centimeter off and dire results, maybe death or paralysis.

A professional REALTOR is hired for what he knows, has learned, not just marketing expertise with a property. He is able to assess the situation like an MASH emergency unit where if the right steps are not done to stop the "financial bleeding" the listing will die without a sale. Use of real estate video, blogging, direct mail, slow drip email campaigns and full time effort and sensitivity to the seller's situation and local current market conditions translates into a sale if the broker reads the signs, collects the data and wastes no marketing steps to hit while the iron is hot, to produce ads that are exciting and shows he is enthusiastic about the unique property he is priviledged to represent the seller on a sale of.
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Get Me Something That Could Be An Inn, A Bed And Breakfast.

Opening up your home to the public. Scary proposition or something you could do to make a living, to meet some neat people and serve your community. Staying at a Maine inn, a bed and breakfast. When you open up say a Houlton Maine victorian to rent rooms, even serve meals to those guests and the local community, you offer an option different than a four wall motel room stay. In a Maine downtown, the guest can take a walk by the local library, theatre, the shops and get a feel for what this place, this town is all about.

The local flavor of the area hits the senses and makes the stay more memorable than just pulling off the interstate and ker-plopping in a chain motel. The interstate room dweller gypsy nevers really gets a feel about the town that motel is in. Zip in, bag some zzzz's, climb back on the interstate and cruise control to your destination. Ever thought about running an existing or starting an inn/b&b from stratch? This place was the Twin Elms Tourist Home in the past and has been carefully renovated top to bottom. Scope out the Maine real estate video.

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Maine First Time Home Buyer $8000 Tax Credit!

You've heard the buzz and wondered, do they actually send you a check in your name for $8000? This is a tax credit where depending on your tax liability, the credit for a first time home purchase within the income and program guidelines can mean a check up to this amount refunded. Or after tax obligations, the credit can lower your tax liability and whatever is left from the up to $8000 refund is sent to you. Learn about the ins and outs of the $8000 tax refund first time home buyer program.
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