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One question asked alot of Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers is "Does Houlton Maine have a Walmart?"
Yes indeed, there is a store number 1974 of Walmart in Houlton Maine. A new Tractor Supply Store in Presque Isle Maine also just opened up. So even thought northern Maine is lower populated, we still have the conveniences of other areas. The Walmart store in Houlton Maine is located on the Ludlow Road across from the Maine Tourist Information Center and next to Hannaford's Paradis Shop and Save grocery store. Maine, simpler living, healthy four season recreation, way way friendlier people.
Many relocating US border patrol, customs, immigration and 911 security personnel ask about the Northern Maine weather and right on the heels of that question, "Does Houlton Maine have a Walmart?"
Maine was part of Salem Massachusetts until 1820, and Houlton Maine was known as New Salem. Joseph Houlton cruised up to Houlton Maine from Salem Massachusetts back in the beginning of the 1800's. By 1807, the rest of the families, wives, kids, animals made the same trek thru the woods to what later became Aroostook County. In Houlton Maine, neighborhoods spung up by local builders like Henry Post, Clarence Ayotte, Quinton Haney, Donald Caldwell, Hendry Chandler, Vaughn Hersey.
These new streets in Houlton Maine were not giant subivisions with your pick from park models of this cape or that ranch. Build one at a time as the Houlton Water Company brought in utilities like power, water, sewerage. As the Houlton Maine public works department built streets, roads, bridges and adopted these streets and roads to plow, pave, maintain.
The type of Houlton Maine homes, houses built, how it was built keyed to the time in history it came on line. As early builders, carpenters and do it your-selfers hammered out the County Seat, Aroostook.
After World War Two, streets like Hogan, Pearce, Commonwealth, Park Extension, Weeks Streets had lots of capes pop up. And in the 1960's areas of Houlton Maine like Hillview Avenue had a mixture of capes and ranch style homes. In the 1970's lots of ranch style homes built with Farmer's Home Administration dollar down financing took over on Brook, Alfred, Columbia Extention, South Streets.Charles, Kelleran and Elm streets had victorians, federal style homes built back in the mid to late 1800's along with the original housing stock found on Main Street and US Rt 1, 2, 2A that are here in the crossroads of Aroostook County. Many of the oldest homes built along the Meduxnekeag River or high on a bluff for security or on a rolling cleared field due to the fertile soils to grow our own food. Houlton Maine was the center of the potato industry back when Maine was the number one spud producer.
Ninety one percent of Maine is wooded so plentiful lumber mean brick designed homes were rare in the Houlton Maine housing stock. The Highlands Addition was added around the 1880's when the town of Houlton Maine constructed a foot bridge to span the Meduxnekeag River. To open up this area even more with new bridge for vehicles being added around 1902.
Folks working for the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad saw many tenement, apartment and rooming houses built around Florence, Grove, Grange, Green Streets and on Alice Avenue, outer US Rt 2A, known as Bangor Street which was the main way out of town heading south before Interstate 95 came in the 1960's leading the way to Loring Air Force Base. Many local Houlton Maine natives build cottages on Nickerson, Drews and Grand Lakes too. And enjoyed summer waterfront vacation homes, campsespecially in places like Crescent and Sunset Park neighborhoods.
Ward Log Homes, Katahdin Forest Products and other local Maine log home manufacturers right here in Houlton Maine account for the many log houses dotted the countryside and lakes around Southern Aroostook County too. Watch a Houlton Maine videoof a fourth of July celebration, multi day state fair and see glimpses, snippets of the local area, people who live here.
Your security deposit on your Maine home, apartment house apartment was supposed to be put in to a special account, interest bearing to accrue to you.
And when you move, assuming no damage beyond normal wear and tear, or lack of last month's payment in full or proration, you want the deposit and interest made back. What happens if the property owner, Maine landlord does not give all or a portion back?
Well if he or she does not give you in writing notice within 21 days that you won't be getting back some or all of the deposit due to an outlined list of damages and reasons why, things get dicey.
Triple the deposit damages and having to pay the renter's reasonable attorneys fees to recover it thru the Maine court system is what happens. Being a landlord has lots of responsibilities, tasks, laws that go with it on top of smoke and co2 dedector legislation that got beefed up, going in to force a few months back in Maine.
And folks like to watch every day event programming. Some they can relate to or situations they're glad they are not involved in. With real estate, our Active Rain blog is often "wrapped around". With opening and ending tags and the blog we wordsmith the filling, the verbal bologna. Here is one Maine blog post I found on line for a Google search of Maine Soap Box Derby. I searched, googled the term to see if a new tumblr site was live, found by the search engine spiders. This is part of what I found for the soap box derbysearch.
It is funny to be reading a caption that gets your attention and then copy that you find yourself liking the way the author writes. And then you realize, hey, this is one of mine. With blog posts we have over 1300 Active Rain posts, others too with a different slant for a varied niche on MeInMaine Blog, etc. Like a flight with many connectors, where that flight or "post" originated takes a scan of the luggage tag. This blog post originates in Houlton Maine 04730.
The old adage to buy low, sell high applies to any comodity.
Maine land in my opinion is way under valued. When you consider what the same land is selling for just a few miles across the Maine border in New Brunswick Canada, to buy prime farm land for $1000 an acre or less gets your attention. Especially when where our food comes from, what it costs is becoming more of a concern healthwise, financially.
Add to the equation that many folks that work hard for their money do not like to just hand it over to a stock broker these days. Too many CEO's and corporate giants have been hauled up court house steps on the nightly news charged with a laundry list violations eroding the investor confidence to all time lows.
And consider the fun, serious outdoor recreational options Maine land offers and the decision to buy is a no brainer. From an acre for $3490 up to hundreds of acres, in Maine there is plenty of property to go around no matter what the size of the wallet you sit on. Scope out our Maine land buffet.
Maine, land is here to tramp, dream about, use on vacations or for full time relocation, retirement.
Maine real estate market - What's the pulse - How's state doing?
Well according to the Maine Association of REALTORS (MAR) the numbers are rosy. MEDIAN MAINE PROPERTY SALES PRICE AND HOME SALES UP IN JANUARY: In a press release to the media today, MREIS reports the median sales price for a single-family existing home increased 5.09% since January 2009, reaching $160,000. The median sales price indicates half of the homes were sold for more and half sold for less. A total of 484 homes sold in January 2010 - up 18.63% from 12 months ago. During the rolling quarter of November, December and January, home sales increased 36.87%. January marks the eighth month of positive gains in existing home sales in Maine. The complete report: http://mainerealtors.com/Statistics/2010PressReleases/MaineHousingReport-January2010.pdf
Also, Male or Female REALTOR's ...What's the split, score? NOTABLE STATISTIC: MAR's membership records indicate that 55% of the MAR membership are women, and 45% are men.
MAINE ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS - http://mainerealtors.com
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