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 Working online jobs remotely from home in Maine.  Before the COVID19, half the population was doing some remote job telecommuting online. Technology allows working online jobs remotely and having robust Internet broadband connections is the key to the quality of telecommuting. Rural Maine is one attractive location when folks in population centers beging their search for somewhere less...

Buying a home in Maine, are you prequalified or have a pre approval letter to show you can get a house loan? What is the difference between prequalified or pre approval for a Maine home loan? Like many real estate terms, there is confusion out in the home buying audience. Buying a home is not something most of us do on a regular basis. This blog post tackles the topic of a prequalified or pre...

Community pages , real estate listings, they do go together like peas and carrots. Yes Jennie, you need both if the audience of buyers includes local AND brand new to the area outside real estate buyers. Locals like being in the know of new events, the buzz of anything happening around them. And out of state Maine real estate buyers are alway hungry, starving for local information. To help them feel...

Happy Birthday to the Internet that many believe has always been around like air and water, death and taxes. Remembering today a time before the Internet and the early years in real estate listing and selling twist and shout. As the net was born and developed into one giant spider web of hand spun connections. Providing information for our real estate customers. In the early years in my small rural...

Patten Welcome To Historic, Friendly Patten, Maine! The Story Head north, Patten Maine, gateway to the Great North Woods. Welcome to Penobscot County! Patten ME has a number of sporting camps. Talk about wildlife, trails to explore. There is a local parks and recreation program. More about Patten ME, the town in Penobscot County. Just north of the Sherman exit on Interstate 95. Home of the Katahdin...

Weston Welcome To Historic, Friendly Weston, Maine! The Story The early settlers of Weston Maine must have been blown away from by the view, all this waterfront. The town of Weston Maine is rich in history and smack dab on the US-Canadian border line. The first inhabitants cut the trees, cleared the forest and carved out patches of dirt to farm. Slowly making the roadways to access this hilly elevated...

Patten Welcome To Historic, Friendly Patten, Maine! How To Get Here Patten Maine has an airport. Rt 11 Patten Maine, Penobscot County Small Friendly Town! Float planes landing on Shin Pond or other area lakes are common. Cyr Bus Lines is handy to Patten ME for traveling in and out. RT 159 and RT 11 are two of the main arteries of black top. Come in to Patten Maine on a snow sled and spend some time...

Smyrna/Merrill Welcome To Historic, Friendly Smyrna/Merrill, Maine! How To Get Here In the early days, the roads were more paths and logging twitch trails. Or paddling up a river to land and walk, walk some more took weeks and months to make progress through the new vast lands of the Greant North Maine woods. Today, Interstate 95 that opened up the country along with the opening of Loring Air Force Base in...

Houlton Welcome To Historic, Friendly Houlton Maine! The Story The early Houlton settlers carved out a new beginning. Houlton, the oldest town in Maine’s largest county of Aroostook! Houlton Maine is the “shiretown” capital seat for the biggest county east of the Mississippi. Known as the “Crown of Maine”, at one time Houlton was one of the richest towns of its size in the east half of the...

Weston Welcome To Historic, Friendly Weston, Maine! How To Get Here US Rt 1 is the main artery coming up from the twisting, winding roadways from scenic coastal sections of Maine. But traveling over from US RT 2A that was the "Interstate" before one was made in 1950 is another approach to Weston from the west direction. Traffic in from Canada from Forest City is another source to access Weston on the way...