The Importance Of Milestones Let’s start with a definition: 1. A stone set up beside a road to mark the distance in miles to a particular place. 2. An action or event marking a significant change or stage in development. synonyms: landmark, significant event, achievement, highlight, watershed, benchmark, touchstone This weekend has me thinking about […]
Blog :: 2016
Maine Lakes Region Reminders
There are many reasons the Maine Lakes Region is a delightful place to hang your hat, either full-time living here, or during your favorite parts of the year. We talk a lot about area Real Estate and how we want to assist you in any way that we can in that regard, here at Anne […]
Sellers Market Update
Having heard some appreciated feedback on last week’s post, this certainly is a popular topic in Real Estate circles. The lack of inventory – houses, properties in general whether they be waterfront, water or mountain view – are no less challenging here in the Maine Lakes Region. New England as a region saw new homes […]
Understanding The Sellers Market
Real Estate – just like many things in history – goes through phases. New listings have been on the market rarely for shorter periods of time, than now. At a recent networking event, A commercial broker mentioned to the group that if anyone had any ideas or leads for new inventory, that information is the […]
Maine Lakes Region 2016 Must Do Suggestions
As we all wait to see the results of the pending snowstorm schedule for late this weekend – possibly a southern New England event more than a Maine Lakes Region difficulty with any luck – let’s focus on the positive: Suggested area must-do’s! If you have never visited a regional sugar shack, we recommend the experience. […]
Early Easter And Maine Maple Sunday
This weekend marks the calendar with an early Easter and Maple Sugar Sunday. Easter is designated to be the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox. When checking how Maple Sugar Sunday is predetermined, this is from www.mainemapleproducers.com : “Maine Maple Sunday is always the fourth Sunday in March although some […]
The Winter That Hasn’t Been.. Might Briefly Be
So a lot of the talk this weekend is of winter storm Regis, currently near the Carolinas, due to come up the coast and arrive in northern New England Sunday night into Monday. The track currently has it hugging the coast and the center of this storm may be far enough out to sea to […]
Saving Time – And Electricity
I waited until Sunday to post this week’s blog, because if you haven’t figured it out by now I hope you will read this before you get up and get ready to go into work on Monday! Our clocks sprung forward and we lost an hour of sleep over Saturday night into Sunday. If you […]
Silver Lining To Cancelled Sebago Lakes Fishing Derby
Having worked diligently on the Sebago Lake Region’s annual icefishing derby for nearly 8 months made it very difficult for Deb McPhail – president of the Sebago Lake Rotary Club – to have to cancel last weekend’s event due to poor ice conditions. As we all know there is very little lake ice that is […]
Thinking About Happiness
Are you Happy? And why am I asking you to ponder this question? It is a question that many professionals suggest that the average human does not ask themselves, often enough. One of the best descriptions I have found of what Is the definition of happiness, goes like this: “Happiness is an approach to life […]