There is nothing more rewarding to me than helping build a house! Take a look at some of the great folks who turned out on Saturday to do just that. We had a great time and made some good progress. If you’re in the area and want to help next month, watch Midcoast Habitat for [...]
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Building Jaime’s House
November 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: Real Estate · Volunteering
Trek Across Maine 2009
June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
This year’s ride for the American Lung Association of Maine was a soggy one — especially the first day when it poured. Nevertheless, we did it and even enjoyed ourselves in the process. Thanks to all the ALAME volunteers who manned the rest stops and all of our donors (the pledges raised by the three [...]
Tags: Life in Maine · Real Estate · Volunteering
Memories of Mobile
January 21st, 2008 · No Comments
I’m back from Alabama, where we started with a slab and ended with a nearly finished house… pretty amazing, considering that we worked only 4 days (one being a total washout due to rain). I’m more impressed than ever with Habitat — the operation in Mobile is huge — 20 houses being built at once [...]
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Sweet Home Alabama
January 11th, 2008 · No Comments
For brokers, real estate is usually about buying and selling homes, not building them.
But next week I’m off with a group of 19 Maine realtors to hurricane-ravaged Mobile, Alabama, to construct a whole house in a week. That’s right — the challenge of Operation Home Build, a National Association of Realtors Habitat for Humanity trip, is for each state’s [...]
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