Vicki Doudera – Realtor, Author, Mainer

Can being a Patriots fan change your life? Absolutely.
I was a ten-year-old in the sleepy town of Norfolk, Massachusetts, in 1971, the year Schaeffer Stadium was constructed and the Pats came into my world.
We lived in a mustard yellow split-level in Lafayette Estates, one of the first subdivisions in that then bucolic area. Although we were on a modest one-acre lot, [...]

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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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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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