Maine Lakefront Real Estate- “Are you mapping your search results?”

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Maine Lakefront Real Estate- “Are you mapping your search results?”


The primary reason lakefront buyers come to the Mr Lakefront website, www.mrlakefront.net , is to look at lakefront real estate. That’s as it should be.
The Lakefront Locator is designed to allow waterfront home buyers to narrow down your search to those properties that fit your criteria or meet your needs. There’s lots of choices. What Lake Region? What type of property? What price range? What town(s)? What lake(s)? Once you’ve figured that out, then one can select how the results are displayed. From oldest on the market to newest or newest to oldest. Highest priced to lowest prices or lowest to highest priced.
There is also a Map Results feature. This feature allows one to display the results of one’s search on a map. It took some effort on our part to bring it to you. Zooming in and out takes some getting used to, but worth the effort. If you haven’t used it give it a go!
However, the map results feature is not perfect. It is not perfect because it relies on those pesky critters, my fellow real estate agents, to provide accurate street addresses for all properties. For example, problems crop up if an address is misspelled. It could be as simple as High View Avenue being entered in instead of Hi Vu Avenue.
To make matters worse, some real estate agents have decided not to allow the street addresses of their listings to appear. This results in Google Earth and Google Maps being unable to plot them on a map for us.
Nevertheless, the map results feature in Lakefront Locator, although imperfect, is still deserving of your inspection.
Many of our best ideas and features come from you folks, the users of Lakefront Locator. Let us know how we can improve the website and register to win a $100 Gift Certificate to LL Bean.

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