northern aroostook facts (Caribou, Madawaska, Fort Kent: real estate market, rent, vehicle registration)

[cordoba11]

I am hopefully going to be living in the county soon, when it comes to things like motor vehicle regestration, and paying property taxes are those things done at a central location or in the local towns. I have looked at the various websites for maine and i'm just about blind trying to find the right pages. Any thoughts about anything else i will have to know will be helpful.

[Maineah]

Just move there and get a mailing address ....believe me they'll find you!

[Bydand]

Property tax is paid at the town office, unless you are in an un-organized Township, then you send it directly to the State as far as I know. (Forest Beekeeper will know for sure) Vehicle registration, you will go to Caribou for that if you are in Aroostook county. There is a mobile unit that makes a once a month stop in Fort Kent, but they can only handle drivers licenses and state ID cards. They are in Fort Kent on (and I am not making this up) the Wednesday following the third Tuesday of the month.

Here is where you find the registration information: Registration & Titles, Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles

This is the Drivers License page: Driver Licenses & IDs, Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles

[cordoba11]

thank you bydand,i hope to get all the info straight in my head so when i get there[probably frenchville] i won't be pulling my hair out.

[Mainer61]

Cordoba11, good for you. I bet you will love it in the County. I wish you the best.

[cordoba11]

Thanks mainer, i think i must haved lived in maine in a previous life or something, it seems that something is pushing me that way. It will be an emotional event when i finally get there.

[hello99]

Originally Posted by cordoba11

I am hopefully going to be living in the county soon, when it comes to things like motor vehicle regestration, and paying property taxes are those things done at a central location or in the local towns. I have looked at the various websites for maine and i'm just about blind trying to find the right pages. Any thoughts about anything else i will have to know will be helpful.

Hello,
I did see where someone posted the info for you and they are correct. I'm just curious how you decided to move to that part of Maine.
I spend every summer on Long Lake and have a few cabins that we rent out. I LOVE it there! Frenchville is between Madawaska and Fort Kent and has been my stomping ground for many years. Not many people know of "Northern Maine".

[cordoba11]

hello99, price & value of the real estate market, low number of people, high number of inches, snow i mean. Plus i took to it right off, the positive [fung shuai] of that area hit me like a bus.Northern maine, what is [northern maine]. ha-ha