About Walter

Walter Boomsma

Like most people, I began discovering sales and motivation techniques shortly after birth when I wanted to be fed. Without words, I was able to demonstrate to my parents a benefit to providing me with warm milk. As time passed, I of course learned to talk and began negotiating my way through life, developing an even greater understanding of a fundamental truth: Life is best when everybody wins! That understanding served me well as I worked in retail sales, national account management, sales and management training and organization development.

My career in consulting began in 1985 with the personal mission of developing individual and organization effectiveness. I worked with organizations to implement systems, policies and procedures to support learning and allow employees to excel. I also developed training programs and currently teach real estate related courses with the Piscataquis Valley Adult Education Cooperative and The Arthur Gary School of Real Estate. As a featured keynote speaker I’ve addressed numerous companies, associations, civic and educational groups on subjects like choosing attitudes, starting your own business, leadership, and the motivation to learn.

Several years ago, I opted to apply my sales, consulting, and project management skills to the practice of real estate brokerage and selling and building log homes starting with my own Katahdin log home in Abbot. Many of the lessons I learned early in my consulting career have served me well in meeting clients’ real estate needs.

Prescription without diagnosis is malpractice—in medicine, management, and real estate.

Buying and selling real estate is ultimately about problem-solving. Failure to understand the “problem” and the needs of the client is, in my book, malpractice. You want to do more than buy or sell a property. I want to understand what you want to do. Once that’s clear, it’s easy to put you, the client, first. It’s also necessary if we are to be successful. All of my skill and experience is of no value to you if we’re not working together to achieve your goal.

Experience is only part of the formula. We’ve all met people who brag, “I’ve got twenty year’s experience…” only to discover that what they actually have is one year of experience, repeated twenty times. I’ve found that no two buyers or sellers are ever the same, no two transactions are identical. I pride myself on a constantly fresh outlook and promise to never forget that your goal is uniquely yours. Working together we can make things happen.