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February 5, 2009

Spotlight on Value: 2905 Benton Blvd.

Where: 2905 Benton Blvd, MinneapolisHow much: $739,900Tax value (’09): $849,900Original asking price: $925,000Originally on market: 4/28/09 One year ago, this home likely would have fetched in the mid-$800’s (I should know: I sold a very similar home, with fewer updates and farther from the lakes, for $790,000). Fortunately for my Seller, at the time Benton...
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Idled Housing Workers

Financial Crisis Fall-Out One of the things people are realizing, in the wake of Wall Street’s melt-down, is that today’s economy has far too many people who good at designing exotic financial instruments, and not enough who are good at actually making things. Real, live, concrete things — as opposed to complicated pieces of paper...
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