Drawbridges . . . Up In just a few weeks, some of my favorite “free” content . . . won’t be. That includes mainstream publications like The New York Times, but also specialty online newsletters like “Breakfast with Dave,” authored by Gluskin Sheff chief economist David Rosenberg. Even The New Yorker, which is busily promoting its iPad app, quietly omits the fact...Read More
Attention to Detail: Exhibit A I’ve probably seen 10,000 photos of Living Room fireplaces. However, this is the first one I can recall that actually had a fire going (or was made to look that way, digitally). Great touch! The property that goes with the photo is 5252 Drew Ave. South in South Minneapolis’ Fulton...Read More
My heart literally skipped a beat this morning when a computer folder for an especially involved, ongoing transaction suddenly went “poof!” Like most Realtors, I am increasingly reliant on online archives to capture all the twists and turns that go into a consummated deal (and documenting same). Which works fine — at least until three months worth...Read More
City Lakes + Parkwest = City West? Yesterday was a red letter day unlike any other in my nine-plus years at Edina Realty. Any one of the following announcements at yesterday’s City Lakes office meeting — delivered personally by Edina Realty President and CEO Bob Peltier — would have qualified as blockbuster news; cumulatively, the...Read More
