St. Louis Park’s FEMA Money Here’s something new on my radar, picked up at the weekly Edina Realty – City Lakes meeting this morning: what’s going to happen to Meadowbrook Golf course in St. Louis Park? As locals know, the city-owned course suffered massive, sustained flooding last Summer. What they may not know (or at...Read More
Define, “Extreme Cold” There’s a simple reason you seldom see Realtor open houses in Minnesota in January cancelled due to cold: there’s no guaranty it will be warmer a week later. Case in point: exactly one week ago, when my client and I were wavering due to local temps in the single digits. We went...Read More
Practicing an Ounce of Prevention If the answer to that question is “no one” — or at least, not regularly — it’s imperative that the owner do one of the following (at least if their home happens to be located in Minnesota and it’s winter): –Winterize the home (shut off the water and drain the...Read More
Shakespeare Must Not Have Known Any Economists* If you don’t know “econospeak,” let me translate what an economist recently said (headline above) about the early 2015 housing market: “Home prices went up last year, but are now leveling off.” There, that wasn’t so bad, was it? 🙂 See also, “If the Economists’ Forecast is Accurate...Read More
