Best Ideas: Bryn Mawr, Longfellow, Saint Anthony Park, Brookside “East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” –Rudyard Kipling “North is North and South is South, and never the twain shall meet.” –corollary, Ross Kaplan As a Twin Cities Buyer’s agent, when you’re working with a client whose job is...Read More
The REAL Purpose of Appraisals What is the purpose of an appraisal, in the context of a residential real estate sale? To make sure that, if the Buyer defaults on their loan and the lender ultimately forecloses, the value of the collateral is sufficient to make the lender whole. Or, in plain English: if the...Read More
Food Snobs Manage to Become Even More Obnoxious It had to happen: once everything became “craft” this and “artisanal” that, what do you do for an encore? Start “pairing” things. “Artisanal” and “craft” things. The list includes food, wine, beer, and interestingly, even cannabis where it’s been legalized. Of course, trend-setting gourmand that I am,...Read More
