400′ of Premium Riverfront, Very Spacious In the spirit of Minneapolis’ Biggest Fixer-Upper, I offer . . . Minneapolis’ biggest walkout. That would be the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, facing the Mississippi River on the northwest side of downtown Minneapolis. At least, the north, walkout side of the building faces the river (photo at right);...Read More
Is That Different Than the Regular Kind? I drove past a Realtor’s bus bench today which loudly proclaimed the pictured Realtor an “Executive Sales Associate.” What does that mean? Hell if I know. Best guess is that it’s like being a Senior Vice President at a bank. In other words, what everyone except the janitor is....Read More
Schizophrenic Search Engine, or, Two for the Price of One At least according to Google, this blog now ranks 4th amongst Twin Cities real estate blogs. And also 8th. Huh?? The explanation: the old, blogspot version of this blog shows up #8 on Google — that, despite being inactive since early January. Meanwhile, after six...Read More
First Things First Every couple months or so, I’m on the receiving end of what I call “the full court press” in my capacity as a listing agent (representing a Seller). So, the Buyer’s agent will call or email me wanting to know what’s been updated in the home (or not), how much the monthly utilities...Read More
The Limits of Vacation Coverage Veteran Realtors know that the best way to ensure that your client will want to buy a house is to show it to them just before you have to head to the airport for a flight. To that, I’d add this corollary: the best way to guaranty that there’ll be a client emergency...Read More
“Drum Roll, Please . . . .” No, there’s no Oscars or Emmies for Realtors. The closest there is (so far) is the Mpls-St. Paul Magazine‘s annual “Super Realtors” list. So it’s nice to be selected . . . for the fourth year in a row. Local Realtors just got notified by letter; the list is...Read More
