The Wisdom of a Sump Pump With a Battery Backup Q: What’s worse than biting into an apple and finding a worm? A. Biting into an apple and finding half a worm. What’s worse than having water in your basement from one of the two(!) deluges that hit the Twin Cities last weekend? Having water...Read More
“Is it Live . . . or is it Memorex?” I just tripped across a new Fern Hill listing with the lead photo reproduced above. Is it just me, or is the grass too green, the sky too blue? (not to mention uniform). At the very least, this photo looks heavily doctored/colorized; at worst, it’s...Read More
Dave Alan Homes in Minneapolis’ Bryn Mawr Neighborhood Feel the city breakin’ And ev’rybody shakin’ And we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive. Ah, ha, ha, ha, Stayin’ alive. Stayin’ alive. Ah, ha, ha, ha, Stayin’ alive. –lyrics, “Staying Alive” (The Bee Gees) How does a local home builder weather an epic downturn in new construction amid...Read More
Realtor-to-Realtor Courtesy Normally, you’d think pointing out that someone tracked dirt through your home, or that a window was covered with a certain bird “souvenir,” would be an insult. When isn’t that the case? When a Realtor doing a preview or showing encounters those things, and lets the listing agent know. That’s especially the case...Read More
“Open House Available For a Terrific Listing That Always Gets Great Traffic” One of the more durable myths out there is why Realtors do Sunday open houses: many clients (and prospective clients) seem to believe that the primary motivation isn’t to sell the client’s home, but for the hosting Realtor to troll for future business...Read More
Blood is Thicker Than Water (in Real Estate, Too) I don’t imagine that, in medicine, a neurosurgeon who was being considered for a life-saving operation finds out that the patient chose another surgeon because . . . the patient’s wife and the other surgeon’s wife are best friends. But that kind of thing happens to...Read More
