Unfamiliar Sight: Empty Store and Parking Lot During Daylight Hours You know a retail store is popular when a steady stream of cars pulls up in front, and is momentarily frustrated/perplexed by the sight of an empty Costco store and parking lot ” a store that might otherwise have thousands of people and hundreds of...Read More
The First Second to Know Want to know who just got a plum, new job out-of-town? Is about to lose their current one? Getting divorced? Just had a financial windfall? Or, for that matter, any number of other highly personal news? Ask their Realtor. Loose Lips Sink . . . Realtors Except, of course, that a good Realtor will never...Read More
Election for Minneapolis Area Realtors (“MAR”) 2020 Board of Directors I’m delighted to enthusiastically endorse my Edina Realty – City Lakes colleague, Amy Michielle Freeman, for MAR Board Director. Not only is Amy a terrific Realtor, she is a wonderful human being: full of energy, deeply caring, and always fun to talk to about real...Read More
Better Than Blueprints: The “Jumping-Up-and-Down” Test One of the issues that can come up for downsizers moving from a single-family home to multi-family housing (condo or townhome) is privacy ” specifically, noise. I don’t know about townhomes (see below), but I do know a surefire, albeit not-so-scientific way to test how quiet a given condo...Read More
The Twin Cities’ Most Valuable Free (Public) Real Estate When Minnesotans think of portaging, they usually have in mind carrying a canoe between two lakes somewhere in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in northern Minnesota. So, what’s bike portaging? When the quickest way to get from one paved road to another is to carry your...Read More
“The Overpriced Factor,” “The Hassle Factor,” Etc. Non-Realtors may be inclined to believe it’s some kind of conspiracy. But, in reality, there are multiple, rational reasons that experienced Buyers’ agents seldom show For Sale By Owner homes (“FSBO’s”). Here are just a couple: —FSBO’s are invariably mispriced (want to guess which direction??). —They’re poorly staged and...Read More
