Avocado Accents I don’t know why, but this Kitchen — and rug — just make me smile! The home it goes with is located at 3309 41st Ave. South in Minneapolis; the list price is $235k. The photographer who took the photo is Nina Nelson. P.S.: nice way to bring out the green Kitchen walls.Read More
To: Whomever found my blog with the search query, “how to pick a Realtor’s lockbox.” From: Your friendly neighborhood Realtor-blogger. I hope whoever was searching the Web with the query, “how to pick a Realtor’s lockbox” yesterday is a Realtor who lost their combo code. Assuming that it wasn’t, though, here is a list of...Read More
Why I Don’t Use Open House Sign-In Sheets In the bits and pieces I pick up from (non-client) acquaintances about their previous real estate experience(s), it seems that if there is a generic complaint about Realtors, it takes one of two guises: 1) Realtors who won’t stop calling them; and 2) Realtors who never call them (as in, call them back)....Read More
Just Don’t Call Them “Closers” Baseball has starting pitchers and relief pitchers — why can’t real estate have “Starting Realtors” and “Relief Realtors?” The Relief Realtor’s job? Once the deal has been struck and the Inspection Contingency removed, to make sure that all the remaining hurdles and hiccups* that can derail a deal . . ....Read More
“I Heard it on the (Realtor) Grapevine” I just got a heads up from an acquaintance about an upper bracket home in Minnetonka that will be coming on the market shortly as a “For Sale By Owner” (“FSBO”). The home reportedly needs work, was last on the market decades ago, and the homeowner has no residential...Read More
That’s a Lot of Breadcrumbs Open House Signs! I certainly applaud the agent holding an open house in Fern Hill yesterday, who tried to cash in on all the foot traffic in the Uptown area for the City of Lakes Loppet over the weekend. So, every couple blocks, they placed an “Open House” sign directing people to...Read More
