Father’s Day Off For an avowed contrarian such as myself, “following the crowd” has a decidedly negative connotation. However, the reason I’m not doing any open houses today is that . . . no else is, either (or practically no one; according to my front desk, open houses today are off 75% from a typical June Sunday)....Read More
Before (above) and After (below) People get eye lifts. But houses can, too. How? By removing dated and dark awnings (painting the front door helps, too — as does a shadow-free shot).Read More
No, $2.2 Million Below Construction Cost Where: 64xx Indian Hills Road in Edina What: Six Bedroom/Nine Bath Smucker-built Italian residence with over 10,000 finished square feet. How much: list price = $3.39M Who: listed by Michael Nash, Edina Realty You don’t see that many $2 million-plus homes in the Twin Cities. You see even fewer homes...Read More
“What Were They Thinking??” Department Fans of “Breaking Bad” (I am) will get a shock of recognition reading the following news item, from a couple weeks ago: An ill-conceived effort to get rid of a pesky bird at a cookie factory with a dose of bird shot backfired when a worker at a dough machine was hit...Read More
The Other Super Bowl Yesterday At least to me, the most interesting Super Bowl match-up yesterday wasn’t Green Bay vs. Pittsburgh, or Ben Roethlisberger vs. Aaron Rogers. It was Audi vs. BMW vs. Mercedes Benz. During commercial breaks, the three car companies duked it out in some of the smartest, slickest ads I’ve seen. So, who...Read More
Blog Housekeeping Notes Well, it’s not exactly a surprise. But after peaking at a worldwide ranking of around 17,000 in December (out of 3 million or so ranked blogs), City Lakes Real Estate’s ranking on Technorati –the Nielsen’s of the blogosphere — has now flat-lined at . . . . 1. “We’re #1! We’re #1!” What happened? I...Read More
