You Read it Here First In the course of helping clients find a rental property the last 2 weeks, it’s become abundantly clear that the rental market is much more fragmented and chaotic than the For Sale market. And pricing is much sloppier (what you get for, say, $2,500/mth runs the gamut from properties worth...Read More
(That’s) One Way to Cut Your Property Taxes To: the anonymous neighbor(?) who toppled all my “Open House” signs the other morning From: your friendly neighborhood Realtor (me) Date: 7/30/2010 Re: my Open House signs Dear Neighbor: I’m sure you thought you thought you were striking a blow against obnoxious advertising the other morning when...Read More
“Funny, I Didn’t See Him at the Meeting” Politico’s know that a Congressman who never actually delivered a speech in the Senate or House chambers can nevertheless have their remarks “written into the record,” or transcript, of that body’s deliberations. Real estate has something similar. After each local real estate office holds its weekly Tuesday...Read More
As “civilians” (non-Realtors) may or may not know, Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. is when local Realtors — at least in the Twin Cities — go look at all the new listings. To facilitate that, Brokers print and distribute “tour sheets” with the addresses of the homes on tour, along with short blurbs...Read More
Slow Day for Broker Tour It’s not very scientific, but a quick way to gauge how busy the local housing market is any particular week is to pick up the list of homes on Broker tour each Tuesday (sort of like the thickness of newspapers and magazines used to indicate how strong advertising was —...Read More
