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2 Ways to Score a Free Book at Continuing Ed

Nothing New Under the (Marketing) Sun; Lesson #1:  Treat Your Clients Like People How do you score a free book — in this case, “The Conversion Code” by Chris Smith** — at a Realtors’ seminar? By being one of the first 300 Realtors to register this morning for the day-long MAAR Realtor Summit at the...
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Multiple Offers in December? Yup!

The Twin Cities Housing Market in One Number:  “12,984” “Warmer weather heats up Minneapolis housing.” —CNBC (12/10/2015) It’s oddly fitting that, as 2015 winds down, many Buyers are saying the same thing now that they did at the beginning of the year. Namely, that there’s nothing for sale. And they’re not imagining:  according to the...
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“Heads Up” for 2015 MN Home Buyers: Homestead Filing Deadline is December 15

Why the Homestead Exemption Matters “If the Property Tax status is part- or non-homestead classification in the year of closing, Seller __ Shall __ Shall Not pay the difference between the homestead and non-homestead.” –lines 78. – 79.; 2015 MAAR-approved Purchase Agreement At least for more expensive Minnesota homes, the rule on non-homestead taxes is blissfully simple:...
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My Favorite Leading Indicator: “The Front Desk Index”

Housing Market Micro-Statistics [Editor’s Note: The views expressed here are solely those of Ross Kaplan, and do not represent Edina Realty, Berkshire Hathaway, or any other entity referenced.] Yeah, yeah, I know all about the S&P/Case-Shiller index, the National Association of Realtors’ Pending Home Sales Index, the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors’ monthly sales statistics...
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“You May Not Want to Be in Line Behind the Guy with the Oversized Suitcase”

Lockbox Exchange February 23-26 Like a couple thousand other Twin Cities Realtors this week, I spent about half an hour in line at a suburban hotel ballroom exchanging my old electronic lockboxes for new ones. Make that, two lines:  one to turn in old lockboxes, and a second line to collect an equal number of new ones...
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Showing a Home That’s Already Sold

Blast From the Past — Like, 2005 More signs that at least some segments of today’s housing market are overheating:  I am hearing about — and running into personally — “For Sale” homes  . . . that really aren’t.  That is, they sell almost immediately after coming on the market, but the listing agent neglects...
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