No, there’s no category for “Best Actor” or “Best Actress” — though arguably, there should be. But the first-ever Edina Realty City Lakes Awards (“ERCL”) do recognize outstanding achievement in 17 (mostly serious) real estate categories. Without further adieu, here are the categories and winners — all painstakingly chosen by City Lakes Manager Matt Loskota:...Read More
The Edina Realty City Lakes Realtor of the Month (December) would be . . . me! The prize: boasting rights (including this post) — and a reserved parking spot closest to the City Lakes front entrance. Thanks, Matt! (that would be Matt Loskota, City Lakes office manager, aka “the decider”). P.S.: the downside? Now, I really have to get...Read More
Identifying with the Home You Sell Great House = Great Agent. Gross Listing = Gross Agent –Matt Loskota, City Lakes Office Manager Reason #34 not to take an overpriced, under-prepped listing: it reflects on you. Badly. Not only do prospective Buyers associate you with the home’s underwhelming appeal, but inexorably, over time . . ....Read More
Best exchange at today’s Exceptional Properties meeting? That would be the one between Matt Loskota, newly named manager of the merged City Lakes and Parkwest offices, and John Shaw and John Smaby, office managers of Edina’s 6800 and 50th & France offices, respectively. The meeting typically attracts 40-50 upper bracket agents from 3-4 nearby Edina offices, and...Read More
City Lakes + Parkwest = City West? Yesterday was a red letter day unlike any other in my nine-plus years at Edina Realty. Any one of the following announcements at yesterday’s City Lakes office meeting — delivered personally by Edina Realty President and CEO Bob Peltier — would have qualified as blockbuster news; cumulatively, the...Read More
