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Minneapolis housing market

Prospective Buyer: “I Want Something 25% Below Market, That I Can Fix Up and Flip for Double, That the Seller Will Finance. Oh, and Do You Know Any Contractors??”

“Good Luck With That” Department I fielded a call the other week from a prospective Buyer who must have just skimmed “How to Make Millions in Real Estate” (or some such title) at Barnes & Noble. I doubt that such an approach ever worked, but it’s a guaranteed loser — and a time sink — in a...
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The Most Stressed Member of the Seller’s Household

Perplexed Fido:  “What . . . What’s . . . Happening?!?” As stressful as selling a home and moving to another is for people . . . it can be even more so for family pets. The obvious reason:  there’s no way to explain to them what’s happening (at least that I know). The cure?...
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MnDOT: ‘Highway 100 in St. Louis Park Closed Until Further Notice’

No Joke — & No Escape for Drivers on West Side of Town Unfortunately, it’s May 12, not April 1 — and the headline above is only a slight exaggeration. Thanks to two lanes (out of four) being closed in both directions, traffic on Highway 100 in St. Louis Park is now a snarled, 24/7 nightmare...
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What You Get For $960k(!): Palatial, Lakeside Estate . . . Just 15 Miles From Downtown Minneapolis

15306 Mason’s Pointe in Eden Prairie [Note:  click here for a TV clip featuring the home on WCCO (CBS) morning news.] What:  Over 6,500 square foot Robert Mason-built home with 162′ of shoreline on Red Rock Lake.  Beautifully landscaped grounds on 1.37 acre. Where:  15306 Mason’s Pointe.  Directions:  from Highway 212, go south on Mitchell...
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Book Review: “All The Light We Cannot See”

“The Air a Library and the Record of Every Life Lived” “Is it so hard to believe that great shuttles of souls might fly about, faded but audible if you listen closely enough?  They flow about the chimneys, ride the sidewalks, slip through your jacket and shirt and breastbone and lungs, and pass out through...
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Why Is Calling Something (or Someone) “Tasteless” an Insult?

The Color Taste of Water Water usually doesn’t have a taste, and people don’t object to that. Ditto for celery. So why is calling something — like a comment, a work of art, or an article of clothing — “tasteless” a dis? “Taste-Free” vs. “Tasteless” Clearly, what the speaker intends to say is, “in bad taste.”...
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