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Talking Heads & the Housing Market

Missing Voices One of the oddities — at least to me — about selling real estate these days is to peruse Op-Ed pages full of people with opinions about the “true state” of the housing market, its future direction — and what should be done to fix it. Print journalists (there’s an anachronism). Economists. Government...
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Beautiful Built-in’s, Buffet, Millwork

What do Realtors have in mind when they say a home has gorgeous built-in’s and millwork? Rooms like the one pictured above. It doesn’t get more aesthetic than this! (The beautiful dining room is located at 2401 Humboldt, in Minneapolis’ Kenwood neighborhood; Steve Havig at Lakes Area Realty has the listing).
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The Wall Street Journal Whiffs on Warren

Protecting Consumers From Banks It turns out that Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren will head the new Consumer Protection Financial Bureau, after all. The Bureau, which Warren proposed creating, is charged with ensuring that “consumers are protected from unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts and practices and from discrimination.” Seeing as how millions of consumers are routinely...
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Condo-Hotels: Instant Anachronisms?

Victims of Soft Economy, Tight Financing Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. What makes a trend, especially in real estate? Imitators. How do you know something’s a bust? Lack of imitators. In the Twin Cities, two years after it was completed, the Westin Galleria in Edina stands out as the area’s sole (to my...
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Tina Fey as a Realtor

“Date Night” Realtor Vignette In “Realtors in Modern Culture,” I noted the paucity of Realtors depicted in movies and on TV. Well, add one more: Tina Fey’s character, Claire Foster, in “Date Night” (I just saw it on DVD). The highlight of the movie (at least to this Realtor) was a blink-and-you-missed-it scene near the...
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"Can You Shadow Me?"

No, that’s not a line from a James Bond movie, or what you might hear during a game of Dungeons and Dragons. It’s what I say to Edina tech support every time I call with a (for me) headscratcher . . . . like 5 minutes ago — solved by Thu in about 30 seconds....
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