Piggybacking on the Uptown Art Fair If you’re a Realtor listing a home in or near Minneapolis’ Uptown neighborhood, what does this weekend’s art fair represent? Free advertising — and tons of extra foot traffic! Which is why there is sure to be a bumper crop of open houses there this weekend. P.S.: If you’re interested in...Read More
When the Best Defense is a Good Offense Not every “For Sale” home is in “mint, move-in condition” — nor is that a realistic goal for many sellers (be it due to limited time, money, energy, or simply a cold-eyed cost-benefit analysis). When that’s the case, though, getting top dollar for the home hinges on...Read More
Too Much of a Good Thing? Imagine Tweets suddenly going from 140 characters and spaces to . . . more than triple that. That’s sort of what happened on MLS last week. Since at least . . . uhh, forever, the amount of space allocated to “Agent” and “Public Remarks” was 155 characters. Now? Five hundred....Read More
Getting an Older Home — and Homeowner — Ready for Market What’s the opposite of “never asking a barber if you need a haircut?” When the barber says you can wait a couple more weeks . . . you probably can. Or the real estate equivalent: When a commission-based (and closing-driven) Realtor advises a client...Read More
Why Homeowners Let the Competition Look (or Should) Wait a second: Don’t Buyers’ agents represent Buyers at a preview? (in contrast to a showing, a preview is when just the Realtor views the home). And exactly how does an agent represent the Seller of the home they’re previewing — don’t they already have an agent? (called “the listing...Read More
