Effect on Property Values More Complicated Than You’d Guess So, how big a premium do homes in stellar school districts fetch? Conversely, how much of a discount is baked into the price of homes in poorly regarded school districts? Two Sides of Same Coin Step #1 is to realize that one size doesn’t fit all — that...Read More
Unintended Consequence of Raising Awareness of Distracted Driving You’d think that once a teenager got their driver’s license, the family would consider moving further away from, not closer, to the high school their kid(s) attend. But, I’ve now just handled my third transaction in under a year where one of the driving (sorry) motives for...Read More
“Four Three Corners” At least to my knowledge, there’s no one spot in the Twin Cities where four municipalities all touch (sort of like “Four Corners” in the U.S. Southwest, where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona all meet — and somebody limber enough can straddle all of them. See photo, above). But, I’m aware of at least three...Read More
