Outside Work in Twin Cities Stalled by Rain, Season’s First Snowflakes (Maybe) Today What’s between an old fence and a new fence? Unfortunately for my family’s (temporarily forlorn) Golden Retriever, “no fence.” Stalled at Step #4 It turns out that replacing an old fence consists of these four steps: 1) take down and remove old...Read More
Letting Buyers Off the Hook What do you do as a Buyer if you really like the first (or second) house you see, only to be told a couple hours after you went through that it’s in multiple offers, and that you have until 8 p.m. that night to make an offer? Scenario #2: you need a bigger house,...Read More
30 Slated for Edina So, where is residential new construction in the Twin Cities booming? Try . . . staid, mature — and now sizzling — Edina. At the moment, the city has issued 30 permits to tear down existing housing and construct new. Land and building costs being what they are, you’d estimate that...Read More
“Honey, I Blew Up the Financial System” Question: What do you call a financial house of cards that’s insured? Answer: an even bigger financial house of cards. Just as portfolio insurance was fingered as a prime culprit in the 1987 stock market crash, another kind of insurance — against credit defaults — is rapidly emerging...Read More
