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How to Create an Outdoor Living Space: Ideas and Inspiration

How to Create an Outdoor Living Space: Ideas and Inspiration. (Home Staging and Redesign Minneapolis, MN) It is Spring in Minnesota and time to start thinking about spending more time...
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The leading indicator of a housing recovery

If you look at housing prices it's easy to think the market is still in decline, but prices tend to be a lagging indicator. Think of the typical months it takes from...
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FHA changes coming April 9th!!!

This is really just a reminder, but I want to make sure that if you are looking at homes, you remember that date!!  Any case numbers ordered on or after...
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Wednesdays Unplugged – Smothered Pork Chops

  "The grass is always greener where you water it." ~ Unknown   NOTE: I spend my Wednesdays Unplugged from appointments. It's my day to stay home, enjoy cooking and...
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New Construction Attic Defect: Unsealed Tech Tubes

I've been doing a lot of new-construction inspections or one-year warranty inspections on new construction houses, and I've started to notice a new attic bypass that seems to be completely...
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Why does it seem like nearly every house I find that I like online is already sold?!

It seems like clients are always finding listings that they like online… only to learn that they already have offers when I check them out. Why is that? When a property has...
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TC Habitat for Humanity welcomes its 900th family into a home

Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity has been building homes since 1985, building one, two or three houses a year in the early years. It has come a long way since...
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3 Cheap and Easy Home Staging Projects

If you are preparing your home for sale you are likely discovering how quickly the costs can add up to replace things liked outdated brass doorpulls, lamps and furniture. A reader...
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How one late payment could kill your mortgage approval in a hurry

Credit score requirements for getting a mortgage are more important than ever and most lenders now require a score of at least 640 to get financing approval. Your interest rate will...
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HARP 2.0 refinance information

Fannie and Freddie have both updated their automated underwriting systems (known as DU and LP) to allow for expanded loan to values and other improvements to their guidelines for these...
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