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Room Function Staging

Do your rooms have an identity crisis?  While living in a home, we often transform rooms in to areas that suit a different purpose.  I've seen many offices in dining...
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Is the log jam loosening?

For some time I have had this image of a giant log jam building…homes for sale piling up…sellers waiting to sell…buyers waiting for indicators that it was time to buy....
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Buying your first home…

This can be a really exciting and scary time!  I still remember walking out of our closing on our first home many years ago – we got in the car...
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Wednesdays Unplugged – Crusted Cod with Sun-dried Tomatoes and Pine Nuts

It's Wednesday, my day to be unplugged from appointments and plugged into cooking and family. It's always a highlight of my week when everyone comes over in the evening and we get to...
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Vampire Loads

A few ‘Green’ buzzwords I’ve been hearing about lately are ‘Vampire Loads’, ‘Vampire Power’ or ‘Phantom Power’. They all mean the same thing. If you haven’t heard about these yet,...
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4th Quarter Foreclosure & Short Sale Market Update

What I think may be most telling of what is happening in the current market is the chart below released by the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors in their recent quarterly...
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Sunday’s Site – Robbinsdale

NOTE: see the bottom of Sunday's Site posts for homes for sale in the area Adjoining the northwest corner of Minneapolis, Robbinsdale was founded in 1893 as its first suburb…around Lake Crystal, where...
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Home Staging Statistics

I believe that the most important element for selling a home is finding a good Realtor that you trust.  And then, and the second (equally) important element is Staging the...
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Things you should know if you’re planning to buy

If you are planning to buy a home this year you are not alone. Pending sales are up 13.2% over last year in spite of the frigid temperatures! Here are...
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First Federal Reserve Meeting of ’09 Concludes with No Rate Changes

The Federal Reserve finished their first two-day meeting of 2009 Wednesday with no changes to their short-term interest rate policies.  The Fed intends to keep their Fed Funds rates close...
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