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The Potential for Savings In Your Lawn
Improving Your Yard While Using Less Water Chances are your lawn frustrates you at some point every summer. Maybe it's growing fast when you don't have the time to mow, or when you do have time to mow, we're not getting the rain your lawn needs to keep things green...
The Correction Continues – Strategies for Buying and Selling in 2023
It seems that every few days I get a question wondering how real estate is in our market and beyond - and for good reason if you pay any attention to the latest headlines. As we are entering the beginning of our traditional spring market here in the Upper Midwest, now...
What’s up with building permits? Do I really need them?
While it may be difficult to get exact numbers nationally, recent surveys show that when renovating or working on their home, nearly 75% of homeowners do all/part of the work themselves. I'm all for the do-it-yourself style as my clients may be aware already, but that...
The Twin Cities Real Estate Market at a glance – 2022, 23 and beyond.
As I write this entry, winter seems to finally have descended on our part of Minnesota. Along with our economy, the real estate market in general has been a topic on many people's minds. There's a lot to unpack here as it relates to your home's current value as well...
Combating High Energy Prices In Your Home
You don't have to go far to find discussion about high energy prices for the winter of 2021-22; Many news outlets are reporting double digit increases in natural gas prices (CNBC, US EIA, US BLS) and electricity for the US. The bottom line is you will likely see an...