Solar Christmas Lights: Should You Make the Switch?
Solar Christmas lights don’t cost anything to operate, but the high purchase price might not add up to savings. http://www.houselogic.com/home-advice/lighting/solar-christmas-lights/
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9 Unexpected Energy (and Money) Savers
Here are a few surprising and simple ways to cut your energy bill this season. Give your pocketbook and Mother Nature a gift this season by taking advantage of these simple, surprising ways to save energy and money. http://www.houselogic.com/home-advice/saving-energy/energy-money-savers/
Refrigerator Maintenance
Keep your refrigerator running efficiently and reliably with this simple maintenance routine. http://www.houselogic.com/home-advice/appliances/refrigerator-maintenance/
Interest Rates Fall Again
Today the average interest rates for a 30 year fixed rate mortgage fell below 4%! For anyone who is on the fence about purchasing a home, this should be a huge incentive to get off that fence and buy! As everyone knows the prices of homes have fallen. In many cases the prices are [...]
Goodbye to the MN Homestead Credit
Late this past summer, Minnesota residents were relieved when our legislators finally got a budget bill passed and allowed our state government to get back to work. Now the surprises are surfacing about that very budget bill. One of the things contained in the final budget bill that was signed, is the elimination of the [...]
Real Estate Market Update
For the week ending August 20, Twin Cities home sellers continued to list fewer properties than last year at this time, as new listings were down 11.8 percent to 1,342. That makes for 11 consecutive weeks of (still welcome) declines. Meanwhile, buyer activity was up 53.3 percent over last year, the largest increase in 12 [...]
Life Estates
Recently I have worked with a number of families who put their parent's home in the children's names with the parent retaining a live estate. This was done to protect the asset should the parent have to live in a care facility. Most of these families did this a number of years ago, and have [...]
We’re Growing
We are proud to announce that Diane Sorensen, Ryan Lickfelt, and Traci Atkinson have recently joined us as sales agents. As you might remembert, Diane and Ryan worked for us previously and we are pleased to welcome them back. All of these agents have been in the real estate business for many years [...]
Sales Up, Foreclosure Rate Drops as Distressed Segment Leans Toward Recovery
Minneapolis, Minnesota (June 10, 2011) – Pending sales for May 2011 in the 13-county Twin Cities metropolitan area were up 13.2 percent over last year's post-tax credit market. The 4,428 signed contracts was the second year-over-year increase in the past 13 months. Sellers introduced 7,021 new properties to the market, a 10.8 percent increase from [...]
The Importance of Inspections
In the last 10-15 years, buyers have hired home inspectors to look at the homes that they are thinking about purchasing. (Prior to that, some might have had one of their relatives look at the house and they would surely find all kinds of issues!) The first thing a buyer needs to do is find [...]