The Hometown Realty blog has a fresh, new look! The blog now features additional tools such as a mortgage calculator, closing cost estimator, Hutchinson weather information and MN real estate news. Be sure to check the blog for regular postings regarding important real estate information for the Hutchinson, MN area and surrounding communities. [...]
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Over the last several weeks, you may have noticed that Hometown Realty has been using QR Codes (quick response codes) on our signs and in our newspaper advertising in the Hutchinson, MN area. If you own a smart phone, all you have to do is use your bar scanner and it will read the QR [...]
Spring has always been my favorite season in Hutchinson, MN. It starts with the Crow River opening up, the beautiful spring flowers begin to bloom, and the trees start to bud out. Along with all of nature's signs of spring, the real estate market also begins to come alive. We are seeing many home [...]
Last weekend I came home late in the day to find a leak from the roof in the middle of my dining room. I've lived in my home since 1977 and had never had any kind of leak. So, I called a friend who went up on my roof and found that by one of the [...]
Today more than ever, it's important for a real estate agent to be able to "think outside the box." We are unable to rely on what has always been done, but instead figure out solutions for today's challenges. This creativity is necessary working with buyers and sellers who may have experienced some sort of financial [...]
A couple of weeks ago I got a call from a young lady who said that she and her fiance wanted to get together with me. They want to purchase their first home here in Hutchinson, MN before summer. While visiting with her, I learned that her parents had purchased the land they built their [...]
Overview One in every 20 Minnesota homes was foreclosed upon between 2005 and 2009. As foreclosures continue to mount, for-profit foreclosure prevention scams have arisen to prey on struggling home owners at their weakest. In fact, the scams have boomed from only one reported to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2008, to 7,927 in [...]
2010 brought a lot of change to our real estate market here in Hutchinson, MN. There had been an increase in the number of foreclosure and short sales as well "normal" sales. One of the challenges for all of us, realtors, appraisers, buyers, and sellers has been to find the right home values for homes [...]
I knew it had been a while since I had last wrote here, but I didn't realize it had been August! Well, I know where much of the time was spent. We saw a significant increase in housing activity at Hometown Realty during the months of August, September, and October. People seemed to gain some [...]
