Appraiser and blogger Mary Thompson has really hit it out of the park with this post. Sellers, want to see yourself get ripped off by selling your property without exposing it to the market? Just fall into the "pocket listing" trap (or more gently put, "private listing"). It's a windfall for the
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07/04/2017
Thank goodness for the re-blog feature on Active Rain! Here's a real gem from real estate pro (and Broker) Debe Maxwell in Charlotte, North Carolina. We regularly hear the question from our Madeline Island and Bayfield (Wisconsin) Sellers, "why did that house sell for more than ours?" Sellers c
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05/08/2017
Why Do So Many Buyers of a Summer Home Wait Until Autumn to Buy? Real Estate agents who sell recreational properties ("summer homes" or "vacation homes") witness this phenomenon every year. In our service area, the Apostle Islands of Lake Superior (also referred to as the "South Shore") buyers ty
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05/07/2017
MLS Consolidation On the Way & What it Means to Consumers & Agents To paraphrase the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, "the only constant (in real estate) is change". And if national real estate experts have anything to say about it, we are looking at another incoming wave of change in the way we de
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02/01/2017
Madeline Island Real Estate Buyers Picking up Late Season Bargains Almost every year, we see a late-season surge of home buying on Madeline Island and throughout the Apostle Islands area. 2016 has been no exception. Home buyers and vacant land shoppers who began looking months ago have finally go
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12/07/2016
Words of Appreciation From a Client in Hawaii One of our seller clients who resides on the Island of Maui wrote us today with a very kind testimonial. She wrote, "Eric Kodner of Madeline Island Realty was very helpful to us in selling our Madeline Island waterfront home, especially appreciated si
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06/01/2016
Madeline Island Realty Salutes the French American School of Minneapolis At its 20th Anniversary Gala fundraising event yesterday evening for the French American School of Minneapolis (formerly the French Academy of Minnesota), Madeline Island Realty was proud to be represented in an ad which ap
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05/06/2016
The Cleanest House I've Ever Seen at a Final Walk-Through Last week was a pleasant surprise. I took buyers through a final walk-through inspection of a gorgeous waterfront home in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Over the years, I've seen a lot of homes at the final walk-through that were anything but clean.
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04/30/2016
37640 Brickyard Creek Rd, Bayfield WI SOLD by Madeline Island Realty One of our most significant listings in Bayfield, Wisconsin is now a closed sale. 37640 Brickyard Creek Road, in the town of Bayfield, Wisconsin has sold for a record high price that has not been seen in Bayfield in many years.
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04/29/2016
What Does it Mean to be Published in a Nationwide Real Estate Magazine? Since 2009, I've been fortunate enough to be published (or interviewed) a total of seven times in various nationwide real estate publications. That list of publications included Realtor Magazine, the NAR "Legislative Live Blo
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04/18/2016
