Not All My Clients Are Tech Savvy I don't expect all my clients to be technology wizards. Some of them are far from it. From time to time, we encounter a client who doesn't own a smartphone, a laptop or a tablet computer, who lacks the ability to send text messages or email. These clients ma
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03/20/2015
Showing Extraordinary Lake Minnetonka Properties This Morning In the real estate business, not all days are like this one. This morning I had the privilege of touring some remarkable properties in the Lake Minnetonka area of Hennepin County (about half an hour west of downtown Minneapolis). T
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03/20/2015
A great post by Jill Sackler here. The purpose of a home inspection report is to clue the buyer about major defects that need addressing, not to warrant that the house will be transferred to the buyer in perfect condition. Some buyers (and their agents) have lost sight of why these inspections
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03/19/2015
Seller Won't Accept One Penny Less - The Era of the Tough Guy We live in what I call the "Era of the Tough Guy". We've all probably encountered this more than once in the course of real estate negotiations, whether it's a seller who is absolutely unwilling to compromise or a buyer who is compl
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03/17/2015
Can I Get More Money For my House if I Throw in the Furniture? We hear this question from sellers more often than you might think. In our Madeline Island real estate market, it is common for sellers to offer their home, cabin or cottage for sale, furnished. Sometimes, this is referred to as s
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03/14/2015
"I Wanted to Buy That Home" Every year, we are given the privilege of representing and marketing a handfull of exceptional properties in our Madeline Island and Bayfield, Wisconsin real estate marketplace. And each year, when these properties sell, we invariably hear from at least one or two f
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03/09/2015
Sellers, Spring Cleaning Can Help Sell Your Vacation Home I believe most homeowners think of "spring cleaning" as something which takes place after the last of the snow melts and the leaves are on the trees. In our part of the United States (northwest Wisconsin), spring cleaning usually doesn'
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03/09/2015
How We Photograph Your Home for Sale and Why You Should Care From speaking with past and present clients, my impression is that the vast majority of them don't really understand the importance of photography in the process of marketing and selling their home. They also fail to understand the man
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03/08/2015
Anyone Have a Product Review of the Moment Lenses for Smartphones? I learned about Moment Lenses thanks to a post by my friend Alan Pinstein (with Agent Snap) in his recent post: Can cell phone cameras actually take good listing photos? The moment lens, described on their website as the "W
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03/08/2015
This is a post by a Florida real estate broker, but it expresses advice that is universal. Curb appeal is a subject that is ignored by a large percentage of sellers. I particularly like the blogger's advice that a seller should view their own property at a distance, and should detach themselves
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03/04/2015
