Check out mspmag.com and you'll find a wealth of information about what's going on in the Twin Cities, including arts & entertainment news, restaurant reviews, fashion trends, local politics and local media. The blogroll at mspmag.com includes: Adam Platt, who writes about the Minnesota political
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03/31/2008
A post by my good friend Mike Jones in Tucson drew my attention to the new "HomeSaver Advance" program offered by FannieMae. The program is designed, as Mike put it so well, to help homeowners "stave off the specter of foreclosure". A visit to the Fannie Mae website brought me to a comment by Mi
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03/31/2008
I'm working with a buyer prospect right now who is searching for one, possibly two Lake Minnetonka waterfront homes, priced in the range of under one million dollars. The prospect may consider a home at slightly above a million, depending on the property. The buyer will consider a "fixer-upper".
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03/26/2008
You've seen it. Some commenters get so angry and inflamed in the midst of a discussion that they start talking trash! Some examples: "Get a life!" "Go sell something"! Then there's the name-calling game. You know, the commenter who tosses around insults like "commie!" "loser!" "PC!" "socialist
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03/21/2008
Ten days ago, I wrote a post about the recent Forbes magazine survey which revealed that over half of so-called "right to work" states ranked among Forbes' bottom thirty states for business. You'll find the post here: http://activerain.com/blogsview/415939/Forbes-Report-Reveals-Right Here are mo
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03/20/2008
I'm looking for someone on AR who is knowledgeable about merging or acquiring the listings (and marketing) of another firm. I have an opportunity to pick up quite a good quality (& quantity) of listings from another firm. That company also has an established Web presence and receives a decent v
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03/18/2008
This post was inspired by Karen Anne Stone's recent post entitled Which of the "Large States" Ranks "Best" in Forbes Magazine's Best For Business Category ? Among the most revealing pieces of information from the Forbes study was the revelation that "Best for Business" doesn't always equal cheap
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03/10/2008
I owe my friends Inna Hardison and Eric Webster a MeMe. This post probably falls short of filling that request, but if you dig, you'll learn a few things about me that you didn't know. This morning, I found myself thinking about my favorite restaurant thirty-three years ago. I was living in Jer
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03/09/2008
Frances Flynn Thorsen, a fellow member of ActiveRain, has a RealTown blog where she has written a post there entitled "Let's Learn How to Help Americans KEEP Their Homes". Thorsen is an e-PRO and real estate educator who is on a mission to educate colleagues in the real estate industry about the
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03/07/2008