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2012
Were you expecting a carved jack-o-lantern or cute costume perhaps? This giant fruit bat is one of many in the enclosed area at Animal Kingdom in Walt Disney World. They were pretty cool to see close up...and behind glass. Have a very safe and Happy Halloween!
10/31/2012
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When home owners contact a REALTOR® for a market analysis, they often have a myriad of questions to ask me as their potential agent about what I can do to get their home sold. They want a person with a good, solid track record of getting a home sold quickly and for the best price possible. This...
10/30/2012
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Faux Ceramic Tile Vinyl Flooring Our kitchen, laundry and main hallway flooring was a beautiful white geometric design. It was a very popular pattern when we purchase our home in the late 1990’s but a decade later, it was just ugly. Being a REALTOR® and knowing we would be moving within a...
10/25/2012
Halloween is on the minds of many this time of year and at a real estate closing there's no exception. In the "Land of 10,000 Lakes" we are known to be "Minnesota Nice" so when a home is sold by a traditional seller to a new home buyer, all parties sit down in the same room for the closing tra...
10/25/2012
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As a REALTOR® in the north and east Minneapolis/St Paul area, I hear it all the time...Potential home sellers lamenting about how it is too late in the year to sell their Minnesota home. It’s late October now, so soon the snow will fly and no one will be buying. “We missed the market this year s...
10/21/2012
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Welcome to North St Paul, MN This 3BR/2BA/2 Car Bungalow is off the market but there are many more wonderful North St Paul homes available. Visit my website at terieckholm.com to see active listings. Need more information about how to purchase an awesome North St Paul Home? Call me, Teri Eck...
10/18/2012
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It's fall in Minnesota. We are fortunate to live in a state with four seasons and autumn is definitely full of color. In a month or so, we could be almost all white as our winter season blows in. But when the golds and crimsons and rust colored leaves are but a memory, the greens of the pines an...
10/04/2012
I have always loved the look of ivy growing over a trellis and marveled at the beauty of home covered in vines. But when is a creeping ivy just too much of a good thing? This photo of a store front in Stillwater, Minnesota shows this ivy almost completely covers the brick. One has to wonder whe...
10/03/2012