Teresa 's Blog

  December home prices by St. Paul Neighborhood.  The data used to make this chart comes from data in the RMLS, regional multiple listing service and is deemed reliable but not guaranteed accurate. Buyer activity has picked up in the past month, the number of new listings put on the market in Dec...

This is about one of my clients. I don't normally "dish" on my clients on my blog, so I'll just call her T.W. T.W. and I have spent some quality time together looking at condos in downtown St. Paul.  I think we  found some units that really wow her.  I honestly think buyers should wait until the...

2006 Numbers Twin Cities It has been an interesting year, with the number of homes on the market increasing, while at the same time the numbers of homes sold each month decreased. It is important when looking at these numbers to compare at least two years worth of data because there are seasonal ...

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My blog got a visit from Donald Trump today and all I have to show for it is this screen shot.  I can't find an email address or I would invite him to active rain.When his Avatar started showing up on blogs we thought it was a joke,  Donald Trump does have a blog. : http://donaldtrump.trumpuniver...

Boomer Nostalgia - Happy Cyber Monday! The Monday after thanksgiving is the biggest internet shopping day of the year, dubbed cyber Monday. If you are a baby boomer, a person born between 1946 and 1964 your parents did not shop on the internet, but if they went to a toy store they may have purcha...

 Sometimes home sellers are selling a home that they have lived in for a long time, in other cases it may have been their very first home.  I have had a couple of clients who inherited homes from parents or grand parents and they had mixed feeling about selling.Since I use a professional photogra...

The real estate closing can be a happy experience for buyers, sellers and their agents, but not all closings are the same.Divorce I sold a home for a couple going through a divorce.   We got to the closing and they would not talk to each other at all.  I ended up sitting in between them, the clo...

Consumer alert, protect your credit data! Did you know that the credit bureaus are selling your information? From Alex Stenback at CTX Mortgage, information for REALTORS and their clients. WHAT’S YOUR NAME WORTH?Your name is worth everything to you, your identity…its YOU. But did you know that yo...

Common Walls, Common Air?Common Walls, Common air?Here in St. Paul Minnesota, we have a lot of rules about where people can and can not smoke.  I can't think of any public place where smoking is allowed indoors, certainly not in bars or restaurants.  Next door in Dakota county bars and restaurant...