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Minneapolis Minnesota real estate with featured articles on market conditions, environmental issues, fishing, and MInnesota lakeshore.
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AgentBlogBuzz.com is now accepting nominations for candidates for the BUZZ AWARD.Do you know any real estate professionals who exhibit at least two of the following characteristics?  Candidate possesses exemplary customer service ethic.Candidate displays strong entrepreneurial spirit.Candidate is...
03/28/2008
Everyone knows that "sloth" is one of the seven deadly sins.  Perhaps "impatience" should be included as a cardinal sin as well.  If it were, I know an agent who can beat the devil any time with sheer diligence!Recently, a Tonka Bay real estate agent received THE BUZZ award for incredible sales s...
03/27/2008
Ralph Williams is a Burnsville MN REALTOR who doesn't know any Asian languages. Not even a single word. Yet he has developed a huge referral base and sphere of influence within the Hmong community. How did this happen? Ralph was hosting an open house, and met an Asian speaking couple. Ralph had a...
03/04/2008
I just sat down to write a post on a special topic. It was to be an epic work, on the order of Tolstoy or Victor Hugo. It would have had a social impact similar to "Das Kapital," "Mathematica Principia," "The Evolution of Species," or "The Wealth of Natons." It was a post that would have changed ...
02/19/2008
Ben Fern is a Savage Minnesota real estate agent that might talk you out of it. What? doesn't he want the commission on the current home sale too? Well, if you do end up selling your current home, I am sure he would like the commission.  But Ben is a real estate agent that has his clients' best i...
02/15/2008
Michelle Hanson of Independent Brokers Realty wanted to accomplish three things with her new real estate blog: gain some internet visibility, provide up-to date information about the Dassel Cokato real estate market, and give her readers a way to share their insights and concerns. Michelle did no...
02/14/2008
Can you do more than one thing and do it well? I've had plenty of bad experiences with real estate agents who also purport themselves to be loan officers as well.  If they are also involved in selling soap or vitamins through a multi-level marketing scheme, you start to think that maybe the real ...
02/14/2008
Hold on, now.  I can see the hair standing up on your back.  "Them's fightin words," you say.  But this is a question worth considering.  After all, we just read a post in this site called "I Hate REALTORS."  The author even created real estate marketing out of that tagline.  (I hope the NAR does...
02/07/2008
Before we discuss objectivity of NAR studies, I would like to try to discover the research methodology any real estate entity might use to determine what makes a home sell "faster" or at a higher price.  Frequently we hear claims like "houses with Brand X Realty sell 13% faster," or "homes listed...
02/05/2008
I wrote a belated Blog Action Day post about three months ago entitled Brazilian Hardwood Floors - Can You Say "Slave Labor?"  Please let me explain that I did not expect to change public opinion or enlighten more than a handful of individuals by simply posting something on my Minneapolis real es...
02/05/2008
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Minneapolis real estate with a special emphasis on Minnesota lakeshore properties.