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“Smart” Home, Dumb Former Owner — & New Minnesota Real Estate Form Language
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City Lakes Real Estate Blog. 8220;Smart” Home, Dumb Former Owner — & New Minnesota Real Estate Form Language. August 7, 2015. Anti-Home Hacking Clause Added. To Minnesota Purchase Agreement. Scarcely a month ago, I wrote about the case of a disgruntled Minnesota home Seller who exacted their. Revenge on their Buyer, post-closing, by remotely hacking into the home’s Nest thermostat (the story is that they waited for the new owner to go on vacation last winter, then turned off the heat). Post by Ross Kaplan.
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City Lakes Real Estate Blog. 8220;Name Brand” Minneapolis Neighborhoods: Linden Hills vs. Northrup (Northrup? June 23, 2016. Twin Cities’ Most and Least Known. If you have kids and live in the Twin Cities, you’ve doubtless heard of Minneapolis’ Linden Hills neighborhood. With Lake Harriet on the east and Lake Calhoun on the north, terrific. Retail and coffee shops, and a range of housing (prices, style), it ranks amongst the Twin Cities’ most popular. How about Shenandoah Terrace? The adjacent neighborho...
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City Lakes Real Estate Blog. 8220;HSA,” “HMS” . . . OMG(! August 30, 2016. Buyer’s Agent Pre-Closing Freakout, or. The 30 Minute Home Warranty Policy. What do you as a Buyer’s agent (. Me) when proofing the closing worksheet just before closing* you catch that the Purchase Agreement includes a Seller-paid home warranty from HSA . . . And you can’t confirm that one’s been ordered? Get on the horn with HSA, and order a new one. Pronto. Ordered a home warranty, but from another insurer, HMS. August 11, 2016.
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Why Listing Contracts Don’t Need a “List By” Deadline
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City Lakes Real Estate Blog. Why Listing Contracts Don’t Need a “List By” Deadline. August 12, 2015. Withheld From MLS But For How Long? It’s customary at least for every listing I’ve ever taken for the Seller to sign a Withhold From MLS form allowing me more than the otherwise maximum three days to have the home officially on the market. Wouldn’t it be smart, therefore, for the Seller to contractually specify exactly how long their Realtor has to list the home? To expedite a sale. Depending on the home ...
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August, 2015 Housing Market: Macro Variables > Micro?
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City Lakes Real Estate Blog. August, 2015 Housing Market: Macro Variables Micro? August 12, 2015. China’s Chickens Come Home to Roost* or,. Is the Opposite of the “Wealth Effect” the “Poverty Effect? Normally, I tell prospective home Buyers and Sellers to tune out “macro” factors like the broader economy, (un)employment, etc. and instead focus on “micro” factors affecting the specific property they want to buy or sell. So, forget about the 16,000 or 17,000 homes currently for sale in the Twin Cities.
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City Lakes Real Estate Blog — Page 2
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City Lakes Real Estate Blog. What Motivates Jerry Seinfeld, or, Comedy as a Calling. April 4, 2017. 8220;Is there anything you still want to accomplish? 8220;My entire adult life is just making comedy stuff. For some reason, it’s important to me to make as much of it as I can. I imagine a woodchuck has a similar mindset: ‘I’ve got to chuck wood, as much as I can, because that’s my thing.'”. 8211;“Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”. 8220; What Motivates Senior Managers at Berkshire Hathaway? April 4, 2017.
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City Lakes Real Estate Blog. Real Estate Typos: What Do You Call the Check That Goes With the Purchase Agreement? August 26, 2016. Earnest Money vs. Ernest Money. If your first name is Ernest and you were buying a house, I suppose the check you wrote to go with the Purchase Agreement could be called Ernest money. However, for everyone else, the proper term is earnest money. 🙂. For those not familiar with earnest money, think of it as, the down payment on the down payment. August 2, 2016. July 28, 2016.
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Edina Realty City Lakes
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City Lakes Real Estate Blog. Edina Realty City Lakes. 8220;Why is There a ‘Seller Withhold’ But Not a ‘Buyer Withhold? August 9, 2016. That’s actually a pretty good question posed by a newer agent at recent Edina Realty City Lakes office meeting. Baseball’s on-deck circle, where the next batter up waits their turn. A signed MLS Seller Withhold, of course, is what most veteran listing agents procure at the same time the owner officially hires them to sell their home. However, it’s ultimately in Sellers’ b...
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Edina Realty
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City Lakes Real Estate Blog. Trial Lawyer Stanford Hill (aka, “The Grim Reaper”). August 11, 2016. Edina Realty’s Proactive Approach to Avoiding Litigation. The views expressed here are solely those of Ross Kaplan, and do not represent Edina Realty, Berkshire Hathaway, or any other entity referenced.]. Just to be clear: The Grim Reaper isn’t my name for Mr. Hill that’s what he calls. That’s because no Realtor wants to be on a first-name (or any name! 3D ( Discover, Disclose, Document ). PS: According to ...
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