Archive for May, 2009
Short Sales and Cheese Cake
May 19th, 2009 Categories: Cool Guys, My Listings, Real Estate News, The Good Life
Short sales take a long time to happen from the moment a home is listed until the day of closing. There are a myriad of twists and turns that take place and, I for one, do not enjoy working them through. It is, unfortunately, a fact of life these days. For some reason, some buyers’ agents still don’t realize the time it takes for the bank to get its act together. I have written about short sales on this blog before, so I won’t get in to all of the gory details here.
Nope, this post is about my real estate colleague, Bob Bergh. I just want to thank him publicly for taking the helm on a tricky short sale that we just completed. He basically did all of the leg work after we received a purchase agreement on the property. We had at least four purchase agreements that I recall and hundreds of inquiries. Plus many hours, days, weeks and months of wrangling. Whew!
I also wanted to thank him personally so I took him to lunch at the Cheese Cake Factory after the closing. Bob had wild blue berry cheese cake and I had carrot cake cheese cake. Yum!
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How to Build a Fire Pit In Your Own Backyard In Plymouth. It’s So Minnesotan!
May 6th, 2009 Categories: Local Ordinances, Outside of the Box, Real Estate News
Living in the Twin Cities can be a wonderful thing. We Minnesotans like to be outdoors all of the seasons of the year. Having a fire pit in your yard is just like being up north all of the time.
A couple of must do’s and you’re on your way. You must adhere to the city’s code that you live in. Here’s all you have to do to build a fire pit in Plymouth: Read the rest of this entry »
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