Minneapolis – St. Paul Real Estate Information
The first-time home buyers tax credit has been extended. It also has been expanded to include existing home owners. First time home buyers can still get up to $8000 and existing home owners can get up to $6500.
For existing home owners, you must have used the current house as primary residence 5 of the past [...]
Posted on November 6th, 2009 by Steve Hong
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Breaking news- Tax credit extension was passed! We have liftoff. More details coming soon, but it sounds like it does include EXISTING homeowners as well ($6500) as first time buyers ($8000) and extends until April 30, 2010.
Posted on October 30th, 2009 by Steve Hong
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Hi, this is Minna, and I will be your guest-blogger for the day. Today’s topic is Traditional Neighborhood Design (TND). If you haven’t heard the term before, pay heed because it’s a fresh outlook on how to deal with suburban sprawl, and I have a hunch it’s going to be around for quite some time. [...]
Posted on May 12th, 2009 by Steve Hong
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Here is the latest statistics from Minneapolis Association of REALTORS.
The short of it is that we have increased pending sales by 7.4% over last February, but keep in mind that over 60% of these sales were “lender mediated” sales, or foreclosures and short sales.
Also the number of new listings has decreased by 19% compared to [...]
Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Steve Hong
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Unless you are ready to throw out the old TV and buy a new one before February 17, 2009, you’ll need to do something to continue watching your favorite television shows. That’s the deadline when the FCC will make TV stations turn off the old analog channels such as channels 2,4,5,9,11. This will make our [...]
Posted on January 13th, 2009 by Steve Hong
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This may come as a surprise, but even Real Estate Offices move once in a while. Our office had been at its previous location for the past 18 years, and it was time for a change. We have moved to new office space one block away.
The new office space is a wonderful space and will [...]
Posted on January 13th, 2009 by Steve Hong
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I’ve been dealing with a slow Outlook 2007 for about a year now. By slow, here’s what I mean: when clicking on Send/Receive, the process takes perhaps 4-5 minutes to download 75 messages totalling about 400k. I have high speed internet, and have spent much time troubleshooting Outlook. My PST file size is 300MB, not [...]
Posted on December 15th, 2008 by Steve Hong
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Chaotic Minneapolis Life
This is Minna again, and I’m here to talk about the economy. No, actually, I’m not. I know, the economy is dire, and I know that the government has given beaucoup bucks to try to jump-start it, and I know that the sky is falling down, but I would rather not focus on [...]
Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Steve Hong
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South Minneapolis Real Estat, er, Real ESTATE Blog
What is South Minneapolis Real Estat Blog? Just yesterday, I discovered that I had mistyped the title of the page. My page was specializing in Real Estat, which is a subsection of Real Estate. I’m sure not many people would be searching for Real Estat, but I [...]
Posted on September 16th, 2008 by Steve Hong
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National Night Out is coming up on the first Tuesday in August. It is a great way to get together with neighbors! This year, the organization that heads up NNO (i didn’t even know there was one), is in the headlines with some controversy. Apparently the president of the charitable organization, National Association of Town [...]
Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Steve Hong
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