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The Geography of Jobs
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I love visual representations of data. Making vast amounts of data easy to grasp is quite an art and this map, produced by TIP Strategies Inc, really made the current job picture hit home in historical terms. While I like to keep upbeat throughout this blog, I’m of the belief that the job losses aren’t...
How Does Your Neighborhood Fare Among the Twins Cities 20 Best Places to Live?
Subprime credit woes are one thing, but will sky-high fuel prices spark a migration back to the city? The folks over at Minneapolis St.Paul Magazine did some digging and discovered that “here in the Twin Cities, there is hope.” They tapped into some local experts and rounded up the Twin Cities ”Best Places to Live: 20 Great Neighborhoods That...
Small City USA: MN Claims Nearly 10% of America's Top 100
Plentiful jobs, excellent schools, affordable housing – according to CNN’s Money Magazine top 100 list of America’s best small cities, 9 Minnesota cities have all that and more. And even better, the report ranked our very own northwest suburb, Plymouth, MN, as the #1 place to live among U.S. cities with populations of 50,000 to 300,000!...
Green Nation: Saving the Planet One Earth-Friendly Move at a Time
One fifth of all Americans – 20 percent – move every year! That means that the average U.S. resident will move a total of 16 times over their lifetime – about once every five years! That’s a lot of moving! Moving supplies such as boxes, bubble wrap and other packaging materials remain piled up...
Green is the New Black at the 2008 Parade of Homes Spring Preview
Green is the new black during this, the final weekend of the 2008 Parade of Homes Spring PreviewSM presented by Builders Association of the Twin Cities’ members. This year’s Guidebook includes plenty of great Green articles to help us make sense of this growing movement and the homes in this year’s 14-home earth-friendly mini tour...
A Fresh Perspective in Real Estate
Greetings everyone! I wanted to take a moment and introduce myself. My name is Kelly Carlson, Marketing Manager for the Don Edam Group, and I’m going to be contributing to this blog (and to the real estate industry in general) in the days to come, from a completely new and different perspective than your typical...
Foreclosure Filings Report: Hardest Hit Markets by State
U.S foreclosure filings continued their upward climb in December, rising 97% from the previous year and 7% from the month before. Total foreclosures rose 75% in all of 2007. According to MSN Real Estate’s latest report, hardest-hit markets were along both coasts, which experienced a more severe boom and bust in the latest cycle, as...
Too Many Cast-Off Toys Cluttering Your Casa? Rental Options to the Rescue
Every parent of young children has an unwanted-toy graveyard somewhere in the home. Today’s prized playthings inevitably become tomorrow’s cast-offs, ready to be given away, discarded or boxed up in the garage. According to the folks at Springwise however, the alternative, offered by Texas start-up Babyplays, is to receive four to six toys by mail...
Consumer Confidence: High Hopes or Hardly Holding On?
According to the Center for Media Research and the BIGresearch Consumer Intentions & Actions Survey in February, over 8,000 consumers provided unique insights & identified opportunities in a fragmented and transitory marketplace. On the downside, only one in four (26.2%) are confident/very confident in chances for a strong economy in February, a five year low....
"Greening" Your Real Estate Office
Whether you have your own office or are part of a larger office environment, you can make some dramatic changes for your pocket book and the environment quickly and easily. Here are some ideas from RISMedia to get you started. - Use both sides of writing paper. Copy documents on both sides as well. This...
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5 Minneapolis Metro Suburbs listed in CNN Money’s Top 25 Places to Live in 2010
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