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One question that I never seem to get much of these days, is "How much home can I afford." Many buyers seem to just know this fact. Wait a minute!? How do they know? First off, this mythical number that is floating somewhere out there above your head, really does not exist. In my fifteen years of selling real estate, I have yet to find a formula that figures out the precise ...
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Water Abounds At The Lakes of Blaine, Minnesota
The Lakes of Blaine, Minnesota
Posted on: 3 Jan 2013
Here's a little bit about 'the lakes' at The Lakes of Blaine, Minnesota. Beautiful homes right on the water are plentiful in this master planned community in Blaine, MN. The 158 acres of water in the development include ponds and lakes that are fully interconnected. These waterways are navigable, ...
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Blaine, Minnesota, 2012 Citizen survey results are in: It's a great place to live!What the survey does...The August 2012 Blaine, Minnesota, citizen survey is a way for residents to show their satisfaction with three aspects of community life: (1) quality of life in the city, (2) the community’s amenities, and (3) satisfaction with local government. As a “consumer report card” for ...
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Many developers and builders throughout the country caught on to the trend of developing a master planned community in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Research has shown that values within master planned communities actually held up better than vs. a standard residential development. You can find this information in a 2007 report by the Robert Charles Lesser Company.
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I have lived in the Twin Cities all of my life, and have never seen a coyote in the wild until the last few years. On Martin Luther King day 2011, a coyote ran right in front of my vehicle as I left my Shoreview Re/max office. I don't know who was suprised more, the coyote or myself. Luckily I had brought along my wife's new Nikon D7000 and had it next to me as I drove along. ...