Weak Dollar = Strong Christmas Sales for Europeans
Monday, June 7th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Returning to Iceland After Shopping Bender at the Mall of AmericaMINNEAPOLIS -- Andrea Guðjónsdóttir arrived in Minnesota from Iceland last week with nothing but the clothes on her back. Oh, and two empty suitcases, which she promptly filled to near-bursting ...
5,000 Retail Clinics & The Threat to the MD Cartel
Sunday, June 6th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »DETROIT--Retail health clinics have made their way into metro Detroit and are competing with doctors' offices for routine patient visits. Clinics contend that the quality of care is high and that when a patient requires urgent care or a visit ...
Yahoo Search for Foreclosures
Monday, May 31st, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I'm not sure how long this website has been going, but I just found the Yahoo! Real Estate website, where you can do a foreclosure search, by city and state, or zipcode. Here is a sample of some cities and ...
Copper: The New Underground Currency
Sunday, May 30th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »MINNEAPOLIS--As copper prices surge above $4 per pound (see chart above), thieves in Minneapolis are ransacking house after house in search of copper they can sell to scrap dealers for as much as $20,000 a month. Thieves most often hit ...
Wal-Mart’s Diffusion: A Slowly Blooming Flower
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Wal-Mart started with its first store near Bentonville, Ark., in 1962. The diffusion of store openings radiating out from this point was very gradual. And this diffusion didn't just occur in one direction, but spread out in all directions, ...
Mortgage Rates Fall to Six-Month Low of 6.1%
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »MINNEAPOLIS -- Amid the depressed housing market there's some good news: Mortgage interest rates last week dipped to 6.1% (the lowest level in more than six months, since early May, see chart above) -- within shouting distance of the ...
Cauliflower Gone Wild
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The new "designer" cauliflower comes in bright neon colors. I saw all of these colors at the Minneapolis Farmers' Market 2 weeks ago.
More on Taxi Cartels: Breaking The Mpls. Cartel
Monday, May 17th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Magistrate Judge Franklin L. Noel, in his ruling against the Minneapolis taxi cartel that led to an increase in the number of new taxi licenses by 45, “The established taxi vehicle license holders do not have a constitutionally protected freedom ...
Real Estate Market… I want to HEAR! MN
Thursday, May 13th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I wanted to take a few minutes and reach out to all of you. Lately, there has been a lot of talk about how tough business has been. It is kind of a downer to hear all that stuff! My team ...
Commercial Rehab Construction Loans for Minneapolis Residential REO
Thursday, May 13th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Rehab Loans are a great way to buy investment reo properties in the Minneapolis and St Paul Metro area. How they work: Purchase + Construction costs = X Rehab loans require a 20% down payment of X This means that 80% of all costs ...
