I received the preview password to EdgeIO.com today, Mike Arrington‘s new project to aggregate all blog posts using the tag ‘listing’ at a single site, all organized and such as you’d expect from a classifieds site. Since I’m trying to sell a house and blogging about it, seemed like a perfect opportunity to test it …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Welcome to St. Anthony Village, You Have Now Left Minneapolis
Let’s say you bought the house we’re selling in St. Anthony Village. If you did, you wouldn’t be a Minneapolitan – you’d be a Villager. St. Anthony Village is it’s own 3-square mile city – St. Anthony, MN to be specific. Yes, NE is in address and the post office will deliver to a 2701 …
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Property History & Comments – Another Reason for Real Estate Agents to Blog
There’s been a few parties interested in our house, I’m surprised to learn from our agent how unstructured, the agent-to-agent feedback process is. Sounds like the listing agent has to initiate the contact with the showing agent, rather than the showing agent providing it by default. As a seller, I want to know what prospective …
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Why Health Coverage Shouldn’t be Tied to Employers
“Weyco and Scotts Miracle-Gro, based in Marysville, Ohio, are in the vanguard of a growing effort by business to brake soaring medical costs by regulating such unhealthy employee behavior as smoking” Health coverage as a benefit of employment no longer makes sense – financially for employers or employees. Expecting employers to foot the bill and …
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Tasteless Art Affecting the Tastebuds at Holy Land Deli
I was introduced to the Doner (Gyro or Kabob) during my time in Germany. The Turkish immigrants brought it with them. Aside from the thinly-sliced lamb, the rest of the ingredients were German; cabbage inside stuffed in a quarter of the circular flatenbrot. In Minneapolis, there’s only one place to get a good gyro – …
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Apple’s Weather Dashboard Widget Won’t Go Below 28F?
As you might have heard, we finally got winter here in the upper Midwest. Not the Christmas-fluffy-white-snow-perfect-for-skiing-and-hot-cocoa-winter, the death-to-all-who-venture-out-of-doors winter. Both weather.com and accuweather.com say it’s a brisk -2°F (one degree lower since my last post). Strangely, Apple’s Weather Dashboard Widget tells me it’s a tropical 28°F and snowing. It’s way too cold to snow …
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A Perfect Day for Cicely, Alaska
“I have grown really tired of contact sports…you can break an ankle, but can you die?”- Joel Fleischmann It’s -1°F this Saturday in the Twin Cities (weather.com says ‘feels like -18°F’, Thanks). Fortunately, NetFlix sent over Northern Exposure Season 2, Disc 2 this morning. This disc contains “All is Vanity”, the episode where Maggie has …
The House is Getting Some Attention
3 showings on the house since we got the MLS number yesterday morning, and a drive by. Nice. The ‘For Sale’ sign comes early next week, I think it’d be cool if it was sold before then. In Ericast #50, Eric Larsen says you can’t buy a house for under $200k. Well, you can – …
2701 31st Ave NE St Anthony Village has an MLS Number
The house is on the MLS now – #3152250. Woo hoo. I see this house being perfect for 3 different people: Single people (even with kids)It’s a small place, easy to maintain, with lots of storage. Easy access to downtown and the highways with a huge lot for gardening and landscaping. DINKs or DIPsJust the …
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February – One of My Two Least Favorite Months.
February and August are my least favorite months in the upper Midwest. For the same but opposite reasons – uncomfortable weather. February is when the cold and depression of winter finally sets in (11°F as I write this). The snow turns mean in the cold; short-sheeting the dormant brown grass and grating like fingernails on …
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