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Teresa Boardman is a St. Paul Realtor who maintains the St. Paul Real Estate blog as part of her business - but it goes far beyond business to include photos and stories of life in St. Paul. Some of Teresa's blog entries are republished, with her permission, in TC Daily Planet.

How well do we know our neighbors?

By Teresa Boardman, Teresa Boardman on TCDP

I have tried to resist the urge to write about this but sometimes I have something to say and because of that I can't write about anything else. The recent events in Cleveland Ohio where three woman were held captive in a residential neighborhood for a decade really got me thinking.

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The week that was

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It is Friday and Fridays are for fun. I have done so much in the last week that it is all kind of a blur. I took about 500 pictures and decided to look at them and see if I could use them to piece it all together.

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St. Paul home sales and prices by neighborhood

By Teresa Boardman, Teresa Boardman on TCDP

I like the local real estate numbers for April because average prices are up, home sales are up, the median price is up and the number of home sales is up while at the same time the number of forec

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Light rail vehicle test on Greenline

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An LRV is a light rail vehicle. I like to call them trains. On Sunday there was a test of the new Greenline in St. Paul. Apparently it is the first of many. They have to make sure that the trains actually run on the tracks without hitting anything or to "verify clearance for LRV's."

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Fixing up houses

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The Minneapolis Saint Paul Home Tour is this weekend. A great opportunity to see home renovations. I plan to visit a couple homes on 4th street on St. Paul's East side. They were originally part of the "4th street preservation program". Maybe they still are part of the program. At any rate they are owned by HRA which is a department of the city of St Paul.

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Bring in the outdoor cats!

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In anticipation of spring I have put out a few bird houses. The birds will move into them too. It is too bad that so many people thing is is alright to let their cats run free. The cats that are well fed sometimes play with small critters and birds and leave them to die.

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The last snowman

By Teresa Boardman, Teresa Boardman on TCDP

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun and nothing says fun like a snowman but only if it is a talking snowman.

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Walking in a walkable neighborhood

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In recent weeks I have been working with clients who have worked in St. Paul for many years and have now decided that they want to live here too instead of commuting from the burbs every day.

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Construction in St. Paul: West Side Flats

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Lost of construction going on. The land is on the river near the Wabasha bridge and was once going to be the site of a large development call "Bridges of Saint Paul" that was going to be condos and restaurants and I think even a theater.

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