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Realtor, writer, photographer. . living in, working in and loving life in St. Paul, Minnesota. Author of the St. Paul Real Estate blog and St. Paul Photos.
I have been following this for a few years now and you won’t find many if any articles about vacant houses in St. Paul. There is a registered vacant building list that the city has and most of the buildings on the list are homes. Continue Reading
There is a lot of park land here in St. Paul, MN. There are city parks, county parks, regional parks, state parks and national parks.
Some people live their entire life without ever buying a home. Most people who buy real estate only buy one or two homes in their entire life. I sometimes lose touch with that until I meet someone that I have to explain what a Realtor is and what a real estate agent does. Did you know that Realtor is not a job or occupation? Continue Reading
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I have been trying to provide photographs of the progress on the Light Rail Line in St. Paul. There are rails on E. 4th Street in downtown St. Paul which is an important mile stone and the first hard evidence I have seen that they really are working on light rail and not just tearing up the streets and patching then up again.
It is Friday and Fridays are for fun. It has been a short week but it has been a long week . . if you know what I mean.
Last weekend which seems like a month ago my husband and I decided to play tourist. We went to the sculpture park in Franconia MN, which is just North of the Twin Cities. Here are some of the sites we saw:
The first “truck court” was last Wednesday, May 18th and it drew a crowd. They call it a truck court but it could be called lunch. The food trucks lined up on Kellogg blvd. just West of the Wabasha street bridge. The parking meters were hooded and people lined up to buy lunch. There was quite a crowd and I am sure the gorgeous weather helped.
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Anyone who has been a regular reader of this blog knows that I am not a fan of short sales. I have represented both buyers and sellers and have some experience. it isn’t like I am one of those talking heads on the TV who talk authoritatively but they just talk.
St. Paul is a river town and as one who lives by the river floods are hard to ignore. The river is both gorgeous and terrifying when it escapes it’s banks. This years flood is going to be a record breaker and all eyes are on the River. Sandbags were in place days ago and Warner road has been partially closed since Monday and is now completely closed.
It is the first day of Spring at least according to the calendar and the City of St. Paul declared a state of emergency for what is predicted to be a major flood. We had record snows this winter and flooding last Fall, and rain predicted for later this week. Continue Reading
