Conditions that Govern the Decision to Buy a House in Lakeville Minnesota

Conditions that Govern the Decision to Buy a House in Lakeville Minnesota

When you decide that the time is approaching to put your home on the market, you probably take special interest in exploring the conditions that are likely to motivate families to buy your Lakeville MN house. Most of the research on the subject indicates that it has at least as much to do with how people live their lives as it does with external forces--like changes in the economy or jobs market. When you spend as much time as I do chatting with people who are in the hunt to buy a house, you’d probably agree.

Minneapolis ‘For Sale by Owner’ Signs Include Unintended Messaging

Minneapolis ‘For Sale by Owner’ Signs Include Unintended Messaging

If you will be selling your house this fall, an early decision will be whether to team with a Minneapolis Realtor® or go the “For Sale by Owner” route. One thing to consider is messaging.

“Messaging” is one of those words that Minneapolis homeowners began to hear a lot after Madison Avenue decided to verbize the noun ‘message.’ I know verbize isn’t a real word, but to me, messaging convolutes English in pretty much the same way. 

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae - and Minneapolis Home Loans

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae - and Minneapolis Home Loans

We all remember Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the twin quasi-public organizations who backstopped the home loan industry for the whole country. Freddie and Fannie were thought by some to be on the verge of extinction during the home loan crisis, but they revived when Washington stepped in. Freddie’s latest quarterly financials show assets that have a small ‘t’ in front of the number (that’s short for ‘trillions’), so it looks like they aren’t about to go out of business. In fact, whenever one of today’s Minneapolis home loans is originated, Freddie or Fannie are probably in the wings. They remain the big guns in the U.S. secondary home loan market, which is so huge its repercussions are felt globally. 

A Minneapolis REO Can Provide Real Value to a Cautious Buyer

A Minneapolis REO Can Provide Real Value to a Cautious Buyer

There are acronyms that have grown so familiar that they are more like words than the phrases they represent (think “SCUBA” for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus or “laser” for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation). Minneapolis REO properties aren’t in that category. For instance, REO homes aren’t located next to a river with a Spanish name. Most people have never heard of REOs, although they are familiar with what they stand for.

Email Whitelisting

Thank you for trusting Metropolitan Home Team @ Re/Max Results.

Many e-mail and Internet companies are now using programs to block unwanted e-mail, often called spam. Sometimes, however, these programs block e-mail you want to get.

To Ensure You Are Receiving Your Metropolitan Home Team Emails Do The Following:
Be sure to add the corresponding Metropolitan Home Team email addresses to your email white list to ensure the best chance of receiving our content and updates

A whitelist is a list of accepted items or persons in a set…. a list of e-mail addresses or domain names from which an e-mail blocking program will allow messages to be received.

Why is this important?

Unsolicited, unwanted advertising e-mail, commonly known as “spam”, has become a big problem. It’s reached such proportions that most e-mail services and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have put some sort of blocking or filtering system in place or begun relying on self-proclaimed blacklists to tell the good guys from the bad.

Metropolitan Home Team applauds their intention to protect you from spam, but everyone agrees that the current systems for stopping spam are far from a perfect solution. They often block e-mail that you’ve requested, but that fits somebody’s idea of what spam looks like. The more responsible anti-spam activists are working hard to cut down on these “false positives”, but in the mean time, you might unexpectedly find you’re not getting your valuable content from us…

As it happens, there’s something you can do to keep your insider content from falling into the false positive trap. You can fight the blacklists with a “white-list”.

White-list us now, before your delivery is interrupted.

Of course, every e-mail system is different. Below are instructions for some of the more popular ones. If yours isn’t here, please contact your ISP’s customer service folks for their instructions. (Forward the answer to us, and we might add it!) If you’re using some sort of spam filtering or blocking software yourself (in addition to what your ISP provides), we’ve also listed instructions on how to exempt your subscription from some of the more popular of those programs.

Gmail:

1. In your inbox, locate an email from TimMurphy@MetropolitanHomeTeam.com (ex. your welcome mail for the product you just purchased).
2. Drag this email to the “primary” tab of your inbox.
3. You’ll see that our emails will go to your primary folder in the future!

 

Yahoo! Mail

When opening an email message, a “+” symbol should display next to From: and the sender’s name. Select this and an “Add to contacts” pop-up should appear. Select “Save”:

 

Mac Mail

Select “Mail” and “Preferences” from the top menu.

In the “Preferences” window, click the “Rules” icon.
Click the “Add Rule” button.


In the “Rules” window, type a name for your rule in the “Description” field.
Use the following settings: “If any of the following conditions are met: From Contains.”
Type the sender’s email address in the text field beside “Contains.”


Select “Move Message” and “Inbox” from the drop-down menus.Click “Ok” to save the rule.

 

Outlook 2003 & Later

Right-click on the message in your inbox.
Select “Junk E-mail” from the menu.
Click “Add Sender to Safe Senders List.”

Lakeville, Apple Valley, Eagan MN First Time Home Buyer Class

Lakeville, Apple Valley, Eagan MN First Time Home Buyer Class

Are you dreaming about buying your first Lakeville, Apple Valley or Eagan MN home but don’t know where to begin the process? If you’re a south of the river First Time Home Buyer in Minnesota, considering buying your first home can be overwhelming. Metropolitan Home Team offers a FREE MN First Time Home Buyer Class in Apple Valley, MN to help you understand the process of buying a home in today’s South of the River Minnesota Real Estate and Mortgage Markets.  Whether you’re looking to buy your Lakeville, Apple Valley or Eagan MN first home South of the River now or in the future – this is an excellent place to get started right!

Specific Tips for Selling Your Lakeville MN House this Fall

Specific Tips for Selling Your Lakeville MN House this Fall

It’s October­­­; a time of year that has a lot to recommend it. In many parts of the country, it’s the season when Mother Nature goes full throttle with the Technicolor. Sunsets can be outrageous. In some parts of the country, leaves can bid adieu with displays that put rainbows to shame. Fall weather turns the air a bit crisper. All in all, to a lot of folks, fall is the favorite time of the year. 

How-to Books Can’t Guarantee Minneapolis Real Estate Agents Success

How-to Books Can’t Guarantee Minneapolis Real Estate Agents Success

There is an interesting theory about why some Minneapolis real estate agents complete so many more home purchases than do others. It isn’t that ‘success breeds success’ (although the thing we call “momentum” is certainly real enough). It has to do with being able to harness two somewhat opposing character traits. 
In any business, there seldom seem to be any irrefutable rules that guarantee prosperity…or if they do crop up from time to time, they don’t work for long. Since that’s the case, it’s odd that there are so many best-sellers proclaiming roadmaps to success. If all those books were simply rip-offs, you would think they’d quickly develop a backlash (which would kill the market for books about succeeding in business). 

If the American Dream is Dead, is Lakeville MN Home Ownership, too?

If the American Dream is Dead, is Lakeville MN Home Ownership, too?

This summer, Lakeville MN home owners have been experiencing both the start of a blistering political season and, simultaneously, what the newspaper writers call the ‘summer silly season.’ The politicians have hit the campaign trail in earnest, but in many other realms, folks tend to be on vacation (or wishing they were). The result is that very unimportant stories make the evening news: the silly season. If you saw any ofmultiple replays of the baby deer playing with the rabbit on a lawn in Colorado, you know what the deepest part of the silly season gets you: Bambi and Thumper making headlines.

A Minneapolis Real Estate Rental Investment: Stiff Competition for Investor Capital

A Minneapolis Real Estate Rental Investment: Stiff Competition for Investor Capital

When you buy a property as a Minneapolis rental real estate investment, you join the world of investors who recognize the value of an investment that’s as solid as the ground we walk on—one with the additional advantage of providing a steady cash dividend. With those dual advantages, you’d wonder how other investments can offer much competition, were it not for one major consideration: your time.