Maddy Logelin points at a photo on the wall and says "mama." Of course, she does that with every photo, said her father, Matt Logelin.

Real estate agents harbor a wealth of information and can help you to pick a sales price for your home. Sometimes, when I walk into a seller's home to talk about listing it, I can tell right off the bat whether that seller has a firm sales price in mind. Without exception, they almost always have a...

The holiday season is quickly approaching and this year many people are facing tough economic times.

Do you regularly provide recommendations of mortgage brokers to your real estate clients? Have you checked recently on the types of loans they're recommending and processing? I just found that one of my local mortgage brokers is still not doing any FHA loan work. They just don't want to it seems....

St. Cloud's three-year-old, Chinese-immersion program at Madison Elementary School will be part of a federal grant to improve foreign language programs.

I receive daily calls from sellers asking me whether they should do a loan modification or short sale. Now, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out the financial aspects of certain situations. Say, your home's value has fallen more than 50% over the past couple of years. Many homes in California that were...

Personal income in Minnesota grew 0.1 percent in the second quarter of 2009, half the rate of the nation as a whole for the period, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

A Kenilworth route for a proposed Southwest Light Rail line from Minneapolis to Eden Prairie got a second endorsement Wednesday from city, county and community representatives, who recommended the Hennepin County Board approve the route on Nov.

The trial of Wayzata businessman Tom Petters will remain in St. Paul. U.S. District Judge Richard Kyle late Friday denied a request by attorneys for Petters to move the trial out of town because of pretrial publicity.

Twitter is being adopted by more real estate professionals every day. Though a lot of us write about using Twitter for real estate, I believe that there will be new uses discovered regularly for how to make good use of Twitter to market your business and engage future clients. In this case, if you have...