The Consumer Confidence Index rose a solid 15.1 points for November. The Index now stands at 56.0. Just a lot of good positive readings from the Conference Board. Source: The Conference Board
In 1964, Nort Star World’s Fair Corporation, a Minnesota non-profit corportation from Osseo, informed Minnesotans about an addition to the Minnesota Pavilion at the World’s Fair that was to be named “Minnesota, Birthplace of America.” In April of 1965, construction of a Viking statue was completed by Gordon Displays of Minneapolis for that display. It…
This is a report from the Alexandria, MN Echo Press about the Alexandria, MN area. I will be sharing all of these with you over the next couple of weeks. This particular story is about the DOUGLAS COUNTY COURTHOUSE. The story begins… Completed in 1895 for an estimated $35,000, the Douglas County Courthouse was to…
My son, Boone, just did a hat-trick deer hunting. He got his third 8-pointer last weekend. It was the only deer bagged out of our 7 man crew. Congratulations, Boone.
Housing Starts.Oct.2011 No matter what the numbers say, they are all numbers from the past…the big question is always…”what will the numbers be tomorrow?” This is the part where wisdom and foresight are valuable. If you read the bottom of the Wells Fargo report, they are predicting 640,000 housing starts next year, an 11% increase…keep…
My youngest son, Mitch, bagged his first deer this season. He made a great shot as the deer only made it about 80 yards. He is doing a European mount for his room. My oldest son, Boone, got two last weekend within a minute of each other. He is shooting a single-shot rifle and after…
Home Makeover Ad Thanks Lecia and Kitty, this is going to be fun. The new decorating and staging on Kitty’s home should make a wonderful change in the marketing of her home. My company will be doing an open house every weekend until it is sold. The home has a good price on it already….
Listening to Warren Buffet this morning, he made a few comments on the interview before I had to go to work. One of them was, “I don’t want to worry about ongoing uncertainties.” He had said this after he had said that “I want to own great businesses.” I have been selling real estate here…
I track the commercial sales here regularly since I went on my own. I feel that I need to know every sale that transpires in the area and with that, I have a tracking board in front of my computer that shows every commercial building and land sale in the Alexandria, MN. area. Some of…
Housing Data Wrap-Up.October 2011 New home construction is not expected to improve till second half of the decade in this country…per Wells people. Source: Wells Fargo Securities
