405 Vadnais Lake Drive
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Overlooking Lake Vadnais in one of the northern suburbs most desired neighborhoods you will fall in LOVE with this dramatic home. 405 Vadnais Lake Drive Schedule your private tour! 651-398-4334
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You should move – to a home you'll never want to leave. Massive windows, on-site studio, 5 private acres. Move your shower outdoors this summer...or buy a home with one Great location. Fantastic house. Unbelievable price. Going, going... Call any time to see 1576 Hoyt Avenue. 651-398-4334 While we've always known that the service we offer our clients is well above our competitors, we now offer views of our listings from above the trees!!
We recently shot these photos of one of our most spectacular listings: 3022 Shorewood Lane, Roseville, 55113 With an enormous lot – accessing Little Johanna Lake – this is the perfect home to demonstrate our aerial photography. Think your listing is worth sending up our camera? We do too. Give us a call for marketing that reaches new heights! Angie and Shannon 651- Looking for a home in the Lino Lakes Area? This spotless home has everything you'd wish for in space, functionality and luxury amenities. Lino Lakes is an amazing community with tons of family programming, lakes and trails, and an easy commute to the downtowns. Living in Stoneybrook Neighborhood will be a decision you'll never regret – give us a call for the details on this Sherman Lake Road home! - Shannon 651-398-4334 What a beautiful listing. Quaint neighborhood, NEW bathrooms, lovely decor inside and out. This listing was HOT upon hitting the market! Are you looking for a full service realtor? Ask us about our staging and photography process. Shannon and Angie 651-398-4334 This Wednesday we thought you'd like to see the inside scoop on home staging. While not all homes need staging and many homes don't need much – sometimes it's a simple switcheroo that will do the trick!
Simple? You be the judge. Our latest staging stunt left us with a dramatic result. We LOVE this listing in Arden Hills – love it enough to risk life and limb (slight exaggeration) pushing a couch through a window, up/over a deck railing and into the upper floor of this gorgeous home! We heart our listings this Valentines Day! Angie and Shannon Just an ordinary day, showing an ordinary house, in an ordinary suburb...with a small natural history exhibit in a dark basement room. No big deal right? WRONG! When I opened the door to this windowless room it was pitch black. I had to step in a bit to find the light switch and my toe touched something, um...feathered? I couldn't find that light switch fast enough. The room lit up to expose this vision of dead animals strewn about, their glass eyes staring wide open and giving me "the look." Specifically the "I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!" look. I started to laugh out loud, then the potential homebuyer screamed as she walked in the room. Kinda like this - CLICK HERE. Then the husband walks in and says "Cool! Do we get to keep these if we buy the house?" (While his wife is trying to figure out how to walk upstairs in her poopy pants.) The point is that everyone reacts differently to out-of-the-ordinary situations at showings. What one seller thinks is 'normal' is often considered strange, scary, or offensive to others. You can live however you want in your own home, God Bless America for that – but when your house is for sale it will cost you $$$ to be kooky. ATTENTION – 8 Point Guide to NOT being the 'WEIRD HOUSE' for sale: 1. NO REPTILES. You are not Crocodile Dundee except in your own mind. No matter how many or how few reptiles a buyer sees in cages they will ONLY think about how many have escaped and are slithering through the walls of the house preparing to eat their small children. No Joke, NO REPTILES! 2. NO RODENTS. See the above explanation. Enough said. 3. NO GUNS. Not on display anyway...into the gun safe they go please. What can frighten and offend buyers can also be a security issue for sellers. 4. NO THEMES. If it was your dream to come home from work every day to a Jungle Paradise, a Wild West Outpost, or Southwest Adobe House, that’s fine. Keep your dream but get rid of your travel trinkets while your home is for sale. 5. NO SHRINES. This includes incense altars with Buddha statues, Urns containing the ashes of your dearly departed people or pets, athletic shrines to your resident all-star with all their trophies and ribbons, or photo shrines of every vacation you have ever taken. If it a collection of anything you are crazy about it's just too crazy for showing your home. SEE EXHIBIT B. 6. NO WONKALAND. These are houses that are so "Kid-Tastic" you have to have a golden ticket to get inside! C'mon, kid stuff is cute we all know it. But slides in the family room, ceilings painted with Disney Princesses, and craft glitter covering carpet and furniture is a bit too much. No one wants to buy the Ooompa -Looompa house.
7. NO SEX WORLD. There is nothing to describe the look on a buyers face when their five year old points to a sex toy left out during a showing asks "What's THAT for?" This goes for panties in girl's rooms, naked lady posters in teen boy bedrooms, dirty magazine collections on the coffee table, and the fuzzy handcuffs in the bathroom vanity. Seriously folks, I can't make this stuff up! 8. NO STUFFED ANIMALS. This brings me back to my initial inspiration for this list and includes all taxidermy. The most endangered and cutest animals are not exceptions either. Don't ask if the Zebra and Panther can stay on the wall because they are so special. NO!!!! If you are selling a lake home or a hunting cabin then we are cool. That trophy walleye might just bring up your value - this IS Minnesota after all! While the Christmas trees are barely out of living rooms – it's becoming obvious that this years Real Estate season is upon us!
Thinking about listing in 2014? Interested in buying a family home? An investment property? We just wanted to share a couple of our "spring" listings. The property on Sheldon (see below) is coming on the market in a few days. Word is getting out FAST of this great opportunity in the Como area. More to come . . . Warmly, Angie and Shannon PS - What does an out-of-town realtor do when she left her computer at home (sitting on the bed packed and ready)? She keeps calm and "texts" on – never misses a beat. :) |