Lake Darling - This beautiful 4 bedroom, 3 Bath Town home is ready for you to move in! Located on Majestic Lane (across from Arrowood) it boasts a beautiful view of the lake, corner lot, wildlife to enjoy and plenty of room for company. A boat slip in the private marina is included! Listed at $359,000

We Have An Offer...

Putting your home up for sale is exciting and stressful all at the same time. You prepare your home for listing, you have showings and then suddenly your agent calls to inform you that there is an offer on your home! The excitement really begins to escalate as you sit and listen to the offer being presented.

What you must realize is that this is one of the most important business decisions you can make for your family or yourself. By making this business decision you need to try and take your emotions and leave them at the door. By doing this you will be able to make the best business decision for you and/or your family.

Will My Home Sell In The Middle Of Winter?

Many clients take their home off the market around the holidays because they feel that it will not sell in the winter months. This is great news for sellers who do keep their homes on the market. Inventory is down, which means less competition for your home as buyers are both looking online and in person. Just one more reason to put get your property listed and online. To see winter selling stats please feel free to email me.

What NOT To Do After Your Offer Has Been Accepted

Buying a home is one of the most important decisions in your life. It doesn't matter if it is your first home or fifth home, still very important decision. After all of the touring of homes for sale, a buyer finally falls in love with a home and we make an offer. Once the offer is accepted there are a few things buyers should NOT do.
1) Change Jobs
2) Buy a New Car
3) Make major purchases on credit cards of any kind

Until you actually have closed on your new home, doing one of things things can seriously jeopardize your loan where you may not even be able to qualify for the same loan you were pre-approved for.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Edina Realty Joins Minnesota FoodShare’s March Campaign to Stock State’s Food Shelves

Edina Realty is helping raise awareness for hunger issues and collecting food and other donations for the state’s food shelves by participating in Minnesota FoodShare’s March Campaign, the largest food drive in the state, from March 1-31.
Throughout March, participating Minnesota Edina Realty offices, as well as our corporate office, will serve as drop off sites for the annual food drive. Items in need include non-perishable canned or packaged foods; baby items including diapers, formula and jarred food; and various household basics such as toilet paper, shampoo, laundry and dish soap, toothpaste and toothbrushes.
According to Minnesota FoodShare, in 2010, there were more than three million food shelf visits statewide and 63 million pounds of food were distributed to Minnesota families by food shelves.
Food shelf usage increased on average 14 percent, and in the Twin Cities’ suburbs, some food shelves reported a 60 percent increase. Children still represent about half of those served at food shelves.
Items can be dropped off at Edina Realty-815 Broadway, Alexandria. For more information please feel to call Sue Palmquist: 320-223-0762 or email: suepalmquist@edinarealty.com

Important Cell Phone Information

5 Things You Never Knew Your Cell Phone Could Do

For all the folks with cell phones. (This should be printed and kept in your car, purse, and wallet. Good information to have with you.) There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:

FIRST Emergency The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there is an Emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly, this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.

SECOND Have you locked your keys in the car? Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys In the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other 'remote' for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk). Editor's Note : It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a cell phone!'

THIRD Hidden Battery Power Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370#. Your cell phone will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell phone next time.

FOURTH How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone? To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following Digits on your phone: *#06#. A 15-digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones. And Finally....

FIFTH Free Directory Service for Cells Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411 information calls when they don't have to. Most of us do not carry a telephone directory in our vehicle, which makes this situation even more of a problem. When you need to use the 411 information option, simply dial: (800)FREE411, or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all. Program this into your cell phone now. This is sponsored by McDonalds.

Moon Palace, Cancun Mexico Vacation

Are you dreaming of a warm vacation this Spring? We have a couple of weeks left at the famous Moon Palace Resort In Mexico. There will be 32 of us going there in March. Take a look at this video of Moon Palace:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC9ncuTvQeQ&playnext=1&list=PLC7CC826F918C8DE6

Please feel free to email me at suepalmquist@edinarealty.com if you would like a week. Right now you would be respondsiable for you all inclusive fee to Moon Palace and your air fare. Moon Palace is currently offering a $1500 Resort Credit with each room. You can use this credit while you stay at Moon Palace on golf, spa treatments, trips etc.