Solar Powered Motion Detectors!

This is pretty cool! Solar powered motion detectors. Under $50, no wiring required, solar power charges battery for minimal energy use and expense. This is a great solution to dark walkways and a little added security for the walk to and from the garage. It looks like Lowes carries one for $88. Does anyone know of a locally owned hardware store that has them?
Solar Powered Motion Detector

MAAR Foundation Gives $7,500 today!

Today the Foundation gave two big checks to two great organizations, the City of Lakes Land Trust and the Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans. I learned today that 25% of the homeless in MN are veterans and 10% are women. Thank you to the Land Trust and MACV for all of your hard work helping people find affordable, sustainable housing!

Join us on Facebook!

Sandy Green Realty is on Facebook! Come join us or "like us" so that we can keep in touch. We love hearing what is going on with our clients lives and facebook has been a great way to do that. Don't expect to hear what our real estate agents have been having for breakfast, but do expect to get an invitation to an great new listing's open house, or other important market information.
You can always check out our current listing on our website www.SandyGreenRealty.com, where you can also gain access to MLS data that gives you information on all the homes for sale in any area or price range you are interested in. We have added a lot of new tools to the site, so visit us, poke around and let us know what you think!

Here's a great website: www.walkscore.com. Enter your address and it will give you a score 1-100 on how walkable your area is. Mine is 77, BUT they didn't have transit info on my address, so I think it would be more like 99 :)

I just learned some disturbing information about air fresheners. It seems that some of them work by numbing your senses, cancelling out the bad smells. I am going to do a little more research on this, but it doesn't look good.

Friday’s Rates

Friday's rates were extremely good! The economic news was also very good! A little optimism and low rates should make winter market a little sunnier this year. Rates for FHA and Conventional loans well under 5%.

Foreclosures are down 25% from last year. The demand for foreclosure properties is so high, especially in the lower price ranges. Stats show 2 buyers for every 1 foreclosure. Translation? Expect a price increase on the lower end of the market.