Rapid City and Black Hills homes for sale by Tristan Emond

  Just when you think the down payment assistance programs were gone and defunct, along comes a new one to help out our Military Members. The Pentagon Foundation provides a "Dream Maker" grant that gives up to $5,000 to help with downpayment and closing costs for qualified military buyers.  This...

The saying goes:  "Change is good."  Some circumstances make me wonder who came up with that one... The changes are never ending...with the crazy lending landscape and the government poking their head everywhere, new rules are common and often. South Dakota's rural development program - which of...

Well...what should you do? Buy? Rent? What? I could bring out all kinds of charts and worksheets and posts and data to show you what you should do on paper.  We would look at how much money you made and how much would go out the door each month.  And then we would consider how long you planned to...

3 bedroom, 2 bath split level in great neighborhood in Black Hawk, SD...   Nobody is behind you on this great home in Black Hawk.  New black appliances, good sized rooms, large back deck has just been repainted and is ready for grilling, entertaining, and relaxing.  The bathroom downstairs was ju...

Investment Home near Downtown Rapid City..   2 bedroom, 1 bath single level home on crawl space.  About 900 square feet.  Previously rented easily for $750 per month.  Vacant and ready for new owners and tenants! Affordable! www.731South.com   - Tristan Tristan EmondPrudential Kahler REALTORS(r)R...

The fun one - graphs by price - how things sold in Rapid City SD so far in 2011... I really like these graphs - they show really quickly and clearly what price ranges are selling the best in Rapid City.  As usual, the $125,000 to $200,000 price range takes the prize.  What I found was also intere...

Rapid City Real Estate Market - for July 2011...   Did things continue to hold during the month of July?  We finally had some warm temps, but typically July tends to be the summer doldrums as people are out vacationing and enjoying the few months of summer we have up here.  But this year things w...

Rapid City Real Estate market report and stats for June 2011: June was a crazy month!  I personally had the best month of my career, closing on 5 properties.  Hence, catching up on my market stats has been pushed off until...well, now! June saw some amazing stats in the Rapid City area.  As an of...

Yikes!  It's been a busy summer.  August and I'm finally catching up on my market report blogs.  Oh well - at least the data is getting out there...late as it may be. Rapid City real estate continues to hummmmmm right along. In single family homes, we had 9% fewer listings than last year at the s...

Finally - the report is in!  Rapid City Real Estate stats for the month of April! We are seeing some activity!  At our company, we have a board to enter listings and one for sales - 30 lines each.  We get a party if we fill up both boards in the month.  Well, so far we have had 2 parties for the ...