Suzanne McLaughlin's St. Michael - Albertville Minnesota Blog www.mclaughlinhomes.com

I've been reading many blogs lately that have to do with focus and positive thinking.  I have reread a number of books on the positive mindset. If you think you can, you can.  If you think you can't, you're right (or left....behind).  When you arise in the morning, you decide how the day will go...

I have had people call me from time to time to tell me that they had enlisted the assistance of one of the advertisers on television to get foreclosure assistance.  (I cringe every time, sorry.)  Well, $4,000, $3,000 or a $1,000 later---money they could not afford to spend or they would have mad...

I am  a professional worrier.  I worry about so many things: my buyers, my sellers, the market, what the President will say, did I get all the bills in to my asset management companies on time, will they pay me?  Did I do a great enough presentation on that last listing appointment?  I could go ...

    Back by (Popular?) Demand!  I Found the Blogging Mojo in My Friends!   I guess it HAS been a while since I was actually putting out content.  Dick Greenberg and Debbie Laity both called me and wrote wonderful posts about me.   And, I was getting messages from old pals, too.  Not just after th...

Since I haven't been posting much lately, I thought I would make myself write at least one post a week. So I decided to start a series of ideas that I find when I am browsing the net.  Here are the first five that I liked.....hope you do, too.     Better to give one penny a day for a hundred days...

  It is just about time to think about the leaves that will be falling in our yards very soon.   Here is the information you need to keep handy when you are done raking up all those wonderful leaves!!!   YARD WASTE Residents can use the compost site behind the Public Works Building located at 315...

Deja Vous All Over Again – Bookmarks on ActiveRain   Flash back to the past….Looking over some of my bookmarks this afternoon, I noticed that there were things that I don’t even remember why I bookmarked them in the first place.   Trying to do housekeeping here on the Rain is even harder than at ...

Are you moving a parent into your home?    There are many issues to discuss with the parent and possibly others living in your home.   The parent may have some physical and/or mental condition, a chronic illness or flare-ups.    Even if the parent is still relatively healthy and independent, you ...

Here are the three things I'm thankful for today: I am so thankful that I still have all of my senses, sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. One of my early heroines was Helen Keller, and she still is.  No sight, no sound. Another person I admire is Sarah Ban Breathnach. She lost her sense of tas...

The St. Michael real estate market looks like this for the month ending July 2014.   At the beginning of the month, there were 76 active listings in the MLS with a minimum list price of $139,900.  The maximum list price was $1,275,00.  The average list price was 304,662 with a days on market of 5...