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Comparing Interest rates on home mortgages over the decades? Here are some averages: 70s       8.6% 80s      12.7% 90s       6.29% 10s       4.07% 2020     3.49%  The lowest in 40 years?  Even with home price increases, you’re better off buying today than 10 years ago.  Maybe it’s time to […]

Fed cuts interest rate by half a percentage point amid coronavirus fears The Federal Reserve on Tuesday cut interest rates amid concern about the potential economic toll of the coronavirus outbreak. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which sets Fed interest rates, announced it would cut its baseline interest rate range by 0.5 percent to […]

The human race has come a long way. This is thanks in part to our imaginative minds and knack for creating inventions that solve problems, whether small or big. This creativity and ingenuity are still alive and well today with many people coming up with new hacks to make life easier every day. The following […]

Click here for the Annual Housing Market Report for the Twin Cities Metro area. Tom Slupske  REALTOR® | Broker Associate Direct: 763-235-7090 | Text: 612-720-2997 | Email:  tom.slupske@results.net | website: https://tomslupske.com podcasts    

How is the housing market? The share of U.S. homeowners who are single hit a record 38.4% in 2018, the latest data available, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data by Haus, a company that partners with individuals to buy homes to reduce their costs. The trend largely reflects the rapid growth in the portion of […]

The issue is that the traditional ERs we’ve come to know, or seen on TV, wasn’t designed for frail, older adults. They were designed for people suffering from heart attacks, gunshot wounds, car crashes and the like. For many seniors, going to the ER can be a traumatic, even dangerous affair. They may have to […]