We have one weekend in the Twin Cities to look. How do we make it count?
Answered by Chris Deutsch, Founder & Editor
Licensed Minnesota Realtor #20382264 ·
The short answer
Spend the first morning on neighborhoods, not houses. A wrong house in the right neighborhood is a fixable mistake. The reverse isn't.
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The longer answer
The weekend only works if the filtering happens before your flight: pre-approval done, criteria written down, video calls with me so the maybes are already gone. Then Saturday morning we drive the shortlist of neighborhoods — a coffee shop here, a block walk there, your gut doing the work no spreadsheet can. Saturday afternoon and Sunday are for the five or six houses that survived the filter. Touring fifteen houses in two days teaches you nothing; by the ninth, they blur. Touring six in places you've already felt teaches you everything.
My job is to make the list short before you land. DM me RELOCATE and we'll build the weekend together.
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