Lake Vermilion Real Estate

Here’s a few quick notes on where the year to date Lake Vermilion area real estate market activity compares to 2009.  Although this market never produces high volume sales numbers, it is still valuable for Buyers and Sellers to understand the general trend of the market.  Here are some observations:

1) Lake home and cabin sales are up from 2009
2) Lakeshore lot sales are up from 2009
3) Residential home sales are down slightly from last year
4) Vacant acreage land sales are well below 2009
5) Inventory in all categories remains much higher than historic levels
6) Inventory continues to drift higher (typical for this time of year)

Please send me a note if you have a specific question on the Lake Vermilion area market.  I’ll do my best to send you additional information.

It’s popular these days to enhance the appeal of your service or product by claiming it is environmentally-friendly, aka “green”.

The list of our newly green products is endless. It includes everything from cars to shower curtains.

Evidence of our newly discovered need to be increasingly green can be found on National Geographic’s Green Guide, within the political mission of the Green Party, and at the center of all things green, Green.org.

Although it may be argued that some of these “green” initiatives might have a negligible impact on the planet… we might all agree that such efforts are worthwhile and a step, however small, in the right direction.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has a nice reference page that will direct you to a wide variety of stewardship related topics. Visit that site here.

I suppose it may also be argued there is no people-based activity that can be truly “green”.  Does our Earthly occupancy always impact the natural world in a non-green, unnatural direction?

These meandering thoughts are the result of a recent walk I took into an old, abandoned farmstead. This car was in the yard.  It might be said that this car is now going green.

Saturday is the first day of the 2010 Minnesota Fishing Season.  It’s always a great day.  But you know what happens after a few hours in the boat with your buddies.

The conversation dies.

Here is some additional information that may help to bridge those quiet times between bites.

First of all, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has assembled a huganic page of  information related to the Minnesota Fishing Opener.  There’s a lot to read on that page including the current list of Minnesota State fishing records and the DNR’s list of Top 10 Minnesota Walleye Lakes (Lake Vermilion is on that list).  Politics is a topic that can ignite a lively exchange of viewpoints.  Kick off the discussion with a story on Governor Pawlenty’s fishing trip to Lake Kabetogama.  (With any luck the topic will turn to a partisan exchange on how to balance the state budget.)  Fisheries management is a opinion sensitive topic.  Study up at this DNR webpage.

Of course, the weather, is always a reliable and time-consuming topic.

Good luck on the lake!