Lake Vermilion Real Estate

Here are a few lake facts for your Twitter followers or Facebook friends.  Did you know…

Minnesota waters flow 3 directions:  1)  North to Hudson Bay in Canada  2)  East to the Atlantic Ocean  3)  South to the Gulf of Mexico.  •  Minnesota has 11,842 lakes larger than 10 acres.  4 Minnesota counties have no lakes at all:  Mower, Olmsted, Pipestone, and Rock Counties.  •  Minnesota’s most common lake names are:  Mud, Long, Rice, Bass, Round, Horseshoe, Twin, Island, Johnson, and Spring.  •  Lake Vermilion is Minnesota’s 5th largest lake.  •  Lake Vermilion has 290 miles (1.53 million feet) of shoreline.  •  The deepest natural lake in Minnesota is Lake Saganaga in Cook County at 240 feet deep.  Lake Vermilion is 76 feet deep.  •  Comparing the size of a few area lakes:  You could fit Ash Lake into Elbow Lake 2.5 times.  You could fit Elbow Lake into Pelican Lake almost 7 times.  You could fit Pelican Lake into Lake Vermilion 3.5 times.  You could fit Lake Vermilion into Lake Superior 502 times!

Let’s take a quick vote.

Raise your hand if March is your least favorite month of the year.

Just as expected.

It might be argued that March become optional because March is the month when Winter won’t stop and Spring won’t start. We should not have to tolerate this excruciatingly slow annual transition.  March predictably squanders every opportunity to deliver the goods.

The presence of today’s Winter Storm Watch offers additional confirmation of how March lacks compassion for us Winter weary residents.  It’s kind of a road salt in the wound sort of thing.

An optimist would have us note that the only possible direction from the bottom is up.  The day is coming when we can trade that shovel for a paddle, the woodpile for a BBQ grill, and the lip balm for the sunscreen.

So brush off the albatross that is March and plan a trip to the lake.

It’s almost April… 10 days and counting.

It’s time to scrape the desktop of a few miscellaneous links.  These are real estate related websites intended for your casual review.

• Wondrous staircases
• Common real estate related abbreviations
• Former missile sites as homes
• For sale – Private and luxurious islands

Also, please note the “Lake Vermilion Area News!” link (on the left side bar) is broken.  All fingers point to Google.  I’m hoping for a fix ASAP.

March 9th update:  Fixed!

Here’s the monthly graph that compares year to date market activity to previous year activity. Again, this information shows Lake Vermilion sales only. I figure that’s a fair indicator for our overall market.

The next several months could be interesting.