Home Sales Canceled
September 7, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster Forgive my absence for a few days as I was traveling with my bride in California, exploring the LA/Santa Monica areas for fun. While I was away, I spotted this rather disturbing article about general home sales and rising cancellations of deals. According [...]
Lake Elmo Seeks Large HOA Dev
September 1, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster Happy Labor Day to all! While scouring the inter-web for HOA related news, I saw a Business Journal article about a huge Lake Elmo development that seeks to build hundreds of townhomes, apartments and homes, with much of it under HOA control. Minneapolis-based [...]
New Data Centers Being Challenged
August 31, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster We've all been hearing about the rapid expansion of new data centers across the country, including those being proposed right here in Minnesota. As our data, A.I. and storage demands increase, companies like Meta and Amazon need to build giant behemoths to house [...]
Lakeville Tries More Affordable Housing
August 28, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster I live in Lakeville, and this south metro community has had its fair share of recent publicity, both good and bad. Several months back there was a big scam about a piece of real estate being sold only to certain ethnic groups in [...]
Hey there is Good News on HOAs
August 25, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster From the Foundation for Community Association Research comes a study that was conducted last year with a variety of data that shows some positivity. The link I have provided takes you to a video that they produced, and unfortunately it doesn't go into [...]
HOAs as Miniature Monarchies?
August 25, 2025 | Mark Luis Foster The National Association of Realtors estimates that more than 75 million people live in an HOA in the USA, which accounts for approximately 30% of existing housing stock. The latest data indicates that more than 80% of new construction is now being built [...]
