The Houses By Harlan Team's Blog

What a Beautiful Morning! It is so wonderful to see the Sun Shining!! We look forward to a great spring.   Wow, Sioux Falls makes the national news again! We are including the link to CNN Money Web site where they named Sioux Falls as one of the 100 best places to live & launch a new business. Sioux Falls was ranked as number 45 on the list. It costs about 45 percent less to open a..(read more)

What a Beautiful Morning! It is so wonderful to see the Sun Shining!! We look forward to a great spring.   Wow, Sioux Falls makes the national news again! We are including the link to CNN Money Web site where they named Sioux Falls as one of the 100 best places to live & launch a new business. Sioux Falls was ranked as number 45 on the list. It costs about 45 percent less to open a..(read more)

Welcome to South Dakota reality.  Amazing we think spring is here and we get another snow storm.  Oh, well we know it won't last very long with the warm temperatures we have coming. South Dakota and Sioux Falls made some positive news again.  This article talks about South Dakota leading the US in growth of income.  I like the part of the article farther down where it..(read more)

Do you know any Veterans? Well more appropriately, do you know any Veterans that are totally disabled because of a service related condition? If you do, this bit of information may be for you. South Dakota has enacted the Property Tax Reduction for Disabled Veterans program. The program is designed to reduce the property tax that a qualifying veteran pays. The first $100,000 of the home valuation..(read more)

Spring was happening!  Even though we have some new snow, we know spring is close at hand.  It is the beginning of a gorgeous time of year. The Sioux Falls real estate market also seems to be awakening from winter.  There are more buyers out looking right now than there has been in months.  If this starts turning into sales, we should see a marked improvement in homes sales over..(read more)

 BY JOHN N. FRANK First-time buyers often don’t know much about home maintenance. You can help by giving them a maintenance schedule that’ll prevent small problems from turning into big headaches.

Our maintenance checklist was compiled with the help of Lou Manfredini, Ace Hardware’s home improvement spokesperson and star of the “Mr. Fix-It” show..(read more)

Sunday was another Spring like day with the temperatures rising to the 40's for most of the week, we will lose a lot of our snow.  Watch peoples attitudes and health improve! South Dakota made the national news again!  Nationally home sales dropped 21% from October through December.  South Dakota was the only state where sales rose at an impressive 8.9%.  Congratulations. we live..(read more)

So what do you know about Ice Dams?  At least one of our clients called us and asked about a problem they were having with their house. The situation as they described it to us seemed to indicate they might have an “Ice Dam” on their roof.   Ice dams can cause damage to the roof, gutters, walls, ceilings, insulation and other areas.  They form at the edge of the roof..(read more)

Hopefully everyone is taking the slow and cautious route as we head back to jobs or school today. These late winter storms always seem to catch a few of us unawares and a little under prepared for the reality of driving in wintry South Dakota. Slow down and be safe! I guess those same words could apply to our real estate market too. As we have talked about on this page a number of times, the slow..(read more)

Wow, are we lucky to live in Sioux Falls and South Dakota or What?   I was thrilled to see the front page headlines on Friday! So much so that if you missed it I want to give you the link so you can read it for yourself and forward to all your friends and family so they can see how great living in Sioux Falls really is.   Here is the link to the article in the Argus Leader:..(read more)