Word Is Spreading About "Hawthorne Advantage" Home Buyer Incentive Program

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Jeanie Hoholik just wrote a great blog post about the new "Hawthorne Advantage" program, click here, so word is spreading like wildfire...

Of course, the post headline says "Move over Folwell." Well, maybe I should say a word or two about that.

Hawthorne is not offering more incentive money than the programs in Folwell. We are offering the same amount. Nobody wants an "incentive war" between North Minneapolis neighborhoods. This is something which Bev, our Housing Chair, went out of the way to say on the record when this stuff was passed in committee.

And I should know, I took the minutes as "Acting Secretary."

However, for a long time the Folwell neighborhood has been very effective at promoting word about their incentive program, leading real estate buyers to tell their agents "get me something in Folwell!" Naturally, the Hawthorne neighborhood wants buyers to house hunt in Hawthorne as well as places like Folwell or the magnificent pickings in Camden, click here for an example.

If other North Minneapolis neighborhoods put together new home buyer incentive programs and contact me about them, I will promote their new incentive programs, too. Yes, I write a lot about Hawthorne but I consider all of North Minneapolis my beat...and I've been known to range wider than that in my blog reporting, including Marcy-Holmes, which is still in Ward 3, or the West Bank, which is just a really cool place.

So if it's "move over Folwell" that just means Hawthorne is sitting comfortably beside Folwell, not trying to take Folwell's spot.

Jeanie and other real estate agents are helping our neighborhood by educating would-be buyers about these incentives. Keep up the great work, Jeanie!