With the addition of a DJI Spark to my UAV fleet (if a fleet qualifies as two, I have a fleet) it has become much easier for me to capture aerial photos and videos. It is so small that I can put it in the glove box of my car and can be up in the air in very quickly ...
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Leading up to Super Bowl 52 in Minneapolis, Mpls. St. Paul Magazine has produced a video series called 'My North'. There will be 52 episodes with a broad range of people sharing what it is that makes them love Minnesota. Episode 29 features Tom Lehman and he did a really nice job talking about why he loves Alexandria. The entire ...
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Starting at the Public Access of Lake Andrew in Alexandria and turning clockwise, take a tour of the lake in seven photos from a Bird's view ...
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Blakes by the Lakes. The association not only has frontage on Lake Carlos but also owns frontage on Lake Le Homme Dieu. A post shared by Craig Mische (@alexmncom) on Aug 17, 2017 at 5:59pm PDT I shared this photo on my work Instagram (I have a non-real estate account too) account shortly after obtaining the photo. Below is another ...
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Recorded on Monday, August 14th of 2017 above South Darling Drive in Alexandria, Minnesota ...
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Hermosa in Spanish means 'beautiful', es hermosa equals "it is beautiful". As you will see in the aerial photo I took earlier this week, Lake Miltona's Hermosa Beach Road is indeed beautiful. Like other locations at lakes in the Alexandria area where beautiful is one of the first adjectives that comes to mind when asked to describe it, it is ...
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Lake Brophy is the westernmost lake in Alexandria's Chain of Lakes (The order...Brophy > North Union > Stony > Taylor > Cowdry > Darling > Carlos > Le Homme Dieu > Geneva > Victoria > Jessie). Brophy's size is 292 acres and the most recent DNR survey reports water clarity of 10.3 feet. Like the other lakes in Alexandria's Chain ...
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11535 State Highway 29 S Alexandria, MN 56308 MLS# 10-23182 Learn More ...
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2420 Highland Court SW Alexandria, MN 56308 MLS# 10-22373 6 beds | 5 baths | 7700 sqft Learn More ...
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100 years ago (100 years and 5 days to be exact) in Minnesota's Douglas County a plat named Carlos Bluffs was recorded along the west side of Lake Carlos. After the original plat there have been six additions west of the original plat creating an appealing, heavily treed neighborhood. To visit it, drive north on County Road 11 and then ...
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The newsletter I send out via email on Saturday mornings (sign up at the footer of any page of this site) concentrates on lake homes located in Alexandria, Minnesota and surrounding areas such as Miltona and Glenwood. Tonight I am adding a recap of the listings of residential and lakefront properties only with an Alexandria address. I'd add more cities ...
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Yesterday while at a Lake Ida home in the Caroline Beach Co-Op I took my drone high up over the lake and recorded some video. What you will see in the video is the shoreline at the northeast side of Ida starting at Caroline Beach moving north along County Road 34 and then your view will move to the north ...
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Here is a short video that takes you along Alexandria's Carlos Darling Drive starting just a little east of the Carlos Darling Channel and then straight onward to Lake Le Homme Dieu. It wasn't too many years ago that you could walk or drive through the area at the end of the video but that all changed with the project ...
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Bugaboo Bay and Zorbaz in Alexandria viewed from above around 8:30 pm on Friday, July 14, 2017 ...
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In Alexandria north of Arrowwood Resort and big Lake Darling is Lake Louise which was named after the daughter of Charlie Cook who had settled in Alexandria in 1858. He had been a fur merchant in London and a member of the Hudson Bay Company. Mr. Cook was the first postmaster of Alexandria and after a few years moved to ...
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Yesterday, lake lot sales in Alexandria came up in a discussion with a client and I was reminded that this will be the last year a classic cottage on Lake Darling's Darling Drive will grace the shoreline. It is a 'pending' sale in the Alexandria MLS without contingencies and even though I have been told what the plans are, the ...
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This is a listing of one of my partners, Tom Wegner, and the following is how he has described this property: Lake Ida custom home built with elegance & quality craftsmanship! This home will impress you at first sight! Designed with 4 bedrooms and could easily be made into 6 bedrooms with a bonus room loft and a walk-out lower ...
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Instead of lake breezes and the sound of a loon, the home at 112 Country Club Heights Road in Alexandria has green (literally greens) and the quiet a golf course provides, outside the windows and doors. But besides having the front nine of the Alexandria Golf Club to enjoy it has Lake Darling .3 miles from the front door. What ...
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Lucky. That is what I was when my parents decided to buy their first home in Alexandria at Lake Brophy back in the early 70's. A few years later they bought a home on the west side of downtown Alexandria and a cottage at Lake Le Homme Dieu. Next was a cottage at the south end of Lake Carlos. The ...
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Earlier this year I bookmarked a site I read about somewhere of which I can't recall. The site is called SunCalc and what it does is show you the sun is at during the day at a location you specify and a date you specify. Really cool. The screenshot on the left shows you the sun today at Arrowwood Resort ...
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Remodeling Magazine each of the last thirty years has published a report called Cost vs. Value. Their objective is to pass on to the public uninfluenced information about what it will cost to have a professional complete a remodeling project and, based on opinions of real estate professionals, how much it will raise the home's value if it were to ...
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A .72 acre lot with 102 feet of level frontage at Maple Lake went on the market yesterday. There isn't an abundance of level, sandy lakeshore and unfortunately it can't be made. That, the .72 acre size and this location make this an attractive lot. It is a short drive to the bustling south end of Alexandria where there is ...
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Steps will get you more for your hard earned dollars at the lake. Yesterday I returned from a visit to Paris and the apartment I rented in the Marais district reminded me of this fact of lakefront life. The apartment I rented in the 4th arrondissement overlooked a square where there used to be a convent in the 13th century ...
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A handful of homeowners in Alexandria are lucky enough to have Lake Le Homme Dieu on one side of their property and the back nine of the Alexandria Golf Club on the other side. If you watch a video (embedded in this post) I recorded this past weekend you will journey down the 14th fairway towards its tee box and ...
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Below are videos I recorded this past Wednesday. Straight from a memory card used in my drone, they are unedited and quite imperfect but they will give anyone interested in Alexandria, and specifically Lake Victoria and Lake Burgen, a look at the status of the ice at both lakes (as of Wednesday afternoon). I've been busy and hadn't gotten to ...
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Being that Mother Nature has been confused this winter I figured those of you that aren't in the area would be interested to see the status of the ice at the lakes in Alexandria. So with my drone in tow, yesterday, the first day of Spring, I parked at the Lake Geneva Public Access and recorded footage at the north ...
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Each May when I move to the lake a heavy dose of nostalgia moves over me. And it persists throughout the summer as well as each time I visit a lake cottage or cabin throughout the year. This year when I move from my primary residence in Alexandria to the lake cottage will be no different. I will think of the past summer as ...
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The Super Bowl is a big event annually for millions of people around the world. There is a group people in the United States of America that look forward to as much as anyone. Yes, ofcourse anyone in the advertising business but I am referring to the members of the National Association of REALTORS. Super Bowl Sunday is typically the ...
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Have you viewed an episode of HGTV's popular program, Beachfront Bargain Hunt? If you haven't, here is the premise. People that are dreaming of living at the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico (correct me if I am wrong but I haven't seen an episode yet at another body of water) search for a waterfront home. The trouble is that ...
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Guilty. That I am, of spending too much time focused on my smartphone or tablet. But, I have gotten much better at living in the moment and my phone is put away when driving. You won't see me walking through city streets looking at my phone and if I am with someone at a restaurant my phone is out of ...
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This video was recorded in the morning on December 3rd, 2016. It was a crisp, quiet morning in Alexandria and I made the mistake of not wearing gloves. It was getting painful so I had to cut my aerial visit short but did capture some decent video of the building and the north end of Broadway. When my quadcopter heads ...
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People that are new to the Chain of Lakes in Alexandria, Minnesota will often ask me about flooding. Usually, it is because of a previous experience at a lake that didn't have any way of releasing water. The Chain does have an outlet thanks to the Long Prairie River. So, while there are summers that the water is higher than ...
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Less than 48 hours before everyone in Alexandria, Minnesota was jarred back into reality with snow and ice I recorded a short trip around Little Darling. It is a counter clockwise trip beginning facing the properties along Casa Marina Road. If you look closely you can see Lake Alvin behind it. Big Darling is in the rear as the tour ...
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At 28572 South Shore Drive (the southwest corner of 8,050 acre Lake Minnewaska) is a year round home with three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Yesterday I was at the property and recorded aerial video. The garage and land across the road from the red home is part of the property. Notice how level the 139 feet of shoreline is and ...
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Latoka Highlands is a fairly new development in Alexandria that is nearby Latoka Beach. Nice for everyone that lives there but especially for active kids as it can be reached by foot. It also is a short drive to downtown Alexandria and there is a bike lane all the way to downtown as well. Other benefits to the location besides ...
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It was a beautiful weekend, wasn't it? The floundering Minnesota Vikings aside, the weather was spectacular for November in Minnesota. Sunday morning I popped in my earbuds (walking and listening to podcasts is a favorite activity of mine...my current favorite is 'How I Built This'). I went for a walk from the courthouse in Douglas County to Big Ole Park ...
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