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2008 Whole House Remodel! Great Bemidji lake home for sale on Hennepin Lake. Property is 5.69 acres, 276 feet of lakeshore with 3 beds and 2.5 baths (including double head shower and jacuzzi tub!) - all brand new! Huge deck off the house sits just 30 feet from the waters edge - check this one out!

As always, happy lake property and land hunting!

Two new Crane Lake Lots (Pickeral WI) listed at $215k!  These lots each feature 100 feet of sand/gravel shoreline and are heavily wooded with nice elevation to the water. Checkout LakePlace.com for all Crane Lake properties available - and then give us a call with any questions.

As always, happy lake home & land hunting!

Just listed!

Wow - one of my favorite lakes! My family and I spent a week on Pokegama Lake last summer - and we had a blast. If your a person who likes to have some fun - Pokegama is a great place to do it! Bars, restaurants, golf courses, public islands, great fishing, spontaneous partys on the sand bar - and lots of water. We fell in love with this lake!

Back to the property at hand. This is an absolutely georgeous Pokegama lake home in Grand Rapids, MN. Knotty Pine interior, guest cottage, sauna, the works - all just a few feet from the waters edge. View all Pokegama lake property on LakePlace.com and we think you will agree - this lake home is a great find!

Just listed this Sauk Centre MN lakeshore property - priced at only $139,900! What’s so great about this property? Well…if you love spending time at the lake - but golf is a close second - this is may be the property for you. With 150′ of hard sand lakeshore in the backyard and GreyStone Golf Course in the front yard - this may be the little slice of heaven you have been looking for!

As always, happy lake home & land hunting! 

So it has been about 2 months since we officially launched LandBin.com. For those of you who are not familiar with it - LandBin.com features the internets largest database of Minnesota land for sale and Wisconsin land for sale. Currently the site is displaying 49,000+ land, acreage, lots and farms for sale - with 246 new listings today!

Since the launch - over 100,000 people have visited LandBin.com and they have viewed 788,000+ pages. The record day so far is 6,367 visitors and 15,326 page views. So far, this month (as of 04/23/08) LandBin.com has had 58,017 visitors and 245,316 page views.

While the site is currently #1 on Y! for a couple of key phrases like mn land for sale & wi land for sale - we have not been seeing great results in The Big G…that is…until yesterday. Cameron and I were pleasantly surprised when we caught a glimpse of what could be the future. LandBin.com was ranked very highly on the Big G yesterday for some very competitive keywords and phrases. Although these rankings have disappeared for the time-being - we think we somehow ended up connecting to an updated G server and we are hoping (and keeping our fingers crossed) that those results are currently propagating through the massive system. Time will tell. If the results we found yesterday do happen to stick - it will be one of our greatest accomplishments since getting into the internet marketing business 10 years ago. It took years and years to get LakePlace.com to its current position - and if we cut out 4 years of heavy lifting with LandBin.com - we will be very pleased.

Land prices are going crazy right now - the demand is super high. The big players in the online land market (currently) are LandsofAmerica.com, LandandFarm.com & LandWatch.com - they are all great websites..but down the road, LandBin.com will display more land listings than all of these websites combined - which we believe will drive traffic and offer buyers and sellers the same advantage LakePlace.com currently offers.

If you plan to buy or sell land in the near future - we hope you will consider LandBin.com. Have a great day!

So yesterday I posted that LakePlace.com has taken some listings in a couple of new states. We listed some North Dakota lake properties and Michigan lake property for sale…so yes - we are finally expanding - but the beautiful thing is that the market made us do it (more on this later). Cameron and I have been very careful about growth. Growth is a great thing - but if it is not managed properly - it can be a disaster. The website is finally in a position where we feel we can start to move outside of the invisible borders of Minnesota & Wisconsin - and bring this little site we call LakePlace.com to new markets.

A world-wide audience.
While the vast majority of our current visitors come from the Twin Cities, Milwaukee, Chicago & Madison (in that order) - It is amazing to see how many visitors and emails come from around the world. Soldiers in Iraq planning a vacation when they return home (frequent), buyers in Dubai setting up appointments to view properties, etc…it is truly amazing to see the reach and potential of the internet and LakePlace.com.

The market made us do it.
We have a list of emails a mile long from cabin owners, vacationers, buyers and sellers that have requested we add additional markets. Most of these requests have come from Michigan. We listed a couple of Upper Peninsula (UP) lake properties late last fall - but we snuck them into our mix of Wisconsin lakeshore property listings. Yesterday we listed 15 Devils Lake ND lake property listings - a great development for those looking for excellent fishing at an affordable price. We added North Dakota lake property and UP lake property maps to our For Sale page - and we are now open for business in these states. In short - the market made us do it - the market demanded we spread our wings and we are excited and looking forward to working with an entirely new, additional group of great people!

For the record, we are now officially accepting real estate (waterfront, water view or deeded water access) listings in North Dakota and Michigan’s UP from this point forward and will be adding more listings soon. We plan to offer buyers, sellers, rental owners and vacationers the same great resources we currently offer in Minnesota & Wisconsin. We will be offering cabin rental and resort advertising in these markets. If you are a seller, agent, cabin rental owner, or resort owner/manager in Michigan or North Dakota - and you would like to team up with LakePlace.com (or if you have any questions) - please contact us online or give myself (Dave) a call at 612-366-4457 or my partner Cameron a call at 612-366-4454.

We look forward to working with you - and as always - happy lake home hunting!

I just ran across this great post at the Brainerd real estate blog…Marv takes a little walk down memory lane - and shares a huge stringer of walleyes with us. Marv is getting pretty good at this blogging thing - be sure to bookmark his blog and check back often.

I used this title (and image) in the past to describe LakePlace.com traffic. LakePlace.com has doubled (at least) in traffic every year since launch and is delivering millions of page views every month.

We are happy to report that our new website - LandBin.com - which features land for sale is already gaining a lot of traffic. The site is showing up great in some on some of the major portals for phrases like Minnesota land for sale & Wisconsin land for sale. After just launching a couple of short weeks ago, LandBin.com is now delivering about 10,000 page views per day (around 1/10th of LakePlace.com).

Although our infastructure is setup to handle it (and much more), we were not expecting to see this kind of traffic so quickly. It seems there are a lot of people looking for hobby farms & hunting land - and we are happy we can help!

If you have a minute - checkout LandBin.com and let us know what you think.  Thanks!

We would like to welcome Crystal Pierz Marine to LakePlace.com! Crystal Pierz is THE premiere boat dealer in the Midwest and we are really excited to be working with them. We will be announcing some special deals for LakePlace.com visitors soon. You may know that Crystal Pierz has several showrooms around the Midwest, making your new or used boat purchase extremely convenient - but did you know they can also help you with all of your dock needs?

If you have an old dock that you have been planning to replace - you will want to give Crystal Pierz a call and find out what they can do for you (be sure to mention LakePlace.com for a great deal!)

Crystal Pierz Marine showrooms are conveniently located in the following areas:

Brainerd, MN - 218-829-1111 - Map

Hermantown, MN - 218-729-5198 - Map

Fargo, ND - 701-282-9000 - Map

Rice Lake, WI - 715-236-2628 - Map

Rogers, MN - 763-416-1301 - Map

Shakopee, MN - 952-233-3434 - Map

St. Cloud, MN - 320-251-5555 - Map

But you can’t take the range out of the boy…

Dreaming of summer days on Lake Vermilion on this Sunday afternoon (while watching football). The current cold spell is giving me a case of cabin fever. Though I sold my cabin on Bass Lake a while back (Im planning to buy a lake lot) - my dad owns a Lake Vermilion property (Fectos Point) - which makes me a lucky guy.

He has a beautiful cabin on a bay full of big northerns and scary-sized muskie - and Im looking forward to hookin’ into them this coming Spring.

Anyway, it always surprises me when I run into people that have not visited Lake Vermilion - if you have not visited the lake - you should this summer - it is a very special and unique place (checkout the Lake Vermilion picture slide show at the DNR site)…and we may be getting a new state park on the “Big V” soon!

Note to parents: If you enjoy watching your kids ski, tube and swim at the lake - do not point out 45+ inch muskies swimming past the dock.