Maple Grove is outside my licence — here is the useful part

Before you go: the structural differences

• Real estate licensing is state by state. An agent licensed in Florida cannot represent you in Minnesota, and a Minnesota licensee cannot represent you in Florida.
• Leaving Florida means picking up a state income tax in Minnesota. Model it against the housing number before you settle on a price range, and take the actual arithmetic to a tax adviser rather than to any real estate agent, including me.
• Closings in Minnesota are generally handled through a title or escrow company rather than by an attorney as a matter of course, which is closer to the Florida pattern than not.
• Neither the homestead exemption nor the Save Our Homes cap travels with you out of Florida. Minnesota sets its own assessment rules, its own exemptions and its own limit on how fast a bill can rise — confirm the specifics with the local taxing authority rather than assuming a Florida analogue exists.

What actually happens next

Read this part before the rest

After the introduction I am not in your transaction. I do not supervise the agent, I do not see your contract, and I have no authority to intervene when something goes wrong — that authority belongs to their broker and to the body that licenses agents in Minnesota. What I do keep is the telephone. If something reads badly three weeks in, tell me. I would far rather make an awkward call to another brokerage than find out at closing that the introduction was the wrong one.

The questions that tell you who you are dealing with

• Which documents will you ask me to sign at the very start, what does each one commit me to, and how long does it run? Ask for them by email so you can read them somewhere other than at a kitchen table.
• How is a shortfall on the appraisal usually handled in Minnesota, and what do buyers here commonly write into the contract to deal with it before it happens?
• If the property is listed by your own brokerage, what happens to my representation, what does Minnesota law permit in that situation, and what exactly would you be asking me to sign?
• How do closing costs divide by local custom, which of those items are genuinely negotiable, and which are simply the way it is done here?

What this page is not offering

I will not tell you what to offer or what to ask in Maple Grove. Pricing is the advisory half of brokerage, it rests on evidence I have no proper access to, and giving it where I hold no licence would be the precise thing this page says I do not do. When you want that answer, take it from the licensee I introduce you to, in writing, with the comparable properties attached to it.

What I can do directly, without an introduction

A tenanted Florida property does not empty because you have decided to move. The lease runs with the property, the tenant holds rights until it ends, and both of those facts sit in the middle of your closing date whether or not they are convenient. That is Florida work and it is mine to do, but it wants a start measured in months rather than weeks, so raise it on the first call rather than the fourth.

Other cities in Minnesota

• Brooklyn Park
• St. Cloud
• Eagan
• Minneapolis
• Duluth
• Blaine
• Burnsville
• Minnetonka
• All of Minnesota