Minneapolis Floor Sanding

Are you up to the task?  If you are thinking about refinishing your hardwood floors yourself, then your in for some hardwork.  Anybody can do it, but it just take time, a lot of energy, and making sure you don’t screw them up.  First you will need to rent a drum floor sander and a floor sanding edger at Home Depot or your local hardware store.  You should look for a floor sander that is made be Clarke. [click to continue...]

He sure did strike a nerve. Rick Santelli video rant is an internet phenomenon. What was his main point? Here is an example.   Say you’re playing football. Your team is losing 14-21, it’s the fourth quarter and there is 1:54 left to play. You’re on your own 10 yard line. [click to continue...]

We don’t know what is going to happen. This is risk. The uncertain future, the more uncertain, the more risk. Investors, families, businessman are always calculating risk. We are trying to find the odds, figure them out, and make decisions that put the odds in our favor. One way to decrease risk is to have logical laws. [click to continue...]

More money for the failing automakers.  Are we surprised really?  We knew this was going to happen.  And now it is happening.  Doesn’t this just prove that this bailout idea is wrong?  These are failing institutions and they are failing for a reason:  they are not productive. [click to continue...]

I try to stay apolitical. Most the time I want to find the best solution to a problem. I don’t care if you’re liberal or conservative; I just want to get the job done right. But, right now, with all this bailout talk about stimulating the economy, it seems to me that President Obama, or Congress messed up the stimulus bill. The one thing in the bill that would no doubt stimulate the economy was the $15,000 tax credit for people who purchased a home this year. This is just common sense. Imagine that you owe $3,000 in taxes at the end of the year, but if you purchase a house you get back $12,000 in cash instead. Most likely if you bought a house it would need work. You would probably spend $4,000-6,000 fixing the plumbing, hardwood floors, electrical and painting. You might even get to update the bathroom. That money from taxes would pay the plumber, electrician, floor guy and bathroom guy. In addition, because you bought a foreclosed home that was vacant, now you’re paying the property taxes that the government wasn’t getting before. Do you see what I am getting at? Instead, the money in the bill is going for unemployment payments and food stamps. How are food stamps going to create jobs? It doesn’t make sense to me, but it seems that we are heading done a path that does not encourage investment in business and assets that create wealth and jobs. If you’re looking for a hardwood floor refinishing estimate give me a call, I won’t get political, I promise.

Today we make history. It is a good day. Barrack Obama will be the next President of the United States of America. This proves that anything is possible in America. We are in difficult economic times right now, but the way to get out of it is to fight, work hard, and keep trying to improve. This whole thing started with the housing market that got over supplied with homes and unqualified buyers. This whole thing is going to end when that over supply is down and in equilibrium with demand. In 2008 there were 2 million foreclosures, but for 2009 there is expected to be 3 million foreclosures. So we probably got at least two years to get out of this mess. But that doesn’t mean there is not opportunity to capitalize on this economic situation. There is going to be demand for plumbing, hardwood floors, electrical, Sheetrock, and rental properties. These are all industries that will need workers. If you have hardwood floor refinishing needs in Minneapolis give me a call. I would love to help you out.

You’re fired! More people in the United States loss their jobs than any other month since December 1974. Also 600,000 people lost their jobs in November. More cuts are to be expected over the next year. What can you do about this? It is tough, but we just need to work harder. [click to continue...]

If you have hardwood floors in Minneapolis give me a call.  We specialize in turning vintage, distressed, finished, unfinished, or prefinished hardwood floors into beautiful works of art.  Ok, maybe they are not a Monet, but I think they usually look very nice once we get done with them. [click to continue...]

We did it!  We finished the job.  One of the best feeling you get in business is when you finish a job and the customer is happy.  It is such a good feeling to get on a tough oak hardwood floor that is over 60-70 years old, has really thick poly on it and has some water damage. [click to continue...]