Guides
Minnesota sets rules for every home sale in the state. Individual cities add their own on top — and they are not the same from one suburb to the next. These guides set out what each city asks of a seller, separately from what Minnesota asks everywhere.
How these are put together. Every line cites the city, county or state page it came from, so you can check it yourself rather than take my word for it.
City rules and state law are kept apart. A requirement attributed to Minnesota applies everywhere in the state; one attributed to a city does not.
Each page carries the date its sources were last checked, and that date is the real one — pages are updated when a city changes something, not on a schedule to look fresh.
Where something is not established, the page says so instead of guessing. An unconfirmed requirement is listed as an open question with the city to contact.
Maplewood requires: Point-of-sale inspection (Truth-in-Sale-of-Housing), Rental licensing disclosure.
2 categories still unconfirmed — shown on the page, not guessed.
St. Paul requires: Point-of-sale inspection (Truth-in-Sale-of-Housing), Certificate of occupancy, Rental licensing disclosure, Special assessments disclosure.
West St. Paul requires: Point-of-sale inspection, Rental licensing disclosure, Special assessments disclosure.
1 category still unconfirmed — shown on the page, not guessed.
There are about 143 cities in the seven-county metro. A city only gets a page once its rules have actually been researched for that city and each one traced to a primary source — not inherited from a county-level default and presented as though it were local. Roughly 16 are at that standard so far, and pages go up one at a time as each is checked.
If your city is not here, that means it has not been researched yet, not that it has no requirements. Ask me about it and I will look it up for your address.
← Michael Affeldt, Realtor