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		<title>Minot’s Chateau Apartment Homes Suffers a Fire While Under Repair from Summer Flooding</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minot, ND – February 22, 2012 – A fire occurred today at the Chateau Apartment Homes in Minot, North Dakota. The fire began sometime in the early-morning hours and was confined to the complex’s Eastern building located at 1725 2nd Ave SW. Thankfully, both buildings of the complex are currently vacant for repairs from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iretproperties.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14037254&amp;post=303&amp;subd=iretproperties&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IRET Properties Announces the Promotion of Justin Hammer to Director</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minot, ND – February 21, 2012 – IRET Properties is pleased to announce the promotion of Justin Hammer to Director of Residential Property Management &#8211; Western Division. In his new role as Director, Mr. Hammer will oversee the entirety of IRET Properties’ Western Division, consisting of over 3,600 apartment homes spanning the state of North [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iretproperties.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14037254&amp;post=296&amp;subd=iretproperties&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IRET Properties Announces the Promotion of Curt &amp; Judine Hills,  Opening of a New Rochester Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minot, ND – October 4, 2011 – IRET Properties is pleased to announce the promotion of Curt Hills to Director of Residential Property Management – Eastern Division and the opening of a new regional office in Rochester, Minnesota. Mr. Hills joined IRET Properties in 2010 as the Rochester Regional Manager of Residential Property Management with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iretproperties.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14037254&amp;post=290&amp;subd=iretproperties&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Decorate for Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the holiday season has arrived many of you will be making decorating plans, which may include the purchase of a Christmas tree to display in your apartment. When decorating your apartment for the holiday season please note that there is an International Fire Code allowing only artificial trees in your apartment.  You may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iretproperties.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14037254&amp;post=287&amp;subd=iretproperties&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Giving in Grand Forks and Rochester</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Holiday Season approaches, many of our regions find the time to give back to their communities in one way or another—they hand out holiday cards to residents and customers, sponsor gift-giving and tree-lighting programs, and much more. Below are what several crews from our Residential Division have done lately to help out this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iretproperties.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14037254&amp;post=285&amp;subd=iretproperties&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1/4 Ton of Giving.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning in October, the Minot Residential Property Management Crew held a contest where tenants who paid their rent on or before the 1st of the month and donated a non perishable item were entered into a drawing to win either a TV or an iPad.  For every item the tenant brought in, their name was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iretproperties.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14037254&amp;post=277&amp;subd=iretproperties&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MarketPlace Foods to reopen Arrowhead location next spring</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re-post of story by: Dan Feldner &#8211; Staff Writer, Minot Daily News Down but never out, MarketPlace Foods plans to reopen its store at Arrowhead Shopping Center next spring. Ralph Towery, area director of MarketPlace, said while there was some discussion about not reopening the Arrowhead location, ultimately it was encouragement from employees and customers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iretproperties.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14037254&amp;post=250&amp;subd=iretproperties&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arrowhead Plans Comeback</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arrowhead mall, Chateau Apartments Preparing to Reopen Jill Shramm &#8211; Staff Writer &#8211; Minot Daily News When the electronic message board at Arrowhead Shopping Center lit up again this past week, it was a sign from the mall owners that the flood didn&#8217;t get the last word. &#8220;We are committed to restoring both Arrowhead and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iretproperties.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14037254&amp;post=244&amp;subd=iretproperties&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Investors Real Estate Trust Announces Apartment Construction In Williston, North Dakota—the epicenter of the Bakken Oil Play</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minot, ND – August 16, 2011 &#8211; Investors Real Estate Trust (Nasdaq:IRET) (Nasdaq:IRETP), in partnership with Brutger Equities, is pleased to announce construction of the Williston Garden Apartment community in Williston, North Dakota. The complex will bring 145 new apartment homes to the booming city, where activity from the surrounding Bakken Oil Field has made [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iretproperties.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14037254&amp;post=241&amp;subd=iretproperties&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>INVESTORS REAL ESTATE TRUST ANNOUNCES THE RELOCATION OF THE IRET CORPORATE OFFICE AND RECENT ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION ACTIVITY</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MINOT, ND – August 2, 2011 &#8211; Investors Real Estate Trust (NASDAQ:IRET) (NASDAQ: IRETP), announces its corporate headquarters in Minot, North Dakota has relocated to 1400 31st Ave SW, Suite 60, PO Box 1988, Minot, ND 58702-1988. This move follows the previously-announced lease by Hess Corporation of approximately 48,500 square feet in the former IRET [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iretproperties.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14037254&amp;post=239&amp;subd=iretproperties&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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