About this site

My name is Dan Swenson. I am a data nerd who is also a Minnesota workers' compensation attorney and a city council member. Public information should not be hard to use, so I build this network of sites as a hobby: I pull scattered public records out of PDFs and government databases and turn them into tools regular people can actually use. I do not use these sites to find legal clients, except for MN Comp Buddy which is my actual day job. The tools are free. The sites pay for their own hosting through clearly disclosed referral links and a few optional paid guides.

MN Agent Buddy puts the public record one search away: the Minnesota Department of Commerce's enforcement actions against real estate licensees, with the Department's own order documents linked, and license lookups built on government registries. Where the state publishes no bulk data (the salesperson and broker roster), we have a standing Minnesota Government Data Practices Act request in with Commerce, and we say plainly what we have and what we are still waiting on.

Three commitments. First, lookups here are anonymous: we never store what you search or who you check, period. Second, every fact cites a named public source with the date we last checked it; when our copy and the government's page disagree, the government's page controls. Third, the record is never for sale: no one can pay to change, hide, or polish what their public record shows here.

About money: If featured agents ever appear on this site, they pay a flat advertising fee. We receive nothing from your transaction: no agent pays us per client, per referral, or per closing, because Minnesota law reserves referral fees for licensed brokers and we are not one. Details in the privacy policy.

One naming note. This site says “agent,” not REALTOR®: that term is a trademark of the National Association of REALTORS and describes membership in that association, not a license. This site is about the license and the public record, which belong to everyone.

MN Agent Buddy is part of a small family of free Minnesota tools: Comp Buddy for work injuries, Hail Buddy for storm damage, Property Tax Buddy for assessments, Radon Buddy for radon levels, and Wage Buddy for paychecks. Same builder, same rules: public data, cited sources, nothing about you stored.