Archive for March, 2008
Meeting Moses at an East Village Coffee Shop (When He Gets an Emailed Offer)
Moses tooled up to an East Village coffee shop earlier today on his new sleek silver Vespa.
It had been a while since I had seen the old guy, but I’m never surprised by what he does or how he does it. Today being a slight slice of Spring on what this year has been an ever-elongating wintry landscape he opted [...]
How Long Has this Been on the Market?
Half a dozen of one, six of the other.
That might be the subtitle for the merging together of half of a box of a dozen frozen fish sticks found by an Ohio woman last week.
But instead of tossing the x-shaped trio on the frying pan, Victoria Landis tossed them on ebay where their Easter week appearance [...]
Hope Defines Me - Meeting Barack on a Sunday Afternoon
Lucas turned one last week. And the change is colossal.
He always was a bright child - but now I will wake in the morning to find him transliterating speeches of the aspiring presidential candidates into both Latin and Greek. Nonplussed by criticism of some naysayers that these so-called “dead” languages are pointless, Lucas laughs and utters [...]
The Red Phone Rings - And the Answer(er) is?
“Jackson,” I said to my two-and-a-half year old son, “Who do you want to answer the phone at 3 am?”
“Daddy,” he squealed enthusiastically.
Whether it was me he would like to answer the phone in the middle of the night (or morning for that matter), or whether he was simply responding to my presence as daddy [...]
A Five Hour Home Inspection and How a Promiscuous Buyer Made a Commitment
Thursday evening at 6.30 I headed home from one of my recently sold listings. I had just turned over five hours of my life to the longest home inspection I have ever endured.
If you haven’t participated in a home inspection lately (or ever), the point of this enterprise is to provide the home buyer with [...]
Days of Rage and the Core of this Chicago Realtor
I was six years old in 1968.
The year that Martin Luther King was shot in Memphis.
The year Bobby Kennedy was gunned down after he won the California Democratic Primary.
The year Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia while Chicago cops viciously beat Vietnam war protesters at the Democratic Convention.
And every night as all of this was recounted [...]
The Rumored Demise - Another Home Sells in Chicago
The Chicago real estate market today? I can’t help but think of Mark Twain’s quote, “Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
Yesterday my clients finalized negotiations of an offer for their home in West Town. Listed in the upper six figures, this residence attracted the prospective buyers back for three showings before they made [...]
