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ongoing marketing efforts to sell chicago homes
I like what I do quite a lot. I get to help people find places to live and assist folks to transition from one place to another. In my Sir Mix-a-lot Cauldron of listings I have about 10 real estate listings in Chicago neighborhoods from Andersonville to Bucktown to the Gold Coast to Lakeview. With [...]
a face in the ground advises see the open house at 2150 Damen today!
Every once in a while somebody somewhere about to nibble a cinnabun or something like it stops midbite when they see that the baked dough looks like someone famous. Mother Theresa comes to mind. Or a few years back under the Fullerton viaduct of the Kennedy Expressway a water marking bore resemblance to the Virgin [...]
An Hour of Showings at New Bucktown Condo Listings
Saturday. Just after noon on another action-packed day amid the fray of the Chicago real estate market. With the first of January arrived the spring market. And so far the spring market has been just that – springy! Things are active, showings are up, written contracts are many, and activity is expressly increased from what [...]
If it looks too good to be true… you know the rest
If it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Every so often I get an inquiry from an online consumer trying to see a place that looks pretty good. Actually, it looks so good as to be too good to be true. Unfortunately for the inquirer places that look too good to be [...]
Snow on the Horizon (Unless it Doesn’t Come)
Puffy cheeked angels are hurling ever-damper spitballs earthbound as Chicago gears up for its first substantial snow of the season. Sitting in my North Shore perch, a Starbucks near my sons’ school, I ease from one task to the next, observing the gathering expression of wintry nature. From the voices weighing in on the radio [...]
