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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 [...]
Every Day a New Beginning (Mind, That Is)
Beginner’s mind. Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki brought this notion to full flower when he said – In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few. For more than 10 years I have assisted buyers and seller in the Chicago and North Shore real estate markets with their real estate [...]
A Cardinals’ Win and a Shift of How I View Things
Disappointment. Things don’t go the way you want them to. I’m not talking cataclysm, catastrophe or that which is colossal. I’m talking the more mundane. Like when you don’t get an invitation, or the pair of pants you wanted to wear are incontrovertibly in the laundry, the North Shore home you liked goes under contract [...]
Thursday it Rains and Reduced Pricing Reigns Supreme
It is 4pm on a rainy Thursday. Dampness combined with coolness and a general lack of sunlight imbues me with a Nordic dread of the season to come, the season after fall in Chicago. Well, at least the windows at home are still open. While temps dipped at least a dozen degrees from yesterday the [...]
