Bucktown
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 [...]
Clarifying Value as We Prepare to Make an Offer on a Chicago Condo
Value is a tricky thing to capture. In the Chicago and North Shore real estate market it’s akin to taking a shoe box and filling it with like-sized properties either in the same building (in the case of mid and high-rises) or approximately a half mile for condos and zip codes for many single family [...]
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 [...]
A Bucktown Home that’s Not For Sale (Really)
Like many Chicago real estate brokers I am more often out and about than I am behind a desk. With the advent of mobile technology I spend most of my day on the road, meeting buyers and sellers, going online to market my listings and wearing a sandwich board in between that touts my impeccable [...]
