East Village
A Labor of Love – Chicago Real Estate Pro Works Holiday
Today I had two assistants helping me to show a listing in Chicago’s East Village. My sons Jackson and Lucas, positioned with an organic sucker in front of a Disney movie, helped me get a full-priced offer on a luxury single family home rental.
An Early Morning Rain and Rescuing Damp Patio Furniture
Dark? Yes. But frantically rumbling thunder and buckets of rain managed to wrest me from my slumbering mood and urged me to retrieve the now soaking patio furniture. Note to self, next time plan ahead and put it away. But such admonitions do nothing now that I am awake and making a bee-line into the rest of my day amid the Chicago real estate market.
A Handyman that Wasn’t
Being at the top of my game is an every day thing – so when I meet somebody who runs their own company and they don’t have the same zealous service-oriented philosophy I do, I am shocked. After all, there’s a recession going on and anybody that doesn’t do everything they can to keep business will lose it!
A Call from a Pig and an Extended School Break in Chicago
A mix of imagination and pragmatics, we decided to keep Jackson out of school the week following a two-week break in the face of the unknown. With Swine Flu rising to the state of pandemic, such a course of action seemed well-reasoned. Meanwhile, the Chicago real estate market is more active than it’s been in more than a year.
An Imagined Cricket Visits Amid the Din of a “Wicked” Busy Saturday
Was it my imagination that a cricket visited me to tell me that a blog is today’s version of a campfire where we gain warmth as we tell stories in our own voices and speaking our own truth? Whether imagined or not the cricket dispensed undeniable truth, saying that folks online who speak with scripts written by others will find themselves lost and lonely as educated consumers will turn away and seek those who speak the truth.
