Lincoln Park
from the morning’s darkness a voice emerged
Amid the early morning dark a single voice emerged from the darkness, a spring-boding bird whistling its plaintive song for my ears to hear, helping me to chart my course of hope toward the arrival of warmth and green. Now mixing metaphors and the like from Casablanca and Disney I go to the rest of the day imitating the feathered friend, whistling as I work.
Eight Fewer Floors at 2520 Lakeview in Chicago’s Lincoln Park
My clients joke about “a little off the top” as a price lower than what they wanted. The luxury project at 2520 Lakeview in Lincoln Park has gone a step further with “a little of the top” being the removal of eight floors from the design. It adds up to one-third fewer units and a higher percentage of units now under contract.
The Real Chicago Seen as a Pedestrian
A lesson learned from international travel is to let go. In Rome letting go means taking to the “vias” as a pedestrian. We did so with gusto. And at times we bring our lessons learned abroad to our home in Chicago, walking from here to there without the pressure of a task or an errand hanging over our heads.
An Inexorable Truth Trying to Show Chicago Real Estate
Inexorable is a firm and unyielding word, and when you witness actions that fit the definition, it is bound to result in new things that, too, are inexorable. And so Thomas McCarey has this experience when confronted with another realtor’s inexorable refusal to show a property in Chicago.
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!
