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We Made the Offer - He Made Up His Mind - Trying to Buy a Chicago Condo
My clients asked me what to expect as we submitted our offer to buy a Chicago condo. But there’s no way I figured a seller would act like a petulant child and simply cancel his listing. I guess he wasn’t serious about selling his condo for what current market conditions indicate it is now worth. Oh well, my clients and I have other pieces of the Chicago real estate pie to consider.
Contemporary Condo in Chicago’s East Village Neighborhood - Video of 1934 Thomas
The Chicago real estate market cannot be fit into one description. Things are selling in certain neighborhoods while other areas are not as active. In the meantime many buyers seem to view sellers as desperate sorts who will sell for any number. This is not the case.
A Baby’s First Sequence of Steps (and the Chicago Real Estate Market Continues Moving Forward)
Daddy Tom McCarey, a top producing Chicago realtor, proudly watches one-year-old son Lucas Storm take one step after another. He also answers value question and refers to @ properties market report regarding Chicago real estate to allay concerns about the Chicago market.
Baby Steps and First-Time Buyers of Chicago Real Estate
My younger son Lucas is taking his first steps toward becoming bi-pedal.
And though I don’t remember my own progress toward becoming ambulatory a few decades back, I imagine my tentativeness then rivaled his now.
Urging him forward one step at a time I can’t help but imagine the primal terror he might feel as he stands, [...]
Peeking at Spring in Chicago with Tom McCarey (and Trusted Resources)
As I selected the outfits my sons would don today I mused back to the tail-end of my childhood when “Garanimals” were introduced.
Garanimals, for those not in the know, was and is a children’s clothing line providing tops and bottoms each emblazoned with animal tags designed to make matching little one’s outfits a bit easier. [...]
By All Means a Bio - This is a Snap Shot of Being Tom McCarey
The first week has come and gone and I am glad to be a part of the @properties’ brokerage. Something about making a move that gets my blood moving and makes me feel a little bit more alive. It also grants me a wonderful chance to take a little of this and ditch a little [...]
Meeting Moses at an East Village Coffee Shop (When He Gets an Emailed Offer)
Moses tooled up to an East Village coffee shop earlier today on his new sleek silver Vespa.
It had been a while since I had seen the old guy, but I’m never surprised by what he does or how he does it. Today being a slight slice of Spring on what this year has been an ever-elongating wintry landscape he opted [...]
Chicago-Style Good Fortune (Cookie)
A beautiful Saturday visited Chicago today, providing Chicagoans from Lincoln Park to Edgewater with a pleasant dose of sunshine to offset too many days of gray and cold. And while the thermometer didn’t hit the season norm here the fact that we were able to cast shadows was a wonderful diversion to our ongoing battle [...]
Single Digits - A Chicago Salute
Two-thirds of the way through February and here in Chicago we seem no closer to the end of the season.
Just two weeks ago the furry critter made famous in Bill Murray’s movie “Groundhog Day” popped out his hole, saw his shadow, and thereby inflicted upon us an additional six weeks of winter.
Oh Punxsutawney Phil , [...]
A New Way of Looking at Things (with New Pair of Glasses, that is)
I can’t remember the first time I walked in the little optical shop on Broadway near Belmont.
I had popped into the eye glass place across the street but they didn’t have what I wanted. But with unrequested kindness and unexpected candor the clerk nodded to the shop across the way and said I might find [...]
