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Fingerprints on Chicago Real Estate Listings

We leave our fingerprints. Whether it is the Chicago real estate market or anywhere else where homes are being sold (or at least listed in the hope of being sold), we leave our fingerprints. Meaning what? Meaning there is a record of what was paid and when it was paid. There are tax records that [...]

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Will January Beget a Warm Spring Real Estate Market in Chicago?

What does Chicago’s spring real estate market hold? Historically January is robust though the last three years have been slow. And this year? There’s plenty of pent up deman and inventory as well. The question is whether lenders will perform their role and lend or if they will continue to stand on the sideline with their hands in their pockets. Let’s hope they make loans. Time will tell.

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Painted Faces and Staged Homes – A Blurb from Chicago Real Estate Market

The kids came and had their faces painted at Jackson’s party Saturday and the result was joy. Altering appearances toward the joy of a sale is what we do, too, when we stage a home to sell or have professional photographs taken. More in this post from The Real Estate Lounge Chicago.

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Chicago Photo Enforced Intersections – Sense or Cents?

Chicago has implemented a system of photo enforced intersections, the efficacy of which I question as drivers become a bit shell-shocked and ride their brakes even as they approach green lights, not wanting to run the risk of getting a ticket from the mechanical device that serves as the gate keeper.

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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.

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