open house
If it looks too good to be true… you know the rest
If it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Every so often I get an inquiry from an online consumer trying to see a place that looks pretty good. Actually, it looks so good as to be too good to be true. Unfortunately for the inquirer places that look too good to be [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Show and tell and Chicago Open Houses . Similarities Abound
Friday is share day in my son Jackson’s kindergarten class. Share day, for those of you not savvy as to twenty-eleven lexicon in the halls of certain North Shore learning centers, is the equivalent of show-and-tell. So this morning was witness to me and my newly minted six-year-old son braving the bowels of our Edgewater [...]
