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Delayed Gratification and Seasoning the Soup . Selling a Chicago Home
A few weeks ago my five on a scale of five wife presented to me a radically wonderful birthday gift – the iPad 2. Oh wonder of wonders and miracles of miracles. Me gusta mucho and all of that. But even upon receiving this most honorable gift which I gleefully anticipated integrating into my savant [...]
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 [...]
Out of Town Buyers Consider Videos to Make Real Estate Decisions
First it was an email. Then a text. Then a phone call. A North Shore buying client wanted to take a look at a newly listed single family home offered on the suppressed value side of the ledger. No problem, I thought, until I noticed that this home in Deerfield was being shown for a [...]
The Market is the Smorgasbord – Chicago Real Estate Buffet
Smorgasbord. I thought of the word last night when I looked at a picture my wife snapped of me and the boys (they with painted faces and me simply grinning) as we enjoyed Midsommarfest on Clark Street in Andersonville. Over my shoulder in the lovely pic was a sign for a little shop featuring said [...]
The Heave-ho of a Chicago Realtor
Staccato. That describes yesterday and much of the last week. It was busy in spurts, with the busy-ness of the business of the Chicago real estate market erupting in segments of action. Kind of like the teletype machine back in the day I wrote for the United Press International broadcast desk in Chicago when a [...]
