Single Family Homes
Clarifying Value as We Prepare to Make an Offer on a Chicago Condo
Value is a tricky thing to capture. In the Chicago and North Shore real estate market it’s akin to taking a shoe box and filling it with like-sized properties either in the same building (in the case of mid and high-rises) or approximately a half mile for condos and zip codes for many single family [...]
Plumbing the Depths . What’s in my Pocket Today?
What’s in your pocket? Today, I bet, what’s there is different than what was there five years ago. And of course it’s different than when you were five years old. Every stage there’s something different taking up space in our pocket(s). I thought of this yesterday as my hand struggled into and out of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
$300 Roll of Paper Towels and Keys for $825k
I laughed at a friend’s facebook post yesterday. She said something to the effect of a roll of paper towels at Costco costing her $125. I wonder how she does it when the same roll costs me $300? As I mull over lopsided economics and prices we pay for common and typical things let me [...]
