Social Commentary
A Five Hour Home Inspection and How a Promiscuous Buyer Made a Commitment
Thursday evening at 6.30 I headed home from one of my recently sold listings. I had just turned over five hours of my life to the longest home inspection I have ever endured.
If you haven’t participated in a home inspection lately (or ever), the point of this enterprise is to provide the home buyer with [...]
Days of Rage and the Core of this Chicago Realtor
I was six years old in 1968.
The year that Martin Luther King was shot in Memphis.
The year Bobby Kennedy was gunned down after he won the California Democratic Primary.
The year Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia while Chicago cops viciously beat Vietnam war protesters at the Democratic Convention.
And every night as all of this was recounted [...]
Will the Federal Tax Rebate Have an Impact?
I read the news today, oh boy…
And with the dulcet tones of the boys from Liverpool serving as a backdrop, I’d like to draw your attention to the plan to stimulate the economy adopted yesterday by Congress and to be signed by President George Bush next week.
Evidently 137 million Americans, give or take a few [...]
Real Estate Tax Increase - Chicago’s Elected Leaders Railroad Higher Surcharge
Selling your home just got a bit more expensive in Chicago.
The 50-member city council acquiesced to Mayor Richard Daley’s faulty logic and pressure from the goof balls in Springfield as they voted to increase the Chicago Real Estate Transfer Tax by $3 (from $7.50 per $1,000 to $10.50).
Before you dismiss this hike as simply a [...]
