The Economy
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 [...]
Thursday it Rains and Reduced Pricing Reigns Supreme
It is 4pm on a rainy Thursday. Dampness combined with coolness and a general lack of sunlight imbues me with a Nordic dread of the season to come, the season after fall in Chicago. Well, at least the windows at home are still open. While temps dipped at least a dozen degrees from yesterday the [...]
Clear to Close – Get it in Writing Before You Waive the Mortgage Contingency
“Clear to close.” These are the words we await when a house or condo wends its way to closing when a loan is involved. And in the current market what we know to be true is simply “it ain’t over ’til it’s over.” Last week on Friday morning my buying clients received a verbal “clear [...]
Keeping an Appointment (No Matter What)
Hell or high water. I suppose somewhere online there’s a tracing of the semantic geneaology of the comment. Maybe a wikapedia article that traces it back to the guy who first uttered it. Whatever the case, to this day the combination of words is simply fine when it comes to describing that a task should [...]
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 [...]
