Tom McCarey
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 [...]
A Good Team is a Great Idea – Buying a Home in Chicago
Had a weird one Friday. My clients were closing on the purchase of a South Loop townhome. And for the first time in more than ten years of being a Chicago real estate yenta the selling side of the closing table at Chicago Title sat empty. It was, as they say in the hallowed halls, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
