A Drop in Temperature in Chicago

Refuge was granted today. After an endless series of scratches etched on a stray board  to suggest days where the heat simply suffocated today ambled in at a delightful sub 90. Blessed relief. Don’t get me wrong, I am not a hot day naysayer. I revel in the glisten that gathers from the slightest activity. [...]

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the tick tick tick of the second hand sweeps toward tomorrow

hurry up and wait! that’s what most closings are like these days as wire transfers don’t and underwriters stall and mortgage brokers aren’t at the closing table and buyers wait to close. and so it goes.

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Not Having Your Home Inspected? Then Have Your Head Inspected!

Not having your home inspected? Then be sure to have your head done. With perhaps the single largest purchase of your life, make sure it passes the test of a qualified home inspector. The Real Estate Lounge Chicago favors Pete Neuman of Prairie Home Inspection and Steve Hier of Miller Hier Inspection.

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from the morning’s darkness a voice emerged

Amid the early morning dark a single voice emerged from the darkness, a spring-boding bird whistling its plaintive song for my ears to hear, helping me to chart my course of hope toward the arrival of warmth and green. Now mixing metaphors and the like from Casablanca and Disney I go to the rest of the day imitating the feathered friend, whistling as I work.

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open eyes . open house . 2035 charleston . bucktown loft

A rainy Sunday in January – a good day to stay beneath the blankets. But with a busy schedule today and the whole month, now is not the time to stay abed amid the Chicago real estate market.

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