A Beach Front View and a Chicago Real Estate Professionals Inability to Relate (to a Frozen Lockbox)
Feeling someone else’s pain usually relies on really being able to feel that person’s pain. And so when I received a plaintive email asking for help to de-ice a frozen lockbox and I was half a world away, I literally could not relate. Not that I didn’t understand. It’s just that my brain in the tropics couldn’t relate to icy Chicago.
A Labor of Love – Chicago Real Estate Pro Works Holiday
Today I had two assistants helping me to show a listing in Chicago’s East Village. My sons Jackson and Lucas, positioned with an organic sucker in front of a Disney movie, helped me get a full-priced offer on a luxury single family home rental.
A New Chicago Home for Sale – Marketing by a Professional Listing Agent
Mitch Aronson and Tom McCarey proudly added a few listings this week to the inventory of The Real Estate Lounge Chicago. But the work doesn’t stop when the listing comes in, it just begins. Beating the drumbeat of online promotion Tom seeds pictures and text to myriad online sources to draw the attention of the online consumer. The means include websites, powerpoint pdfs, four-color html devices and craigslist all to establish awareness and lead to transaction.
An Early Morning Rain and Rescuing Damp Patio Furniture
Dark? Yes. But frantically rumbling thunder and buckets of rain managed to wrest me from my slumbering mood and urged me to retrieve the now soaking patio furniture. Note to self, next time plan ahead and put it away. But such admonitions do nothing now that I am awake and making a bee-line into the rest of my day amid the Chicago real estate market.
A Handyman that Wasn’t
Being at the top of my game is an every day thing – so when I meet somebody who runs their own company and they don’t have the same zealous service-oriented philosophy I do, I am shocked. After all, there’s a recession going on and anybody that doesn’t do everything they can to keep business will lose it!
