The Real Estate Lounge Chicago

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Real Estate Agent - @properties
The brick and mortar of this blog is the expertise, insights and experiences I have gained as one of Chicago's top real estate professionals. With my team The Real Estate Lounge Chicago I am affiliated with @properties. My success is partly due to hard work and market knowledge, but mostly it’s old and new clients choosing me. I hope you enjoy. I also hope when it’s time for you to buy or sell a home that you turn to me.

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2011 

We leave our fingerprints. Whether it is the Chicago real estate market or anywhere else where homes are being sold (or at least listed in the hope of being sold), we leave our fingerprints. Meaning what? Meaning there is a record of what was paid and when it was paid. There are tax records that ...
01/29/2011
Sunday arrives. Awaited. Nay, anticipated. And unlike other Chicago Sundays, so many Chicago real estate Sundays, this Sunday is reserved for a position on the couch with a clear view of the tv to watch and (it is hoped) to enjoy the Chicago Bears. So far I have said yay! thrice in person and in ...
01/16/2011
Sullenly it stands there, like its metalic brethren dotting Chicago streets. Parking kiosks I suppose they are called, though a name with "bandit" in it seems more apropos. Though years of ads intone "don't leave home without it," today I did. No excuses offered, but the combination of an early m...
01/09/2011
It may seem strange, what I say next, but you wouldn't believe how hard it was to find a good Mexican place in Paris. Truth be told, on a two-week sojourn from Chicago, you wouldn't believe how hard it was to find any Mexican place in Paris. Then again, maybe you would. First things first, the fo...
01/05/2011
From 50 to 20. And so the new year commences with a capricious if not pernicious drop in temperature in Chicago. Shocking! After two weeks in Paris where the mercury rarely approached the upper 30s and typically wavered at or below freezing, yesterday's venture into spring-like territory was beyo...
01/02/2011
Working vacation. While the term "stay-cation" gained currency in the past year or so, a truer, more real term for most of the populace links working with vacation. The challenge comes in ensuring that one maintain his compass to ensure that the vacation portion not be overwhelmed by one's  worki...
01/02/2011
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