Jackson stood at the side of the bed this morning with one though on his mind. "Candy," he uttered proudly and with a broad grin. The way he said it, with a lengthened first syllable that sounded more like a nasally "Ken" followed by the shortest possible "dee" cracked me up. It's a great way to
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07/12/2008
My two-year-old Jackson was waxing philosophical this morning. The side lot was strewn with twigs and branches that rained down during what I assume was a heavy downpour last night. Peering out from the back porch over his bowl of fruit and cereal Jackson said, "Market time is like grass in the r
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06/29/2008
As a Chicago real estate professional I would never be so dense as to say I cover the entire city of Chicago or all of the outlying Chicagoland area. Instead I concentrate on a geographic swath within the city that essentially extends from the Chicago River to Devon Avenue, from Lake Michigan to
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06/21/2008
Wrigley Field on a sunny Summer afternoon... Few things in life provide such a rare pleasure. And with the Chicago Cubs tearing up the national league with a major league-leading 42 wins, the Friendly Confines have rarely been friendlier real estate to this life-long Cubs fan. Early on Cubs ace C
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06/12/2008
The easiest way to find what you are looking for and your don't want to pay a 75 cent surcharge by calling 411? Send a text message to google. That's right, send a text message to 4 6 6 4 5 3. Here's the deal, enter the numbers 4 6 6 4 5 3 and in the body of the text you enter the bare-bones desc
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06/11/2008
Rain, Rain, Go Away, Come Again Some Other Day!! And so goes the lament of this Chicago real estate professional this darned damp Sunday. Sequestered in one of the nicest condos among the current roster of Lakeview real estate I am left to my own devices. And so I plug away at the keyboard as I s
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06/08/2008
As a kid I was a voracious reader. Starting with comic books at the dinner table and moving on to reading newspapers cover to cover to learning to love reading books under the tutelage of my third grade teacher Miss Bruch. As I read today's Chicago Tribune I mused about an old-school journalist I
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06/07/2008
If the rhyme were true then April's showers would be a thing of the past by now leaving us in June to luxuriate in the perpetuated scent of May's flowers. But here in Chicago where the weather can stop on a dime nothing of the sort was present just two days past. And so Tuesday morning I selected
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06/05/2008
Much has been made about the Chicago real estate market, as if a city of this size can be morphed into one sensible equation. Again and again I offer my experiences which underscore the fact that things are selling here in specific locations. And again and again I offer my experiences of buyer af
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05/26/2008
A few months back I received a phone call from Ann. She had received my contact info from friends who suggested I would do a good job for her and her husband listing their condo in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood. Ann and I spoke and I emailed her one of those top-heavy real estate emails with to
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05/20/2008
