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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.
RECENT BLOG POSTS
Lucas turned one last week. And the change is colossal.He always was a bright child - but now I will wake in the morning to find him transliterating speeches of the aspiring presidential candidates into both Latin and Greek. Nonplussed by criticism of some naysayers that these so-called "dead" la...
03/18/2008
"Jackson," I said to my two-and-a-half year old son, "Who do you want to answer the phone at 3 am?""Daddy," he squealed enthusiastically.Whether it was me he would like to answer the phone in the middle of the night (or morning for that matter), or whether he was simply responding to my presence ...
03/12/2008
Thursday evening at 6.30 I headed home from one of my recently sold listings. I had just turned over five hours of my life to the longest home inspection I have ever endured.If you haven't participated in a home inspection lately (or ever), the point of this enterprise is to provide the home buye...
03/09/2008
The Chicago real estate market today? I can't help but think of Mark Twain's quote, "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated."Yesterday my clients finalized negotiations of an offer for their home in West Town. Listed in the upper six figures, this residence attracted the prospective buy...
03/03/2008
Ralph Nader Sunday left the wintry hole that I think he shares with Puxatawny Phil somewhere in the Pennsylvanian hinterland. Upon emerging he saw his shadow and evidently that proved to be the deciding factor as he declared his intention to throw his hat into the presidential ring. All 157 of hi...
02/25/2008
My mind is made up. It has been for quite a while. But nonetheless I tuned into CNN tonight to watch the Democratic hopefuls square off as a prelude to the very important primaries next week in Texas and Ohio.At the end of the night I don't know that either of the candidates won. But by the same ...
02/23/2008
A beautiful Saturday visited Chicago today, providing Chicagoans from Lincoln Park to Edgewater with a pleasant dose of sunshine to offset too many days of gray and cold. And while the thermometer didn't hit the season norm here the fact that we were able to cast shadows was a wonderful diversion...
02/23/2008
Two-thirds of the way through February and here in Chicago we seem no closer to the end of the season.Just two weeks ago the furry critter made famous in Bill Murray's movie "Groundhog Day" popped out his hole, saw his shadow, and thereby inflicted upon us an additional six weeks of winter.Oh Pun...
02/19/2008
I can't remember the first time I walked in the little optical shop on Broadway near Belmont.I had popped into the eye glass place across the street but they didn't have what I wanted. But with unrequested kindness and unexpected candor the clerk nodded to the shop across the way and said I might...
02/16/2008
Another Valentine's Day has come and gone. And if the National Retail Federation had it right some $17 BILLION sluiced into the economy on items like cards, chocolates, candies and other sundries.And to think, the namesake of this holiday died a martyr's death at the hands of Claudius more than 1...
02/14/2008
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