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2016 

A while back I was showing properties down in the city.  This was a buyer whose funds were limited, and we were looking at proprieties in marginal neighbourhoods that needed a fair amount of fixing up.He was riding with me in my car, as we hopscotched across the city, feeding parking meters as I ...
01/31/2016
Well, first of all, MLS an acronym that stands for Multiple Listing Service, and there are lots of individual services all over the country.  There are over 700 multiple listing services that are administered by over 1400 local Realtor boards.So, what is it?A multiple listing service (or system) ...
01/29/2016
Parties often carry over into the new year... I found myself at one over the weekend. Personally, I'm not a "party guy", but in this case it was an open house being thrown by buyers of mine... so I felt obligated to attend... but also felt they were nice people, and who know... it might be fun.So...
01/24/2016
I'm seeing posts on Facebook that show snowfalls on the east coast of 28", 32", 40" and more.And of course it makes one think about how much snow was the most snow you ever had?This photo is a Chicago Tribune photo of Lake Shore Drive in 1967... the 67 Blizzard that's still spoken about in hushed...
01/23/2016
Two agents went in for the very same listing (and, no.. I wasn't one of them).  They both offered similar marketing programs, they both offered similar pricing, and similar commission rates.The sellers knew both agents, personally.  Both agents were well known in the community and both were known...
01/22/2016
In today's Chicagoland market, it's cheaper to own, than it is to rent.With that knowledge there's a Chicago developer who has offered to buy an iconic 448-unit condo called River City for $86 million dollars, and wants to de-convert the building to rentals.Mark Realty Capital has sent an offer t...
01/20/2016
Barbara Todaro raised an interesting question in her recently featured post "Does a seller get direction from the listing agent, or buyer's agent?"  Barbara has that ability...she often raises interesting questions.As part of her question, I replied that I like to hear feedback from buyer's agent...
01/17/2016
I had a conversation, recently, with a lovely young lass... well, really not that young, as she was my age.  We talked about quite a number of things, and we at some point came around to literature, as she asked me what I've read recently...I told her about my current reading of the Explorer's Gu...
01/17/2016
In a recent post, Bill Spear discussed a question that we often hear: "How much will your seller take?" It's often asked innocently, but often with a hope that we'll give them an answer they can really use.Of course, as the seller's representative, we're not typically authorized to give out any a...
01/16/2016
... or is it?This week, I sold two sold two properties...One for my seller, while he and his wife were away in Thailand, and the other to my buyer who's in Beijing, China.International real estate can have its complexities, especially when time zones are that far off. Replies take overnight... ea...
01/14/2016
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