Geno Petro's Chicago Real Estate Blog

I'm going on the record once again to say that I look at Chicago property on a daily basis, be it in the car with clients or simply scouring the listings of each 'windy city' neighborhood (yes, its windy here today...very) for whatever is new and exciting on the market. I commit what I can to mem...

 Now that the holiday dinner party circuit has finally subsided and there's nary an occasion left to celebrate --- NEWS FLASH---"we interrupt this editorial to bring you a special bulletin... CHICAGO BEARS ADVANCE TO SUPER BOWL XLI" Alright, besides that...now where was I? Oh yes, social function...

 Regardless of what my wife may tell you, she didn't fall in love with me the second our eyes first met. I'm sure of this for a couple of reasons. To begin with, she couldn't have possibly ignored me any more than she did on that first summer evening even though we were seated an arms length away...

First off, I'm a dog lover and would never kick a real one unless it was chewing off a limb. The metaphoric hound I speak of though, is Starbucks---the coffee people. I've mentioned them before and often.  They've clearly got me... and as my 'mug shot' (an Ardell DellaLoggia-ism) in the sidebar c...

 There has been a lot of discussion lately in our Brokerage about the evolution of the Real Estate Agent in Chicago (or across the nation for that matter)..ie...The Hybrid Realtor. Eric Rojas alluded to this in a previous post and I'm pretty sure our Broker/Owner Joe Pinto came up with the monick...

 Thank you to my friends at Sellsius for this awesome Christmas gift. Unfortunately, the UPS guy left it outside of my building and the City of Chicago just towed it away. Derek Burress also left me a gift for pick-up but it somehow got lost in the holiday shuffle. In real life my wife gave me a ...

 The following real estate-centric teasers are newsworthy items that I happen upon during my research and readings for the week and post on Digg.com. The titles and descriptions are mine (thank me very much!) but the actual stories are pulled from a variety of daily and weekly news sources. Click...

 There used to be this girl in our office---a woman in her early thirties actually, but she reminded me of my 12 year old niece by something that used to always come out of her mouth. Whenever I'd say something  opinionated or make an offhand curt remark within earshot of her, she'd blurt out the...

{I recently posted this picture and an accompanying story on my primary Blog as well as here and was informed by another site's SEO that my duplicate content might get me banned from Google! Wow, I had no idea. But as I view the photograph above I am reminded that ignorance of the 'law' is no exc...

Mary McKnight, the RSS Pieces REBlogGirl arranged this little Blogosphere get together for next week. I'm zooming to Queens for a day with the clothes on  my back and a fully charged laptop.  Christine Forgione is doing the same to Chicago. I'm not sure how its all going to come together but chec...