ChitownLiving | Chicago Real Estate + Life

This is my monthly rant. Buyer clients and I were viewing townhomes in Lincoln Park, Lake View, and Old Town.  We arrived at one of our appointments, the listing agent met us on time, and we began the tour.  All good so far.  Here is how it went…
This is the downstairs bathroom.  And this is the family room.  This is [...]

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It’s about real estate consulting, not selling.  The home should sell itself.

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Rules real estate agents should live by.  Jim Duncan pointed me to this post at the Big Picture.  While agents are thought of as being big talkers, the skill of listening is more important.

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I have been meaning to write a brief post on showing feedback for some time as it baffles me.  Geno over at Chicago’s Home Weblog beat me to it with an interesting take.  While representing buyers, I get these all the time after showings.  The requests come in three forms, the on-site “assault”, the phone call, and the [...]

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Listing agents please do not put me in a compromising position.  The only reason I ever show a property to a buyer is because it may meet their needs or they ask to see it.  Buyer agent bonuses like enhanced commissions, or cash bonuses do nothing to sway me.  They do not enter into my thinking as the [...]

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Just read an article taken from Yahoo! posted on RealTalk, one of the many agent forums.  Many agents are up in arms about the article.  I think some is true and some is pure bull … slang for false.  The article makes a lot of generalizations and really needs to take into account geographical location and [...]

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I’m addicted to spam, and I’m not talking about the mystery meat that comes in a tin can. In the Chicago real estate market we are all being spammed. As a real estate agent, it used to be that just our clients complained of spam. Going onto one of our agent websites to do a [...]

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