ChicagoToNorthShore.com – Our New Team @ At Properties!~!~!

MANY of you have heard me talk about my game plan to build an expert agent team to handle a larger market share in Chicagoland.  Given time is the most precious commodity for us all, one body with two arms & two legs cannot be everywhere at the same time.  Coupled with a desire to [...]

Sellers – Here’s your secret weapon…

Stage it & sell it fast!  If you’re now a seller, you can drop the hat of homeowner.  Once you decide to sell, your home is no longer a “home” as you know it – its a product, competing for every buyer’s business out there.  You want the best & most affordable way to say [...]

Buyers Buyers Everywhere!

Earth to Mars…never thought I’d be saying this, but I am in desperate need of a few more right arms to juggle all the clients who are looking to buy right now.  Three clients today alone!  With several pending contracts set to close over the next month, I’m still working through the pipeline of people [...]

$Buy or $Rent – What’s the right answer?

We landlords take a lot of heat.  Because it only takes a token few to spoil the apple cart, a “landlord” is likely just above used car salesman in the pecking order.  Ha! However, for the present time, those awesome landlords who keep their properties in great shape, it will continue to be a great [...]

Shout Out to my home stager Ceci Cannon

With an eye for detail, one of my partners in crime Ceci Cannon will be helping put the polish & detail on a few homes this month before we come on stage…we’ve got Highland Park & Wilmette slotted this week and Ceci is in my date book for Glencoe & Lake Forest projects just around [...]

New construction is alive at amazing prices!

Some buyers of mine scored this past weekend on a new construction purchase in Wauconda.  The days of the builder have gone by the wayside, but a few are still out there with a toolbelt.  Anxious to close out & move on to the next home, the builders are making deals.  We searched high & low [...]

SOLD in 9 days – 4000 sf of light, sun & space

A sharp savvy client, who won to the market conditions last year on a great buy in Riverwoods, hired me to move his home in Flossmoor, a lovely bedroom community far South of Chicago.  With a walk-to train & high school location, exposed beams & stacks of light, and light home staging, we priced this home to move.  And [...]

In April, Victorian home + lot with Lake views!

Coming next month in Round Lake/Grayslake – beautiful Victorian home with additional lot on the lake, high ceilings, hardwood throughout, generous room sizes, french doors & windows, large formal dining room with seven french windows, hickory cabinets, viking range, stainless the rest, granite tops, screened porch with swing – total 1/2 acre with adjacent lake [...]

Diamond in the rough found in East Highland Park

One of my favorite clients, who was a rental client two years ago, found herself in a multiple offer situation this week for an adorable gingerbread house in East Highland Park.  She decided with the work needed in the home, her first offer was in fact her highest & best offer.  Because we did our homework and [...]

How to lose a buyer

Attention Sellers!  I was on my normal jaunt of 20 homes in a day with buyers last Saturday and THREE!!!! sellers said “no thank you” to showings on that day.  What?  Are you kidding me?  Unless someone is giving birth on the dining room table (so far in all my years of selling real estate, that [...]