naperville: 4428 White Ash Lane, Naperville IL 60564 - 03/19/07 11:40 AM
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naperville: Naperville Condo & Townhomes - 2006 the year in review - 01/20/07 10:51 PM
Quite a year for the Condo/Townhome market in Naperville. The average sale price took quite a leap (about 14%) while the total number of transactions declined about 16% to 869 units sold (compared to the previous years 1034 units)
A large contributing factor to the average price is the advent of the million … (6 comments)
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naperville: Naperville Homes by the numbers - 2006 - It's a wrap! - 01/20/07 10:08 PM
2006 was an interesting year for residential real estate in Naperville as overall sales declined from 2005 by about 21.5% Single family detached Naperville home sales fell from 2232 total units in 2005 to 1705 total units in 2006 a decline of 23.6%
Of course the total transaction decline created an uncomfortable feeling … (2 comments)
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naperville: Not just another suburb - A place in history - 01/12/07 11:08 PM
History at it's heart - The Naper Settlement
Right in central Naperville is a piece of land preserved as it might have been in the 1800's. A cultural museum called the Naper Settlement
Located on Aurora Avenue, just steps from Naperville's thriving downtown and renowned riverwalk... the Naper Settlement preserves a long and … (39 comments)
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naperville: He's not as thought as you drunk he was.... - 01/02/07 10:43 PM
Our first home purchase - "The Life of the Unrepresented Buyer"
1985 We looked at a couple of condos alongside the El tracks in Chicago... nice places, great complexes close to everything... we were assured that we would "get used to the train" the screeching, the rumbling, the shaking... At $48,000 it seemed like a … (56 comments)
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naperville: Giving, in a big way! - 12/16/06 11:56 PM
Remembering those that give...
I've been to New Orleans many times...
This time was different... the city was still reeling from Katrina and fighting to come back... they were glad we (NAR) were there, but it was different than before.
I've had cause to reflect on this as a Naperville custom home builder has just … (20 comments)
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naperville: Sign in? I don't even know you! - 12/05/06 12:15 AM
Realtor.com is an advertising site. The properties are used to draw you in so that they can build ads around the listings... this makes the site painfully slow. Realtor.com is an opt-in site missing a lot of data... it is notoriously out of date and doesn't let you know if a property … (10 comments)
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naperville: Naperville's Thriving Condominium & Townhome Market - 12/04/06 11:00 PM
The charts below show the strength of Naperville's attached housing market. Not just on the lower end but Naperville's Luxury Condo & Townhome market too. As is typical in a softer marketplace... the total # of units are down, while the average price has risen considerably. During 2006 There were three … (4 comments)
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naperville: Naperville's Luxury and Custom Home Market - 12/03/06 12:06 AM
I mentioned in a previous post that Naperville's Luxury Home Market has actually increased in volume over the last year... bucking all current trends. With sales up over 28% for the year, there are still a lot of fantastic homes to be had at advantageous terms. Great opportunities are there for … (8 comments)
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naperville: Bad market? Depends who you ask... - 12/02/06 11:29 PM
Overall prices appear to have increased by about 8% over the same period last year (see charts below) while overall unit sales have declined a fairly dramatic 20%. An interesting twist though is that the Naperville Luxury Home market (Homes priced at $1,000,000 and over) has taken a significant jump in sales of … (4 comments)
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naperville: CNET "tiny apps" - 10/10/06 10:18 PM
I recently blathered on about a couple of small applications that I love, today I received the new cnet.com newsletter and they are talking about little tiny applications that are great. I've been using tweakui forever, but always forget to tell people about it... Many people love infranview, I like using it … (2 comments)
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naperville: Two things I install on my PC first... even before Anti-Virus - 10/04/06 07:52 PM
A couple of nifty little programs that I love!
I'm sure that many of you use this program, but there is absolutely no other utility that I install before Roboform . As a password manager, data protector and easy log in machine... there is just nothing that compares and it should be … (11 comments)
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naperville: Woo Hoo! Real Estate street spam! - 10/02/06 04:09 PM
You've probably seen them, they've replaced a lot of the "we buy houses" signs... I see them all over the place in Naperville and Aurora. Occasionally, the sign maker/owner gets fancy and has the sign professionally printed:
So, does anybody have the scoop? A search of Real Estate Investor Seeks Apprentice on … (10 comments)
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naperville: What's a million bucks among friends? - 09/27/06 11:38 PM
Declining market you say?
I’ve had fun all year watching the sales in excess of $1,000,000 luxury homes in Naperville through the MLS.
It's the one thing everybody always wants to know about... "what's going on with all those big houses?" I like to be ready with some basic information that … (2 comments)
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naperville: C.Y.A the easy way... - 09/27/06 12:10 AM
Unlike some of you I am not an organizational master…
I can get organized, but I just don’t stay that way. Hence it’s important for me to have an arsenal of tools which help to alleviate some of my shortcomings.
Sometimes I over compensate… but that goes back to the impulse … (3 comments)
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naperville: Personal marketing pieces that I've used in the past... (part 3... last one for a bit) - 09/26/06 10:10 PM
Alrighty then...So I've been happily sharing some of my bovine inspired marketing materials over the past week... I saved this one for last because it caused some controversy in the office.,.. a couple of agents in my office thought that the udders might be crossing the line... :) so of course I … (11 comments)
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naperville: That's the FAX Jack! - 09/26/06 09:52 PM
Do you have an online FAX service that you like? I’ve been happily using ExtremeFAX for the last year, it’s very reasonably priced at less than $7.00 a month and outgoing FAXes are part of the package. My basic package allows me to send/receive 300 pages per month for $6.77. I haven’t gone … (6 comments)
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naperville: High Octane center of operations... - 09/26/06 02:33 PM
OK, so I do the bulk of my computing from my home office, where I have a big desk, big monitor and a really comfortable chair..... and a most excellent Jura Capresso coffee maker. I do some of my work from my office too, but in the morning Erin is there, … (7 comments)
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naperville: WooHoo - geekfest! New phone takes the cake! - 09/25/06 08:20 PM
This is a quick snapshot in poor lighting with my new HTC TyTn Windows based phone and swiss army knife (well, it does do almost everything) If you'l remember I discussed my poor impulse controls last week and that made it inevitable that I would act... *sigh*
The phone has two cameras, one … (8 comments)
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naperville: Personal Marketing examples part 2 - 09/23/06 02:40 PM
More... just having fun... OK, so... day 2... here are a couple more direct mail (Jumbo) postcards that I've done in the past.
See... I do on occasion use real Angus cattle...
So... maybe the three "cow" garage was a little "over the top"...
It's funny that people think … (14 comments)
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