chicagos home weblog: My Wish List: A Pick-up, A House Trailer, A Forgiving Wife - 12/31/08 01:01 PM
Driving downstate through an ice storm this past week allowed me many quiet white-out hours to ponder my own, unfulfilled, Life's wish list. The cosmic notion hit me just about the time we pulled into Effingham, Illinois (love the name, Effingham---consider: "Honey, I'm sick of that Effing-ham. How 'bout some Effing-turkey … (8 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: Why I Should Pay My Mortgage: Reason #23 - 12/16/08 05:35 PM
When my mostly white galoot of a hound goes galloping across the side yard as I stand watching--coffee cup already clutched and brimming--through the toastier side of the veranda picture window in my boxers and nightcap, all I can make out through the Chicago pre-dawn snowscape is a snout and … (8 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: Lights, Camera...Cut! - 12/01/08 07:03 PM
Let's see...there was the time I was 'cast' in an independent film and broadcasted to everyone in the free world that I was going to be in a "MOVIE," possibly even Sundance, only to never hear from the casting director again. That wasn't too embarrassing. I mean let's face it, … (5 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: I think I thought (I saw you try) - 10/17/08 02:41 PM
'That's Me in the Corner'My voter registration card came in the mail this morning, just under the wire as usual. And rightly so. I don't know what I think about politics these days, I really don't. It is one of those subjects I've always mentally deferred to the pundits who are … (13 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: Is it safe yet? - 10/02/08 02:30 PM
We are hunkered down. We've brought in supplies for the long November haul. Our new minds are set. Storm windows are affixed and our shutters pulled tight and locked. Our safes are stuffed with inflated tender; confederate currency for a later day perhaps, pilfered from the Dows, the Joneses, and the … (4 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: Drove my Chevy II the Levee... - 08/11/08 08:29 AM
...then I left it there for 35 years. Nostalgia will not get the best of me. Not this time. It's back to the future, if anything.You see, I went to my 20th high school reunion back in 1994--an event I had pondered for the better part of a decade prior--basically … (6 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: Chicago Real Estate: 26.2 miles of cinder - 07/11/08 02:25 PM
Carter Suggs and the rest of us slugsIn case you haven't been observing from the sidelines dear readers, this whole Chicago real estate diversion I've been a party to these past several years is a marathon--not a sprint. And while I don't recall ever actually running 26.2 miles consecutively or even … (8 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: Oh, that Sears... - 06/20/08 10:31 AM
I don't believe I'm all that different from most people who live in Chicago proper (i.e. not the 'burbs) in that I rarely take in the downtown sights except in accidental passing or escorting the occasional out of town visitor. My relocation referrals and I are usually zooming by each landmark, … (8 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: Hot Doug's...Chicago Style - 06/03/08 06:42 PM
For months now I've been following with growing interest...no, make that great intrigue, the shaggy chic (if not downright haute) North Side neighbor-hood 'foodie' chatter surrounding a certain hot dog stand at the no-mans-land corner of Roscoe and California Avenues in the Avondale section of town. Location, location, location (the … (9 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: The Low Art of the Graffito - 05/16/08 09:12 PM
I've always looked at it this way; as long as it's not painted across the side of my house, I can live with it, even sort of appreciate it. Sort of.Hey, I reside in a big, grown up city so who am I to judge what is and is not a … (8 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: Flip This Garage - 05/01/08 05:35 PM
An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale (the 'It' source when it comes to earthquakes from what everybody says) hit downstate Illinois last Monday with an ensuing aftershock that actually shook the house I live in, 200 miles north in Chicago (not pictured, thank you). This was exactly three days … (7 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: Gray Skies and Cheap Shoes... - 04/22/08 02:46 PM
First thing, the sky here is very gray--the weatherman says it may thunderstorm tonight. Secondly, the red and yellow advertisement on the bus stop bench at Clybourn and Ashland avenues indicates shoes can be had for $9.99. Lastly, Premium gas is $4.09 per gallon--and rising. I'm not even going to mention … (19 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: A Sign From God? - 03/29/08 02:45 PM
Personally, I would have thought for an incumbent, He'd have a slicker marketing plan and a little nicer digs. In fact, His headquarters building, shown here at Elston and Kimball on Chicago's Northwest side, looks a little shopworn to me but hey, who am I to judge? I admittedly haven't read … (7 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: Taxes Schmaxes - 02/03/08 08:41 AM
I was half-listening to a lady being interviewed on NPR a few Tuesday mornings ago as I drove in a gazy daze out of the city and toward the general direction of Canada. I was running late for an appointment with my tax Wizard, a fourth generation accountant who fled from the tangle of the city 10 … (12 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: Conforming Mumbo Jumbo - 01/17/08 08:11 PM
Okay, this is my idea. It came to me the other night as I lie awake mentally tossing around all my deals and wondering how many of them might actually make it to the finish line (i.e. the Closing Table). Thinking as an Investor/Developer, I pondered this: Find a way to … (6 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: I'm not 'Dreaming of a White' anything... - 01/01/08 08:35 PM
I reached for the phone but there was no one to call. The six inches of snow on top of the other six inches of last week's snow has made leaving or entering my house challenging, and access to my garage--(the whole point of having one to begin with being … (24 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: Word - 12/18/07 12:44 PM
Apparently, I now work in Alberto's crew. I haven't discussed this with my Managing Broker yet nor have I contacted the Chicago Association of Realtors for licensing specifics but you better believe both of these tasks are on my To Do list. If I have to pay yet another set of … (16 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: The 8th Deadly Sin - 10/08/07 07:27 PM
Fear KnockedWe've all heard tell of certain California and Nevada housing markets in recent years where simply offering 'List Price' on a property didn't cut it on the real estate trading floor. Demand had a strangle hold on Supply and only the earliest of pre-approved birds brought home the juciest worms … (32 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: Lessons Never Learned - 09/25/07 01:30 PM
While awaiting my turn in the checkout line (for the fifth time in as many days) at the Home Depot last Sunday it occurred to me that my wife and I alone probably spend as much money in a single weekend as my parents spent in an entire month raising a … (11 comments)
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chicagos home weblog: Ol' St. Joe Is Good To Go... - 08/14/07 12:24 PM
When I walked through the big oak doors of the Archdiocese of Chicago's Holy Relic Bookstore a few weeks ago, I knew for sure that I'd be lying to a clergyman within minutes. Like many post-WWII children who hail from the eastern seaboard, I attended Catholic school for the first … (22 comments)
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