[See this post at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago blog] Late Night Phone Call It rang. The other night, late at night, my phone rang. Actually it shimmied. Several weeks ago in a meeting I silenced it and found the resultant absence of chittering such a balm to my soul that I have maintained the
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04/29/2009
[See this post in orginal format at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] Saturday If I were from Boston (which I am not), I might say this - "It was a wicked busy day." I love the way those guys from Boston talk and use the word wicked. Maybe it stems from the fact that I have enjoyably witnessed my l
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04/26/2009
[View in original format at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] Let me presume that you're familiar with the notion of "any port in a storm." My take on these words strung together is the equivalent of "by any means necessary." And so here we are in Chicago in the midwest in the United States in this
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04/23/2009
[See this Post in Original Format] What if? These words, I think, are the basis of empathy. At least that's what I think today. And empathy, to me, is vital to community. Whether it's across the street, a few blocks over, an entire city, the whole culture, the whole wide world - empathy is the cr
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04/19/2009
[To view in original format - please visit The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] My son Jacksonpeered into the mirror yesterday morning and said something unexpected, I want a haircut. At the age of three-and-a-half, Jackson has had fewer haircuts in his life than he has fingers on his left hand (or
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04/16/2009
[See in original format at http://therealestateloungechicago.com] What a lovely day it has been. A bit brisker than I would like - so much so that the jaunt around the block this morning with Lucas, Jackson and my cup of coffee left us all with hydrating nostrils and hands red from the chill. But
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04/12/2009
A Saturday Meeting with New Home Buying Clients This past weekend I met with new buying clients at my office in Lincoln Park. We initially met last summer at an open house I hosted of a new construction single family home in Bucktown. They said they liked the fact that I had kept in touch but was
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04/06/2009
Last week my cell phone buzzed. The prefix was 203, a sequence of numbers that didn't immediately jog my memory. But with a passel of real estate listings here in Chicago it's not unusual to get calls from different places, folks with different start places looking for a place in this place (sort
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04/01/2009
