I realize the majority of 'Rain' community readers live in more 'bucolic' (a Brian Brady term!) settings than here but I thought I'd give my fellow Realtors around the country a little 'slice of life' peek at the 'Windy City'. Click on the links to visit our neighborhoods. If you've never been here I think you'll like.
A typical Saturday for me goes something like this: First client pick up at 8:45AM in say, the Gold Coast of Chicago followed immediately by a tour of six or seven properties along Lake Shore Drive to Lincoln Park. With a coffee break or two in between and allowing time in between showings for traffic, parking and tardiness (of the other agents!), I should be done and ready for my second client by 1:00PM, horrible weather notwithstanding. Same scenario for the afternoon perhaps covering the Bucktown and Wicker Park neighborhods or Andersonville a little further north. Total summary at the end of the day: twelve to fifteen properties shown, several neighborhoods covered, hopefully an offer (maybe two) submitted, and really hopefully no tickets, towing episodes or Boots! No ladies, not Jimmy Choo's. The other kind. (see photo)
On a busy Saturday in Chicago, one parks wherever one can--often times in the best illegal parking space available (although the really good illegal ones are usually already taken by other urban poachers.) The Chicagoist ran an article recently about a new twist on an old ritual--getting the darn thing off once they got you.
I'm not even going to get into the 'winter rules' for parking on city streets from December to April regardless of whats falling from the sky. I'm talking about the basic 'eluding' of the City of Chicago street pirates who seem to lurk in the shadows and lay in wait in the alleys of every neighborhood.
We Realtors know its a cat and mouse game. Sometimes the mouse gets snared, sometimes the mouse gets to live another day. Fine. Its more about time than money when many different peoples schedules are at risk. I always carry enough cash on me to take a cab for the rest of the day if needed and deboot or pick up the towed vehicle at the end of the day. Take my car if you must, fine me if you have to, but please just do it in a timely fashion! I have property to sell.
posted by Geno Petro
DISCLAIMER
{I recently posted a picture and an accompanying story on my primary Blog and was informed by another site's SEO that my duplicate content might get me banned from Google! Wow, I had no idea. But I reminded myself that ignorance of the 'law' is no excuse. The content apparently needs to be 25% different (am I there yet?) and thus, a commentary before or after should be in order. (Obviously this is an example of a commentary before a duplicate post. All previous AR entires I have already submitted will soon have commentarfies after the duplicate post as well---but I suppose they {the commentaries} will each need to be 25% different) I don't know nothin' about nothin'. It wasn't me. Why didn't you tell me?
The truth of the matter is I stumbled across Active Rain by accident while checking out Sellsious. It wasn't sure anyone in the blogosphere was even looking at my primary Blog since I had a total of 1 comment from a friend and 1 comment from my wife and 1 comment from an insane person (a diatribe, actually) the first 3 months I was up an posting. I didn't think my stuff was that bad so I decided to start posting here as well. So from here on forward and backward, this is my 25% Difference Non Duplicate Discalaimer, and I'm sticking to it...unless its a bannable offense from Google in which case I'll sell my overpriced Google stock and show them! I'll ban them from my portfolio. See how they like it when I give them no page rank! Now I know 'I'm double dog daring' a big guy on the playground (Jean Sheppard reference for my Philly friend, Brian Brady) but right now according to Google, I'm not even another Bozo on the bus. So Thus I Disclaim and wait for the axe.}
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