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Evanston Real Estate, North Shore Real Estate
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2015
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As Realtors, sometimes our job is to save our clients from themselves. Our buyers, sometimes think they're Donald Trump, or Barbara Corcoran and try to act the part. Our sellers, sometimes get offended by offers they consider low, or often times they get angry because nobody has given them an off...
02/27/2015
This controversy is taking over the entire bandwidth of the internet today. People can't agree if this dress is gold and white, or blue and black. The center image is the one we're talking about. Personally, I see it as blue and black, (or blue-ish and black-ish)... but I know several people who...
02/27/2015
.... then I can't manage to care about your call. I've been subjected to a lot of auto-dialed recorded calls lately. I'm sorry... but if you can't manage to care enough put a real person on the line to call me (and yes, I know that it's cheaper to auto-dial), then I just can' care at all about wh...
02/27/2015
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I've been around a long time. How long, you ask? Well, long enough that I know better than to answer that question. Tonight, as Chicago is hosting a new winter storm, I noticed that the weathermen (and weather women) on television are using a word that I've never heard before, in regard to the ...
02/25/2015
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Some days you're the windshield.... some days you're the bug. Over the last week, I've lost two listings, totalling about a million and a half in business, but I've also written one offer, and gotten a listing from a former client, totally about a million, two. Bottom line kind-of a net zero-ish ...
02/25/2015
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This morning, whilst I was doing downward dog on my yoga mat, and listening to the birdies chirp happily in the backyard... yeah.... not. I ain't no yoga guy, and I ain't no hollaback girl. This morning I treated an old client, and old "friend" to breakfast as a favourite haunt. Was I playing ho...
02/25/2015
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Tomorrow is Chicago's mayoral election date. And clearly, Rahm Emanual, our incumbent mayor, is getting desperate. Today he went by The Breakers (the senior facility where my mother lives) to lobby for her vote... (oh, he might also be lobbying some of the other 100's of residents... but they're...
02/23/2015
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Somewhere in the last year or so, the method that Active Brain uses to track the Views and Click-throughs has changed. If you check your traffic today... you'll see that the number of views, and number of clicks are exactly the same. Views were the number of times the title was exposed to the pub...
02/22/2015
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In addition to being a Gleek, I love watching the Oscars. Even though I have seen only one of the films that have been nominated for Academy Awards, I love watching the show. This year, Neil Patrick Harris opened the show with a Broadway-style opening number. It was awesome. Enjoy.
02/22/2015
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In a recent featured post (behavior of those who comment on Public Posts), Tammy Lankford posits that she's not afraid to use the delete button when it's warranted. And I have to tell you that she's abso-freakin'-lutely right. It's your blog, and your right to use your blog button when someone ...
02/22/2015
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