Brad Sells Chicago

You are doing some serious house-hunting.  You’ve been Googling "newest Wicker Park listings", but when you click on the most popular sites, somehow the ‘newest Wicker Park listings’ are the same ones you’ve seen before. Worse, some of them turn out to have been sold! Or the price was wrong! Or t...

Suppose you are driving by one of those ‘For Sale by Owner’ yard sign and the house looks good... Do you screech to a halt, jump out and rush up to the front door to a deal? More likely, you jot down the phone number (hopefully one is visible, though with For Sale By Owner signs, it’s not always ...

The importance of kitchens to prospective homebuyers is something that never seems to change. If you are preparing to bring your home onto the market anytime soon, you’ve probably been thinking about how to make your Lincoln Park MLS listing as attractive as possible. Odds are good that updating ...

Who doesn’t want to know what will happen in the future? That’s a very small group, for sure, since good planning is a cornerstone of good management -- for households as well as for organizations of every kind. So, whenever River North homeowners see headlines like “Home Prices Up ‘Unsustainable...

It’s pretty common to hear from previously contented tenants who suddenly experience the Eureka! moment – one where they realize they should have bought a home a while back. Eureka! moments happen most frequently around April 15 -- but they can strike anytime. To minimize the lapse between Eureka...

We all know the feeling – the one where guests are due and you haven’t had time to clean the house.  You shove all the…well… stuff into the back bedroom and shut the door (you’d lock it if you could). Now imagine that feeling times 10.  If you are trying to sell your home this spring, and you hav...

Too often these days sports owners and teams are too far focused on the business side that tradition and team pride go right out the window. Not only is this apparent when it comes to player contracts but the stadiums they play in. In 2009 The Dallas Cowboys left Texas Stadium (a stadiun that FIV...

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