Geno Petro's Chicago Real Estate Blog

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Lets take a mental road trip away from Chicago for a few moments and travel back thirty years to the intersection of Kensington and Allegheny Avenues in the north Philadelphia neighborhood of Kensington. A guy I knew from college lived there and when we went home for Thanksgiving break the autumn...

As I was writing a comment on Bonnie Erickson's Real Estate Snippets blog out of Minneapolis it reminded me of some of the things that have shot out of my mouth before I could help myself (and quickly grab them back!). So I'm posting a few of those that come to mind from recent real estate situat...

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 ...

 Each week I submit a handful of newswothy (yeah right!) articles I get from my daily feeds to Digg and post them at my Chicago's Home Weblog on Saturday. Basically, the title and hook are mine (thank me very much) and the rest is linkage, baby. Occasionally I'll also post the most interesting co...

  graph by moody's economy "In the year 2525, if man is still alive: Those are words from a 'one-hit wonder' musical group from the 1960s whose name escapes me. Hopefully, forgotten too, will be the predictions of this article from AOL Money via Moody's Economy via Forbes.com. Hopefully like the ...

Read as a nation of commentors take sides and spit at each otherI've observed long enough so now I must speak. You may not realize it but there is a 'civil war' of sorts going on right now in America between two distinct blogging sectors--The Housing 'Bubblers' and The Housing 'Optimists' (for la...

This a recent posting  of mine from another blog I contribute to, the Chicago Real Estate BlogThe original article  is an interesting little yarn from Monday's Boston Globe via NakedRepublic.com The Setting: "You put in a contract on a new house. You can't sell your old house..."The Atmosphere: "...

  I make mention from time to time when I happen across something worth passing on to the new or 'soon to be new' agent. Yesterday I was having a conversation with another Realtor from another Chicago brokerage when she mentioned how when she first started in the business "it was sink or swim...b...

  "Now let me get this straight - the press is supposed to control the market - if they say it's bad it must be so - if they say it's good it must be so - they are the keepers of doom and gloom - the ever ubiquitous "they"!(This was a comment from Scottsdale broker and heavy hitter Tony Marriott,...