Lyn Sims on the Schaumburg Area

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Schaumburg IL Homes and Real Estate - Northwest Suburbs of Chicago

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2011 

I was going through my website adding newer things with updates when I noticed a troubling trend.  All the links that I had to Realtor® Magazine about staging, seller info, buyer info ALL the links were broken.  This makes me truly upset!  If anyone at Realtor.org had a skad bit of SEO knowledge ...
08/26/2011
I hope you re-read the title line of this post because this is considered fact! It is just not true so talking to a attorney qualified in Short Sales is imperative to your financial well being. Thanks to Richard Zaretsky in Florida for this valuable information that should be shared.   Would you ...
08/24/2011
Signs of Life! These are the positive aspects of our market for the last few months in the Northwest Suburbs.  Yes, it's true. Positive things are happening so I wanted to bring them to you right away!   You won't hear them through the regular media and the talking heads on your flat screen.So le...
08/23/2011
08/23/2011
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It's that time of the year when Illinois Flatlanders (as we're affectionately called) go for the dangerous (it's not?) and adventurous Corn Maze!  Well what are you going to do with all those miles and miles of corn?  This year I've recently heard of a local corn maze that offers a few other thin...
08/22/2011
Let's win ourselves a FREE condo in Trump Tower!  I wrote about this from HGTV in May and the time to enter is now here! Come on, you know you want to give it a click and win!   You get a chance to enter twice a day - once on HGTV and then another time on FrontDoor.com.  I have to say that I am N...
08/19/2011
The Lowe's in Schaumburg and Elgin closed it's doors a few days ago because the stores were 'underperforming'. In this economy that shouldn't be a surprise as belt tightening is happening all over the country.  It was the WAY it was done that is upsetting to me.  None of the employees were told b...
08/17/2011
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Side by Side Videos I've been trying to update my ActiveRain profile by adding side by side videos for quite some time.  Well finally I've figured it out!  If you are into making your own videos or make a collage of videos this is the way to do it! In my profile page I wanted to have a video for ...
08/15/2011
08/11/2011
IS THIS IRONIC OR WHAT? There is a God, she has a sense of humor AND she's a Realtor®!  If this doesn't make you smile, there is something wrong with you! ForSalebyOwner.com Founder Uses Agent to Sell Home The founder of a popular for-sale by owner Web site used a real estate broker to help sell ...
08/11/2011
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Lyn Sims offers market observations, housing industry updates and real estate news about the surrounding communities near Schaumburg IL in the Chicago Northwest Suburbs.