[See in original format at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] When in Rome, goes the old saw, do as the Romans. That was our experience when we traveled with the boys to Europe not last Christmas but the one prior. And like our Roman friends, we did likewise as we walked and walked and walked and wa
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07/22/2009
[See in original format at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] Buried somewhere in the innards of yesterday's New York Times was a story that elated me. 17-year-old Zac Sunderland completed a one-year odyssey in which he sailed around the world alone aboard his sailboat "Intrepid." Doing the math bac
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07/18/2009
[See in original format at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago]Earlier this week Mitch Aronson and I and the team at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago added a few bright trophies to our shelf of listings. We take great pride in the trust placed in us by our clients whether they are buying a Chicago home
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07/16/2009
[Original format at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] The rain came this morning. Quick, loud, and is typically the case with rain, wet. It came shortly after 5 am. The clock on the stove told me it was so. And though my brain was hurling invectives at me as I rose the combination of the time (near
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07/15/2009
[View this post in original format at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] Sunday emerges superbly this day, shining on the denizens of this metropolis we call Chicago. Hallelujah. And as Jackson, Lucas and I took a spin around the block before I head to my open house in a contemporary single family h
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06/14/2009
[See this post in original format at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] I received a great compliment a few days back. A few weeks ago my phone rang. A nice young man had seen me online. Originally searching in the Wicker Park area he told me I was the top listing agent in the area. Based on that he
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06/12/2009
White noise. It's there. And there. And over there. It's the radio playing in my 4-Runner as I veer down Lake Shore Drive to show listings of The Real Estate Lounge Chicago. It's the music seeping out of my laptop from the "scrobbler" at Last FM or random selections at Pandora or selected single
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06/10/2009
[See in original format at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] So the lances have been drawn and the steeds mounted as the coffee battles are being waged. In billboards and full-page ads in income-deprived dailies like the Chicago Tribune and The New York Times we are witness to the skirmishes as g
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06/08/2009
[Original post + format at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] This is my bike. Standing against the garage behind our Edgewater home, this bike is but a suggestion. It is a suggestion of what might be if it were being ridden. Coasting along the Chicago lakefront, dodging pedestrians, slowing down wh
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06/04/2009
[View this post in Original and Lovely Format at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] The weekend that just passed was a pleasant time spent with the family in a to-and-fro motion between Dallas and Chicago. To Dallas we went last Thursday and fro Dallas we returned last night to experience the real c
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05/26/2009
