A recent email I got from a client reminded me of a gender difference I consistently find among home-buying couples. Frequently, the wife is far more eager to buy a home than the husband.
I find that the wife is almost always one chapter ahead of her husband; or the husband is one chapter behind, [...]
Check out my little interest rate widget in the first margin to the right. That is a steep drop!
The Federal Reserve is buying up Treasury bonds and mortgage securities and interest rates are going down.
For more details, check out these links to articles in The New York Times and CNNMoney.
Saturday open houses are always a little bit of a long shot, but today I had five groups through an open house I held in Palatine.
This is a nice change of pace because open houses have been exceptionally slow this year. I had several opens in January and February where attendance hovered right around zero.
Today’s [...]
I am a long-time Kooker’s fan, so I was delighted to see their Recession Buster menu. They have the best Chicago-style hot dogs and wickedly good French Fries in all of the Northwest Suburbs.
I always get the Chicago-style with everything on it, hold the peppers, but Jeff says the char-dog can’t be beat. I like [...]
Today is a great day to swing by any homes or neighborhoods you’re interested in. Check to see where water collects and what kind of flood mitigation is in place.
If you already have a home under contract and are waiting to close, I suggest trying to get into see the home to check for water [...]
You can get a great deal on new construction right now. No doubt about it. And, this summer, I would expect even better deals. There are some cautions to consider, however, when looking at newly built homes.
1) Is the home completely finished? If not, how long has it been unfinished and why? If a home [...]
Canadian National is set to begin running freight trains on the old EJ&E train lines tomorrow, March 4. Barrington and neighboring communities put up a strong fight to block these trains, but the Federal Surface Transportation Board found in favor of Canadian National this past December.
Still, the fight against Canadian National continues in earnest. Under [...]
