Author: Joe Zekas
How a FSBO gets on the MLS
An ex-employee, who's selling his own condo, e-mailed asking for recommendations on how to get his property in the multiple listing service.
I was sc [...]
Redlining the no-closing-costs sleaze-o-meter
Dan Smith, who purports to be from Lenox Financial posted a belated comment on my earlier post on Lenox Financial's WBBM radio commercials. You know t [...]
Avoid ugly streets – travel in the right direction
We've noticed a distinct pattern in Chicago and its suburbs: streets that don't run on a true east-west or north-south axis have, on average, uglier b [...]
Tuesday, Tuesday, got the ugly building blues day
Hell to thee blight spirit!
Can the 1200 block of Belmont Avenue get any uglier? "We look before and after, and pine for what is not ..."
If y [...]
Sunday, Sunday, the little bastards fun day
It's a gloomy weekend, and the kids couldn't be more annoying.
Sunday's payback time — drag them through the "instrument petting zoo" and finis [...]
Open your eyes, Chicago
Got 'em open? Take a look at Gary Johnson's wonderfully eclectic Chicago history Web site, including his walking sample of downtown, and his brief tak [...]
Wooden Alley
Forget March Madness. We're not talking coach John here. And no, we didn't go dyslexic on the name of a has-been clarinetist either.
The Gold Coast's [...]
New home sales up 5.2 percent
If you didn't read past today's headlines, all you know about February new home sales is that they plunged at the steepest rate in 9 years.
What you [...]
Friday night gallery-hopping
Buckle up. Tonight we're headed to Yo Chicago's galleries for Wicker Park, Bronzeville and Ravenswood (samples below).
Wicker Park
Bronzeville [...]
Friday, Friday is why-oh-why-oh-why day
Why don't pigeons chase children? Tell me why oh why?
Why does it cost five times as much to sell a million dollar home as it does to sell a $200,000 [...]
Guess where Chicago
If you like to look at images of Chicago, and have some time on your hands, head over to the GuessWhereChicago cluster at Flickr. [...]
Lincoln Park Chad Society does not approve
We don't think Starbucks is holding high-level meetings over the failure of the Lincoln Park Chad Society to grant its stamp of approval to the new ci [...]
Forged documents, a suspicious fire, a $2m skip-out
Remember when high-rolling bandit builders stalked the cornfields of Chicagoland — the good old days before they all went bland and law-abiding? [...]
Thursday, Thursday, it could be worse day
A bad day, overall.
The wife discovered Allie. Allie discovered the wife. Locksmiths and lawyers all around.
Overnight it at The Drake. Offshore t [...]