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If you time-travel back 15 years and read real estate listing copy, you might find the phrase “Mrs Clean lives here” in 100s of Chicago listings. Mrs Clean is homeless today, but she still resides in three Chicago condos: 6530 W Irving Park, 6835 N Northwest Hwy and 3820 W 47th St where she’s become ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on June 15, 2012
Back in October, Joe Zekas shot sponsored videos at three Northwest Side homes marketed by Izabela Sloma of Sergio & Banks. Earlier this week I noticed that one, a remodeled three-bedroom on a quiet street in Dunning (seen in the video above), has a new price of $189,900. With that in mind, I checked up ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on February 24, 2011
A few renovators have been active on Chicago’s northwest side recently, completely making over older homes and bringing them to market at prices that are affordable and highly competitive with resales that haven’t been updated in years. In the video we tour a newly-listed 5-bedroom, 2-bath bungalow on an oversized lot at 6251 W Cornelia ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 12, 2011
Joe and Sergio & Banks agent Izabela Sloma walk through a three-bedroom home at 3131 N Octavia Ave in Dunning, priced at $219,900. The home is situated on a quiet street southwest of Shabbona Park; it’s about a mile away from the Harlem-Irving Plaza shopping mega-complex.
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Posted by sponsored post on October 28, 2010
Join Joe Zekas and Sergio & Banks agent Izabela Sloma for a walk through 7004 W Roscoe St, a three-bedroom single-family home priced at $249,900. The home is situated on a tree-lined street in Schorsch Village, just steps from Shabbona Park.
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Posted by sponsored post on October 27, 2010
As you watch the sponsored video and see the surprisingly large, open spaces in this completely remodeled single-family home at 3745 N Octavia St, you’ll be disappointed to learn that it sold prior to completion. Izabela Sloma of Sergio & Banks shows me around, and you can see from my reactions how impressed I was ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on July 27, 2010
Did you know that the Dunning community area on the far Northwest Side started out as a site for poor farms, tuberculosis sanitariums, and insane asylums? According to the Encyclopedia of Chicago, it wasn’t until after the poor farm closed and the state bought the sanitarium that the area became a desirable place to live. ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on September 11, 2009
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