“Where will you find a top-floor new-construction unit in an ELEVATOR building, 1,800 square feet with a front terrace off the living room with skyline views, rooftop deck with skyline views and huge garage parking around the corner on Wolfram, George and Oakdale for $675K? Doesn’t exist.”
— Sales agent Eric Rojas on the benefits of buying at 2852 N Halsted St, a development with one unit remaining for sale
So the quote of the day is now a sales pitch by an agent? I have no problem with Eric offering his opinion on real estate matters, but anyone else think his quote might be slightly biased given his financial interest in selling this property?
Jeremy,
There’s no attempt to hide the potential for bias. We’ve made it clear who Eric is and that he has a financial stake in what he’s said.
Looking past that, is there any reason to disagree with what he’s said?
Yeah, there’s plenty of reason to disagree with what he said. You can get a bigger place at a better location, for a much lower price than $675k.
1 year ago today a relative bought a 2,800 SQ FT 3B/2.5b in an AIA award-winning elevator building in River North (3 blocks from Loop) with 2 parking spots, 2 terraces and 12 FT ceiling for 725,000…675,000 TODAY in Lake View/Lincoln Park for a not-so architecturally relevant building (at least from the picture) seems a little high, though I have not seen the interiors nor the amazing terrace…
Hey, this ain’t a democracy here.
But nobody is doing your site a favor by presenting a sales pitch as the quote of the day.
I understand theres real estate agents posting here, but the sales pitch stuff is PAPER THIN to anyone who would go through the effort to read this blog. That applies to other posts I’ve read here as well.
I like the site, and am not bashing the whole place, but please, for your own sake, refrain from posting press releases and sales pitches.
-Jeff and Jeremy,
Sales pitch? I’ve been posting here for awhile now and contributed the Ravenswood Journal before journals were taken down. Nothing I do is paper thin… I link my site, people know exactly who I am. I’m also honest about the housing choices I make, personally and give andecdotes of what my clients are buying and why.
I think Jremy’s a little jealous I received comment of the day a couple times.
Yo Chicago posts videos and comments of agents selling their developments, comments from architects defending their work… cry about that too.
As well, Barry Pearce wrote the inital story about a property my brokerage markets. It makes sense I comment. BTW… its not my listing, so it’s the same as any property to me financially. I just happen to work in the brokerage that lists it. I’m not a principal.
-West Village, you compare a River North property with a Lakeview/Lincoln Park property. Different building, locations, lifestyles etc… No one has offered up a comparable property in this location on George, Wolfram and Oakdale, which is the comment I was responding too. My point was, in this neighborhood, you have to live on Halsted to get these features and people are paying. We also don’t know the assessment, building type, taxes etc on your friends building… assessments in a larger building can be $600 plus in River North, making it more expensive yet.
-Sir Isaac… what place? Where? Better location to who? If I had $675K today, I’d live somewhere else too… because I have a kid and like Ravenswood. The purchasers in that building have their own agenda.
Wow Eric calm down. My question was directed at the site for choosing your comment, not you. I even said in my comment that I didn’t have a problem with you posting on real estate matters. I find generally find your comments interesting and like reading the perspective of an agent. This particular comment might be right on and I didn’t say it wasn’t, I just pointed out the fact that maybe people should take it with a grain of salt since you are probably biased towards this property. That is all.
Jealous of you getting comment of the day? Get over yourself 🙂
I think this brings up a great point (MODERATORS, PLEASE READ). Maybe, in addition to a bloggers name, there should be the option of inserting your employment/profession or relationship to the topic if applicable to eliminate the question of bias. This has come up several times in the last few days and would lend more legitimacy to posts.
Alan,
Every commenter has the option of linking his name to his or her Web site. Our commenters are pretty active about “outing” real estate agents who don’t disclose their profession.
We’ve made a conscious decision to enable people to disclose as much or as little about themselves as they choose when commenting, to focus the debate on the topic rather than on the person.
Jeremy, it’s hard to get over myself… and through doors for that matter. My head’s too big.