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What an Early Spring Market Means for Buyers and Sellers

Want to sell your home? Get a FREE home value report. Want to buy a home? Search all homes for sale. If you've been looking for a home in the Chicago area recently, have you noticed that your list of favorites keeps shrinking? That's what we're seeing in the current market. Many buyers save the homes they're most interested in to their favorites list but thanks to low inventory in…

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Another Great Home Selling Success

Want to sell your home? Get a FREE home value report. Want to buy a home? Search all homes for sale. Today I am standing in front of 1155 Hummingbird Lane in Grayslake. We just sold this property in 41 days at list price, but that’s not the most exciting part. This home had actually failed to sell twice on the market before this. First, Coldwell Banker had it on…

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A Final Look at Our Water Damage Renovation

Want to sell your home? Get a FREE home value report. Want to buy a home? Search all homes for sale. We are back with a final look at the home we've been renovating. In case you haven't seen our previous updates, this home was ready to be sold until we found major water damage during the final walkthrough. Since then, we have done $25,000 worth of repairs through the…

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What Can Go Wrong at a Vacant Listing?

Want to sell your home? Get a FREE home value report. Want to buy a home? Search all homes for sale. Today I’m coming to you live from a home that’s been vacant for two weeks to show you what can happen when a listing sits vacant. I came in on closing day to turn on the lights for the buyers and found some major water issues. In the video…

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Should You List Now or Wait Until Spring?

Want to sell your home? Get a FREE home value report. Want to buy a home? Search all homes for sale. I got a question recently from a prospective home seller that I wanted to answer today. They want to sell their home but don’t know if they should list now during the fall and winter months, or wait until spring. It’s a question of timing. Let’s look at things…

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What Real Foundation Issues Look Like

Want to sell your home? Get a FREE home value report. Want to buy a home? Search all homes for sale. Today I’m coming to you from inside what we call a tear-down house. I want to show you what kind of foundation issues warrant tearing down a house. In the video, you will see a wall that has cracked right down the center. The wall is also bulging out…

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An Update on a Short Sale

Want to sell your home? Get a FREE home value report. Want to buy a home? Search all homes for sale. Today I’m here at 1935 Red Barn Road in Woodstock. This short sale waited on the market for eight months. After a lot of negotiating, we purchased this property for $215,000! The appraised value of the property came in at $255,000, so my clients were very happy to see…

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August Market Update for Northwest Chicago

Want to sell your home? Get a FREE home value report. Want to buy a home? Search all homes for sale. If you remember our last market update, I was talking about how it was such a seller’s market. You could’ve built a house out of matches next to a forest fire and sold it within a week. It was that busy. Now that we’re looking at August, things have…

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Our System Is So Good, Other Agents Hire Us

Want to sell your home? Get a FREE home value report. Want to buy a home? Search all homes for sale. Licensed real estate agents actually hire me to sell their Northwest Chicago homes, and I wanted to take a moment to tell you why. It has happened more than six times. I’ve reached out to agents and actually showed them how I do things differently. We sit down, and…

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Why Should You ​Know the Zestimate?

Want to sell your home? Get a FREE home value report. Want to buy a home? Search all homes for sale. Zillow has a great tool for home values called the Zestimate. It’s an algorithm that calculates what your home is worth based on basic information. However, you might be browsing through town with luxurious homes that sell for $300 per square foot and sub-par homes that sell for $50…

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