Apr 22
Bucking a recent trend of former Chicago Blackhawks players listing their area homes and leaving town, retired Blackhawks wing Eric Daze has paid $1.68 million for a newly built, six-bedroom, Foursquare house in Hinsdale.
Daze sold his longtime four-bedroom house in Hinsdale for $725,000. It had been listed for $795,000.
A 2002 league MVP who spent his entire 11-year NHL career with the Blackhawks, Daze, 35, was permanently sidelined in 2005 with chronic back problems.
A longtime homeowner in Hinsdale, Daze has traded up to a 12-room stucco house that had been listed for $1.89 million when he closed on the purchase March 18. Read all post…
Tags: Hawk, Hawk Nest
Apr 17
Q. I’ve been in my apartment for a couple of years and recently began seeing green-black mold in the closet, bedroom and hallway. It won’t go away, even when I clean with a bleach solution and ventilate. I think it’s the cause of a persistent cough.
I’ve asked management to move me to another unit, but they won’t, citing my poor payment history. It’s true that I was late with the rent three times, but I always paid before the end of the notice period, including the late-rent fee.
Is this a valid reason to deny me a change of apartments?
A. In some situations, tenants cannot exercise their rights unless they are paid up in the rent. Read all post…
Tags: Mold, Mold Moves
Apr 16
Over recent years, a favorite past time of most real estate shoppers, watchers, and pundits, has been to make multiple guesses as to when the market bottom has arrived, will arrive, or is arriving. Buyers who seek to time a market and purchase at the exact summit of the decline appear to be most interested in identifying the market bottom, and the rest of us who make a living off of such undulations in market prices work to understand the pitches and heaves to best represent our clients.
It is obvious that buyers are anxious to recognize a market bottom, but there’s one key group that is in such a hybrid state of panic sprinkled optimism it makes the Red Bull chugging, market timing buyers look downright lethargic: Sellers.
I’ve gone to great lengths to dissuade buyers from holding their breath until they pass the sign that reads “Market Bottom Ahead”, largely because when they do reach that sign, it will almost certainly read “For Market Bottom, Please Go Back 7 Months”.
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Tags: Bottom, Market Bottom
Apr 10
Like a lot of homeowners, Mar Vista residents Faith and Gary Hunt found money a little tight during the recession and hoped they could work out some more accommodating terms with their lender, Chase bank.
To improve their odds, they said they turned to a law firm that said it could possibly cut their mortgage payment in half. Read all post…
