What reminds you of spring? In my view, nothing says springtime in the city more than tulips. In fact, one of the rarely mentioned, tangible benefits of car-free living includes tulips. It’s true! Strolling most anywhere in downtown Chicago during the month of May, well, what can I say? Tulips rule! This time of year many of the high-rises along Lake [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Chicago Real Estate’
Tulips tell it like it is
Posted in Buyer Buyer Not So Dire!, Car-free digest, High-rise lowdown, What's happening in the 'hood, tagged Car-free, Chicago Real Estate, Jill Press, lakefront living, Lakeview, tulips on May 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Chicago Bulls See Red Wear Red
Posted in What's happening in the 'hood, tagged Chicago Bulls, Chicago Real Estate, Jill Press, NBA playoffs, United Center, West Bucktown on April 26, 2009 | 12 Comments »
It’s an awesome time to be the avid basketball fan that I am. On the heels of the Bulls’ exhilarating, over-the-top 121-118 Double OT victory over the Celtics this afternoon, I am finally able to write about my recent run- in with the Bulls… Armed with an inordinate amount of high expections I attended my first-ever Chicago Bulls playoff [...]
Chicago Condo History 101
Posted in Buyer Buyer Not So Dire!, High-rise lowdown, tagged Buyer, Chicago Real Estate, condo living, Edgewater, Jill Press on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Why would anyone want to buy an apartment?!” This question was posed more than three decades ago by someone who’d been raised in suburban Chicago during the 1950s and ’60s; privileged to have lived in a single-family house since the age of two. As a young adult in the early 1970s, she moved to a high-rise rental apartment on [...]
Car-free Gaining Mileage
Posted in Car-free digest, tagged Car-free, Chicago Real Estate, Jill Press, Sustainable Lifestyle on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
And the hits just keep on coming… This week, I received email from two total strangers as well as a guy I haven’t seen since I lived in Champaign-Urbana, Ill., circa 1970! All three had read Lee Crandell’s profile of me in Carfree Chicago. Three people in different cities reaching out to me. Why? One is starting a Biking Realtors Group in Chicago and [...]
Opportunity Knocks!
Posted in Buyer Buyer Not So Dire!, Guest book, tagged Buyer, Chicago Real Estate, economic stimulus on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Upon launching my blog earlier this month, I invited a number of professionals with whom I’ve worked throughout the years to contribute timely posts for my Guest Book. In light of the just-passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, attorney David Grisamore sorts out some differences between the new economic stimulus law and the earlier version passed in 2008; and [...]
Blogging My Way to :15 of Fame
Posted in Buyer Buyer Not So Dire!, Car-free digest, Guest book, tagged Car-free, Chicago Real Estate, Jill Press, Sustainable Lifestyle on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Out-of-the-blue blogosphere, this fellow contacted me Sunday via email after reading my blog which, at the time, was 10-days old. He asked me to contribute to his community blog and wanted to do an online interview with me. Thank you to my son, Dylan, who took the photo that accompanies the interview by Lee Crandell of Carfree [...]
Come Buy with Me!
Posted in Buyer Buyer Not So Dire!, Car-free digest, What's happening in the 'hood, tagged Buyer, Car-free, Chicago Real Estate, Jill Press, Rubloff on February 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Below-zero wind-chills at my heels, I hopped a 146 Express to the South Loop last Wednesday evening. Why? They promised to ask the tough questions and candidly discuss the market and they did! For over an hour, veteran real estate attorney Greg Braun of McCormick Braun and Friman moderated a panel comprising Rubloff agents Steve Breinling and Maria Sabatini along with Rubloff [...]
Greetings, Planet Earth!
Posted in Buyer Buyer Not So Dire!, Car-free digest, High-rise lowdown, What's happening in the 'hood, Yoga corner, tagged Car-free, Chicago Real Estate, Jill Press, Sustainable Lifestyle, Yoga on February 5, 2009 | 8 Comments »
People ask me, “How do you do real estate without a car?” I reply, “How does anyone do it with a car?!” Happily car-free since 1983, I’m eager to share my passion for public transportation, bicycling, and daily yoga practice; observing how these self-sustaining activities may inspire my buyers and sellers and family and friends, [...]
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