Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Nov 21, 2009, 10:02 am
Words have meaning. But what about when the word doesn't gain traction? Like when an auction results merely in sales at market price. I don't think that's what folks had in mind last week ...
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Nov 20, 2009, 3:07 pm
Chicago movie reviewer Roger Ebert was especially worth reading when he panned a movie. Thoughts of Ebert filled my head when I read a NYT review this morning of "The Blind Side." One line in...
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Nov 16, 2009, 11:43 pm
Synchronicity? Things that are seemingly unrelated but upon further review are related and add up to some type of meaning. I thought of synchronicity when I read Monday that Chicago's Elysian proj...
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Nov 1, 2009, 11:00 am
A daily scanning of listings in the Chicago market yields interesting caveats, including a transacted property in Lakeview that lost $134,000 from what it initially sold for two years earlier.
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Oct 31, 2009, 3:25 pm
"Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it meanly." That's what Doug M. taught me more than 10 years back. And it's something that some online chatters might bear in mind toda...
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Oct 25, 2009, 11:30 am
A passion of The Real Estate Lounge Chicago is to learn. And what we learned today came from the sports pages of The New York Times and the approach of the father of a professional football player....
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Oct 22, 2009, 3:37 pm
Trolls will always seek their gain at your expense. Which is why it's important to exercise discretion wherever trolls gather - like the online campfire of your facebook and twitter accounts. Like...
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Oct 18, 2009, 6:50 pm
When is a deal not a deal? When one side refuses to do what they say they will do and won't execute the contract. That's what happened a few weeks ago when my clients reached a deal to buy a W...
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Oct 14, 2009, 1:16 pm
The good from the bad? Commitment. Passion. Desire to achieve and succeed. Sincerity. Any number of things separate the wheat from the chaff, including, in real estate, to responsiveness to requests.....
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Oct 11, 2009, 12:16 pm
Blame? An article in today's New York Times credited laundry on a clothes line with her inability to sell a home. That's a new one. But rather than air my "dirty laundry," I am heartened by...
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Oct 5, 2009, 1:16 pm
The kids came and had their faces painted at Jackson's party Saturday and the result was joy. Altering appearances toward the joy of a sale is what we do, too, when we stage a home to sell or have...
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Oct 1, 2009, 8:57 pm
They won't be hindered by Hamlet's procrastination as they meet in Copenhagen to decide on Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. The clout sent to tout our bid include power hitt...
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Sep 15, 2009, 2:58 pm
The Chicago real estate market is abuzz with activity as brokerage a buys brokerage b. Last week came word that long time independent firm Rubloff had been acquired by Prudential Preferred. Amid the.....
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Sep 13, 2009, 1:05 pm
It has been six years since we tied the knot, and another couple of years before that. Glad to report that the love that started this journey with me and my wife continues and flourishes. Here's a...
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Sep 7, 2009, 6:06 pm
Today I had two assistants helping me to show a listing in Chicago's East Village. My sons Jackson and Lucas, positioned with an organic sucker in front of a Disney movie, helped me get a full-pri...
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Sep 6, 2009, 1:45 am
Insanity is doing the same over and over and expecting a different outcome. So when my pc ground to an ugly halt earlier this week I opted to get off the treadmill of lunacy and go in a new...
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Aug 23, 2009, 11:59 am
Chicago has implemented a system of photo enforced intersections, the efficacy of which I question as drivers become a bit shell-shocked and ride their brakes even as they approach green lights, not.....
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Aug 2, 2009, 2:46 pm
My mom Colette McCarey was a real Chicago landmark. She introduced me to the city's culture, its museums, its lakefront and its beauty. She died a week ago Monday, and I bid her a peaceful journey...
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Jul 23, 2009, 4:18 pm
My clients joke about "a little off the top" as a price lower than what they wanted. The luxury project at 2520 Lakeview in Lincoln Park has gone a step further with "a little of the top" being the...
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Jul 22, 2009, 4:12 pm
A lesson learned from international travel is to let go. In Rome letting go means taking to the "vias" as a pedestrian. We did so with gusto. And at times we bring our lessons learned abroad to our...
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Jul 18, 2009, 5:32 pm
17-year-old Zac Sunderland spent the last year sailing the globe alone. He wrapped up his journey last week and his story struck me - that a shaggy headed kid could achieve such a feat and that his...
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Jul 16, 2009, 4:04 pm
Mitch Aronson and Tom McCarey proudly added a few listings this week to the inventory of The Real Estate Lounge Chicago. But the work doesn't stop when the listing comes in, it just begins. Beatin...
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Jul 15, 2009, 7:18 am
Dark? Yes. But frantically rumbling thunder and buckets of rain managed to wrest me from my slumbering mood and urged me to retrieve the now soaking patio furniture. Note to self, next time plan...
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Tom McCarey posted an article on The Real Estate Lounge.Chicago - Jul 9, 2009, 6:03 pm
Vacation is a misnomer when talking about Chicago real estate professional Tom McCarey. Whether online, text, cell, skype or old-fashioned smoke signals, Tom stays in touch with clients, colleagues,.....
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