While showing one of our listings to a buyer’s agent and her clients today, she asks me the following questions:
Q1: So, is this house a short sale, or a foreclosure?

Me: Uh, neither. I would have mentioned it in the listing sheet, if it were.
Q2: (After I had already mentioned to her two seconds earlier that [...]

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In Illinois, the Real Estate License Act of 2000 governs among other things, the relationship between the public and real estate professionals (licensees). Illinois lawmakers’ intention has been for sellers and buyers of real estate alike to be professionally represented in any real estate transaction. Prior to approximately 1995, only sellers used to be represented [...]

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There are numerous ones, I guess. But laziness and indifference towards one’s buyer’s needs are the ones that annoy me the most. Case in point: Christina and I were hired to sell a couple’s house in Skokie last week. We managed to sell it within a few days (more about that in another post), and [...]

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I’m not an attorney, so the content of this post is not meant to provide you with legal advice. But as a Realtor, I deal with real estate sales contracts on a daily basis, and over the years, I have witnessed numerous cases in which one or both parties to a real estate transaction have [...]

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