As the chilly winds blow across Chicagoland, our real estate agents can see the writing on the wall: winter is coming. As much as we enjoy frosty mornings and the promise of snowy days ahead, we also want to ensure you stay cozy and warm in your Chicago home ...
Updated February 2025
When the rainy days of spring arrive it's a safe bet that some homeowners will have to deal with damp conditions.
Our brokers are here to offer some helpful advice for preventing and dealing with flooded basements. Here's what you need to do when the rain...
Kitchen appliances are often taken for granted. We use them every day, but we tend not to think about them too much — until they stop working.
One of the questions our real estate agents get asked the most when sh...
Buying a home is a complicated process, and each home transaction is unique. As a result, it can be tough to know exactly what a buyer should ask for after an inspection has been completed but before the transaction has closed. As with all aspects of the home buying process, the answer is going to be dependent on a number of factors, all of which the buyer must understand before entering into negotiations over the inspection's results. Learn what you should think about after the inspection, and what home buyers should reasonably ask for between inspection and close.
As a seller, the home inspection can be one of the more stressful periods of the escrow process. After all, if the home inspector finds major damage in the home, the sale agreement can fall through, with the buyer entitled to the return of any earnest money and the seller back to square one — but this time, with costly fixes to be made before the home can be placed back on the market. For this reason, it can be to sellers' benefit to make some repairs before the inspector ever arrives, if only to minimize the possibility that an inspector's report will be the difference between a closed sale and a failed deal.
