Howard and Susan Meyers's Blog

Zestimate/Shmestimate   Comparing Apples to Oranges We’ve discussed this before, but it keeps coming back like a bad penny. Much of suburban America is made up of subdivisions.  In these communities, which were generally built by a single developer, utilizing anywhere from one to a half dozen dif...

Hybrid Thinking and Real Estate Recently, we wrote about spending time with our family each summer at the Chautauqua Institution in western, upstate New York.  Much of what we wrote related to the “fun” and “family time” aspects of our time here. Today we’d like to write about the “lifelong learn...

...You Talkin’ To Me?   Recently, we have witnessed several situations where agents (great agents by the way) appear to be preparing to audition for a Robert DeNiro retrospective.   There’s a lot of “Travis Bickle” in Taxi Driver and a little of “Jake Lamotta” in Raging Bull.They’re usually stand...

      Chautauqua...A Wondrous DestinationAs I sit here on the front porch of my wife’s family’s summer home in Chautauqua New York, I realize the spectacular fortune my family has had to spend a portion of our summers here for the past 20 years or so.  If your not familiar with Chautauqua, please...

After seeing the results of the following survey, one has to wonder whether the real estate industry is on the same page as the media...and for that matter, with our clients.  Some of the results are surprising and many are much more positive than we have been led to believe.   In a comprehensive...

Property taxes have become the albatross that drags down the saleability of many North Shore properties these days.  This post specifically relates to property taxes in the North Shore suburbs (specifically Evanston, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Northfield and Glencoe) of Chicago in Cook Count...

Three Simple Ground Rules for Listing a House When the Couple is Divorcing Scott Hayes wrote a fascinating featured post entitled “Divorce and Real Estate”.  This inspired us to think about the ground rules we have established when listing a property where a divorce is involved.  Working with div...

Just in case you haven’t seen the signs, or heard about it on the news, then you should be aware that the world is coming to an end tomorrow...Saturday, May 21, 2011.  Let me repeat that..THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END TOMORROW!!!                                           I wonder if this is Easte...

Since our move approximately two months ago, several Winnetka agents have asked us "why did we choose The Hudson Company?"  Most of the agents in the North Shore market , who have changed offices in the last two years have moved to a different firm.  That firm had just began to reach into the sub...

One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.  Sure, we have all heard this expression but rarely does one see this so obviously displayed  as we do in the annual event known as Winnetka Spring Cleaning....or as familiarly know as JUNK DAYS.Beginning Monday, garbage crews begin their annual trolling ...