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2009
Only 10 minutes from downtown Naperville lies one of my favorite towhnome communities. River Bend, in Lisle Illinois ... I am biased. I lived there with my wife Nicole for 5 very happy years... Brick and siding. High ceilings and great windows...
03/31/2009
I have had four or five friends say it to me in the last week... "Hey Ken, I hear the real estate market is picking up." Hmmmm. I am not so sure. I just haven't seen it... Am I a Negative Ninny? Perhaps. But I do watch the real estate market here in Naperville very closely. I have yet to see t...
03/29/2009
How is your business plan coming? Do you have one? I did. Ken's 6 month business plan. It was simple, yet it kept me on track. Focused. I completed "the plan" about a month ago. I have yet to put a new one together... I am still working hard. Open houses. Delivering newsletters. Blogging....
03/27/2009
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I recently gave my blog a bit of a hair cut... Those who have read my posts before may notice that the right side of my blog looks different. Gone are the layers of neon that used to litter my blog in the form of widgets... I have minimized to what is most important to me, marketing myself... Wit...
03/26/2009
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The real estate market has changed... This morning, as I was going through today's real estate activity in Naperville, one transaction caught my eye... 728 Chateaugay had just been sold. This was one of the first homes that I ever showed... It was three yea...
03/25/2009
Have you seen it? It's being run during the NCAA basketball tournament: A family is sits on a fence, in front of a home that is FOR SALE... "Why are we sitting here?" the wife asks... "I am not sure exactly," the husband replied. ""They" said we should wait." "It looks so nice," says the wife. "...
03/22/2009
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Have you downloaded it yet? When I posted on Facebook I was downloading, I was warned... "Don't do it!" Well I have only had it for a day, but I have had no troubles so far... I was told of compatibility issues with certain sites. The only trouble I did had was on the Facebook site. A quick fix...
03/21/2009
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I am having an open house this Sunday at my new listing in Essex Place. The building is near the corner of Washington and Ogden Avenue in Naperville. The address of the property is 104 E 11th Street #202. MLS # 07110612 Cool building. Cool condo... The open house is Sunday from 1-4PM. We just...
03/20/2009
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Can an offer be so low that it is offensive? I received an offer on one of my listings last night. A real nice two bedroom condo near Naperville's train station and downtown. The condo is beautiful. It shows great. We've only been on the market 19 days... Anyway, we received the offer last nig...
03/17/2009
I just read Jason Crouch's post questioning the Realtor business model. In it, he asked why agents work on commission, versus a more consistent hourly or salary model. I was surprised by all the supportive comments... I like the way Realtors are paid. Don't you? We work on commission. We are on...
03/10/2009
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