My Chicago Metro Area Real Estate Blog Posts are now on Twitter. My Twitter id is franbailey. My tweets (Twitter messages) also include some more personal information as I use Twitter to write about other subjects in addition to real estate . If you’re not familiar with Twitter, it’s a service for people to communicate […]

Mary Umberger’s column, “Love owning your home? Maybe not so much” in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune House & Homes Section revealed the most frightening thing I’ve heard about real estate. According to an assistant professor of real estate at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, women homeowners are an average of 12 […]

This year I will be recommending that my buyers perform a new test during their home inspection. While I recently visited the new condo of some of my buyers in the South Loop, they shared with me that they discovered after they moved in that their granite countertops weren’t properly sealed. Their kitchen countertops were […]

I look back on 2008 with very mixed emotions. From a business standpoint, it was great, my best year ever. It was my best year financially and I got to work with a lot of terrific clients. Personally, I’ve never felt so much sorrow. My dad, Charles E. Bailey, passed on. Dad was always there […]

With subzero temperatures all day Sunday, I stayed close to my fireplace. As I tried to catch up on business expenses, I couldn’t help but wonder what the natural gas burning in the fireplace (and fueling my furnace) was costing me. So I did some digging and found not only what I’m paying, but what […]