Greg's Blog

Its amazing how criminal fall for the tricks that law enforcement will put out.  Just today in the Daily Herald, a lot of criminals were arrested using the same old trick that has been on TV many times.  They received a scratch off and won $500 in free shopping.  Then they go to a hotel and get a...

Wow, I finally hit the 170,000 mark on Active Rain.  After blogging and posting comments and doing links, and more posting, I've finally hit #1 in Cook county Illinois.  I have to put up a picture just to remember this.  I want to thank Aunt Mable, my uncle Horace, my grandmother Lola and all of...

A lot of realtors and Lo's are down about the market.  They're leaving the business left and right.  I believe if you have a doom and gloom attitude, then that's what you're going to get.  I also try to be helpful and stay positive even in the bad market.  People always ask me... "How's the marke...

Here are just a few tips to help you with your blogging: Use Links Wisely - Don't just link back to other sites. It can be really boring. You could lose readers because they're not interested in clicking links. Off Topic Content - What is off-limites as a blogger? Profanity, sexual content, drunk...

One of my past clients called me today to let me know how jealous their neighbors are over the deal that I managed to get for them.  The house was built 2 years ago and I managed to get the price down from $270,000 to $208,000.  The neighbors paid over $280,000 for their properties.  I wanted to ...

For some reason, everyone that knows me brings me their laptop and desktop computers to get fixed.  I don't mind fixing the computers in exchange for a meat lovers pizza from pizzahut.  One friend dropped off his pc and unfortunately, his hard drive had crashed.  I'm going to have to tell him tha...

Over the weekend, I was invited to a party downtown Chicago.  I use to hate going to parties but as a real estate agent and lo, I see them as a way to network and meet more people.  Now I was at the party throwing out cards, but I did pick a few main people and share my information with.  Hopeful...

Over the weekend, I decided to wipe out my laptop and replace Vista with Windows XP.  The reason that I had to do it was because a large number of the programs that I was using with work were not compatible with Vista.  Not only was Vista slow, it was over-hyped.  The only reason I had it was bec...

With Christmas only about 2 weeks agay, its important for agents/lo's to enjoy their time.  Business will be very slow from now until the eginning of th new year so why not enjoy a little bit of your time.  I'm getting to almost relax but after next week, I plan on getting some much time away tim...

I have a number of listings and the one thing I that I do enjoy about the listings is getting calls from people that are looking for homes or rentals.  The listings have provide a great marketing  opportunity for me to get really serious buyers.  Also, I don't have to cold call in order to get bu...