What Does a Realtor Do for a Buyer? (and What Should You Expect From Yours?)
You get a standard you can hold your agent to after you sign, not a sales pitch. It's a short list of what they should be doing, what Illinois law says they owe you, and what was never their job in the first place. Here's the part that's easy to miss. The pressure doesn't really hit at the first sho
How to Appeal Your Property Taxes in Will County (and How to File It Yourself)
My assessment jumped about 25 percent, and my first reaction was the same one most people have, which is to assume somebody official had already checked the number and it must be right. Nobody had checked it. I appealed on comparable properties, and the valuation came down somewhere in the range of
Buyer's Market vs. Seller's Market: Which One Are You Actually In?
Search this question and you'll get three answers at once: national headlines calling it a buyer's market, state data calling Illinois a seller's market, and your own town's numbers saying something more specific than either. Here's the uncomfortable truth: all three can be right at the same time, b