All the best - and would gladly do a ‘cup of coffee’ with you some day if you wanted to talk shop!

We have an operational general contracting business here in Chicago, but we are slowly building technology solutions around it.Always looking to connect and talk shop around tech and real estate...would love to connect!

And, of course, shop with at least 3 lenders.

I'm shopping lenders right now.

There is an old joke: you don't have to run faster than the bear, just faster than your friend.There are hundreds of leases signed every week, your apartment needs to be more attractive than 50% of what's out there and it will be rented quickly.So you'll have to do some mystery shopping and (ideally) physically look at your competition.

I hope some body read this and do your own due diligence.

In 2024, back-to-school and back-to-college spending has dropped as consumers adopt a more cautious approach following the pandemic surge. The National Retail Federation (NRF) reports declines of 6.5% in back-to-schoo...

You will want to shop around.

The polarized extremist nut jobs on BOTH sides seem to have taken the steering wheel and one is yelling to drive us off a cliff the other yelling to drive straight into it and us sane people are just in the fetal position rocking back and fourth trying to wake up from this damn nightmare that the crazies have broke out the nut-barn and took over......Here is what he said, verbatim (parenthesis are mine, the rest is his):"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous... whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light... and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it.

I see this come up on the forums from time to time and as a mortgage broker myself here are the strategies I implement to work with great lenders1. Reputation Most lenders that I work with have excellent and honest re...