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Your Home Inspection – A Valuable Tool When Buying a Home

By Corinne on May 15th, 2012
Your Home Inspection – A Valuable Tool When Buying a Home
Your home inspection is a very valuable tool when buying a home, whether it’s a luxury Barrington home, a  Lake Zurich town house or a Palatine condo. Buying real estate is a huge investment of money and you’ll want to know what your hard earned cash is buying. Location, curb appeal and visual appearance are ... [Continue Reading]

Barrington Homes – Choose Your Neighborhood First

By Corinne on May 6th, 2012
Barrington Homes – Choose Your Neighborhood First
Barrington homes and the search for your dream property. The best piece of advice I can give you before you start is to choose your neighborhood first. Everyone has heard the rule of real estate that it’s location, location, location over anything else, and when it comes to probably the largest investment of your life ... [Continue Reading]

South Barrington Homes – Even Luxury Buyers Have To Give Up Some Of Their Wish List

By Corinne on May 5th, 2012
South Barrington Homes – Even Luxury Buyers Have To Give Up Some Of Their Wish List
South Barrington homes offer some of the best choice in luxury real estate in the Barrington area. Yet buying a home in a luxury community is no different to buyers looking at other Barrington homes, you’ll likely have to give up some of the items on your wish list.  Whether it’s needing a main level ... [Continue Reading]

Every Barrington MLS Listing Right Here But I Don’t List Them All.

By Corinne on April 11th, 2012
Every Barrington MLS Listing Right Here But I Don’t List Them All.
If you think about it, what are the chances that one Barrington Realtor has every single listing Barrington MLS listing available as the listing agent. With 500 or so Realtor’s in Barrington that would likely put 499 of them out of business. Some would scream monopoly! It’s evident that not everyone understands that I can ... [Continue Reading]

Homes For Sale in Palatine IL – Why Buy Short Sales?

By Corinne on February 28th, 2012
Homes For Sale in Palatine IL – Why Buy Short Sales?
There are over 500 homes for sale in Palatine IL, in fact today as I write this post there are 525 single family homes, condos and town-homes. How many of those are short sale listings and should you buy them? As of today 142 of the listings are short sale listings. That’s 27%. Searching Homes ... [Continue Reading]

First Time Buyers – Compromising On Your First Palatine Home

By Corinne on January 7th, 2012
First Time Buyers – Compromising On Your First Palatine Home
Really? Already! Gesh you’ve just got your pre-approval, you know what you can afford and what you are comfortable paying, you’ve got a fabulous idea in your mind about the home you want to buy and here I am telling you to compromise! Let’s peddle back a little. The pre-approval tells you what priced home ... [Continue Reading]

First Time Buyers In Palatine – You’re Pre-Approved!

By Corinne on January 7th, 2012
Hot on the heels of my last post about why 2012 appears to be a great year if you want to buy your first home, I thought I would turn this into a series to help Palatine first time buyers understand the entire home buying process. I know many of you won’t have the time to attend ... [Continue Reading]

Palatine First Time Buyers – 2012 Could Be A Great Year To Buy Your Home

By Corinne on January 7th, 2012
Attention Palatine first time buyers, mortgage interest rates are at an all time low. As I write this post today, December 23rd 2011 the 30 year fixed mortgage rate hovers under 4%. Believe me when I tell you that is a very low interest rate. No doubt it will go up and down a little but ... [Continue Reading]

When Is Your Contract Secure; When To Deliver Earnest Money

By Corinne on December 9th, 2011
I recently read a comment online from a consumer on another web site that got me thinking about how contracts and earnest money work differently in every state. Today I am talking about Illinois and the reason I want to get this in writing is because the writer thought there was unethical behavior-which in fact ... [Continue Reading]

After 17 Months The Perfect Home Was Found – Not Barrington but Arlington Heights

By Corinne on December 1st, 2011
After 17 Months The Perfect Home Was Found – Not Barrington but Arlington Heights
It really isn’t all doom and gloom out there in the world of real estate. I have had several buyers in the last two years that either had cash in the bank ready to buy, or did not have to sell the current home so they could buy the new one. The advantage for the ... [Continue Reading]
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