my real estate license expires today and marks my official departure from the real estate industry. before my letterpress life, i was a real estate agent with baird and warner, the oldest independent brokerage in the country and the largest in illinois. i worked out of the lincoln park office, which was the #1 office in the state. we had an awesome office and extensive sales training. over the course of my real estate career, i saw a lot of homes- mini mansions with elevators, posh high rise condominiums looking over lake michigan, white picket fence homes in the suburbs, to beautifully rehabbed four squares {let's not mention the handful of rat infested, poorly maintained, dilapidated properties i saw, even a condemned property a client was trying to view, sheesh!} so, when i passed through a nearby downtown suburb over the weekend and verbally expressed to my husband how it would be perfect to open shop in one of these vintage homes, can you imagine how my draw dropped when i saw this perfect little place? for sale and zoned transitional for work+live/live/work! it was built in 1907, the perfect little home for my 1900's old presses and some sweet retail goodies. sigh... day dreaming.
