Creating Good Real Estate Options for Illinois Home Buyers: Not an Option in Illinois
State Senators and Representatives have chosen to thwart Illinois home buyers from clear disclosure in 2012 and beyond. As if the real estate equation wasn’t oppressive enough already! As of January 1st, 2012, the state will place into law the new Illinois Home Inspector Licensing Act. This act intimidates good inspectors from doing their job Read More
President Obama Recognizes the Importance of Home Inspections.
“Consumer Protection With Home Inspection” Law Impacts Homebuyers was published by Real Estate Rama on July 28, 2010. This article is about a new piece of legislature that was recently signed to Law by President Obama. This law: …requires the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to modify its existing housing counseling programs Read More
Cook County’s maze of property taxes – must it be this way?
Homeowner values are a hot potato at the core of politics in this town, as shown by a June 12 article by the Chicago News Cooperative Homeowners have been far less successful than businesses in winning appeals for lower property tax assessments, a Chicago News Cooperative analysis shows — a discrepancy that strikes at a Read More
Chicago’s past due for action on shoddy construction
I was reading Crain’s New York Business last week and I came across the fact that the Borough of Manhattan is forming a task force dedicated to inspecting and monitoring construction sites. After two firefighters’ deaths, a window washer’s multi-story plunge and another man’s injury after the collapse of a 130-foot scaffold in Brooklyn, the Read More