THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT! Home Safe, Smart Home Buyer Seminars Presented by Tom Corbett of Tomacor Incorporated What: A free, fast paced seminar with (pending) ASHI continuing education credit that is jam packed with information for anyone interested in buying residential, commercial, or industrial properties. Get all of the information you need to Read More
The New Real Estate Paradigm
About a week ago, I received a comment on my blog post “The Real Estate Brotherhood”. Here’s my response (you can read the original post below): Dear Mr. Smith, I appreciate you taking the time to review my blog and follow up with your comments. My comments and opinions are not based in my real Read More
Wet, Hot Chicago Summer
We all know this has been a wet summer, and in Chicago, water usually means sewage. Most people don’t understand that the City of Chicago utilizes a “combined sewer system” to deal with our human waste and the storm water which collects in the streets. This means there’s a 12 inch diameter sewer line outside Read More
Crazy Agent Backlash – Tomacor’s Effectiveness Revealed
The real estate community is up in arms again. Remember, these are the people that have brought us our current real estate and economic recession, and now they want to help us get out of it by pursuing real estate “business as usual.” This blog is intended to reach a few people that have no Read More
Termites!
During an inspection, I noted a locked door in the basement of a home I was inspecting. After getting the key and moving the refrigerator, the buyer and I opened the door only to discover that the room was full of termite tunnels with major structural damage. The structural wood beam of the house had Read More
Make Your Real Estate Agent Work For You!!
After 11,000 home inspections, its not unusual for me to over hear the agents discussing how quick the deal went “All I had to do was answer the phone and show them a couple of properties” is a common comment which often times nets the agents $30,000-$40,000. The smart buyer makes their agents get any Read More
Is Your Inspector a “Butt-Kicker”?
Do you know anyone that was kicked out of their real estate deal at the last minute even though they had a signed sales contract and a committed seller? Well there is clear insider information about why this happens which may be a bit different than what interested parties have tried to convince you occurred. Read More
Fly On The Wall: Line Up Behind Multiple Offers
Legally, the broker you hire to sell your home is obliged to tell you about all offers that come in. Tomacor actually found a reference to this while training potential home inspectors in the Illinois Human Rights Act (775 ILCS 5). If your agent doesn’t present every offer to you, it is a violation of Read More
The Fly on the Wall- The Truth About Open Houses
Tomacor would like to introduce you to The Fly on the Wall, a regularly occurring blog designed to assist in reestablishing solid ground and relationships for those buying and selling real estate. Years of experience has gone into producing these regularly featured articles. Enjoy! After the disastrous failure of the real estate market and the Read More
Surviving A Chicago Winter
Christmas has come and gone and there are only 90 plus warming days until the springtime warmth and festivities that we are all eagerly awaiting. In the mean time, let’s be safe and stay warm despite the low temperatures. In our continued efforts to relate building science to anatomy and physiology, we offer the following Read More
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