Midwest

I have a secret that, as a lifelong Chicagoan and a real estate investor, I shouldn’t admit: I’m not a Chicago snob. You want to put ketchup on your hot dog? Go ahead. You want to root for the [...]

One of my favorite books about my beloved home is by the great Nelson Algren. It’s called Chicago: City on the Make, and is a raucous, sharp, and oftentimes brilliantly funny book on this city. [...]

The first time I used Craiglist was when I told a friend I couldn’t find tickets to a concert at the Double Door. She suggested I check on “craigslist.com,” which is how we referred to websites [...]

Here’s a strange fact for people not familiar with Minnesota: almost a full third of the Mississippi River rolls through the state. America’s greatest river curls and unfurls for nearly 700 miles [...]

Not too long ago, a friend from Illinois came to visit me here in Cincinnati. She had never been here before, and when she got to my house, she had a few questions. One is why I never told her [...]

Here’s a true story. When we were little kids, growing up in Illinois, my dad told us that Cleveland didn’t exist. It was a fictional place, like Star Wars or something. He did it just to be [...]

I recently went out to dinner with a group of friends and talk turned, as it often does, to our neighborhoods. One woman, Krista, talked about how she and her husband were looking to buy. They [...]

A few weeks ago I went downstate to visit my sister and her family in Ottowa, Illinois. When my brother-in-law and I went fishing on the river, he decided to give me some free real estate [...]

When Victor decided to start investing on the side in the hopes of supplementing the income he received from United Airlines, he called me up to ask where he could find cheap investment property. [...]