Whether you are a first time buyer, thinking about buying in a year from now, or a seasoned home owner, this will be an informative talk on the unique dynamics of the current real estate market. You will leave the seminar fully informed on how you will need to prepare for your home search.

Topics to be covered will be:
- The pre-approval process and preparing your finances
- Loan products available in today’s market
- What are closing costs and detailed breakdown
- Benefits of home ownership and review of TaxSmart incentive program
- How to decide on what type of property to buy
- Overview of buying a foreclosure or short sale
- What to expect from a home inspection
- What to look for in a building when looking at properties
- Tips for saving for home improvements

Pizza and Drinks will be Provided.
Please RSVP at contact@livingroomrealty.com, so we can plan appropriately.
We look forward to seeing you!

Emma Butler, Guaranteed Rate
Elizabeth Dudek, LivingRoom  Realty
Jeffrey Wadsworth, RCIS LLC

Perfect starter-size brick Bucktown home near Holstein Park!

Offered at $519,000, this 3 bed, 2.1 bath is a gardener’s paradise with a huge front yard. Updates include renovated kitchen, master bath with separate shower & tub, mudroom, skylight & hardwood floors throughout.  To see the full listing and for more pictures click here. For any questions or to schedule a showing contact Elizabeth Dudek at 312-498-7378.

Friday April 20th 6-9pm

Join LivingRoom, Homeroom and Spudnik Press to celebrate the release of Ten x Ten!

Featuring work by:

Brian Hofmeister
Colin Palombi
Jeremy Tinder
Joe Tallarico
Justin Santora
Krista Franklin
Liz Born
Lovercraft
Nate Beaty
Revise CMW

Ten x Ten is both a compilation and collaboration between Chicago bands and printmakers. The project strives to introduce artists and musicians that might not have otherwise crossed paths, and encourages the development of creative relationships between Chicago bands and printmakers that go beyond show posters. The final package consists of ten songs accompanied by ten corresponding prints that were developed exclusively for the project.

The long awaited transformation of the abandoned railway to a linear park on Chicago’s Northwest Side is finally getting the funding it needs to begin construction. The 2.7 mile long trail will boast both bicycle and walking paths and is scheduled for completion in 2014. Sometimes, you just gotta love this town!

Become friends with The Bloomingdale Trail online to stay in touch!

Pizza and Drinks will be Provided.
Please RSVP at contact@livingroomrealty.com, so we can plan appropriately.
We look forward to seeing you!

Emma Butler, Guaranteed Rate
Annie Coleman, LivingRoom  Realty
Jeffrey Wadsworth, RCIS LLC

If you haven’t seen the Hunchback Variations yet, time is running out!  The production ends its run March 11th.  The opera is by local heroes  Mickle Maher (libretto) and Mark Messing (music).  It’s brilliant and funny.  Here’s a link for tickets.  Now buy one and go.  You’ll thank us.

Our friends at Strand Design are featured this week in Decurate.  Decurate is a weekly magazine for people who love design.  Each week they feature stories and interviews with designers who build products that are authentic and honestly made.  You can buy the products they feature through the site.

Please join us here at LivingRoom for this special show featuring two amazing local artists, Jesse Harrod and Elijah Burgher.

Our bodies accelerate quickly into extremes of pleasure and pain, often it is only the best of lovers, of landscapes, or of experiences that can tame, tease, or guide our entry into either realm. What pleasure and pain look like or feel like, though, is deeply unclear, is abstract, is insidious, is different for everyone. There is no one to one relationship when it comes to this. The serene garden hiding pistils and traps. The covert messages and innuendos of any symbolic act. The excruciating things we want to have happen.

Jesse Harrod has an MFA from the department of Material Studies from the School of
The Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
University. She has been writing and making work that employs traditional and contemporary craft and sculptural practices with a focus on craft as “other” and how this pertains to queer theory as well as second and third wave feminism. Jesse is interested in working with the layers that exist within the history of cloth and fabric. Those layers include, class, colonization, trade, puberty, and domesticity.

Elijah Burgher is an artist and writer based in Chicago, IL. He has exhibited in solo shows at 2^nd Floor Projects in San Francisco, CA and Shane Campbell Gallery in Oak Park, IL and two-persons shows at Lump in Raleigh, NC and Peregrine Program in Chicago. Recent group shows include exhibitions at Famous Accountants in Brooklyn, NY, Envoy Enterprises and Anna Kustera in New York, Noma in San Francisco, and Gallery 400 and Roots & Culture in Chicago.  He received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004, and a BA from Sarah Lawrence college in 2000, where he studied Literature.

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