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FOR SALE – Waterfront and Maintenance Free – Lake Zurich, Illinois – 60047

Super-sized end unit with over 3800 square feet of beautifully appointed living space. True gourmet Kitchen with stainless steel appliances, double oven, cooktop, granite, 42” Maple cabinets. Vaulted ceilings, dormer skylights, full finished lookout Lower Level. Countless upgrades. Premium waterfront lot with private courtyard, large deck overlooking pond and wooded views. Walk to Lake Zurich, beaches, parks and redeveloping Lake Zurich. A rare find!
Directions: Route 12 to North Old Rand Road East to Lakebreeze

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Proudly Listed by The Luby Group – Suzanne & Liz Luby
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage – Licensed in Illinois
Suzanne’s Cell: 847-922-7773 Liz’s Cell: 847-691-3150

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SOLD – Over Five Private Wooded Acres in Barrington Hills, Illinois – 60010

26 Braeburn Lane – Barrington Hills, IL

List Price: $710,000

This brick Ranch on 5.23 private wooded acres is waiting to be updated or expanded. The home includes two fireplaces, hardwood floors
through-out, a large living room wwith bay window, screened porch, and a full basement. A great opportunity in Barrington Hills. Close to I-90, easy access to Ohare and 7 minutes to Metra.

Directions: Lake Cook (Main) West to Ridge North to Spring Creek West to Braeburn Lane, South

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Proudly Listed by Suzanne & Liz Luby of The Luby Group
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage – Barrington, Illinois
Suzanne’s Cell: 847-922-7773
Liz’s Cell: 847-691-3150

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FOR SALE – Gorgeous Lake Zurich Townhouse – Lake Zurich, IL – 60047

This sophisticated Town Home is enhanced by many upscale amenities. Volume ceilings, sculpted carpet and faux painted walls fashion a unique blend of earth-tone colors. A cook’s gourmet kitchen, three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and a full finished lower level complete this elegant residence.
Directions: Route 12 (Rand Road) To North Old Rand Road East to Lakebreeze Left

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Proudly Listed by The Luby Group – Suzanne & Liz Luby
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage – Licensed in Illinois
Suzanne’s Cell:  847-922-7773  Liz’s Cell:  847-691-3150

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Lovely Ranch on One Acre Next to Moraine Hills State Park – McHenry, IL – 60051

Live beautifully in this impeccably appointed 3 Bedroom, two-and-a-half bath Ranch situated on a lush interior acre adjacent to Moraine Hills State Park. Home offers grand formal spaces, lavish private quarters and the highest quality finishes including: vaulted ceilings, skylights, finished lower level, fenced yard & deck and gorgeous perennial gardens. Open sun-kissed floor plan. Special Value Pricing Good for contract before 11/15/07
Directions: Route 31 North to Bull Valley/Chas Miller East to River North to Elmkirk East

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Proudly Listed by The Luby Group – Suzanne & Liz Luby
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage – Licensed in Illinois
Suzanne’s Cell: 847-922-7773 Liz’s Cell: 847-691-3150

 

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On the Lake AND By the Beach in Island Lake, IL – 60042

This serene lakeside home is adjacent to a sandy beach on Island Lake. The Living & Dining Rooms offer views of a mature landscape & lake. An enclosed porch/Family Room has multiple windows & a door to the expansive deck overlooking the yard & private dock. The updated kitchen includes a breakfast bar. Four bedrooms and two full baths complete this picturesque cottage.
Directions: 176 West to Eastway North to Fern West to Park Dr South to Second house on left

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Proudly Listed by The Luby Group – Suzanne & Liz Luby
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage – Licensed in Illinois
Suzanne’s Cell: 847-922-7773 Liz’s Cell: 847-691-3150

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FOR SALE – Properties Currently Listed by The Luby Group – Project BurbFeeder.com PHASE 2

Now that our blog, BurbFeeder.com is up and running and registered with some of the very best blog directories, we’re going to start the next phase of this project. That’s adding our current listings to this weblog, one by one. It’ll take some time, but I promise, we’ll get them all on this site. We’ll be sure to add plenty of photos and virtual tours so you can get a close up look at the properties we are currently marketing for sale in Chicago and the Northwest Suburbs, Barrington, Inverness, Palatine and the surrounding areas. We’ll also be busy laying the groundwork for PHASE 3 of Project BurbFeeder.com. We’ll start to add information about local events, resources and referrals based on the various communities and neighborhoods that make up the Chicago Northwest Suburbs.

Now you know why I’ve started a category called “Eating the Elephant”.  The more I get into it, the more this type of blog we hope to create feels like a task of enormous proportions.  But we’re going to get this accomplished, little by little, I promise.  By the way, since some of my earlier posts, I’ve learned SO MUCH about ways our blog network will benefit our clients. If you’d like to learn more, just send me an email. I’d be happy to share. In the meantime, to give you a little taste of what’s to come, here’s a map which pinpoints the properties The Luby Group has listed today.

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Finding Barrington Properties For Sale

Technorati Profile

We’re working hard to make it easier for people in the Chicago Northwest Suburbs, Barrington, Inverness, Palatine and Arlington Heights to find The Luby Group’s websites and blogs online. Soon we’ll have a network of blogs, branching out from http://Burbfeeder.com, which will help people get the word out about activities, events & resources in their neighborhoods, communities or suburbs. We’re also adding some great new property search tools to our main website, TheLubyGroup.com. There will be many more posts coming soon and please feel free to participate.

Thanks for your time and your interest,
Liz Luby

PS…We’re not huge fans of having our pictures taken, but every now and then we force ourselves to so we avoid having those really obvious outdated REALTOR photos. The photo above is our latest picture taken of the whole group. That’s me on the left next to Christine Snelgrove (our Administrative Assistant), Suzanne Luby (my mom/a.k.a. “The BOSS”) and Susan Prokos (our “Buyers Specialist”).

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Learning As We Go

Looking for a resource which will connect you with a wealth of information about the Chicago Suburbs? You can already learn a lot by visiting TheLubyGroup.com, but soon you’ll find so much more right here at our new Weblog, BurbFeeder.com. I’m Liz Luby of The Luby Group with Coldwell Banker in Barrington. We’re tackling this blog building thing with a combination of excitement, energy and complete cluelessness.

After all, we are experts in selling real estate, not deciphering computer code. Right now words like Widgets, Wikis, Pingbacks and RSS Feeds are from a language that’s a bit foreign to us. But we’re in the process of adding them to our vocabulary and finding ways to use these technologies to help sell homes.

We already put priority emphasis on using the internet to help increase exposure for the properties we have listed. We’ve got some of the best systems in place on TheLubyGroup.com to give home buyers access to information about properties on the market. But we want to take it all to a new level. Internet marketing strategies are constantly evolving and we’ll continue to do what it takes to give our home sellers and buyers an edge when it comes to technology.

We’ve done a lot of research, found a blog publishing system that we think will work well and off we go. In the coming weeks and months, we’ll add useful posts, links and many other tools to this site. We’d love your feedback and we always welcome your involvement. If you’d like us to set up a blog for your specific neighborhood, just say the word and we’ll find a way to make it happen. In the meantime, thanks for your time and your confidence. If you don’t know who we are, here’s a photo from last summer’s “UnCork Barrington” wine tasting event – I’m also just practicing uploading photos:

More to come,
Liz Luby – The Luby Group
Coldwell Banker
303 E. Main Street, Suite 100
Barrington, IL 60010
847-691-3150
TheLubyGroup.com

http://TheLubyGroup.com
http://LubyProperties.com
http://BarringtonHomeBuyer.com
http://BarringtonHomeSeller.com
http://BestByOwners.com

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Real Estate Investing – MADE EASIER

When I got married earlier this year, I became part owner of my husband’s investment property. It’s a brick two-flat in Chicago in Lincoln Square and it has definitely been an adjustment. We live upstairs and rent out the unit below to tenants who are pretty agreeable and generally on time with the rent. It’s a new sort of living arrangement for me, it’s a little small for the two of us and, to be honest, it’s been the source of several heated arguments.

They went a little something like this:
I say: “Shouldn’t we focus on purchasing a home we can grow into rather than stretch to afford a rental property that’s too small?”
Bill says: “Don’t you see how this living situation will enable us to have another source of income down the road? Can’t you live with this for a while until we can afford both?”
I say: “Wait how long? Are you crazy! Why didn’t we talk about this before.”

You get the idea. Bill’s a long term thinker, I live more for the moment and we would both benefit by meeting somewhere in the middle.

This all comes to mind as I decompress after this very intense course on building wealth in real estate that I completed earlier this week. When I look closely at the numbers, what I learned in this class made my husband’s arguments make a lot more sense. In fact, what I learned opened my mind to a whole new way of thinking. Now I’ll admit that I’m still more excited than ever to buy our first place together, but I’m not so quick to complain about where we are today.

Not only did this class help put our personal investment choices in perspective, but I’m now armed with a wealth of information to help our clients make smart choices about investing in real estate rental properties in Chicago or in the Suburbs. Have you ever thought about purchasing a rental property? Would you like to learn more? I’ve got some great formulas that will help calculate the estimated post-tax return on your investment. Are you currently comparing two property options? If so, these formulas might help make it a no brainer. Are you considering investing more in the stock market? WAIT! If you’re a long term thinker and planner like my husband Bill, let’s talk about some real estate options first.

Thanks for reading,
Liz Luby
The Luby Group – Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
847-691-3150
www.TheLubyGroup.com

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Blog or Buy My Husband a Birthday Gift?

Well today is my husband, Bill’s birthday and I’ve been sitting at my computer all day still trying to redesign and reconfigure our real estate websites and decide how we are going to structure a network of neighborhood blogs for the Chicago Northwest Suburbs. We’re going to start with the Barrington area and it’s a project that’ll take a lot of work and community participation over time. If you would like to get involved, we’d be happy to set up a blog for your neighborhood or community. It could be a great way to get your neighbors involved with sharing referrals or information about local news and upcoming area events.

In the meantime, I could spend all hours of the day and night glued to this computer, but I should probably get out and find a Birthday gift for Bill. Any ideas?

Thanks for reading,
Liz Luby
The Luby Group – Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
847-691-3150
www.TheLubyGroup.com

Luby Links:
http://TheLubyGroup.com
http://LubyProperties.com
http://BarringtonHomeBuyer.com
http://BarringtonHomeSeller.com
http://BestByOwners.com

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