Author Archive for Mitch Levinson
Refinancing Your Home Now Can Save You Cash Tomorrow
Chicago home owners have a chance they may not have again in the immediate future: historically low interest rates (about 5%). Many economists fear and predict a surge in inflation soon. Meanwhile, the federal reserve has pushed rates to lows never seen in 50 years and it is only a matter of time before they [...]
USGBC’s LEED Green Building Program Use Falls
The Allen Matkins/CTG/Green Building Insider Green Building Survey takes a poll of 1,600 design and building professionals from the U.S. every year for the last 4 years. Not surprisingly, green construction represents the fastest growing sector of the building industry. And support for it as a practice continues to be high as 92% of those [...]
Fire Sprinklers to be Required in Many New Chicago Homes
St. Charles could possibly be one of the municipalities incorporating the new 2009 International Codes. The code mandate fire sprinklers in all new townhouses and, beginning Jan. 1, 2011, in new one and two family homes and town-homes. Each municipality in Illinois can choose whether or not to mandate fire sprinklers and undoubtedly will be a [...]
Heritage Harbor Wine Tasting Event
Heritage Harbor in Southwest suburban Ottawa is hosing a wine tasting event on Friday, April 16th at their Heritage Harbor and Quest Watersports facility. The 7th annual wine tasting event will begin at 5:30 and will wrap up around 8:30 PM on that Friday evening. The cost is $15 for the pleasure of sampling over [...]
Modular Home Construction Gets Green, Fancy And More Mainstream
For some reason, the idea of having your new home built in a climate-controlled, systematic factory setting is unappealing to the average consumer. To many, it conjures up images of assembly lines and cold, factory-like precision and monotony of identical widgets getting packaged and shipped away. Those who are more open-minded and familiar with the [...]
