Crib Chatter

This 6-bedroom vintage single family home at 3418 W. Adams recently came on the market. It’s an estate sale and being sold “as-is.” However, there is also a lis pendens foreclosure filed against the property. Built in 1881, the house appears to be on an oversized lot (but I can’t tell the size from the listing) as […]

We chattered recently about a foreclosed rowhouse in West Garfield Park but foreclosures abound in both West and East Garfield Park. This bank-owned 1893 vintage 4-flat at 3231 W. Fulton Blvd. in East Garfield Park has been on the market since November 2008 with several reductions. $4741 It has recently gone under contract and is […]

If you’re a first time home buyer, you could buy this 3-bedroom 1890 vintage rowhouse at 3939 W. Erie in West Garfield Park, get an $8,000 tax credit and buy it for almost nothing. Is the bank giving this property away? Yes- it needs work. And yes, it’s small. It has no parking or central air. […]