Esperanza Spalding and Us
Jazz bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding, seemed to come out of nowhere to win a Grammy award for Best New Artist award at the 2011 Grammys on Feb. 13, beating out odds-on favorites such as Justin Bieber. OwnACondo.com is looking forward to taking the world by storm too, when we move from Oak Brook to our new state-of-the-art headquarters at 540 N. Lake Shore Drive in March.
Like the accomplished jazz musician and composer, we are proud of our record of accomplishment regarding sales, condo conversions and auctions, but we may not be as familiar to industry observers as some nationally known companies. But that will change soon, because we are in the process of opening offices in Florida, California, and elsewhere around the United States. Our Boca Raton, Fla., office was the first to open, with many more to come.
Esperanza Spalding, born in 1984, grew up in Portland, Ore., so she stayed under the radar of many music aficionados who focus on cities like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. In addition, jazz is not as widely followed as rap and rock, so she remained largley unknown. While Esperanza learned to play several instruments, she specializes in the bass, along with her songwriting and singing skills. Our Realtors® are specialists too, condo specialists. We can help clients find any type of real estate they like, but condos are our specialty.
So in short, when you are looking for the right person to help you in your condo search, think outside the box. The Justin Biebers of the world might get more attention initially, but Esperanza Spalding delivers the goods, and OwnACondo.com does too.
Selling a Condo
If you're looking to sell a condo but do not know how to go about it, this article may be of interest to you. Selling a condo starts with choosing the real estate firm you would like to represent you. There are all types of real estate agencies out there today. National brands dominate, but there are also the mid-size local firms and the small mom and pop type shops as well. Where do you start, who do you choose?
My first suggestion is to start with finding a condo real estate brokerage first. There are all types of real estate firms, but if you're selling a condo, why not choose a real estate agency that specializes in selling condos. Think if you own a Cadillac and you'd like to have someone buy it off of you. Or better yet, let's say you want to buy a Cadillac. You wouldn't go to a Lexus dealership for a Cadillac. A buyer of a condo is going to end more often in front of a real estate agent that represents condominiums. By going to a real estate company that specializes in the sale of condominiums, you're more likely to have an agent that will have a database of buyers that can potentially buy your condo immediately saving you time and money.
Think of the common sense. All day long buyers are going to a "condo only" brand because they want to buy condominiums. They're not looking to buy vacant land. They have one purpose and that is to find the condo of their dreams. So to start off, find a real estate brokerage that specializes in the sale of condominiums. Once you've done this, you'll have to decide what real estate agent you'd like to represent you. There are dozens of Realtors that work in an office and all are different. You have to be very choosy on this. My best recommendation would be to ask the managing broker to have three different people in the firm for you to do a face to face or phone interview with. Remember, this will be a person that you'll be doing business with for possible the next six to twelve months. You're going to want to get to know this person and their assets.
This is your start. Selling a condo starts with the company and individual within the company that will handle your transaction. Choose them wisely.
A Chicago Condo Company
What is a Chicago Condo Company? How do they differ from a brand real estate agency we’ve all heard of? A condo company is a real estate organization that focuses on condos only. But why a condo only company? What will they do different? A Chicago condo company functions exactly like a normal real estate organization except they sell condominiums versus selling any style real estate that comes through their doors.
Let’s take an example of having a sore shoulder. What type of doctor are you going to see? You’re not going to go see an eye doctor, that’s for sure. That’s the idea here. You would look up a doctor that specializes in this area. It makes all the sense in the world. Sore shoulder, shoulder doctor, bad eyes, eye doctor, sell or buy a condo, condo company.
How do real estate companies exist generalizing and not focusing on one niche in the business? It’s been this way for so long that the general public really doesn’t know any better. The idea of having a company that does nothing but focus on condos doesn’t exist on a national scale. The consumer goes on line or down the block to the neighborhood agency. But times are changing. A condo company is needed and needed badly. This is a volatile market. It’s important that real estate agents really understand all the facets of condo ownership, condo association law, condo financing and the condo market. They have to be on their toes understanding if an association running the condominium complex is under budget or over budget or if the association is funded enough for a crisis situation or is possibly on the brink of bankruptcy.
Having a condo company real estate brokerage specializing in this is good for the consumer. That’s who it benefits. In the end, the condo company will be limited in that it onl sells condominiums, but just like KFC that sells chicken, when you specialize at something, you get really good at it. A condo company sells condos. A real estate company that doesn’t specialize is something to truly look at if you want to place your investment in their hands. There are always real estate agents in an organization that may specialize in one area of a metropolitan area or one type of real estate. This ultimately is good, but wouldn’t it be nice if the entire company did nothing but sold condos and you were selling a condo?
A Condo Relocation Company
If you’re looking to relocate to a condo in the Chicago area, or would like help selling a condo in an area outside Chicago, OwnACondo.com has opened up a relocation network of real estate agents that specialize in condos throughout the United States. As a condo relocation company, OwnACondo.com can network with the very best agents that do nothing but sell condominiums.
How it works: let’s say you live in San Diego and you’re looking to sell your condo but you need a specialist in your area. Call us and in twenty four hours someone will call you that specializes in the area you want to sell your condominium. Specializing in selling condos is the key. You can get a home specialist by calling your local real estate agency around the corner, but it’s very important to have representation from a condo specialist.
As a condo relocation company, it is up to us to seek out the very best agents throughout all of the major metropolitan areas of the United States. This is what we’ve done and continue to do. It’s critical to find the very best when it comes to condo representation. This is your condo investment. You need to treat it as if it’s your child. Don’t hand it over to just anyone. Selling a condo takes expertise and experience.Â
Now you’ve sold your condo and you want to move to a city to buy another condo. Call us and we’ll do the same thing. We’ll refer you to a specialist that sells condos in the new city you want to live in. Condo relocation is easy. Just pick up the phone and call us at 866.696.2266 and we’ll take it from there. Give us the city you want to sell and the city you want to buy. We’ll handle the rest.
Are you looking to finance your condo or insure your condo? We can handle that as well. OwnACondo.com’s website is geared to provide you with all the necessary resources to find anything you’d like when it comes down to owning a condo.
When it comes time to move locally or nationally, a condo relocation company can really make the difference in the efficiency of the move. Make sure to make the call to an expert and ask several questions. This is your condo investment. It may be the biggest transaction of your life. Make sure to treat it that way.
A Condo Company
A condo company is important when buying or selling a condo. The real estate industry is changing and people are specializing now. A condo company focuses in one thing; selling condos. Let’s break this down to fully understand the difference.
Think of a doctor one hundred years ago. It went to him for just about everything. If you had a battle with the flu or if you had an eye problem there was one person to turn to. As time went on, the specialists started to kick in. There are now doctors for every part of the human body imaginable.
Think of a Realtor that does not work for a condo company. He’s sitting at his desk and the phone rings with a seller of a one million dollar home in the city of Chicago. They run out to meet the seller of the home, do all the due diligence investigating homes for the next three days and they finally list the house for sale. The next week this same real estate agent gets a call from a vacant land owner wanting to sell land in Hinsdale, Illinois. The realtor goes through the same process but now with the piece of land in Hinsdale.Â
When the year is up, this particular Realtor did twenty four presentations, two per month. They did six condos, six homes, six apartment buildings and six vacant pieces of land. They marketed all these properties and met four different types of buyers as well. This Realtor became the jack of all trades, learning about these four different arenas of real estate.
Let’s look at an real estate agent that worked for OwnACondo.com, a condo company dedicated to just condos. The same real estate agent working for OwnACondo.com handled twenty four condo listings in the same twelve months. They met the same amount of people but they have four times the amount of buyers for one product, versus twenty five percent for four categories. They are not the jack of all trades but the master on one.
By being a master of one, you become better than anyone else. That means more knowledge and more efficiency. It means faster closing and sales. It ends up separating yourself from the pack.
The time has come for a condo company and the one rising to the top of the heap right now is OwnACondo.com. You can reach them 866.696.2266.
Condo Company
There’s really only one Chicago condo company. OwnACondo.com exclusively represents condos in Chicago. Chicago condos are everywhere with more than 30,000 closing every year it just made sense to create a brand that focused on nothing but condos. Chicago condos need attention. If you hire a realtor that sells land, homes, apartments and condos, is it better than an OwnACondo.com condo specialist that sells condos, condos and more condos? No.
Specializing is what has made the World great. Starbucks, heart surgeons, KFC; brands that specialize. Remember 200 years ago when you’d have one doctor in town to handle every disease and ailment? Crazy as it seems, it was only 200 years ago. Today, we have the man power to specialize. Why not with condos? There are too many things that need to be understood to sell a condo properly. Condo financing, condo associations, condo law, the condo market…I can go on and on.
OwnACondo.com is a true condo only company representing condos all over the Chicago area. In 2009 they will be representing condos in Miami, Los Angeles and New York as well. Eventually OwnACondo.com will be known as a national brand focused on condos only. People will think only of going to them before choosing brands that generalize.
Where did the concept of a Chicago condo company start? OwnACondo.com started representing groups that were converting apartments to condominiums. Once the momentum kicked in, they were known in certain circles as the best place to go to if you wanted a good deal for condos. Word spread and before you knew it, they were becoming a force in the Chicago market. Today, OwnACondo.com sits with almost one hundred Realtors servicing the entire Chicago condo market. There are 35,000+ condos for sale in Chicago. You should make sure you choose a condo company that knows the condo market. It could cost you thousands of dollars if you don’t.
OwnACondo.com’s website will not only offer you a search of the more than thirty five thousand condos, but will allow you financing assistance, insuring your condo or renting your condo. It has a number of services once you own the condo as well such as condo attorneys, condo staging, condo repair, etc.
There are thousands of real estate companies out there representing all kinds of Chicago real estate. There is one company that represents one thing. Condo, condos, condominiums and Chicago condos. You get the point. OwnACondo.com the best place to buy and sell condos.
