The Home of the Week in Westmont

Open Floor Plan yet Plenty of Personal Space for the entire Family...An Absolute Deal!! 

Enjoy this Easy Living Brick & Cedar Home on a Tree-lined Street Neighborhood. Updated Kitchen, Master Suite, Freshly Painted, Vaulted Ceilings, Newer Windows, Large Closets, Walk-out Family Room, 2 Fireplaces, In Ground Sprinkler System, Sun Room with Sliding Glass Doors to Enjoy the Beautifully Landscaped Yard with Pond & Deck. DGN Schools, Near Town, Parks, Expressways & Shopping.

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For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Sir Issac Newton

San Francisco's Low-Flow Toilet Push Has Been A Little Too Successful

The problem with San Francisco's uptake of low-flow toilets is that they were too popular. Each flush lacks the pressure to force solid waste through existing sewer pipes. In other words, the city's poop is backing up. You can actually smell it in the streets in some areas, particularly in the summer. "Stank" is the word you're looking for.

Using Bleach to Fight the Stench: Not Environmentally Sound
San Franciso is stockpiling bleach to treat the waste water before it flows into the bay.

You read that correctly San Francisco will dump 8.5 million pounds of bleach into San Francisco Bay to manage the rollout of low-flow toilets, which were touted as an environmental measure. The bleach option is being slammed as overkill, especially when less-toxic options (probiotics, hydrogen peroxide) are also viable.

WIt's bad enough that the bid to save water (which worked: the City flushes 20 million fewer gallons per year down the loo) led to neighborhood-wide stench clouds, but compounding the issue by poisoning the bay with millions of pounds of bleach should have been examined a little more closely under a standard common-sense lens.

Electronic Pickpocketing is now the Latest Thing

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Electronic Pickpocketing

Electronic Pickpocketing

I Want to Rob Your Home!

Hey Kids... As Vacation time approaches.... Be aware that the way You and Yours all now share info  on the net  Be it Facebook  Twitter or any " Social Media"  posts...  That there are folks that follow your posts from you and yours that may take advantage of your time away ... Have a family sit down and everyone on the same page about this ok?

An Update and History of "Villa Taj" in Burr Ridge Monument Turned Nightmare

  Financial troubles doomed $25 million Burr Ridge mansion that  
  owner says was a tribute to cultural integration

April 01, 2011

By Ted Gregory, Tribune reporter

 Dr. Husam Aldairi envisioned his dramatic mansion as a monument to the blending of cultures. He named it Villa Taj and made it hard to miss.Situated on a prominent intersection in the exclusive Chicago suburb of Burr Ridge, the home has a gold Jerusalem limestone exterior done in neo-Byzantine Moorish revival. The interior, appointed in Brazilian wood and Italian marble, features nine fireplaces, a soaring ballroom and 20-car basement garage.

But the path to completion became a nightmare. Residents who mistakenly thought a mosque was being built phoned Village Hall and complained. Aldairi, a dentist, says officials unfairly imposed excruciating construction delays. Then came a sexual harassment judgment against his business — not him — and a bankruptcy filing. Finally, in late February, pipes burst in the unoccupied mansion and an estimated 6 million gallons of water soaked the home.

An estate once valued at $25 million is now in receivership. The village is expecting a crew to strip the interior and cart away debris. And what was meant as a monument to cultural fusion — the name Villa Taj is an Italian-Persian mix meaning "crown jewel country residence" — now faces an uncertain future.

Read The Rest of Ted Gregory's Tribune Report Here

Home buying more than an investment question Terry Savage A Expert on Personal Finance Anwsers

 Is now the right time to buy a place of my own? As a Realtor... I get asked this All the Time
Terry Savage.. A  nationally known expert on personal finance answers the Question so well and Honestly I just had to post this.

Thanks Terry...

Q. Home prices keep falling and we’ve been waiting to buy our first home. We’ve saved up enough for about a 15 percent down payment. But now we’re beginning to wonder if we should buy at all — or keep renting.

A. Well, you’re right about home prices. The most recent Case-Shiller Home Price Index shows that prices fell 3.1 percent, year over year, compared with January 2010. The 20-city composite index, as of January, has fallen 31.8 percent from its peak in July 2006.

In fact, there’s talk of a “double-dip” housing recession, which would be defined by the Case-Shiller 20-city price index hitting a new low — even lower than the bottom made in April 2009. As of January, the 20-city index was only 1.1 percent above that low point.

The decline in home prices, combined with previous lenient lending standards, has resulted in nearly 25 percent of homeowners having a mortgage that is larger than the current market value of the home. (Keep in mind that nearly one-third of the homes in America are owned free and clear, without a mortgage.)



Read Terrys Entire Article HERE