Posts from October 2025
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Home Improvement Projects to Tackle Before the Holidays
The holiday season is right around the corner in Chicagoland. Is your house ready? The approaching holidays are one reason fall is one of the most popular times of year for home improvement projects. Let our real estate agents be your guides to the best pre-holiday DIY projects.
DIY projects before the holidays
These home improvements are all relatively easy, inexpensive, and DIY-ready. Best of all, they'll help you get ready to host guests and show off your festive side in time for the holidays!
Choose areas to repaint
Few things can completely transform a space like a fresh coat of paint. It's an affordable and easy way to add personality to your home while making it feel fresh and updated. And you don't have to repaint the whole house — just pick a key area or two that wi...
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Preparing Your Chicagoland Home for Winter: Insulation and Heating Tips
Our real estate agents are no strangers to wind and snow here in Chicagoland. In fact, we've learned more than a thing or two about how to keep your home safe, secure, and, above all, warm this winter.
Heating and insulation tips for Chicago winters
Winter will be here before you know it, and your home will have to withstand all the challenges the season brings. Here's how to stay warm and avoid heat loss in your home in Chicagoland during the coldest months of the year.
Update windows
Old windows are often extremely inefficient, and replacing them with modern windows can drastically improve your home's efficiency. Look for insulated double- or triple-pane windows that are Energy Star rated.
Find and seal air leaks
There are innumerable tiny and not-so-tiny places where cold...
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Our Biggest Habitat for Humanity Build Day Yet
We're entering our 4th year in partnership with Habitat for Humanity, and this year we hosted our biggest Build Day event yet.
As part of our commitment to the organization, we organize companywide volunteer days to help build homes with Habitat's Affordable Homeownership Program. This year, our 2025 opportunity is the biggest yet, with two days of volunteering across five build sites.
Working with the Chicago, Will County, Northern Fox Valley, and Lake-McHenry County chapters, more than 70 volunteers from across the company got together to help build homes at five locations. The projects ranged from hanging drywall, to constructing a garage from the ground up and completing framing for a home.
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