How has your search strategy changed as you look to buy?
Wife and I are fortunate to have a condo but are looking for more space. We know where we want to be and of course it’s where everyone else wants to be. We started out with a grid from Ashland to California for east west and Chicago to Belmont for north south.
We moved our search area as far west as Central Park Ave (down to the corner of Chicago and Central Park is the cutoff right now) and that seemed to open up more options.
We’ve seen some “yikes” flips and some really well kept homes.
Some of the areas west of Humboldt Park you can find some nice streets with some well maintained homes that are reasonably priced but you have to move quick is what we learned. We’ve driven up and down streets to get a feel at different times of day and week and what we’ve seen is most or relatively quiet.