Today at 2:30 PM we will be closing on our new house. We may not have been chosen to be on TV, but there was plenty of drama anyway.

Our story really began in November of 2007, when we first started looking for a house. And by “looking for a house” I mean “Carrie started looking online and we drove …

If you know of (or are) a good mid-level Windows system engineer looking for a good job in downtown Chicago for a cool e-commerce company, please send their resume to me at mstratton [at] apartments [dot] com. Here’s the job description:

Someone remind me why we’re leaving the city…

I just looked into parking at the Lisle train station. There is a five to seven year waiting list to get a parking permit. If you do not have a parking permit, you can buy a daily permit – but they go on sale at 8 AM and no earlier. And you can only buy …