Michael Merino
Licensed Home Inspector
Ph. 708-535-6057
Cell 708-612-6679
Phone answered
6am to 10pm
Seven days a week
MerinosHIE@gmail.com
Chicago Suntimes Business
Channel 2's Jacobson and Kurtis back, but a bit rusty
Lewis Lazare: It wasn't a perfect newscast. But there they were Wednesday night iconic Chicago news anchors Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson reunited and reporting for duty once again as co-anchors of WBBM-Channel 2's 6 p.m. newscast. Looking just a tad anxious, Kurtis and Jacobson were seated at a brand-spanking-new anchor desk put in place just hours before their return to regularly fronting a WBBM newscast. The plan was to make this a straightforward report of the day's news. To a large extent that is what the two delivered.
Auto suppliers' stocks on the move?
Is it a good time to buy a car? Maybe, because of the model year-end discounting and the cheap money available to finance the purchase. But before you check out what's in dealers' stocks, consider whether your cash is better off in the stocks of the automotive industry instead.
Daley seeks to privatize Taste of Chicago, other services
Not even Taste of Chicago, the citys premier lakefront festival, is immune from the worst budget crisis in modern history. Mayor Daley said Thursday he would seek to privatize the Taste, other lakefront festivals and an array of government staples from animal care to fleet management and curbside recycling to help erase a record $654.7 million shortfall.
Home is where the hurt is in today's housing market
Stuck -- that's how Yvonne Smith felt as she tried unsuccessfully for more than two years to sell her Evanston home. She recently agreed to an offer that's roughly 37 percent below her
initial asking price, joining many other sellers who've had to revamp
their expectations in what remains an ailing housing market here. A report from the Illinois Association of Realtors on Tuesday showed the
end of federal tax credits and a continuing weak economy pushed home
sales in the Chicago metropolitan area down 25.1 percent in July from a
year earlier.
Channel 9 hires Bartel to help investigative team
Lewis Lazare: WGN-Channel 9 is beefing up its investigative efforts. The station has
hired away the well-respected investigative producer Marsha Bartel, 52,
from WFLD-Channel 32, where she had been working on investigative pieces
with reporter Dane Placko, whose contract was just renewed. Bartel's
last day at WFLD was Monday. She starts at WGN on Sept. 7.
'Slow repair' for condo market as experts look forward
David Roeder: In Chicago, where the cry "Wait 'til next year" is a common refrain, the
condominium market is getting its own version of a losers' lament:
"Wait 'til 2013." If you are a condo investor, owner, builder, Realtor or anybody else
with a vested interest in rising condo prices, the market probably won't
appear stable for three years.
Chicago 5th in U.S. for bedbugs
Bloodsucking bedbugs are biting in New York, and Philadelphia, and all over Ohio. The pest control company Terminix released Tuesday a list of the 15 most
bedbug-infested cities, based on an analysis of call volume reporting
bedbug infestations and of confirmed bedbug cases reported by sales
professionals in 350 of the company's service centers.
Stocks recover following weak home sales report
NEW YORK (AP) Bargain hunters picked through a beaten-down stock market Wednesday, helping major indexes recover from another slump triggered by disappointing economics reports.
July new home sales fall to slowest pace on record
WASHINGTON Sales of new homes dropped sharply last month to the slowest pace on record, the latest sign that the economic recovery is fading.
Ex-Disney chief Eisner may run Tribune Co.
Former Walt Disney Co. chief executive Michael Eisner has emerged as a candidate for the chairmanship of Tribune Co. once its emerges from bankruptcy.
Durable goods orders rise 0.3 percent in July
WASHINGTON Companies cut back on their investments in equipment and machines last month as the economic recovery lost momentum.
Mortgage applications rise 4.9 pct. on low rates
NEW YORK A trade group says mortgage applications rose 4.9 percent last week as more borrowers refinanced at the lowest rates in decades.
Bad news on homes, goods adds to air of recession
WASHINGTON (AP) It's starting to feel like another recession.
Daley pal suing developers with ties to Roti family
Businessman Fred B. Barbara, a longtime friend of Mayor Daley, is suing developers Thomas DiPiazza and Richard Ferro, accusing them of defaulting on a $3.4 million loan involving properties at 921 S. Jefferson and 210 E. 21st St. / 2016-2050 S. Prairie.
Quinn replaces chief of staff
Ethical lapses by Gov. Quinn's former chief of staff Jerry Stermer weren't a firing offense, the governor said Tuesday -- two days after they prompted Stermer's resignation.
Recent refinancers are faring better
Homeowners who had mortgages modified recently are faring better than those who did so earlier in the housing crisis, according to a report released Tuesday, possibly debunking predictions of a huge wave of defaults to come.
Stimulus: good, bad
President Obama's massive stimulus measure has created or saved as many as 3.3 million jobs and continues to boost economic growth in the second half of 2010, but it's come at a higher price tag than originally billed.
Gov. Quinn's chief of staff resigns amid ethics probe
Gov. Pat Quinn's chief of staff resigned Sunday after the Chicago Sun-Times
posed questions about a probe of three politically oriented
correspondences sent from his government e-mail account in possible
violation of a state ethics law. In tendering his resignation, Jerry Stermer, 67, said he did not want to
have findings against him by former Executive Inspector General James
A. Wright overshadow the work of the governor, who is in a difficult
election battle against Republican Bill Brady.
10-year-old Beverly boy is a Trump in the making
Joey McGuire is a busy guy. If he isn't hustling up more clients as
"CEO" of Beverly Shoe Shine, he's publishing his hyper-local
neighborhood newspaper -- the Joey McGuire Gazette. Or he's on the golf course, or taking a long weekend getaway with the
family, or out with neighborhood fellas enjoying the good life. It took awhile to track him down. "This is Joey McGuire, CEO of Beverly Shoe Shine," he politely said into
my voice mailbox. "I will be out of the town until next week. I will
try to contact you when I return."
ShoreBank seized by regulators, gets overhaul
Federal regulators on Friday seized ShoreBank, the fabled South Side bank
known for its community lending, and turned its good assets back over to
its management team to be reopened as Urban Partnership Bank. The new
leadership of Urban Partnership Bank comprises former First Chicago
Corp. executives Bill Farrow and David Vitale, with Farrow serving as
president and chief executive officer, and Vitale as chairman.
COUNTIES
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Cook, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kendall, Kankakee, and Will.
CITIES
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Illinois Home Inspector License 450.010091
Illinois Home Inspector Entity License 451.000851
Palos Hills home inspector
Illinois Home Inspector License 450.010091
Illinois Home Inspector Entity License 451.000851
