{"id":6781,"date":"2009-02-02T23:08:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T06:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6781"},"modified":"2009-02-05T17:21:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T00:21:31","slug":"saint-badda-bing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6781\/saint-badda-bing\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Badda Bing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know someone who knows a guy who might know of a ‘pocket listing’\u00a0 back in the old neighborhood. That’s how everybody refers to a certain kind of good fellow in one particular ‘Near West’ Chicago block of stoop and brick row homes—guys<\/em>. They call them guys. Guys from the Neighborhood.<\/p>\n

“He’s a guy.”<\/p>\n

“Who?”<\/p>\n

“Him.”<\/p>\n

“Him?<\/em>”<\/p>\n

“Yeah, him.”<\/p>\n

“He’s<\/em> a guy?”<\/p>\n

“Yeah, he’s a guy.”<\/p>\n

“He ain’t a guy.”<\/p>\n

“Sure he is.”<\/p>\n

“No he ain’t”<\/p>\n

“He ain’t?”<\/p>\n

“Nah.”<\/p>\n

“I thought he was.”<\/p>\n

“Nah. You’re thinkin’ of his cousin.”<\/p>\n

It’s the sort of community where adult children inherit the homes from their parents and never move away; the same homes their parents inherited from the grand parents.\u00a0 The housing stock is a\u00a0 block-by-block mixture of\u00a0 row homes,\u00a0 traditional city bungalows, wood framed Two and Three Flats circa 1900, and turn-of-the-century brick Multi-Unit tenements. The same Italian restaurants, corner bars, and beef joints have lined Grand Avenue from Ogden to Ashland for generations. Guys, both young and old,\u00a0 loaf in front of their social clubs three seasons a year blocking the side walks in both directions, their Caddys and Buicks double parked against the curbs.\u00a0 Nobody gets a ticket.\u00a0 Nobody seems to have a job.<\/p>\n

“His cousin?”<\/p>\n

“Yeah.”<\/p>\n

“But not him?<\/p>\n

“Nah. They got the same first name and hair.”<\/p>\n

“I did not know that.”<\/p>\n

“Yup.”<\/p>\n

“I thought they was the same guy”<\/p>\n

“Nah. Different guy. Same hair though.”<\/p>\n

“I did not know that…”<\/p>\n

And so on for hours.\u00a0 Or years. Generations.\u00a0 Anyway, I know someone who knows someone who has a place he might want to sell on the down low\u00a0 (that’s Not Listed on the MLS for all you traditional RE peeps).\u00a0 A real guy, apparently—and like I said, also someone from the old neighborhood.\u00a0 Of course, this guy my friend speaks of doesn’t live in his building anymore and hasn’t for almost a decade. He’s been…well…he’s been away.\u00a0 Away, serving his country and the great state of Illinois to the tune of\u00a0 concurrent life stretches which, I learn from my friend (who is my age and stills lives at home with his mother who is also seated at the table in a house coat this snowy morning) is much better than consecutive life Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know someone who knows a guy who might know of a ‘pocket listing’\u00a0 back in the old neighborhood. That’s how everybody refers to a certain kind of good fellow in one particular ‘Near West’ Chicago block of stoop and brick row homes—guys. They call them guys. Guys from the Neighborhood. “He’s a guy.” “Who?” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-casual-friday","7":"category-disintermediation","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4799,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4799\/the-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":6781,"position":0},"title":"The Life","author":"Geno Petro","date":"October 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I know a guy who makes stupid money. 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