Essential Hacks

Jun 11 2019

Home Buying: How to Craft a Winning Bid

In a seller's market, finding your clients' dream home might not be the hardest part — winning it could be the biggest challenge! Here are three tips for making sure that your clients' bid is the strongest one.

May 17 2019

How to Become a Successful Saver

Here are a few things that successful savers do as part of an effective savings strategy.

Apr 26 2019

How’s Your Online Reputation?

No matter what Joan Jett says, sometimes you do have to care about a bad reputation — particularly if it's your business's reputation.

Apr 25 2019

How to Use Time Blocking to Boost Productivity

If you're ready to level up your productivity, time blocking could be the key. The concept is simple: Instead of just creating to-do list items, assign each of those items a time slot and schedule them into your day.

Apr 24 2019

4 Ways to Create Welcoming Listing Photos

Listing photos have to show viewers what the house is all about: how it looks from both outside and in, how many rooms there are and what kind of light they get, the quality and modernity of appliances, and more.

Apr 23 2019

Help Buyers Get the Most Out of a Showing

A lot of work goes into finding the properties that suit your buyers, from location and number of bedrooms, to an open kitchen and a good place for a garden.

Mar 22 2019

How to Get Email Replies

It's a major downer to spend time crafting an email, send it off into cyberspace, and then watch the days tick by without a response. You're often left guessing about why they didn't reply. To make sure your next email gets a reply, try out these quick tips:

Mar 21 2019

Are You Aiming Your Productivity?

Imagine that you're a runner, and you've perfected the ideal running technique for maximum speed. You have the right shoes, the right breathing method, and a refined dietary plan to make sure you're always running at your best. Now imagine you lose the race anyway, because you didn't run towards the finish line.

Mar 20 2019

Make Any Home Look Spacious with Staging Tricks

Nothing turns off buyers faster than a cramped space. To make it easy for potential buyers to visualize their lives in a new property, it's important that you show them how much space they must work with. Here are five tricks for making a small space appear larger so you don't scare off buyers.

Mar 19 2019

Should You Drive Clients to Showings?

Every real estate agent has their own answer to the question of whether or not they chauffeur buyers around when showing homes. What used to be an expected nicety has become a matter of preference for both buyers and agents.

Jim Passi
Regional Manager
NMLS# 158000

1121 E. Main Street, Suite 121
St. Charles, IL 60174
Mobile: 847-899-1813
Email: jim.passi@alamedamortgage.com

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Jim. Jim is a force of nature when it comes to helping his clients.

Jim. Jim is a force of nature when it comes to helping his clients. My husband and I moved to Chicago from Denver in August of 2020, smack dab in the middle of the pandemic because my husband got into dental school at Midwestern University in Downers Grove rather unexpectedly. We owned a house back in Colorado that we didn’t have time to sell before leaving so we rented it out from a thousand miles away, and were also renting here in Chicagoland. There’s something that happens to you when you own a home where you feel like you can never go back to renting but we had to for awhile.

I quickly started to get fed up with all of what comes with owning a house and renting a house in Illinois so I did a quick google and found Jim Passi, called him up, explained the situation and he not only gave me sound advice on the market here in Chicago, sound advice on how to qualify for a loan, and some personal guidance on what I needed to do over the year to buy a house.

Without Jim’s follow up, patience with me, and advice our home purchase wouldn’t have been possible, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart.

If you’re looking for a “loan guy” Jim’s miles and miles more than that, he’s truly your “everything” guy. If not for Jim, we wouldn’t be first time Illinois home owners.

Thank you Jim!!

Stephanie U