Into the Weekend 10.24.25

Into the weekend...

Of all the thousands of dinners my mother prepared for us, none of them unsettles me more now than the time she cooked spaghetti squash. With all the earnestness she could muster, my mother tried to convince us four kids that spaghetti squash was just like spaghetti. And more nutritious too!

But all the heavy tomato sauce (a mix from different brands), meatballs, and heaping dried oregano pours couldn’t mask the fact that this was not real spaghetti. It was something much more disgusting and sinister: squash.

Even though gagging at the table was frowned upon in our household, the four of us could not hold back. And during the course of that dinner, each of us often had to go to the bathroom multiple times - with our discretely smuggled spaghetti squash servings to flush them down the powder room toilet.

Like me with spaghetti squash, as a buyer you have to be careful of those listings which highlight the property as “updated,” “refreshed,” or even “renovated.” These are subjective mushy adjectives all designed to potentially obscure what’s been done to a home and what hasn’t. 

After years in the field working with buyers, my team and I can help you discern which renovations are real - and which might just be spaghetti squashed.

There will be no gagging at our table.

Have a great weekend!

Best,

Brad

P.S.: For those of you with trick-or-treaters (or major sweet-tooths!) near East Lakeview tomorrow, be sure to stop by our office on Broadway for the Lakeview East Little Monsters Crawl, 11:00 - 2:00; details below.

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