Neighbor 2 Neighbor

JANICE MINTON-KUTZ

GIRL SCOUT COOKIES SELL IN LANSING: Pictured here at the corner of Ridge Road and Wentworth are Girl Scouts from Troop 65732 and 60314 and tjheir parents, Troop Leader Marisol Cuebas (mom), Luis Cuebas (dad) and scouts, Elyiana Cuebas and Jasmari Cuebas. Despite the cold inclement weather, customers were flocking to the corner to pick up their favorite Girl Scout Cookies! ***

AMVETS POST 43 IN BURNHAM HOSTS CRAFT FAIR: Pictured here at Sunday March 12th, 2023 Craft Fair are Tom and Val Piotrowski and Kim DelCatto, post organizers, who coordinated Sundays event. in another pix are fair customers. ***

SPAY ILLINOIS OFFERS LOW COST VET FEES: Pictured here are Dr. Lexi and Mycala at the Lisle, Il low cost vet clinic. Dr. Lexi and Mycala are holding Frosty and Christmas Kutz, who have just received their annual shots. ***

MISS HOLLY AND CHRISTINA AT THE JOSFE AND MARIE SALON: Pictured with her new red hair is Tina Marie Minton along with her master stylist Holly Novacich of Schererville, In. Holly has beenstyling and coloring tina’s hair since she was a young girl.

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JASON PARIS AND HIS CUSTOM

MOTORCYCLE: The Grant Park master mechanic is pictured here seated on his 1967 Corvette blue bike with Sydney Leigh Minton Barry. Jason creates custom bikes for customers in addition to diagnostics, repairs, maintenance, customization,performance and builds. Jason’s 125 HP bike of Corvette blue has taken him all over the country on long rides to as far as Dead Head Alaska, California, South Dakota, Florida and points in between. Jason also does custom automotive work, and is an ASC Master Tech. He works under the banner of JP Performance For info call Jason at 815-9547109. ***

For inclusion in Neighbor 2 Neighbor, please call Janice at 708-302-8585 or write to her C/O Coldwell Banker, 20 E. US 30, Schererville, IN 46375, or e-mail her at janice.mintonkutz@cbexchange.com

• First select a number/operator and than apply it to a sudoku cell.

Search For The Ides Of March

DOWN

1. Lavishly elegant

2. Fleeting

3. Those to whom money is owed

4. Haul

5. ___ nitrate

6. Cathedral topper

7. Bowed ceremoniously

8. Channel bottoms

9. A Swiss army knife has lots of them

10. Alarm bell

11. Amazon, e.g.

12. Idaho’s capital

13. They go with the flow

14. Barely managed, with “out”

21. Appropriate

24. Vintage auto rear seating compartment

27. Forceful

29. “The Catcher in the ___”

31. Move forward by rowing 33. Quarantine

35. Fattiness

36. Embezzles

37. Skillful performance

39. Absorb, with “up”

41. Ring bearer, maybe 44. Most cheeky 47. Small bell-shaped bomb 48. Even if, briefly 49. Switzerland’s capital 50. City on the Aire 52. Charges 54. Cowboy boot attachment 56. #1 spot 57. “Buona ___” (Italian greeting)

“Fantasy Island” prop

THE IDES OF MARCH The Ides of March is the 74th day in the Roman calendar, corresponding to March 15. It was marked by several religious observances and was notable in Rome as a deadline for settling debts.

In 44 BC, it became notorious as the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar, which made the Ides of March a turning point in Roman history. “Beware the Ides of March” was a line made famous in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Subjective Bias

MIKE BUDER

If the comparable sales are so crummy, why did they sell and you didn’t? I just got word that my clients offer on a Lansing property was accepted. What is unusual about this deal is that the seller’s actually interviewed me before listing it with another agent. I respect the agent, so I was happy for them. Ironically the home sold for the price I predicted back in October, which is probably the reason I didn’t get hired.

During the negotiation, my colleague and I kept cooler heads and affected a meeting of the minds. This was a far departure from the mini dramas I have seen playing out lately where sellers and agents let their emotions get the better of them and inject unneeded drama into a process that calls for calm and sanity.

One tactic I have seen is the petty nonsense some sellers and their agents pull when comparable sales are cited as justification for the price offered. They will say: “oh that dump, our home is much better” or “that home is not comparable to ours, how insulting”. While I respect some honest bias toward one’s own home, it is ludicrous to think that the other homes that have been selected by buyers while you remain unsold are all bad places. If anything, the buyers