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Ilyce Glink

ILYCE R. GLINK is an award-winning, nationally-syndicated columnist, television reporter, radio talk show host and bestselling book author.

Nationally-Syndicated Columnist

Her syndicated column, Real Estate Matters, appears in more than 100 newspapers and Web sites, including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Detroit Free Press, and the Wilmington News Journal.

Top-Rated Radio Talk Show Host

She hosts The Ilyce Glink Show, on Sunday mornings for Newstalk 750 WSB, in Atlanta. . Check out her show notes at the ThinkGlink.com Blog.

Video Channel Has More Than One Million Views

Her new, all-video site, ExpertRealEstateTips.net features more than 300 videos dealing with all aspects of real estate and personal finance.

Her YouTube channel:ExpertRealEstateTips has more than a million video views.

Best-Selling Book Author

She is the author of many books on real estate and personal finance, including her bestselling book, 100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask (3rd Ed.). She has nearly one million copies of her books in print. She has also written more than 20 ebooks, which are available for purchase at the ThinkGlink.com Store.

Her latest book is Buy, Close, Move In!

Top-Rated Blogger

Ilyce pens the award-winning Home Equity blog at CBS MoneyWatch.com and the Real Estate blog at the Equifax Personal Finance Blog.

Media Contributor

She contributes occasional commentaries to NPR’s Sound Money and Marketplace Money, and is a frequent guest on radio and television programs, including Oprah, the Today Show, CBS This Morning, Fox News, CNN, CNBC and WTTW/Chicago. She spent 8 years as a personal finance and real estate reporter for WGN-TV, Chicago, and has hosted her own nationally syndicated two-hour radio program and syndicated minute, both reaching more than 65 stations nationwide.

Award-Winning Journalist

Ilyce has won numerous awards throughout her career, including Best Consumer Reporter, Best Television Report, and Best Blog from the National Association of Real Estate Editors. She also won the first Money $mart award from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and received the Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism from the Chicago Headline Club. In 2006, she was nominated for an Emmy® Award.

Her Web sites include ThinkGlink.com, LawProblems.com, HouseTask.com and ExpertRealEstateTips.net.

Sought-After Speaker

An in-demand speaker, Ilyce gives numerous speeches a year to a wide variety of audiences including Marriott Hotels, Discover Card, the Delaware State Treasurer’s Office, Allstate Foundation, Youth Leaders International, March of Dimes, City of Chicago Department on Aging and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Think Glink Publishing LLC

Ilyce Glink also owns and operates Think Glink Publishing LLC, a privately-held company that provides media consulting services, as well as strategic editorial content and video for companies and non-profit organizations. This original content helps companies achieve specific marketing and sales goals, such as providing top-quality educational content for customers, mining a current list of customers for new business, and increasing web traffic and sales volume.

The content created by Think Glink Publishing takes on many forms, including private label books, targeted email campaigns, electronic newsletters, ebooks and ereports, Internet video and other kinds of strategic content for a variety of websites.

Think Glink Publishing’s clients include large companies in the real estate, mortgage, credit and payroll industries, as well as smaller, privately-held Internet companies and nonprofits. She is also chief content strategist for the real estate investing marketplace and social network site, RealtyJoin.com.

If you’re trying to reach Ilyce Glink, email her at [email protected].

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Samuel Tamkin

SAMUEL TAMKIN is a Chicago-based real estate attorney with more than 20 years of experience working with residential and commercial clients. Sam graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Economics, History and International Relations. Following the University of Pennsylvania, Sam received his law degree from the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign-Urbana.

In addition to his work with buyers and sellers of residential real estate transactions, he has helped homeowners with loan modifications, residential leases, easements and licenses.

His work with commercial real estate clients has included 1031 Tax Deferred Exchanges, construction loans, permanent loans, letters of credit, ground leases and retail, office, industrial and restaurant leases. He has represented both landlords and tenants in their lease transactions. Sam has also represented industrial and commercial purchasers in their acquisition of land for their properties and has represented sellers in their sale of industrial, office, retail and apartment buildings.

Currently, Sam’s articles are syndicated in newspapers across the United States, including the Washington Post, Orlando Sentinel, among many others.

You can email Sam Tamkin at [email protected], however, if you have a question, please use the ASK A QUESTION on the ThinkGlink.com site.

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