Jeff Plous

I was born and raised in Downtown Chicago. Instead of playing sports as a kid, I learned to restore classic cars with my Dad. My mom is a special education teacher and my father owned a commercial television store.

My 98 year old grandfather is my hero and has always taught me that education and family are the 2 most important things in life. Retiring in his 80s, he taught me an incredibly strong work ethic.

My passion for Real Estate started at a young age when my Dad decided to try loft living before there was a term “loft”. Since this was a raw loft, he let my imagination run wild and allowed me, a 10 year old, to design our entire industrial home. There were many lofts that followed and I always tried to make the next one more interesting than the last. The most interesting design element I added was to build the living room on heavy casters to allow the entire living room to be moved around the house when needed.

In college I took a history of architecture class that secured in my mind that I wanted to have a career in Real Estate. I was fascinated studying architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies Van Der Rohe.

I currently live in the LoHi Neighborhood in a home I built with my wife Lindsay, our 11-year-old bionic Dachshund Oscar, our 8-year-old Weimaraner Fritzie and our 4-year-old Shih Tzu Shelby . I wake up every day eager for the day ahead, and I go to sleep every night thoroughly happy with my life, friends, family, and work.