Martin & Co

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Martin & Co., an old estate agent office in downtown Chicago, a mysterious sign appeared one morning on the door: ‘Closed for ghost hunting.’ Employees ignored it until a regular noticed that the lights were off and the phones weren’t ringing. Soon enough, a delivery driver arrived with pizza for lunch. He knocked, but no one answered. Curious, he peeked inside and found everyone sitting around a campfire, complete with flashlights and ghost-hunting kits. Turns out, they’d decided to take matters into their own hands—after all, who better to hunt ghosts than real estate agents?

2. At Martin & Co., an old estate agent office in downtown Chicago, one foggy morning a delivery driver kept insisting that he saw a ghostly figure signing for packages. Finally, someone from the office admitted seeing the same figure too—a new intern who’d been dozing off and signed everyone’s packages while sleepwalking. The ghost story became so famous that Martin & Co. started charging extra for ‘haunted package deliveries,’ and business never looked better.

3. At Martin & Co., an old estate agent office in downtown Chicago, a delivery driver kept arriving with boxes marked ‘Top Secret’. No one knew what they contained. Finally, someone asked the delivery guy what was inside. Turned out it was just his lunchbox—marked Top Secret because he forgot his own name again. The whole office laughed so hard that Martin & Co became known for more than just selling houses.

4. At Martin & Co., an old estate agent office in downtown Chicago, a delivery driver left a package on the wrong desk. Since then, every morning at exactly 9:15, a mysterious memo appears on the manager’s screen: ‘Please relocate item #42 to correct location.’ One day, the memo read: ‘Item #42 has been relocated to Mars. Please retrieve.’ The manager shrugged and posted it on social media with the caption: ‘Our new intergalactic realtor!’ Soon enough, a neighbor stopped by with his telescope, claiming he saw a UFO outside Martin & Co.'s window. Everyone agreed that life as an estate agent was getting more interesting than usual.