Yesterday, it was August. Earlier today, it was Labor Day. Tonight, it’ll be October, and I couldn’t be happier about it. Sure I…
Pricing Confusion
I guess I knew this was going to happen. With the hysterical and frenetic year we’ve had, this was really the only likely outcome. Wha…
Over
What just happened? Is it still summer? I remember the summer days. I remember seeing them through my car window, and out of this office win…
Clear Sky Lodge Sells
When you’re an owner of a home and you sell it, the world responds with a typical refrain. Congratulations! This is what they say. This is a…
Inventory Issues
I suppose there’s something sweet about a summer buyer. Something innocent. On any sunny day it would be natural and normal for a subu…
Valley Park
Lake Geneva Fall Market
I’m pretty much done talking about the summer market. If you noticed, I didn’t even talk about it that much in the first place. …
Endless Summer
The license plate said that. ENDLESS SUMMER. If you capitalize it, then it seems like some sort of horror film. It screams at you and demand…
Lake Geneva Buyers
I’m torn on this thing that we’re doing here. Specificlaly, this thing that I’m doing. I’m selling houses. I’m…
Lackey Lane Sells
I’ve written that title quite often over the last several years. First, it was when I sold a very nice home on the east end of Lackey…
Wayne’s Pizza Review
Among my several annoying tendencies, few are more despicable than my unwillingness to listen to certain pieces of advice if my mind has alr…
Yerkes Observatory Development?
I write that title with a question mark because it deserves one. The community, it seems, would have preferred I place a period there. As in…
Lake Geneva Market Update
There’s a simple truth to this site that you have likely noticed. And if not noticed, then certainly become aware of, and if you haven…
My Factual Opinion
What a terrible time it is to be a man of conviction. Or a woman, I should add, so no one gets mad at me. There’s nothing that can be …
Black Point Sells
When it’s all said and done, I should probably look back at this market with some appreciation. With my eyes growing dim and the sunli…
Lake Geneva Lakefront Market Update
I should, at this date in summer, be doing little but plodding through my work days and enjoying what I know to be a very short summer. I sh…
Sauk Trail Sells
I showed this home approximately one billion times. That’s rounding up, sure, but the hyperbole is light in this case. I tried to sha…
Youth
What is it about youth that we so envy? Do we envy youth because of our own cherished memory of it? Is it that we can imagine a time in our …
Independence Day Weekend
I’d like to take a moment to give June the credit that June deserves. Typically, June deserves very little credit. Take last year, f…
Lake Geneva Market Update
You know I don’t care about Other Lakes. What Other Lakes? All of the Other Lakes. I think they’re terrible. Oh, your friend sa…
W4443 North Lake Shore Drive
There are certain homes on this lake that catch your attention. When you walk by, when you boat by, when you drive by, everyone has a house …
Force
Years ago, I wrote often about the need to carve out time and dedicate that time to the enjoyment of this place. It was the time of our live…
Lake Geneva Alternatives
I suppose you can’t blame them, those once Lake Geneva determined buyers who find themselves aimlessly wandering down the miserable li…
Birches Lakefront For Sale
Often times, I find myself struggling against the market as I insist that certain attributes are the attributes that matter. It’s like…
Lake Geneva Market Update
What odd times we live in. And how much more odd they are when you’re in real estate in a thriving resort market. On one hand, I̵…
Valley Park
Valley Park isn’t a drive that someone can happen on easily. You must drive down South Lakeshore Drive and then head North on Maple Ri…
1606 West Main Street
I’ll live my entire life without buying Waterworks tile. I have dabbled with buying a Waterworks faucet or two, but even in that IR…
Memorial Day Weekend
During any year, we celebrate this weekend. We celebrate in our remembrance, but we do not confuse meaningful reflection with the absence of…
Lakefront Market Update
If we had a million rentals, we could fill them all. It might not actually be that way, but that’s the way it seems. If you could see …
May
Corona is everywhere and no one should leave their homes. If you do, you might get it, which is to say we’re all going to get it, beca…
Cedar Point Park Sells
Another week of dealing with a most miserable shut down of our once vibrant economy, another sale in Cedar Point Park. The things aren’…
Lake Geneva Market Update
May is a pretty good month. It’s the month that we see when our January minds concentrate to conjure up an image of spring. The calen…
Parkway Home Sells
If you know this market, and I mean, really know this market, then you know that there are pockets of inventory within this market that are …
If
This morning, I decided to do the thing I’ve done for nearly all of the past 24 years worth of mornings. I woke up, cleaned up, dresse…
Close the Lake Geneva Boat Launch
I don’t write often about local politics. If I did, I would have something new to write about weekly, as the local governments churn a…
Orchard Lane
There’s a thing about houses that the market, as a whole, often forgets. In the pursuit of function over form, the market hastily cha…
Vacation Home Markets
During periods of growth and expansion it’s easy to superficially judge the health and supposed underlying strength of a particular va…
Lake Geneva Market Update
What an odd time this is. On one hand, it’s lame. Super lame. Terrible. Some people are sick. Others are rightfully terrified of becom…
Indian Hills For Sale
At the Lake, the off-water market lake access market is made up of three very important and distinct sub-markets. There are homes with slips…
Geneva Manor Sells
Amidst the landscape of our stalled lives, there is still activity. I listed 1530 Lake Shore Drive in Lake Geneva at the very end of January…
Wednesday
I took a walk yesterday. The last time I took a walk in the middle of the day was so long ago that I cannot remember it. Of course there hav…
Monday
Why do we even bother giving the days names? I read this in a tweet over the weekend and I thought it was funny. But then I also thought abou…
Reminisce
What an odd time to be alive. I’m glad to be alive during it, because the alternative seems worse. I think all of this social distanc…
Lake Geneva Quarantine
I’ve been contemplating what, if anything, to write about the current state of things. Things, as a point of fact, are bad. Individual…
Cafe Calamari Steak Review
Typically, I make some variety of plan when contemplating a particular establishment and the steak they serve. Last night was not typical. I…
Lake Geneva Lake Access Update
Coronavirus is coming for all of us. I mean, it might be. Who knows? I see on Facebook some of my friends who dislike the president seem to …
Medusa Steak Review
It was around noon on Friday when I realized I wanted to eat steak for dinner. The last steak I ate was at the Chop House, and as you’…
Winter Is Over
The ice boats found their smooth patch of ice on Saturday. It was breezy without being windy, sunny without being warm, and the ice was slip…
Chop House Steak Review
I made a reservation for Friday night. I had taken my son out for steak to the Hunt Club, my wife out for steak to the Grandview, and so it …
Choices
When considering a home purchase, it’s apparent to everyone, everywhere, that you have choices. Choices about location, bedroom count,…