In 1995 I owned a Saab 900. It was gunmetal gray, but it wasn’t a Turbo, so I operated as though those two conditions canceled each ot…
Finally
I feel better now. I was on the verge of breaking, but in true Midwest fashion I powered through the difficult days knowing that there were…
Pricing Strategy
One of the great debates in the business of real estate revolves around pricing strategy. Some agents want listings so bad they’ll pr…
Lake Geneva Real Estate Market Update
That’s a long title, but if I don’t really spell things out my search engine friends won’t respect my content. The nationa…
April
When I was in high school, a friend of mine had a girlfriend named April. She had curly hair and tanned skin and braces, I think. She went …
Lake Geneva IRS Auction
There are just two houses that get their own chapter in the book of Curry Family Lore. One of those houses is the obvious house, that old du…
Lake Geneva Market Update
There’s no way to downplay the move in interest rates that have occurred over the past three months. I read an article this morning th…
Short The Market
There are many reasons that I’m worse at my job than I otherwise could be. One reason is that I really don’t like working on the…
Lake Geneva Real Estate Brokers
Five or six years ago, Sotheby’s flew me to New Jersey to meet with their executive team. It was time that David Curry, Local, be intr…
My Friend Eric
I have a friend named Eric that you probably don’t know. I met Eric when we were both in the sixth grade attending a small church in …
Lake Geneva’s Overton Window
The political application of the Overton Window is quite easy to understand. If you’re a mischievous politician and you’d like t…
Crypto
We’re happy to announce that We Are Now Accepting Bitcoin For Payment, the sign read. We also accept Ethereum and Dogecoin and ADA and Shibu…
Herbs
Herbs
The gas station in our town is called Herb’s. I should say, it was called Herb’s. It might have been called something else even when I t…
The Cottage
The first time I ever saw the cottage I don’t think I noticed it. I drove by it and kept driving, oblivious to the obsession that would soon…
Lake Geneva Market Update
Well, that’s that. The inventory that should have arrived in February, didn’t. I know why it didn’t. It doesn’t hav…
Something Else
There’s something wrong with you, she said. I know, I said. The Johnson deal is in trouble. Not because it should be, but because it just …
The Rink
In the winter the town would flood the gravel parking lot to give the locals a place to ice skate. Sure the lake was full of ice, but this …
Bridges
I was down at that bridge again. It was dark and it was rainy and that’s why I was there. Young couples put on their prom best and sta…
Lake Geneva Lakefront Condominium Year In Review
It’s true that I suffer from PTSD related to my exposure to the lakefront condo market between the years 2008 and 2018. This decade ca…
Lake Geneva Lakefront Year In Review
I’m writing my year end review a bit later than I’d normally write it, largely owed to a family vacation and that little Glanwor…
Whataboutisms
The frothy whip of the real estate market has improved the lives and wellbeing of many, and in that list of many I include my own life and t…
Lake Geneva’s Winterfest
During the winters of the 1980s there wasn’t a whole lot of activity at the end of Upper Loch Vista Drive. My childhood came and went…
Low Grade
What if some houses are actually terrible? What if certain houses were built by people who shouldn’t have been allowed to pick any til…
Glanworth Gardens Sells
Well, that’s that. I’m proud to announce my latest lakefront sale. While I remember all of my lakefront sales, this one is goin…
Lake Geneva Airports
It has never been a particular goal of mine to fly in a private airplane. That’s really good news for me, because it’s generally…
Sand
The vacation now ended was nice enough. The islands were fine. The water was warm. The villa both impressive and comfortable. Everything was…
The New Year
This was quite a year. I toggled between righteous anger over the state of the world and quiet, head down ambivalence. I think that’s …
University of Chicago
At first I thought maybe it was just Monday. The world was resting, or asleep, or wishing to be unbothered by the thought of another week. M…
Merry Christmas
It’s strikingly obvious to me that without my clients and friends, my family would not be so uniquely blessed. For that, I am exceedin…
Lake Geneva New Construction
The concept of total potential inventory and its role in real estate pricing isn’t something that’s very well understood. And if…
It’s A Wonderful Life
It’s rather disingenuous for me to relate to George Bailey the way I do. I watch this, the best of the Christmas movies, each December…
Real Estate Shorts
Do you know what the word breathtaking means? It means to have your breath taken. Like if you get murdered, that’s a seriously breatht…
Patience
It’s been said that patience is a virtue. If you’re trying to teach math to a child, or trying to train a dog to balance a cooki…
Virgil Abloh
I never met Virgil Abloh. I didn’t own anything from Off-White, the company he founded in Milan almost ten years ago. I’ve never…
Happy Thanksgiving
My wife and her family are Canadians. It’s not their fault, really, they just are, and they do the best that they can with this condit…
The Romantic
Growing old is fascinating. There are things that matter and things that don’t, and when I was younger I assumed that when I was older…
Glanworth Gardens Pending Sale
By now, you’ve heard the news. I have a contract on Glanworth Gardens. While the contract leaves me feeling somewhat sheepish, itR…
California Dreaming
I rather like the classic song California Dreaming, written and recorded by the Mama’s And The Papa’s, or maybe it was just by t…
Lake Geneva Valuations
Pop Quiz:
Q. How much is a house worth?
A. Whatever someone is willing to pay for it.
This is how valuations work. If I’m selling my h…
Lake Geneva Architecture
Several years ago, a good client and friend of mine built a new home in Highland Park. He desired a specific style of home, so he hired an …
Calm
There’s something wrong with the way a summer day makes me feel. I’ve heard stories that some people tell, stories about lazy ha…
Glanworth Gardens Is For Sale
Once in a great while, a property is presented to the market that is so known, so revered, so celebrated, that no superlative description is…
October
I’m starting to dislike September. It’s a fine month, as far as months go, but what exactly is September? Is it summer? Yes. Is …
Lake Geneva Lakefront Market Review
The most common method for agents to market their knowledge finds them sending out postcards showing the sold properties in their geographic…
Oscar Wilde Lied
Nevermind that Oscar was an odd fellow, we have canonized many of his poems and words and novels and because of this we remember him. In aut…
Lake Geneva Farmer’s Market
It’s today, and every Thursday through October 28th. You should visit on a nice day. Like today.
South Lakeshore Drive Sells
The business of real estate bothers me. It bothers me quite a bit. From the first day of exposure to the business the agents are taught to b…
Bay Colony Sells
One of the things that’s fun about being in the same business in the same market for so long is that I get to see my own theories play…
Fall At The Lake
Well, that’s that. Summer is dead and gone. My dreams of enjoying it are left mostly unfulfilled, and I know it’s my own fault. …
New Buffalo AirBnB Ban
…A house with the possibility of an income stream will clearly sell for more than one without.
Jessica Lee and her husband, whom she ask