Certain times, there’s nothing more to say. Like when you’ve eaten a most delicious dinner. You can say it was a delicious dinn…
Battle Royale
There’s a battle inside each of us. Every day. Each season of our lives, a battle. Sometimes, the battle is easy to understand. Easy t…
Cancel The Boat Parade
There are things here that we do exceptionally well. Things we do better than anyone, at any place, during any point in history. An evening …
The Test
It is true that not everyone is cut out for this thing. As a point of fact, this is the case for nearly every thing. For instance, I am not…
Lake Geneva Home Search
You’re not really in the market for a home if you haven’t looked for said home on Zillow. You may have also used Redfin, Realtor.com, and ot…
This Day
This day is too nice to type at this computer. I sat down to type, and I wondered what I was thinking. Who could type on a day like this? I …
250 Circle Parkway
I’m in the process of designing a new office for my business. The current location, an office that I’m quite proud of, has grow…
Frogs
In the middle of a Wisconsin summer, there are things that happen that you might not know about. I didn’t know about them, when I spen…
Lake Geneva Lakefront Market Update
I was sitting on a pier last night, just after a lakeside dinner, watching the remnants of a cloudy evening sunset. Kids jigged for bass und…
Grassway Organics Pizza Review
There are lots of pizza places in this area. There are many more places that also serve pizza. The pizza places have checkered tablecloths …
Chicago
One of the reasons I’m bad at this business is that I tend to give people too much credit. I can’t market gimmicks. I’m in…
Lake Geneva Price Reductions
Now that was a weekend. Sure, we were forced to sweat through the first few days to get to the last few days, but what sort of people are we…
Lake Geneva Fireworks 2019
During this time of considerable political tumult, there is just one thing that binds Americans together. Liberals and conservatives disag…
Just A Kid
It’s raining again, and this time it’s getting to me. The sun shines, but then it doesn’t. Here, then gone. Like a rising…
Upper Crust Pizza Review
I’m still not sure there is a “Pell Lake”. I’ve heard of it. I’ve seen signs for it. I’ve read rumors of…
Lake Geneva Lakefront Market Review
It still pains me to write all of this on this open format. The thought of new agents reading this and adopting my way of thinking is bothe…
Lake Geneva Lakefront Inventory
Sometimes, I like to dance around a topic. Actually, all of the time. Except today, because I’m in a hurry and there’s no time.…
Ugly Houses
My cousin recently had a baby. I saw this baby at a different cousin’s wedding over the weekend and my suspicions were confirmed. It&#…
Weather Malaise
Well, I have it. The malaise. But this case is so severe it should be capitalized, like Malaise. I should add something more to it. Like T…
The Boat House Pizza Review
It’s hard not to judge a restaurant by its location. If Oakfire had been built in Elkhorn with a view of the Burger King, rather than …
W4396 Basswood Drive
It’s still for sale. It shouldn’t be. Reduced to $8.495MM. The most complete estate listed for sale this summer. Email me for a…
Lake Geneva Lakefront Market Update
I spent much of Sunday on the lake. There’s a new boat in the Curry fold, and the boat must be used. Boats are like that. If you don&#…
Oakfire Pizza Review
One year ago, I stopped writing fish fry reviews. Over the following weeks, I was often asked why I didn’t crown a winner. Why, after …
Five Star Farm
I’ve never been to Edgar, Wisconsin. The odds are good that you haven’t been there either. Because I’ve never been, I don’t know much about …
Summer Homes For City People
In case you’re not around Lake Geneva at the moment and would like to peruse the new issue…
Memorial Day Weekend
Well, here we are. On the cusp. Don’t forget, this isn’t it. This is the cusp. This isn’t summer. This is a dress rehearsa…
Cedar Point Parkway Listing
Much of the development around Geneva Lake in the early and mid 1900s focused on cottage building. How can we force as many small summer cot…
New Cedar Point Lakefront
Wander through Williams Bay and follow the lakeshore to the southern tip of Cedar Point Park and you’ll notice something. Something serious.…
Holi Cannoli Pizza Review
During this pizza series, one place was the most consistently and aggressively recommended to me: Holi Cannoli. You know how I feel about …
Market Cycles
It pains me to write about the market on this blog. During the earlier times of these writings, I could write and write and only some buyer…
May Flowers
For all of the moving I’ve done, and all of the land that I’ve called home, I have only owned one prized Oak tree. The trees that typically …
JoJo’s Pizza Review
There’s a particular scene in Django Unchained that finds a group of men in the midst of preparing for a raid. The reason for the raid…
Lake Geneva Market Update
I brought a new property to market a week or so ago, and if you’re looking for a vacation home with transferable boat slip, then you&#…
Gino’s East Pizza Review
Monday night found me in Burlington for my son’s baseball game. Since I was in Burlington I asked a few people for their opinions as t…
North Lakeshore Drive Sells
There are certain ways that certain houses charm their way into our pocketbooks. It might be a floor plan. A quirky corner where a staircase…
Vesuvio’s Pizza Review
This is the tenth week in a row I’ve eaten pizza. One week, I ate pizza three times. If you think this is why my shirts are tighter th…
Park Drive Sells
It’s tax day. There’s snow on the ground. If we look at those two conditions we could all agree that things are terrible. Excep…
Larducci’s Pizza Review
On Sunday night I watched a documentary about the ills of an animal based diet. Dairy products are full of puss, the pork industry ruined t…
Old Lakefront Homes
I wanted to think of a better title. Something clever. Something snappy. Maybe something a little less descriptive and a little more simple.…
Siemer’s Cruise In Pizza Review
I was already in Hebron. Hebron, the place where they won that basketball championship so many years ago. The place that’ll be damned …
Market Update
It’s April. That means the year is young, but it’s not exactly new anymore. The ice left us over the weekend, and now it’s…
Harpoon Willie’s Pizza Review
When you’re reviewing pizza in an area of rural Wisconsin that is populated, be it seasonally or annually, by people from Chicago, it&…
Countdown
It’s spring break, and everyone is gone. To the mountains. To the beach. To a different place with its own brand of monotony. In the m…
Wisconsin Kringle Company Pizza Review
I remember when this place first opened. I had a friend considering putting a donut shop into this odd building on the corner of the Lake Ge…
New South Shore Club Listing
The South Shore Club is all quite nice. The pool and the entrance, the tennis courts and the piers. There’s nothing like it here, and …
Pending Lakefront
My newest pending lakefront contract, 389 North Lakeshore Drive, Fontana. It’s a great house on a great lot in a highly desirable loca…
Nayeli’s Pizza Review
In a well known, oft admired scene in The Great Outdoors, Buck Ripley is shooting pool at a local, Northwoods bar. His introduction to Cam…
Lake Geneva Market Update
I fished for a few hours last week. Me, the stream and the snow, deep and white, still soft, still clean, and the trout. It wasn’t a b…
Mama Cimino’s Pizza Review
There’s a thing about making Tuesday pizza night. It’s not a night where you have to contend with lines. Crowds like the weeken…
Lake Houses
Certain phrases elicit certain reactions. For instance. If I tell my wife to “calm down”. The reaction is something I can predic…