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…
Pino’s Pizza Review
If you went to the Next Door Pub and the Next Door Pub was in Walworth, but instead of being in a restaurant space the restaurant is in the …
Winters End
It’s over. That’s it. There’s nothing left. We made it. No more winter, not here, anyway. Sure, up north there’s sti…
Rosati’s Pizza Review
More than fifty years ago, in a suburb of Chicago, a member of the Rosati family opened a pizzeria. Years later, a franchise model was born,…
Park Drive For Sale
Lakefront buyers know that a hunt for a lakefront house can be fun. Can, being the operative word there. It could be fun. Should be fun. But…
Lake Geneva’s Best Pizza
On December 17th, I decided to try the Keto diet. The timing was complicated, so close to Christmas, a holiday revered in my family for its …
Lake Geneva Lakefront Inventory
Here we are again. In February. The snow is still flying, but we know what we know. Summer is coming soon. With that in mind, buyers are loo…
2019 State Of The Market
Managing Directors, Those Bored and Successful, My Wife and Children, My Mother Who Reads These Posts, and my Fellow Lake Geneva Admirers:
We…
Spring Market
Let’s take a moment to appreciate the week that was. Monday we were roused from our slumber by snow, perhaps six inches of it, and we …
Lake Geneva Lakefront
It’s January. Time for snow storms that aren’t really actually snow storms, and lakefront price reductions. Inventory will build…
Lake Geneva Winter
This is the time of year when social media feeds are filled to the brim with mockery. Mockery of our place, of this place, of the cold. The …
Major Storm
I’m not sure why you’re spending the time to read this. It’s coming. Can’t you see? It’s not far away now. La…
Geneva National 2018 Market Year In Review
There are few market segments that I find as curious as Geneva National. Under no other particular context does one association make up its …
Lake Geneva Lakefront Condominium 2018 Market Review
When we entered 2018, we knew we had some inventory problems. This was widespread throughout the vacation home market, from entry level cott…
New Construction Lake Geneva
We know the trend. It’s not just here, but it sure is pronounced here. It’s not just a trend on Geneva, it’s a trend on o…
2018 Lake Geneva Lakefront Year In Review
The year just ended was, by most accounts, a good year. But that’s a silly way to describe something as diverse and unique as a year. …
Merry Christmas
I’ve been a bit absent lately, in case anyone has noticed. I guess I just don’t have too much to say right now. I wish you a me…
Cool White
( A rerun from 2017)
The problem with this tradition is that it’s based, at least somewhat, on emotion. On feelings. Which is wh…
Lake Geneva Inventory
In real estate, you either win sometimes or you lose sometimes. There is no such thing as winning or losing. You’re winning, a bit. Lo…
Williams Bay Property Taxes
Tis the season for dreading the mail. There’s something nice about the season, relating to the mail, I suppose. Each day, my mailbox i…