Everyone is saying that this past year taught them a lot. It taught them about being alone and being still and being strong. I taught them t…
Expensive
Nice things are problematic for me. If I have one nice thing, say, a really nice drill, then I should be pretty content. After all, I have a…
Home
I’ll be home for Christmas, so the song wishes. I’ve been struggling to find some Christmas spirit this year, why it’s be…
Regrets
Some people say you should live your life with no regrets. Some of those people tattoo the phrase on their bodies, to serve as a reminder to…
Chicken
Let’s pretend I’m at a car dealership. Now let’s pretend you can feel my emotions. If you can feel those emotions and you…
Bad Decisions
One of the problems with this blog is that I cannot cite specific examples of the market mistakes I see. If I were to do so, I’d get i…
Geneva Lakefront Market Update
In 2016, there were two lakefronts for sale on Lackey Lane. Lackey, in case you didn’t know, is a nice little street on the south side…
Lake Geneva Development
For a millisecond, I thought it would be nice to be a developer. Build something, have people pay you more than your cost, make money. It se…
Thanksgiving
What a curious thing it is, this year. I sit here at this desk worrying about which customer will buy and which customer will sell, worryin…
Williams Bay Boardwalk
If you follow me on any of the social media platforms, you know a few things about me. You know I like to fly fish. This is important to kno…
Valley Park Sells
I’m pleased to have represented this south shore lakefront (along with my co-listers). 150′ of frontage and a slick modern home…
Crain’s Lake Geneva
Perhaps you recently read the new article about the Lake Geneva vacation home market in the pages of Crain’s Chicago Business. The art…
Difficult Times Ahead
It seems to me there are two seasons of a man’s life. Some would suggest there are more, but they would be wrong. No one would sugges…
Improvement City
I wrote an article earlier this year about my vision for the City of Lake Geneva. It was a pretty simple vision, really, one where the city…
The New Math
It used to be well known that the math preferred by the Lake Geneva lakefront market was two plus two equals four. That formula supposes th…
Lake Geneva Market Update
I haven’t written one of these for a while, largely because doing so would have felt gratuitous. How many times do you need me to tell…
Lake Geneva Open House
I don’t take my title lightly. I respect it. I honor it. I revere it. But alas, no matter how I feel about it what matters is how ever…
Other Things
This market is something. I’d like to think it requires your attention, but it doesn’t. It just requires your engagement. And yo…
Lake Geneva Fall Colors
They’re here. It’s now. They snuck up on me, even though I knew they were imminent. I told you a few weeks ago that they’…
Mountain Towns
I spent the weekend in Bachelor Gulch, that little enclave in the narrow draw just to the west of Beaver Creek. The Aspens were at their col…
Fallingwater Sells
Well, not the real Fallingwater, but the Lake Geneva version. I was extremely fortunate to be hired to represent this unique property. The s…
South Shore Club Sells
I remember when I didn’t understand the South Shore Club very well. The year was 2002 and I visited an open house there with my new br…
Lake Geneva Fall Colors
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…