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…
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…
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…
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…
Lake Houses
Certain phrases elicit certain reactions. For instance. If I tell my wife to “calm down”. The reaction is something I can predic…
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,…
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…
Lake Geneva Winter
I think it’s cute that the city of Lake Geneva is installing an ice rink this winter. The ice rink will complement the ice castles tha…
Lake Geneva YTD Performance
When you’re part of an industry that puts significant focus on calendar year performance, you tend to look up in late October and real…
Vista Del Lago Sells
After a market downturn occurs, we must set our aim towards the goal of complete and thorough recovery. If that goal is to return a specifi…
Lake Geneva Video
It’s been three years since I had my homepage video filmed. That was a terrific video, if I do say so myself. But this last week’…
Bonnie Brae Boathouse
For each of us, there is something unique in our story, some important event in our past, or in the past of our parents, or our grandparents…
Lake Geneva Realtors
There’s nothing that makes me hate my chosen profession more than leafing through a local glossy magazine. There are lots of glossies …
Basswood Lake Geneva
A Wednesday reminder that my listing at W4396 Basswood Drive is still available. I just reduced the price of this home to $8,495,000, and it…
Not The Same
I don’t really know exactly how Hamburger Helper works. I assume it’s just a powder mix, with some starch to bind and some salt …
Lake Geneva Market Update
If you’ve noticed that I haven’t written as much about individual market segments of late, you’re perceptive. I haven̵…
Summery
My calendar said spring turned to summer last week. The first day of summer, it said, capitalized with an exclamation point. The hardware st…
Municipal Musings
Last weekend, it was hot. You know that. I know that. It was super hot. Smoking hot. Summer hot. If you were here, then you were less hot th…
South Shore Bar Fish Fry Review
I was born in Elkhorn. Raised in Williams Bay. Then I lived in Linn Township, Geneva Township, Delavan Township, Fontana, and now Walworth T…
Geneva National Vs. The World
If you think the vacation home market at the lake is active, you should check out the market for sub-$350k single family and condominium res…
Along The Way
I love my kids. I really do. Of the few things in this life of which I’m certain, that condition is firmly assured. But I can’t …
Lake Geneva Yacht Club Fish Fry Review
Sometimes, dive bars aren’t where it’s at. They’re fun, the irony of it all, of the dated this and the out of style that. …
Hillcroft Lake Geneva Sale
It’s fun to see the media make a fuss about a sale on Geneva Lake. First up, please know that the media itself doesn’t pay suc…
Popeye’s Fish Fry Review
I called ahead. It was 5:50 pm and I figured I’d arrive at Popeye’s with my party of six sometime just after 6. I learned many …
Lake Geneva Market Update
It feels like it wasn’t so long ago that I wished for more snow. For more cold. For more winter. Shortly after wishing, all of that ca…
New Geneva Lakefront Listing
It is no secret that the South Shore Club is an exclusive development. Anything numbering just 40 in total would be viewed as exclusive. Whi…
2018 State Of The Market
(Lake Geneva lovers to the left of the podium, smiling and clapping, standing. Michigan lovers to the right of my podium, scowling, sitting,…
2017 Market Reviews
One year ago, I wrote my year end market reviews and worried about 2017 inventory. 2016 had been a terrific year, but without inventory the…
Tax Time
If you’re lucky enough to be a Lake Geneva vacation home owner, then you’re unlucky enough to be unwrapping Walworth County̵…
South Shore Club Sells
In the South Shore Club, there are 40 total lots. Most are built on, a few are not. At present, there is one new construction underway. To …
Bluff Lane
Buyers have a unique tendency to focus on one or two aspects of a purchase, and in doing so, convince themselves to proceed with the transac…
Stone Manor Saga
In the news this week, more of the continuing saga surrounding Stone Manor. I suppose most of this story is my fault, so I should take some …
Thanksgiving
Halloween is a stupid, fake holiday. There, I said it. It’s absolutely the worst fake holiday there is. I’ll take Sweetest Day o…
The Fall Of It All
I already know the sort of fall you like. I know the sort of fall everyone likes. It’s the fall we had last Saturday. Sunshine, 70 deg…
Construction Sadness
I’ve decided, in the wake of the Cubs miserable, awful, embarrassing performance this week, to make every post a sad one. Monday, Mult…
Lake Geneva Market Update
When times were particularly bad and getting worse, I hatched a particular theory. The theory supposed that in spite of the various factors…
Lake Geneva Agent Representation
We know lots of things. We know that if we don’t cut our grass once a week it will grow too tall and too thick, and when we cut it aft…
Fall At The Lake
Of the things we know to expect during an autumn here, 95 degree sunshine is not among them. The heat is rare, but in a summer devoid of any…
Sell The Lake Geneva Riviera
In a recent Lake Geneva Regional News article, City of Lake Geneva Alderman John Halverson, when discussing the state of the Lake Geneva Riv…
Summer Night
There is some thought, rampant among those who cannot yet know, that a night is a night is a night. The night it dark here, just like there,…
700 South Lakeshore Sells
When I listed this property last August, I knew exactly what it was. It wasn’t the most perfect house on the lake. The kitchen wasn…
Colors
By now, we all know that things haven’t been going our way. We started out with that winter, so intent on enjoying it and skiing it an…
Walworth County Market Update
When you’re a Realtor, you’re supposed to want to do everything you can to sell anything you can. You’re supposed to pay a…
Peace
In the stillness of an anywhere field, there’s a stream that babbles and weaves and spills. The stream is loud. There are birds both …
Lake Geneva Market Conditions
I had a dream last night. In the dream I was just myself, no one else. I wasn’t able to fly, or able to breath under water; nothing te…
Lake Geneva News
I try my best to avoid involving myself with the municipal governments in this area. I care deeply about what happens here, about the future…
March
There’s a thing about March. It is, without any question, the worst month of the year. If you disagree, that’s fine, but I know …
Geneva Lakefront Market Update
I’ve been writing 2017 on my checks with solid consistency for the better part of a month now. There are no more sixes that have been …
Lake Geneva Lake Access Market Review
That headline is clunky. But it’s only clunky because it has to be. Lake Geneva is the general term for our market. Unfortunately some…