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…

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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Certain phrases elicit certain reactions. For instance. If I tell my wife to “calm down”. The reaction is something I can predic…
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,…
Managing Directors, Those Bored and Successful, My Wife and Children, My Mother Who Reads These Posts, and my Fellow Lake Geneva Admirers:
We…
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…
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…
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…
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’…
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…
There’s nothing that makes me hate my chosen profession more than leafing through a local glossy magazine. There are lots of glossies …
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…
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 …
If you’ve noticed that I haven’t written as much about individual market segments of late, you’re perceptive. I haven̵…
My calendar said spring turned to summer last week. The first day of summer, it said, capitalized with an exclamation point. The hardware st…
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…
I was born in Elkhorn. Raised in Williams Bay. Then I lived in Linn Township, Geneva Township, Delavan Township, Fontana, and now Walworth T…
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…
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 …
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. …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
(Lake Geneva lovers to the left of the podium, smiling and clapping, standing. Michigan lovers to the right of my podium, scowling, sitting,…
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…
If you’re lucky enough to be a Lake Geneva vacation home owner, then you’re unlucky enough to be unwrapping Walworth County̵…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
I’ve decided, in the wake of the Cubs miserable, awful, embarrassing performance this week, to make every post a sad one. Monday, Mult…
When times were particularly bad and getting worse, I hatched a particular theory. The theory supposed that in spite of the various factors…
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…
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…
In a recent Lake Geneva Regional News article, City of Lake Geneva Alderman John Halverson, when discussing the state of the Lake Geneva Riv…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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 …