It should come as no surprise that our travels influence our sense of design and style. If I were to travel exclusively to Manitoba, Canada,…
Fair Oaks
I’ve said it often that I tend to offer lakefront buyers on Geneva a binary choice. They must either choose to have a nice lot with a bad ho…
Solar Lane
Over the past few months, there have been quite a few lakefront sales. Most recently, the $12.9M house in Lake Geneva closed for a whopping …
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…
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…
Lake Geneva Market Update
What an odd time this is. On one hand, it’s lame. Super lame. Terrible. Some people are sick. Others are rightfully terrified of becom…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
Cedar Point For Sale
A couple of weeks ago, I started working on a new listing. This lakefront house was in Cedar Point, on the very top of the point, where the…
Glenwood Springs For Sale
There’s a reason you read this blog. That, of course, was a lie. In actuality, there are many reasons you read this blog, but perhaps …
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…
Geneva Lakefront Market Update
In real estate, being shameless is quite important. I’ve struggled with this at times, most of the time, really. But I still tell you …
Mid-Summer Markets
This would be much easier if we weren’t here. If we were in some other absurd little Midwestern vacation home market, everything would…
Lake Geneva Lakefront Update
Perception is an interesting thing. For instance, when I’m in front of a mirror with no one around me, I think that things are lookin…
South Shore Club Lot
Increasingly, buyers build what they want, where they want, oblivious, either ignorantly or happily so, to the fact that their build is pric…
New Ideas
I can’t imagine a life where I am forced to sell terrible real estate. Real estate itself, the business, is bad enough, but if I were …
Loramoor Lakefront For Sale
My kids like to make time-lapse videos. Some people make time lapse videos over the course of an entire day. The sun comes up, quickly, then…