11/19/2009 1:03:00 PM
I'll eat my words now -- pass the ketchup, please.
Earlier this year I wrote about how foreclosures are a rare occurence in Manitowish Waters and my reasons for thinking why this might be so. Well, two more notices of sheriff's sale were posted at the Community Center just this morning -- an off water ...
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11/19/2009 7:12:00 AM
Results of Nov. 14 Manitowish Waters foreclosure auction
Last Saturday fourteen properties that are/were part of a large estate on Rest Lake of the Manitowish chain were auctioned off. The foreclosure judgement in the amount of $4.6M was entered into last year; attempts to sell the property before and after foreclosure ...
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11/13/2009 3:35:00 PM
12 month sales statistics
Time to review what has sold in the last 12 months and see if we can glean anything useful from the information. First, let's look at the Manitowish chain. In the last 12 months, the sales of seven properties have closed; three lake lots and four lake ...
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10/12/2009 10:42:00 AM
One reason to let someone else do it.
Last July the better half and I purchased a home near ours that we are presently rehabbing. See http://vincenthoehn.point2agent.com/blogs/vince_hoehn/archive/2009/07/22/don-t-just-do-as-i-say-do-as-i-do.aspx I consider myself fairly skilled at many construction ...
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10/12/2009 9:50:00 AM
Revisons to town's UDC ordinace
Last Tuesday the Manitowish Waters Town Board Of Supervisors held a public hearing on a proposal to extend Uniform Dwelling Code inspection requirements that presently apply to one and two family dwellings to accessory buildings and detached garages over 200 ...
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10/10/2009 8:23:00 AM
No! Not snow!
I have been quite busy the last several months - plus suffering from a bit of writer's block - so haven't been doing much in the way of writing, for this blog or otherwise. But I couldn't let the first snowfall pass without some kind of comment. ...
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8/3/2009 1:34:00 PM
The home inspection contingency as a hot topic - who would have thought?
The blog post on home inspections and the home inspection contingency that I posted on May 29th has been receiving a surprising number of views (for one of my blog posts, anyway). Apparently this is a real estate topic which generates a large number of online ...
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7/22/2009 11:55:00 AM
Don't just do as I say, do as I do.
Subtitled: Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth is. For some time now I have been saying that this is a great time to buy real estate. Buy when everyone else is selling, sell when everyone else is buying -- you have heard a variation of it many times. I've ...
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6/27/2009 3:37:00 PM
Jumbo loans and you
Nationally, as well as in our local market, most residential real estate activity is centered on lower end of the real estate market. There are a number of reasons why this is true, not the least of which, at least on the national level, is the sales activity ...
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6/13/2009 10:11:00 AM
The cause of low water levels in northern Wisconsin lakes.
You may have noticed that over the last 10 years or so that it appears that the water levels have been dropping in our northern Wisconsin lakes. It has become particularly noticeable in a number of seepage lakes (lakes that have no input or output of water ...
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