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Real Estate Agent - CENTURY 21 Pierce Realty - Manitowish Waters, WI
Up-to-date market information and statistics and community information relevant to Manitowish Waters and the surrounding communities of Northern Wisconsin.
RECENT BLOG POSTS
Day 2 of the GRI Course 3 in Green Bay, WI. A lot of good stuff to digest. First we discussed the benefits of using one's retirement account to invest in real estate. If you sell your investment property, unless you do a delayed exchange (one type of a 1031 exchange), your gain on the sale is tax...
02/03/2009
Day One at GRI Course 3 (see my previous post) has proven to be most interesting. The subject today and tomorrow is "Investment Real Estate and Exchanging", and our instructor assures us that if we master what he is illustrating for us, we will be able to do something 99% of other real estate age...
02/02/2009
As I write this I am sitting in a motel room in Green Bay and the Super Bowl is coming to a close. I am here in Green Bay to attend the Wisconsin REALTORS® Association Designation Week and complete the education requirements for the GRI (Graduate REALTOR® Institute) designation. I have been worki...
02/01/2009
 I have never, ever been real conversant in the ways and means of the world of high finance - was never really that interested - but the sad state we now find ourselves in, financially speaking, has resulted in me paying more attention to such matters. An article in the January 19th issue of Time...
01/25/2009
Our local multiple listing service, the Greater Northwoods Multiple Listing Service, is in the process of switching vendors of our MLS software and data storage. Beginning this Friday, January 23rd, our present vendor (Realty Server) will begin transferring data to our new vendor (MarketLinx), an...
01/22/2009
Let's consider several unrelated statistics today. First, have you spent any time wondering how REALTORS® such as myself have been faring in this economic downtown? Probably not, but here is one way to quantify what is happening. The Wisconsin REALTORS® Association forecast before the end of 2008...
01/15/2009
I will be attending the Wisconsin REALTORS Association Designation Week in Green Bay on February 2 - 5, 2009.  I will be in the GRI III class, and will finally (hopefully!) be getting that GRI designation.  Are you going to be there?  If so, perhaps we can "network" and develop some referral busi...
01/14/2009
I commented on the new Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) rules on a previous blog post. I now read that two lawsuits have been filed seeking to reverse or eliminate several rule changes contained in the re-written rules. The lawsuits have been brought by the National Association of Ho...
01/14/2009
According to the latest American Community Survey (a product of the U.S. Census Bureau, 2005-2007 data) three out of four of the U.S. born citizens of Wisconsin - 75.2 percent - were born in Wisconsin. By contrast, only 27.8 per cent of the U.S. born citizens of Nevada were born in their state of...
12/30/2008
There is a difference. A number of surveys of home buyers have indicated that up to 70% of home buyers believed that the real estate professional assisting them in their property search and purchase was representing them, the buyer, even though in many cases the agent was representing the seller,...
12/26/2008
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