Home Loans & Happenings

The Truth about Local Foreclosures   Many Things have been written and reported negatively about home foreclosures. While Kosciusko County is not immune to this, we are not nearly as bad as the reports out there suggest. Here are the Facts:  Currently in Kosciusko County Sold foreclosures YTD = 1...

I thought I would take a historical look at homes prices for Lake Wawasee as they pertain to Lake front homes and condominiums. I have compiled statistics for the years 2001 - 2008. On the charts below you will find the average sales price and number of sold properties for each given year. As you...

 The power that Active Rain continually achieves in the search engines just amazes me. Case in point. Periodically I will do a Google search for the keywords that I use to help gain me better Google rankings for my local market. It's kind of "a gimme" that's one of the main objectives from all of...

 The ice is gone, piers are going in and the crappie are working their way into the channels. As I  walk by the big blue monster in my drive, I am eager to pull that shrink wrap off and start prepping our boat for its annual launch. Eager to spend a sunny day  on our beautiful Lake Wawasee . Last...

   Real estate market in Kosciusko county for the month of March continued to lag behind the previous year.  The greatest encouraging sign of improvement in our market is the number of current homes under contract through our Multiple Listing Service, is up to 115 and active listings are down to ...

What a great time Sharon & I had at the Milford elementary school Spring music program "Rock-in the Decades. As the kids sang and danced us through each decade of music from the 60's up through the 90's. Kudos to the Milford staff and music dept. for a job well done in teaching and leader the chi...

The North Webster Elementary schools 4th grade boys basketball team wrapped up an undefeated season thursday afternoon with a hard fought victory over the Syracuse boys team. It was such a team effort as they showed that teamwork really does payoff. I have thoroughly enjoyed watching this team pl...

  2009 Home & Garden ShowSponsored by the Kosciuko County Home Builders AssociationMarch 20 - 22YMCA  Raquet Center                                                         3919 N S.R. 15                                                              WarsawFri. 1 pm  - 8  pmSat. 10 am - 8 pmSun. 1 p...

Would you like to sell your home, but you have been hearing all the negatives out there about low prices? " I'm not about to give up all my hard earned equity and give it away" you say. I say, "you need to consider the home  you would buy if your home sold, before deciding  whether to sell or not...

      C = Carefully consider the price of your home.               This is the third installment in our series of the ABC's of selling your home.   Our first article A = Appearance touch on getting your home ready for the market.   The second was B =  Brokerage / Agent selection  which outline se...