Kathy's Blog

August 9th, 2008   I am a Florida girl-at least I was raised there and lived there until I was 19-so my youth was spent in perpetual summer.  Miami in the 1950's before homes were air-conditioned is my frame of reference.  But now that I've made Door County my home for 29 years you would think I ...

August 9th, 2008   I am a Florida girl-at least I was raised there and lived there until I was 19-so my youth was spent in perpetual summer.  Miami in the 1950's before homes were air-conditioned is my frame of reference.  But now that I've made Door County my home for 29 years you would think I ...

June 11th, 2008 I just read an article (*) in The Economist about dropping housing prices in the United States. According to the article, prices are falling faster than they were during the Great Depression. That sounded ominous and, as a Realtor, certainly caught my attention. Of course, to dump...

June 11th, 2008 I just read an article (*) in The Economist about dropping housing prices in the United States. According to the article, prices are falling faster than they were during the Great Depression. That sounded ominous and, as a Realtor, certainly caught my attention. Of course, to dump...

May 26th, 2008 My family always called it Decoration Day and we went to the cemeteries to plant flowers on the graves of my Great-Grandparents. It wasn't necessarily a sad time, just a time of rememberance. This morning I passed the Pebble Beach Cemetery in Sister Bay and saw the veteran's servic...

April 25th, 2008 My mother lives in Sturgeon Bay in a charming little 1920's house in the "Historic District" and loves it. That's interesting because when she first began coming to Door County in the 1970's, she, like many people today, didn't consider herself to be in "Door County" until she wa...

April 25th, 2008 My mother lives in Sturgeon Bay in a charming little 1920's house in the "Historic District" and loves it. That's interesting because when she first began coming to Door County in the 1970's, she, like many people today, didn't consider herself to be in "Door County" until she wa...

April 23rd, 2008 Recently I and one other Sturgeon Bay Realtor were quoted in an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and caused a minor uproar among some of the other Door County Realtors. Apparently, it is taboo to even insinuate all might be less than perfect here in Door County. Well, he...

  March 26, 2008What do "cabin" and "cottage mean to you?  To me a cabin has to be small and simple, fairly rustic inside and out, preferably knotty pine on the inside with pine floors and a stone fireplace (maybe the only source of heat).  The bedrooms (no more than 2 of them) usually didn't hav...

View my homepage to see all our listings! Door County Real Estate Door County's First Real Estate Blog WHY USE A BUYER'S AGENT TO BUY YOUR DOOR COUNTY REAL ESTATE? February 20th, 2008 What is a Buyer's Agent and when and why might you want one?  A Buyer's Agent is a licensed real estate agent wit...