Vince Hoehn of CENTURY 21 Pierce Realty LLC, Manitowish Waters, WI

I don't want to get into the good or bad of it, but it seems like every time I turn around lately I am tripping over a new state law.  No "gridlock" in the Wisconsin state legislature. As of June 1st all drivers must carry proof of insurance.  I don't know where that came from -- I never heard about it until about June ...

Presently in Wisconsin the charge for the county Register of Deeds to record a document is $11 for the first page and $2 for each additional page.  One common example -- the warranty deed given by the seller to the buyer in a real estate transaction.  Typically the buyer pays to record the document, and the buyer would most ...

In January I compiled, graphed,and posted 4th quarter aggregate real estate sales statistics for Manitowish Waters, Mercer, Presque Isle, Winchester, Lac du Flambeau, Boulder Junction, Oma and Sherman.  Today I am compiling 1st quarter sales statistics for those same communities for the years 2001 - 2010.  The data comes from the ...

One of my posts on the home inspection contingency has received 1,458 views since written last August.  I also covered the topic in May and December, but these posts, for whatever reason, have not been as popular.  Apparently there is something about my August post that search engines like as questions about home inspection ...

On occasion one of the parties to a real estate transaction finds him/herself wondering "What comes next?"   Or it might be "What comes after next?"  From the beginning of a transaction to the end there is a certain flow to the process, and I am always looking for ways to make ...

Considering investing in a foreclosed home?  The Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) has an online searchable database of residential properties that are currently owned by Fannie Mae.  Fannie Mae had purchased the mortgages for these properties as part of its normal business practices and subsequently ...

As graphical representation of data for a post on my Northwoods real estate outlook for 2010 earlier this month, I charted 4th quarter closings of the sale of single family homes in the years 2006-2009.  This chart represented closings throughout the entire Greater Northwoods Multiple Listing Service.  If one attempts ...

It's time to make some predictions about how the real estate market will fare in Wisconsin's Northwoods in 2010.  My crystal ball is just as murky as the ones belonging to all the other prognosticators, and my forecasts may be worth only what you are paying for it, but here goes:Even though mortgage rates have trended down ...

"Freddie Sees Mortgage Rates Hitting 6 Percent in 2010" Washington Post (12/26/09) P. A12; ElBoghdady, Dina As reported in the Washington Post, mortgage rates could increase to six percent by the end of 2010, or even sooner, according to Freddie Mac.  (Freddie Mac is a GSE, or government sposored enterprise, that purchases ...

My previous blog posts (May 29th and August 3rd) about the home inspection contingency and how it is constructed in the Wisconsin WB-11 Residential Offer to Purchase continue to receive beaucoup views, averaging about 7 per day for the last 6 months.  Apparently a large number of people are doing online searches ...