CalendarQuicksearchCategoriesSyndicate This BlogPolls |
Thursday, July 2. 2009Happy Independence Day
What are your plans? Wednesday, July 1. 2009Milwaukee & Madison, WI population growth some of the best in the MidwestThat's good news for property owners in Milwaukee and Madison. People want to live here. As reported on JSOnline.com, Madison leads the state in growth. Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewwicz said "Madison remains a very desirable place to live and positive growth rates like this reflect that high quality of life." Madison, Wisconsin saw a 10.7% increase in population from 2000 Milwaukee population increased by almost 8,000 in that same time period, remaining Wisconsin's largest city, ranking the 23rd largest city in the United States. Other Wisconsin statistics of note are shown in this image (photo credit Journal Sentinel via jsonline article) Wednesday, June 24. 2009Tuesday, June 23. 2009Thursday, June 18. 2009Rountree Realty joins First Weber Group. Welcome Emmy Probst, Deb Jenny, Steve Hochhausen and Dan Lyne to the First Weber Team. We sincerely hope the past clients and customers of Rountree become satisfied customers and clients of First Weber Group as these 4 REALTORS sell real real estate in their new home.Roundtree Realty has merged with First Weber Group, Platteville Thursday, June 18. 2009Cool house of the day and other real estate websitesCool house of the day, compliments of Front Door.com. Working in the real estate business, I find it interesting to look at interesting houses. Hopefully, readers will find it interesting too. Front Door is one of the national real estate websites that First Weber pushes our listings to through our Front Runner Multi Media program. Have you searched for real estate on national websites like Front Door or Trulia before? What did you think of the experience there? Were listings easy or hard to find? Our experience is that some of those sites are heard to search, or hard to search for an individual property. We can tell people are searching these sites for Wisconsin real estate because everytime someone clicks through to a First Weber listing from a national real estate website we feed to, Front Runner records a hit. We have found it to be beneficial added exposure for First Weber listings. One difficulty of feeding to national websites is that we don't control the display nor the updating of the listings like we do on firstweber.com. However, each listing we push out, does always have a link back to the listing on firstweber.com for up-to-date information. We will be doing a redesign of firstweber.com in the near future. If you have any suggestions for what you would like to see added, please tell us by making a comment. Thursday, June 18. 2009First Weber Wausau office raises money through Relay for LifeWausau Relay for LifeThe Wausau version of the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life was held last Friday and Saturday at John Muir Middle School track. First Weber entered a team captained by Karen Harvey. Multiple First Weber agents walked throughout the night to raise funds. The First Weber Group Foundation was one of the sponsors for the event with a contribution of $2,500. That along with contributions and fund raisers allowed our local Grand Ave and Rib Mountain Office to raise more than $5,000 for the Relay.
Thursday, June 18. 2009Tuesday, June 16. 2009Movie clip of Madison, Wisconsin shows some reasons Madison is a top 10 city for 2009
Click for a Kipplinger Movie all about Madison, Wisconsin and why it made #7 for 2009 cities! A great honor and a really nice video! It's a short video that makes you want to go to Madison or be happy to live there already!
Tuesday, June 16. 2009Wednesday, June 10. 2009Milwaukee is cool, in more ways than one...
Coming in at #4 for Cool is Milwaukee, Wisconsin with a comfortable climate and a vibrant city scene. Milwaukee, Wisconsin's winters are in the 20's on average (reasonable for midwest cities, you may even come to like it); comfortable in summers with 70's, 80's, 90's. We've got Summerfest, lakes, rivers and a variety of reallly real estate at affordable prices. More Milwaukee Cool (non temperature related) here such as the Calatrava and Riverwalk. View the complete list of top 10 cool cities here . All info compliments of FrontDoor.com. What do you think? Do you agree with the list? Friday, June 5. 2009Summer in Sun Prairie WisconsinFirst Weber Group kicks off Summer in Sun Prairie Wisconsin with Annual Community Kick Off PartyThe Sun Prairie office hosted its annual Summer Kick Off Party. This year the Sun Prairie Cardinal (Cody Freidel – Rose Freidel’s son) and Maynard G. Mallard from the Madison Mallards attended along with current and past clients. Everyone enjoyed hot dogs, desserts and soda. There was even a bouncy house for the kids. It was a big hit. We had our own Andy Lindgren DJ the event and had a hula hoop contest.
Looks like a nice event for the community. Let's hope for a great summer for Wisconsin real estate! Friday, June 5. 2009Famous midwest house for sale - do you remember seeing it in an 80's movie?The house in the 1980's movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" is for sale. Some very interesting architecture. Has anyone ever seen a garage like that before? Where do they put all the junk that normal people have in their garages? Check out the house and some clips from the movie here from Today Show on msnbc.com Don't know about you, but this writer is going to try Ferris Bueller tonight - and pay special attention to the house. "Anyone? Anyone?" Friday, June 5. 2009Tomah office of First Weber Group raises money, collects food for local pantryTomah office of First Weber Group Holds Fundraiser for Food Bank
Barbara Clinard of First Weber Group reports, “We had a casino night and raised $1,000, plus 182 pounds of food for our local pantry. Mary Grunow of our The First Weber Foundation told me that she thinks that the pantry will be receiving another $1,000 as matching funds.” In this photo: Three pantry volunteers with Darlene Wahls, Amanda Konsitzke, Treasa Graham, Demberly McDonald, Diana Gerke, Tammy Nevin, Molly Parrish and Barbara. There are more and more people who need help like this these days. Keep up the good work, Tomah! Thursday, June 4. 2009What to think about when selecting a neighborhood in Wisconsin
There's a really good article here from Realty Times about neighborhoods and what to think about when you are looking for a home. Wisconsin, of course, has a wide variety of neighborhoods in large and small towns across the state. What do you look for in a neighborhood? Quiet and suburban? Busy and bustling? Rural farmland? Lake living? Big city convenience? Wisconsin has it all!
Thursday, June 4. 2009Tuesday, June 2. 2009Monday, June 1. 2009Alva Lake opportunity - property on this lake in Oneida county is not often available!
One of Thanks to Sandy Ebben of First Weber Rhinelander for this post Monday, June 1. 2009Friday, May 29. 2009First Weber Group gets an "A" ratingFirst Weber Group gets an "A" rating from the Wisconsin Better Business Bureau. You can check on the rating for the Madison, Wisconsin headqaurters here and the Milwaukee, Wisconsin headquarters here.
We're really proud to have received this high grade. Every home sale/seller and every home purchase/buyer can affect that rating. We do our best to do a great job in every transaction. Our agents deserve a high five! Tuesday, May 26. 2009Thursday, May 21. 2009Monday, May 18. 2009Friday, May 15. 2009Madison, Wisconsin house for sale for $1, and yes, there is a catch.The Wisconsin State Journal's website Madison.com reports a campus home built in 1940 can be yours for the price of $1 - plus the cost of If you don't want to go to the trouble of moving a house, but still want a good deal, there are many good deals out there now. In fact, there are about 70 homes for sale in Madison, Wisconsin between the price of $135,000 and $150,000. You can find them by doing a single family property search in Madison at firstweber.com Friday, May 15. 2009Fish Lake in Wisconsin's Northwoods: affordable and aptly namedBy Sandy Ebben, First Weber Rhinelander One of the Best Kept Secrets in the Northwoods: Fish Lake
Fish Lake is a 70 acre lake that is part of the Pelican River. There is no public access on the lake, so it stays pretty quiet. Fish Lake is aptly named. According to the DNR you will find a variety of fish including muskie, northern, walleye, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, perch, bluegill, crappie, rock bass and pumpkin seed . There are some pretty good deals out there, check them out: 85130, 69920, 81481 |
Happy Independence Day to our 
to 2008. Another way to say that is an additional 22,491 chose Madison, Wisconsin as the place they wanted to live. 
According the the 
moving the house. Anyone contemplating this opportunity? You can read the entire article 
There’s a little lake just east of Rhinelander where you can still buy a lot for under $40,000.