Just listed a great new Prime Property! If you are searching for an affordable property in the Alexandria Lakes area - be sure to take a serious look at this Long Prairie MN Lake Home on Lake Beauty. It is a great year-round lake home priced at $259,900.

Happy Lake Home Hunting!

Here it is - the most expensive vacation home in the upper Midwest. This Ellison Bay WI lake home is priced to sell at $29,000,000. It is the most expensive lake home on LakePlace.com - surpassing our old #1 - this Orono MN lake home that is priced at a mere $15,900,000 (reduced from $18M if I remember correctly).

The new #1 is located in Door County WI and the features are only available to pre-qualified buyers. Are you qualified? Have you been searching for a $30M cottage? If so, give us a call and we will set up a guided tour.

Happy Lake Home Hunting!

I was browsing LakePlace.com today and came across this unbelievable Lake Superior property for sale.  Priced at $1,075,000 - it looks like a little slice of heaven in Northern Wisconsin.  If you have been looking for that unique property to build your dream home - this property, featuring 1,100 feet of Lake Superior frontage could be the one.

Happy Lake Home Hunting!

What a great weekend! Last week, my wife found one of our Gear Daddies cd’s somewhere. I had not listened to it in years but I was really excited to see it - the Gear Daddies are one of my favorite bands of all time. I put their cd in the car for the drive to work and it brought back so many great memories - it was the start of an awesome day.

So when I got a minute at work that day - I dug around online to see what I could find out about the Gear Daddies. To my amazement - they were actually reuniting to play at Highland Fest on Saturday. I emailed the wife, asked her if she wanted to go (dumb question) and we made our plans.

I have to say, the show was awesome. The music was awesome. The night was awesome. They performed all of their classics and the sound was incredible.

After the show, my wife and I were lucky enough to be invited backstage to hang out with the guys for a while. Above is a cell phone pic of me and Martin Zellar (lead singer). He and the rest of the band - Randy Broughten, Nick Ciola, and Billy Dankert were great and a lot of fun to hang out with.

If you are a Gear Daddies fan - I highly recommend listening to your favorite Gear Daddies cd today - it will bring back some fun times…and if you are not familiar with the Gear Daddies - I highly recommend going out and buying all of their cd’s TODAY! They are kind of hill-billy rock with a local flair (eg. Dream Vacation in the Dells - lyrics here). You have not heard anything like it.

Gear Daddies MySpace Page (listen to many songs)

itunes Link: Gear Daddies downloads
Amazon Link: Gear Daddies cd’s

Talk to you later!

CNN/Money just released the top 10 places to live in the United States.

For this year’s list we focused on smaller places that offered the best combination of economic opportunity, good schools, safe streets, things to do and a real sense of community.

Minnesota & Wisconsin showed pretty well (we usually do!) This year Middleton, WI came in first place while Chaska, MN was awarded the number eight spot. If you are currently living in one of the other 48 states - and thinking about moving to the perfect (a.k.a BEST) place - check out the Middleton WI homes and Chaska MN homes for sale on LakePlace.com - life is even better at the lake!

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I forgot to mention last week that we finally completed our upgrade of the vacation rental section. Members now have the ability to (once again) login to their accounts, add a rentors.org availability calendar, pinpoint their cabin location on the Google Map and update information, descriptions and images (we now allow 12 vs. 5 images with every vacation rental listing).

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