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09/08/2026

🏡 **NEW LISTING | 1781 County Rd XX, Kronenwetter**

Not everyone wants MORE house. Sometimes you want **just enough house… and a whole lot more garage.** 😉

This immaculately maintained Kronenwetter home keeps life simple without giving up the things that matter:

🚗 Large **3-car garage** for vehicles, toys, tools & hobbies
🌳 **.554-acre lot** with room to garden, relax, entertain or let the dog run
✨ Exceptionally clean and lovingly maintained
🏡 A manageable home without a long list of projects waiting for you
📍 Convenient access to Weston, Rothschild, Wausau & I-39
🌲 Parks, trails, shopping, dining & everyday necessities nearby

And that County Road XX location? For the right buyer, it means **less time winding through subdivisions and more time getting where you’re going.**

Perfect for someone buying their first home, simplifying their next one, or anyone who believes their garage doesn’t necessarily need to be smaller than their house. 😂

**Sometimes you don’t need a lot of house to have a lot to love. ❤️**

📍 1781 County Rd XX | Kronenwetter, WI
https://lorabladow.remax.com/property/275-22604411-1781-county-road-xx-kronenwetter-WI-54455

09/03/2026

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to my Sellers on their Accepted Offer! 🎉🎉🎉

09/01/2026

🏡 **WAIT until you see the backyard… 👀🌳**

4029 Crestwood Drive isn’t just BIG—it’s the kind of home that gives you room to actually **live differently.**

✨ 4,200+ finished sq ft
✨ 4 bedrooms + 5th-bedroom potential
✨ Walkout lower-level family room
✨ Rare 4-car tandem garage
✨ Nearly an acre that feels like your own little world

Trees, privacy, a pergola patio and spaces that practically beg to be explored—all tucked into Wausau’s Riverview neighborhood near River Highlands Park & Sylvan Hill & Bunkers Golf Course.

**The photos are good. The feeling when you get there is better. ❤️**

https://lorabladow.remax.com/property/275-22604309-4029-crestwood-drive-wausau-WI-54403

08/28/2026

The much anticipated drawing for the $250 List Clearing Giveaway for Merrill and Wausau Area Schools is here! 🎉🎉
Praying big 'ol blessings on this school year to ALL the teachers and staff. May you recognize the power you have to change those student souls & lives and feel supported in your roles 🙏 👩‍🏫👨‍🏫🏫🎒🚌

08/26/2026

📈📊🏡The #1 Question I'm asked when people see me in public is "How's the market?" 🤷‍♀️
Its hard to give a 30 second elevator speech about how complex the market is right now. Not bad, just Different than we've seen for a few years. So, as I tend to do, I took a deep dive into the local market data to show you exactly what happened this year vs. last year. This information is specific to Marathon & Lincoln Counties and based on MLS sales data, it does not reflect private sales completed without a Realtor involved. I'm going to deep dive here and attach 9 slides that offer a high level summary as well. I'd love to hear your thoughts and questions in the comments. 👍

Most notably, Central Wisconsin is not experiencing a sales-volume slowdown in summer 2026.
Quite the opposite. June 1st - August 21st: 34 more homes have closed in 2026, sales count is up 8.5%, median price is up about $24,500, and total dollar volume is up almost 23%.
BUT there's a subtle shift underneath those strong headline numbers. Homes are taking slightly longer to sell by the median—48 days versus 46—and sellers aren't quite getting the same premium over asking/original price that they did last summer. We're not necessarily looking at pure 13% home-value appreciation. The mix of what's selling has shifted upward dramatically. Sales under $150K have been cut by more than half, while $500K+ transactions increased from 44 to 69. The median price of homes sold this summer is about 9% higher than last summer, but part of that increase comes from a significant shift
toward higher-priced homes making up a larger share of sales. More homes are coming onto the Central Wisconsin market in 2026 — but buyer demand has increased almost enough to absorb the additional supply. New listings are up about 9.4%, while closed transactions are up 7.2%. That's a much more nuanced story than “inventory is way up and buyers have disappeared. In fact, buyers are purchasing more homes this summer than last summer BECAUSE there were more homes in the market for them to buy. That being said, the market is changing underneath. The biggest change is where the inventory is showing up. That $250K–$350K category jumped off the page at me. There were 65 more new listings in that price range this summer — a 52% increase. Meanwhile, listings below
$250K actually declined by about 17%. So when someone says, “There are so many more houses for sale this year,” that's only partly true. There are substantially more choices in certain price ranges, particularly $250K–$350K. It means sellers in that middle-market segment are facing meaningfully more competition for the buyer than they did last summer, which is driving longer days on the market and lower list to sale price ratios in that price point even though buyer demand itself is healthy. Central Wisconsin isn't moving from a seller's market straight into a buyer's market it looks more like we're moving from a
scarcity-driven market toward a more balanced, price-sensitive market. Buyers haven't gone away but they have more choices in portions of the market, which means sellers can no longer assume that merely putting a decent house on MLS will create urgency. Demand is still strong. Competition between sellers is increasing. And that is a very different message than “the market is slowing down.”

08/25/2026

I had the honor of helping another family say a bittersweet goodbye to their family get-away today. Congratulations to my Seller on their successful sale 👏

08/24/2026

Prepare to have goosebumps, its story time. 😍

This was the home of a family that cherished growing up here in what was more than a house, it was their homestead. As adults, family came back to visit from out of state and stayed here, parents passed and it was the last physical connection to them the family had left. After many emotional conversations, the siblings decided it was time to say Goodbye. They interviewed a few agents and chose me to help them walk through the daunting process of finding the next owners of this property they love so dearly.

Fast forward through a whole lot of showings with no offers and then suddenly, multiple offers at once. Ultimately, the offer that beat out the others, it turns out, belonged to a couple where the wife was retiring from the Navy and looking for a way to move back to her Marathon roots to raise her family - at closing today she shared that as a child she grew up walking past this home all the time and telling her family she was going to live there some day. The first time she brought her husband home to Wisconsin, she drove him past and told him this was her dream home. Well, the stars aligned and this home was listed JUST as they began the process of getting their home in Oklahoma ready to sell and getting details prepared for a move back to Wisconsin. And today, they got the keys to the childhood manifestation of her dream home. 🎉🙌

It has been a true honor helping my sellers say goodbye to their family home - and to hear the legacy of love that is about to continue there was just the cherry on top today!

Congratulations to my Sellers for a hand off of keys worthy of a movie script. Thank you so much for trusting me to help you ❤️

08/23/2026

Merrill! An exciting new event is being hosted this fall to explore all the downtown has to offer - only 300 tickets sold for this event and they go on sale tomorrow 😀

🍷 TICKETS GO ON SALE MONDAY! 🍷

Get ready, Merrill — Sip & Stroll Merrill is coming Saturday, October 17, and this is one event you won’t want to wait on!

Spend the afternoon sipping, strolling, shopping and discovering your way through Merrill as up to 30 local businesses open their doors for a one-of-a-kind wine walk experience. Sample Wisconsin wines, explore our business districts at your own pace, hop aboard the shuttle to travel between stops, and enjoy everything our community has to offer along the way.

🎟️ ONLY 300 TICKETS WILL BE SOLD!

Tickets go on sale Monday, August 24 at 8:00 AM!

🍷 Pre-Sale: $35 through October 12
🍷 Day-Of: $45 — if tickets are still available!

📅 Saturday, October 17, 2026
⏰ 1:00–7:00 PM
📍 Throughout Merrill

Purchase tickets on at Merrillchamber.org, calling us at 715-536-9474 or stop by the Merrill Area Chamber of Commerce, 705 N. Center Ave.

With only 300 spots available. Don’t wait, grab yours Monday morning! Gather your friends and make a day of it — sip a little, stroll a little, shop local and discover Merrill one stop at a time. 🍷🍂

A huge thank you to our event sponsor, IncredibleBank, for helping make Sip & Stroll Merrill possible!

08/21/2026

I've mentioned before that over the course of my 20 year career, there have been some very special stand out moments that I will NEVER forget. Just over 7 years ago was one of my top 3 favorite moments - when I got to help a newly divorced mom find a Home for her little girls, getting them out of their cramped little apartment. When closing day rolled around, I found out the girls were coming to closing, so I whipped up a special contract for them to have something to sign at the closing table and presented them with their own keys on lanyards in their favorite colors. 🥰
⏩️⏩️ Fast forward to today, where they turned the page to the next chapter for their family AND simultaneously the start of a new chapter began for my OTHER super fun clients who were desperately wanting to move back to Merrill and this just happened to be the perfect home for them!! So many emotions wrapped into a Friday morning 😂
Congratulations Michelle and girls on your bittersweet goodbye to Willow Bend 🫶 and Congratulations to Tanner & Maria saying goodbye to their first home and getting the keys to their new home! Im thrilled you get to finally be "Home" in Merrill again 🎉🎉🎉

08/18/2026

You know I LOVE a good Farmette and this one is simply perfect 👌
I know I'm hired to be the hype-lady, but the reality is there's literally nothing on the market like this in Lincoln County, so ya best hurry. 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️💨
https://lorabladow.remax.com/property/275-22604017-n2740-swede-road-merrill-WI-54452