Duane Murphy

ABOUT ME

If you are looking for a Real Estate partner that is not like all the rest then you have found him! Call me today to see how I can help you to sell or purchase your home/property! You will not be disappointed!!

Don't forget to check out www.duanemurphy.com for all of the Fox Valley's listings!

Nothing beats Walleye fishing on BAGO!! A local favorite pasttime! For some I would even say addiction!!! :-)

Did you know that when it comes to selling one of your largest investments, the Realtor you choice could literally make or break the deal? There are many factors involved in selling a home, but it really boils down to four things: Aggressive marketing, a sound pricing strategy, knowing the numerous options that are available to you, and finally, having an agent who is fully invested in your best interests. If you or someone you know is thinking about selling their home, I encourage you to at least give my Team and I a chance to tell you about our system for getting your home SOLD. I will go over all of those elements in great detail to show you how we can make you more money, in the least amount of time and with the least amount of hassle to you. Give our office a call TODAY at 920-993-7234. Don't forget to visit www.duanemurphy.com for all of the local listings and also other great tips on buying and selling a home.

Why Call Duane?

When it's time to buy, or time to sell, or time to invest, call Duane. As a licensed real estate agent and Kimberly resident, I take the time to really get to know you and your real estate wants and needs. I strive to stay on top of the real estate market - always looking for the best opportunities, the best match, so you don't waste your time looking at properties that just aren't right for you. It is my goal as your full time real estate professional specializing in the Appleton - Fox Valley, areas, to provide you with unparalled service at all times. My local expertise and extensive real estate experience will benefit you whether you are serious about buying or selling a home at this time, or are a returning client checking out the many homeowner resources I offer.

Buying a home? I look forward to helping you select the home of your dreams by taking time to listen to your needs and desires.

Selling a home? My real estate expertise and many effective marketing programs will give you the exposure and edge you need to sell your home in the shortest amount of time and for top dollar.

Returning Client? I appreciate the opportunity to continue to serve you and hope you take advantage of the valuable resources I provide. Come back to visit often!

I consider the Fox Valley area an excellent place to reside and would love to share with you my enthusiasm for the many neighborhoods that encompass it. I pride myself on providing unparalleled service and look forward to developing a long-term relationship with you. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss how I can best assist you with your real estate needs.

Sincerely,

Duane Murphy

Here is a quote from Vince Lombardi that everyone should read!

Winning is not a sometimes thing; it's an all-the-time thing. You don't win once in aWhile, you don't do things once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is ahabit. Unfortunately, so is losing.There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is firstplace. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I don't ever want to finishsecond again. There is a second place bowl game, But it is a game for losers played by losers.It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do and to win and to winand to win.

Every time a football player goes out to play his trade he's got to play from the ground up-from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys playwith their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be No. 1 in any business, but moreimportant, you've got to play with your heart- with every fiber of your body. If you're luckyenough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

Running a football team is no different from running any other kind of organization- anarmy, a political party, a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win- to beatthe other guy. Maybe that sounds hard and cruel. I don't think it is.It's a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw themost competitive men. That's why they're there- to compete. They know the rules and theobjectives when they get in the game. The object is to win-fairly, squarely, decently, by therules- but to win.And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in hisHeart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline and the harsh reality of head-to-head combat.

I don't say these things because I believe in the ‘brute' nature of man or that man must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmlybelieve that any mans finest hour-his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear-is that momentwhen he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious.

Welcome to your FREE Appleton Area Real Estate Resource. In today's times it is important to have a local expert that can help you with all of your real estate needs.

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Purchasing Appleton real estate is a great investment whether you are purchasing your first home, second home or are a seasoned investor. You are invited to visit this site often to view Appleton homes for sale, read home buying advice, get information about local schools, and the Appleton community. I also have information on the $8000.00 tax credit. Just click on the link to the left for all the info you may need.

Selling your home is an important decision. It is important that the sale of your home is handled with care and professionalism. I offer a FREE in-home sellers consultation. This covers staging, must-do's, pricing, and more! Find out why I sell the homes that I list!!! For more information about the selling process, please visit the home selling advice section.

If you are relocating to the Appleton area and need to sell your current home or are looking to move outside the area and need to purchase a home I have many trusted Realtors that I can refer you to that will meet all of your needs. Just let me know what area you are moving to and I will take care of the rest. If you are moving into the area send me an email and I can send you a welcome packet that will show you everything the Fox Valley has to offer.

Feel free to further explore this site for FREE real estate reports, and get your real estate questions answered in the real estate Q & A section. Also serving, but not limited to the following communities: Kimberly, Menasha, Neenah, Oshkosh, Seymour, Darboy, Kaukauna, Greenville, New London, Sherwood, Freedom, DePere, Grand Chute, Green Bay and Fond du Lac. Including the counties of: Outagamie, Brown, Winnebago, Calumet and Fond du Lac.

Local History of the Communites I Serve.

APPLETON

Appleton shares it history with Lawrence University, for the two grew simultaneously. The close relationship established in the early years continues to exist.

Appleton shares its history with Lawrence University, for the two grew simultaneously. The close relationship established in the early years continues to exist.

Fur traders seeking to do business with Fox River Valley Indians were the first settlers in Appleton. Hippolyte Grignon built the White Heron in 1835 to house his family and serve as an inn and trading post.

With the financial backing of Amos Lawrence, the Lawrence Institute was chartered in 1847. Samuel Appleton donated $10,000 to the newly founded college library, and in appreciation, his name was given to the community.

Appleton was incorporated first as a village in 1853 (John F. Johnston, the first resident, village president) and later as a city in 1857 (Amos Storey, Mayor).

Among the 36 individuals who have served as the city's chief elected official, John Goodland, Jr. had the longest tenure, with 18 years in office. Dorothy Johnson, Appleton's first female mayor, was elected in 1980 and served for 12 years. Timothy M. Hanna is the current mayor.

Education was, and continues to be, a priority in Appleton. In 1850, Daniel Huntley taught in the first free public school. The St. Mary Catholic Church opened the first parochial school in the community in 1864. The first 4 year high school began operating in 1876 in the Hercules School and Kindergarten was initiated in 1898 in Lincoln School. With population growth came the need for additional facilities. Today there are 24 public and 13 parochial schools.

Lawrence University's 84 acre campus, with 32 instructional, recreational and administrative buildings, 1200 students drawn from 45 states and 38 foreign countries, and a faculty of 114 men and women, lies east of the city's attractive, lively downtown. Students and faculty members supply the community with an endless array of music, drama and sports activities.

Appleton traditionally has had a commitment to vocational education. The Vocational School was established in 1912, and the first facility in the United States to be built exclusively for this purpose was erected here in 1917. When the State of Wisconsin was divided into vocational, technical and adult education districts in 1965, the local program was expanded and the Fox Valley Technical College was established.

Area business has been responsible for Appleton's economic prosperity and progressive attitude. The paper industry, beginning with the building of the first paper mill in the city in 1853, has been at the forefront of the development of Appleton, In order to provide electricity to this industry, the nation's first hydro-electric central station began operation in Appleton on September 30, 1882. Not too long afterward, in August of 1886, Appleton was the site for another national first, the operation of a commercially successful electric streetcar company. Electric lights replaced gas lamps on College Avenue in 1912.

Our community also made history when Alfred Galpin put together his own telephone in 1877, connecting his bank and his residence. Later, a druggist installed several phones in his store, linking them with those in other offices. The Wisconsin Telephone Company purchased this exchange in 1881.

Retail trade has also contributed to the area's progress. Because stores have always been concentrated on College Avenue, businessmen actively cooperate with city government in downtown redevelopment. A major convention center, the Paper Valley Hotel, was opened in 1982 and a shopping complex, The Avenue, commenced operations in March of 1987.

From its beginnings in 1853 as the Appleton Crescent, now the Appleton Post Crescent, the newspaper has provided coverage of the political, educational and industrial arenas of the community.

Cultural growth was encouraged early in Appleton. Central to that development has been public library service. Beginning in a reading room above a grocery store on College Avenue, the Appleton Public Library has developed over the years. Today it is housed in a modern 2 story facility on North Oneida Street. It offers a 240,000 volume book collection, audiovisual equipment and software rental, as well as computer database searching. In 1986, the APL was designated among the 50 outstanding libraries in the nation.

The preservation of Appleton's history has been the work of the Outagamie County Historical Society. Its museum contains artifacts of Appleton's famous native son, escape artist Harry Houdini and author Edna Ferber, who grew up in Appleton. The museum showcases Appleton's heritage as a progressive, industrious community in Wisconsin's Fox River Valley.

The residents of our community are proud of Appleton's past and present, and they manifest a great confidence in its future and a dedication to its ongoing betterment.

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NEENAH

Neenah began in 1835 as an industrial and agricultural mission for the Menominee Indians. Its early white settlement, attracted by the water power of the Fox river, started a few years later. This beginning was complicated by internal strife and the death of a major land owner.

As a result, Neenah's growth lagged behind other villages in the area until after the Civil War. At that time clear titles, rail transportation and renewed economic vigor encouraged a boom in local industry. Neenah's role in Wisconsin's paper industry began during this period and resulted in the formation of the Kimberly-Clark Corporation in 1872.

The phenomenal success of this and other later paper companies in the area produced a dichotomous social structure dominated by some of the most influential families in the Fox River Valley and the state. This social structure and the industry that sustained it reached a plateau around the turn of the century, when labor activism and community consciousness began to emerge.

After World War I, industry turned from manufacturing commodities to products, creating more jobs and greater wealth. This continued industrial expansion provided Neenah with a stable economic environment throughout the Great Depression and created a strong professional middle class which ultimately has assumed community leadership.

The Neenah Lighthouse

The lighthouse on the shore of Lake Winnebago in Neenah, Wisconsin has stood for the last 50 years in a place where Indian Tribesman met for pow-wows 150 years ago at the mouth of the Fox River. Also near the lighthouse site was once an enormous elm tree called the Old Council Tree by the Menominee Indians. The tribesmen would hold councils under its sheltering arms prior to the 1830's. The tree was cut down in the 1880's by the Federal Corps of Engineers when the river channel was dredged and widened. Today, the Old Council Tree stands as the City's Logo.

In 1929, Mrs. Helen Kimberly Stuart (of Kimberly-Clark fame, makers of Kleenex brand tissue) donated land to the city of Neenah which was named Kimberly Point Park.

In 1944 Mr. J. C. Kimberly (also of Kimberly-Clark fame) realized there was the need of a light for boaters to mark the entrance to the river. He donated the funds to have the lighthouse built. The lighthouse, which was also designed as a comfort station, cost $7500 to build. It was made of brick and Haydite block and rose 40 feet above the water and first began guiding boaters into Neenah Harbor in 1945.

The famous Old Council Tree is no longer there having been torn down in the 1880's by the Federal Corps of Engineers when the river channel was dredged and widened.

The beautiful cherry and other blooming trees around the lighthouse are there thanks to Mrs. Stuart. One of the Elm trees is a shoot from the original Old Council Tree. Today there is a marker there in commemoration of the Old Council Tree and the American Indians who met under its branches.

Neenah is Named

How the name "Neenah," came to be attached to the locality is attributed to Governor Doty, who meeting with a band of Indians one day, pointed to the river and asked, "what is that?" The Indians answered, "Neenah" being their word for water. Doty liked the word and applied it to the region.

When land in Winnebago Rapids was opened for sale in 1846, settlers trickled in purchasing land lying outside the Reed-Jones tract. The name "Neenah" came into common use and became attached to the village and eventually to the city.

OSHKOSH

Historic Oshkosh

Since its settlement in the mid-1830's, Oshkosh has grown from a sleepy country village to what it is today.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Oshkosh was second only to Milwaukee in population in the state. It was the largest city in the Fox River Valley. The Inland Lakes Yachting Association held its annual regatta at the Oshkosh Yacht Club on Lake Winnebago and, following its construction in 1883, the Grand Opera House was visited by many of the biggest stars in the theater, vaudeville and lecture circuits, making Oshkosh the cultural center of the Fox Valley.

From a village built upon the lumber industry to the present day city based upon manufacturing and retail, the City of Oshkosh has a great history. To learn more, visit The City of Oshkosh Landmarks Commission site. Click here.

GREEN BAY

In the 17th century, woodland Indians, French voyagers, fur trappers and Jesuit missionaries at one time or another traveled the historic water highway called the Fox River.

A natural stopping place for them was where the Fox emptied into the bay. This stopping place became Wisconsin's first settlement.

The bay of Green Bay was shaped by a series of glaciers, which moved through the region thousands of years ago. Through time, a bay was formed which is presently 199 miles long and covers approximately 3,000 square miles.

The river and bay were a vital link to all who lived on or near its shore. Each spring and fall, enormous flocks of geese, swans, canvasbacks and other waterfowl species would blacken the skies on their ancestral migratory flights. Fish could be heard splashing in the marshy edges of the bay. Wildlife thrived on the abundance of food and shelter. Indian villages were scattered along the bay. Here they caught fish, hunted, farmed and gathered food. The bay formed a natural barrier affording them protection from enemies.

Beaver hunting

Archaeological findings establish the region as a seat of primitively sophisticated culture many centuries before the white man's arrival. The dense woods were alive with bear and deer, wolf and raccoon. Thick furs, especially from bear and deer, provided protection from the long winter's cold, and small water animals like beaver, and otter provided delicious meats as well as pelts. The bay's water gave bountiful perch, bass, walleye and northern pike, whitefish, trout, musky and sturgeon.

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Dear Duane-

I just wanted to thank you for all of the hard work you put into getting me my first house! I know I'll probably be the longest and lowest paying job but I really do appreciate it! It is so amazing to have my first home. I almost have the tenant side fixed up. You will have to stop by and see it sometime. THANK YOU!

Sincerely,

Jeanie

Duane-

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Mr. Murphy,

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