Steve Mode Email and Phone Number

I have been involved in the housing industry for most of my life. I was taught the carpentry trade by one of the best carpenters around, my father John Mode, I currently hold a contractors license and have fully reconstructed many turn of the century homes with my wife. With a love of buildings and a passion of meeting new friends, Real Estate was an easy choice for a new and exciting career. I fully enjoy learning the wants and needs of people and then researching to find homes that match these wants. My experience with design and building construction gives an added bonus to those looking for their dream home.

I am currently coordinating an effort to rebuild a community park known in Fort Atkinson as Haumerson's Pond. This park was the original site of the Fort Atkinson Brick Manufacturing Company from 1865 to 1909. In 1917 it became the city skating rink providing winter entertainment until about 1990. The Friends of Haumerson's Pond Inc. are currently fundraising to build a beautiful legacy building on site and develop the park into a 365 day a year destination for skating, x-country skiing, hiking, canoeing, disk golf, curling, hockey, fishing and many other forms of outdoor entertainment. Our goal is to use volunteer labor where ever possible to defray cost and create community pride in this park. In the Fall of 2013 volunteers cleaned over 17,000 Cream City Brick to be used in the structure.

Will soon be teaching individuals to build cedar strip canoes designed for wilderness travel. The shop is currently being built from a repurposed timber frame barn from the original Groehler Farm. Given to me by my niece and her husband, Kim and Adam Nabor, the building was dismantled piece by piece, numbered and reconstructed through a good old fashioned "barn raisin". The cost of building a canoe will include a guided /outfitted trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Check out our website at spotofbluecanoeworks.com

Worked my career as a Lieutenant with the North Shore Fire Department in NE Milwaukee County serving the communities of Shorewood, Whitefish Bay, Glendale, Fox Point, Bayside, River Hills and Brown Deer. Retired in 2012 to pursue many other interests.