I moved to Leelanau County in 2015 and never left. I'm a mom to three boys, a property manager, and a Realtor with Peninsula Properties — in that order. I know this region the way you learn a place when you raise a family in it: the neighborhoods, the school districts, the roads that dead-end at the water.

Before real estate I spent years as an emergency medicine pharmacist at Munson — and I still pick up the occasional shift. That background gav...