Ann and Larry Baker have enjoyed many mornings during the past years sipping coffee on their deck along a channel of Grand Lake. Hoping to downsize, their house has been on the market 15 months.

GRAND LAKE - Real estate is influenced by a series of factors, and one factor locally is Grand Lake's algae problem. It may not be the best time for selling lake-related property, but one local real estate agent thinks now is a . . .