Josh's Journal

Kind of a wet, cool day here in the Keweenaw.  Today I looked at houses in Lake Linden, Point Mills and Portage Township, and it looks like we’ll be writing an offer on one of them shortly.  I also checked out an upcoming listing right in downtown Houghton that looks pretty good.  We closed on the house on Green Acres Road, so congrats to seller Jason on today’s sale!  We just dropped the price on this house in Hancock.  We also did a big price reduction on this 40 acre listing near Sidnaw.  Be sure to check out the updated pics on that one, as it is a beautiful piece of land.  Are any of you planning on traveling for Memorial Day Weekend?  I also look forward to that weekend, as it seems to officially kick off the summer season.  Enough rambling for today, take care!

Off and running on another week.  Today I sent out a purchase agreement for a 10 acre parcel near Pelkie, as well as a purchase agreement for a 40 acre parcel near Lake Linden.  I also found out that Jan had a busy weekend, listing three new properties over the last couple of days.  After lunch we closed on a 5 acre parcel on Lower Skanee Road, so congrats to Bob and Joyce on finding the perfect property!  Lastly, for those of you that follow the ‘hunting journal’, there is a new video posted on there from the turkey hunt at the farm a few weeks back, so check that out if you like.  Hope you had a great Monday!

Monday has come kind of fast today.  Friday night we watched Bill Cosby here in Houghton, and it really was a great show.  Cosby did some research on the area, and made fun of those of us ‘crazy’ enough to live all the way up here.  Saturday morning I had to meet with a road builder that it is putting in a new road to one of our properties.  It turned out to be pouring rain all day.  You may have also seen me on the webcam on an extension ladder fixing the pulley system on the feeder.  I needed to get the feeder elevated in the hopes of avoiding bear damage this spring.  Sunday I had a showing for some land all the way down in Trout Creek, and then after that I took pictures of a listing that I have in Sidnaw.  Have a great Monday!

This morning we had a back to back closing on selling the farm on Old County Road, and then closing on the beautiful home on Five Mile Point Rd, so congrats to Jim and Becky on everything coming together!  Here is a beautiful historic home that we listed in Calumet yesterday.  We’re planning an open house for that one soon.  Also, here is a great price on a little trailer and garage overlooking the Portage Canal.  This one would also make a beautiful building site for a new home.  Now I need to get out of here to go put several signs up today, and then we’re going to watch Bill Cosby here in Houghton tonight!  Should be a fun night.  Take care!

A beautiful sunny day!  After entering in a couple of new listings this morning, I went down between Ontonagon and Silver City and had a great showing on a 272 acre parcel.  It felt really good to be out and about in the woods on a warm spring day.  Now I’m getting ready to go up towards Ahmeek for a final walk through on a house that we’re closing on tomorrow morning.  Lastly, here is the parcel that I just listed with 1,000 feet of frontage on Keweenaw Bay!  Have a great Friday!