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Hi, I'm Josh Stein and I welcome you to my website. Please take your time and check out the many interesting features on this site. For the last two years in a row, I've closed more land deals than any other MLS agent in the Upper Peninsula! I currently cover Keweenaw, Houghton, Baraga, and Ontonagon counties. I obtained my Bachelor's Degree from Michigan Tech in Forestry, and currently own Northwoods Forest Management where I manage forests for private landowners.

With my combined knowledge of our natural resources, extensive sales training, and an aggressive work ethic, I have experienced great success in real estate and forestry. I absolutely treasure every minute I get to spend outdoors, and I think it shows when I am listing or selling property. Whether you are looking to buy or sell a home, waterfront, vacant land, or some fantastic upper peninsula hunting and fishing property, call me for a refreshing new experience in real estate.

Josh's Journal

February 8th, 2010. Back at it. Got a call today about a potential new listing on Rice Lake. I get a lot of questions from people wanting to know how our market has been. This is what I've seen. The residential market here has still been quite steady in sales and value (I'm talking about Houghton/Hancock in particular). Recreational properties have seen the most change. Land still seems to be selling well, the main difference is that there is a lot more land for sale than what used to be available. This is starting to move some of the land prices down, but only slightly. What it boils down to is that with more land available, the properties that are particularly a good value are the ones that are going to go. If a property isn't priced right, it is likely to stay on the market. Another big difference is the average sale price of land. It seems that many of the less expensive properties (25K and below), are becoming more attractive. The larger parcels seem to be selling at a slower pace. This leads to my opinion about the waterfront market. Waterfront properties have slown down quite significantly. I mainly believe that this ties in with the trend that people just haven't been wanting to spend big money on vacation properties. I think that our vacant land values have stabilized, but I do think that waterfront values may still dip a little. This is my current take on our market. All in all, we definitely can't complain compared to many other areas in Michigan, or the country for that matter. Our market overall is very stable as compared to many areas. Slow and steady wins the race?

February 7th, 2010. I'm sure that many of you watched the Super Bowl. It was a good game, and the Saints deserved the victory. Not much else happened this weekend. I originally thought I was going to be showing some property, but the buyers had to cancel. Melissa is looking more pregnant by the day, and the baby has really been kicking a lot. Time to get ready for another week.

February 5th, 2010. The weeks keep flying by. We officially closed on the Lake Linden parcel, and we also closed on the lots near Tamarack City. After leaving the office, I went up to Copper Harbor to check out a foreclosure property. We stopped at the Keweenaw Mountain Lodge to warm up for a bit on the way back. The lodge is open year round now, which is a great thing. Nothing like a big crackling fireplace on a cold winter day. Houghton is staying very busy with Winter Carnival. Get out and enjoy the beauty of winter!

February 4th, 2010. I got plenty of exercise today. I went out to Rabbit Bay to mark the cutting boundaries on my new timber management project. I covered about 3 miles through the snow and thick woods today. It always feels great to spend a day in the deep woods. For this project, I'm planning on showing you the entire process from start to finish. I've created a Forestry Journal, and will be providing pictures and videos along the way. For future reference, you can find the link on the left side of the main page, near the bottom under the "Forestry" column. Please enjoy today's video. I'll sleep good tonight!

February 3rd, 2010. We had pretty nice weather today. The sun doesn't come out all that often in the snow country, so it sure is a nice break when it makes an appearance. We wrote a counter offer today on the house near Dollar Bay that I'm working on selling. I put some brighter bulbs in the floodlight for the deer cam. It is still dimmer than I'd like, I'm going to have to try to change some settings in the cam itself to see if that will help. Tonight we met some friends and walked around the MTU campus for 'all nighter'. Tonight all of the student organizations are working around the clock trying to finish up their ice sculptures. Winter Carnival is a great time in Houghton!

February 2nd, 2010. So far I've still been keeping myself busy preparing for upcoming closings. I have the motion light set up for the deer cam. I already saw some deer on it tonight. The cam doesn't seem to be displaying it as bright as it seemed with the naked eye. I'm going to put some more powerful bulbs in it within the next day or two. The biggest problem right now is that the automatic feeder isn't working even with a new battery. I don't know if it just isn't made to operate in the cold, or whether I may need to get a new feeder all together. This is already getting to be an expensive project to broadcast these deer, but I'm sure it will be worth it in the end. Take Care!

February 1st, 2010. February is here! I'm very happy to see that there has plenty of action on the 'deer cam'. I'm still trying to get it to automatically refresh, so you'll have to manually refresh it for a little while yet. The best times to see deer are usually in early morning or late afternoon, but I've actually been seeing them many times throughout the day. I also know that some of you have been having some problems viewing the new 'bear den cam', so I fixed the problem today. Check it out again if you haven't, I was just listening to the cub squawking as I'm typing this. Tonight I had a showing on a home on Portage Lake, but it failed to impress any of us. Have a good day!

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