News & Notes

A Favorite Quote: "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." - Will Rogers

Something I would prefer to never encounter: A sign next to a FSBO - "We shoot every third agent and the second one just left."

Favorite Passages from "Testament of a Fisherman"
"I fish because I love to; because I love the environs where trout are found, which are invariably beautiful... because trout do not lie or cheat and cannot be bought or bribed or impressed by power, but respond only to quietude and humility and endless patience... because only in the woods can I find solitude without loneliness... and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant - and not nearly so much fun." - Robert Traver

Licenses, Designations Areas of Specialization

• Member of National, State, and Upper Peninsula Associations of REALTORS®
• Licensed REALTOR® Since 2009
• Specializing in Residential, Camps, Cottages, and Land

Education & Training

• GRI-I (Graduate REALTOR® Institute) 2012
• GRI-II (Graduate REALTOR® Institute) 2014
• Annual Continuing Education Requirements Met or Exceeded

Professional Accomplishments

• Past Member of Million Dollar Club
• Current Member of Multi-Million Dollar Club
• Thirty years of prior public service
• Certified TAM Regional Instructor in Upper Michigan for the MLBA/NHI (RET)

Personal Highlights

• Re-established Copper Country roots in 2003
• Married 49 years to Connie (Ollila)
• Father of two - a MTU graduate / Faculty member and a NMU graduate / Director of Career Services
• Supporting member of Trout Unlimited and Ruffed Grouse Society
• Former Houghton County Historical Society Trustee
• Trout streams and grouse coverts are favorite places - not necessarily in that order