Hey thanks for letting me know about the documentary. I do have prime and I love watching that kind of stuff so I'll be checking it out this weekend.

As far as property prices in the UP, the stuff I'd be interested in would have frontage on a great lake be it Lake Michigan, Lake Superior or Lake Huron so obviously those prices will be somewhat inflated however I have seen some for under 100K with a cabin on them. If you want lower prices and lakefront your going to have to go further north, more remote to the point your probably completely off grid, and I tend to notice Lake Huron has cheaper prices than Superior and Michigan.

While 100K isn't peanuts it still blow my mind you can have hundreds of feet of frontage on a great lake and it isn't half a million dollars or more.

If your willing to not be on water you can find probably for well under 10k and the zoning up there seems to be pretty lax your typically allowed to put a camper or a yurt or even build your own sustainable cabin out of tires or bottles or whatever you want.

If you want to be on water but not a great lake so think smaller lake or river for probably well under 50k you can find property on a river or creek or stream or even an inland lake with a cabin or even multiple cabins and bunkhouses on the property.

I typically start looking on Craigslist and then will branch out to real estate websites I don't remember any off the top of my head but many will have names like lakefrontland or northernmichiganrawlandforsale or something along those lines.