Michigan Lifestyle Properties is Michigan’s #1 Lifestyle Property Brokerage, the only company of its kind, specializing in bringing together buyers and sellers of lifestyle properties throughout Michigan, including lake homes and cottages, country homes, log homes, recreational land, horse property, historic homes, and more. Our #1 ranked specialty property websites are a comprehensive resource for property owners, agents and brokers who are interested in buying or selling lifestyle properties in Michigan.
Michigan Lifestyle Properties is co-owned by Ryan Johnson and David Kreager, who founded the company in 2009.
Ryan Johnson is a native of the Gull Lake community, in Richland, Michigan. He graduated from Colorado State University in 1999, with a Natural Resource degree in Commercial Recreation & Tourism. He started his real estate career 20 years ago, co-founding a Lansing-based real estate appraisal company where he actively appraised both residential and agricultural type properties, with an emphasis on partial interest, full narrative appraisals, for local units of government, government agencies, private landowners and conservation groups. Ryan is a licensed Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser & Real Estate Broker. He has been actively selling real estate since 2012. He partnered with founder David Kreager in 2020, with whom he is a partner in Gull Lake Realty & Michigan Lifestyle Properties. Ryan represents properties all over the State of Michigan, assisting buyers and sellers with a variety of property types including, residential, land & farm, lakefront and country estates. Ryan and his wife and 3 children currently live on Gull Lake.
David Kreager is a partner and managing broker of Michigan Lifestyle Properties, a full service real estate brokerage in southwest Michigan, which also does business as Gull Lake Realty. He is a leader in the marketing of lifestyle properties in Michigan, including waterfront property, log and country homes, horse properties, golf course homes and condos, historic homes, and others. The Michigan Lifestyle Properties websites, such as Michigan Lake Homes, Michigan Log Homes, Michigan Country Homes and Michigan Horse Properties, are top-ranked in organic searches for a wide variety of search terms. David has 40 years of sales management, marketing and real estate development experience. The majority of his professional career was spent in the financial services industry, with American Express Financial Corporation. He has represented properties for sale all over Michigan, and enjoys the creative process required by special and unique properties. David grew up in the Detroit area, attended Michigan State University, and lives with his wife on Lake Michigan, just north of South Haven.