THE HOME I WANTED MY FAMILY TO GROW UP IN.
Or make a way.
About 15 years ago, a home came on the market in the neighborhood we had always wanted.
The moment I saw it, I knew. The backyard, the pool, the slide, the view. I didn’t want my kids always going to someone else’s house. I wanted our home to be the one their friends came to. The warm, inviting place where the memories were made. That’s what I saw when I looked at that house.
There was one problem.
I had a home to sell, and the sellers would not accept a contingent offer. As a husband, a father, and a provider, I would have been heartbroken if I couldn’t make it happen. It would have crushed me.
But as soon as I saw that house, I knew it was meant to be our home.
We went to church that Sunday morning. On the way home I drove slowly past the house. There was a sold sign out front. My kids saw it from the back seat.
“Oh no, Dad, it’s sold.”
“Yes it is. And guess who bought it?”
That moment, their faces, that drive home, is one of the proudest of my life. And it became the reason I made this the mission of our firm. No family should lose the home that was meant to be theirs simply because the financing wasn’t figured out. That’s a solvable problem. We’ve been solving it for over 20 years.
