07/27/2026
Before this, I was selling green chili.
50 grocery stores across Colorado.
A restaurant.
A business partner who looked at the market one day and said let's go sell some houses on the side.
It'll be easy.
I was managing an Applebee's making $45K a year.
I had a dog and no real reason to say no.
He never went full time.
I did.
Sold 16 homes the first year and made more money than I ever had in my life.
Walked into that Applebee's and put in my notice.
What I didn't expect was how much I'd love the people side of it.
Not the houses.
I still don't care about houses. But sitting across from someone, learning what they're going through, what they're building, what this move means for their family, that part got me.
Turns out I wasn't falling into real estate.
I was falling into the best vehicle I'd ever found for doing the thing I actually cared about.