Most agents can tell you what your home is worth. I can tell you what your next chapter could look like.
Before I was a REALTOR®, I spent nine years in the United States Army. Staff Sergeant. Fort Lewis, Fort Drum, South Korea. Deployments to Egypt and Haiti. Jungle Warfare School in Panama. Sniper School at Fort Bragg.
The Army taught me something I've never forgotten: the person next to you matters more than almost anything else. You don't cut corners when it counts. You don't leave people behind.
That's still how I operate.
"You don't cut corners when it counts. You don't leave people behind. That's still how I operate."
After the Military
When I left the Army, I brought the same discipline into real estate finance — spending nearly 30 years as a top-producing mortgage originator before becoming a licensed REALTOR® in 2015.
After the military, I spent nearly 20 years in real estate finance — eventually running Capital One Bank's retail mortgage division as Regional Manager over Texas and Northern Louisiana.
In 2009, the financial crisis hit. The mortgage company Capital One had acquired the year before came under intense scrutiny, and Capital One had no choice but to sell the division.
I was out. Two years of severance. A chance to start over.
I was already in Texas. I called my oldest daughter Scarlett in Oregon and convinced her to come down and learn the mortgage business with me.
We were a good team. But the post-crisis mortgage world was brutal. Even the strongest borrowers required hours of explanation. Every loan was a fight.
One day, Scarlett had a loan that should have closed. At the last minute, underwriting came back asking for one more document. She came home that evening upset and in tears. She told me she couldn't do it anymore.
It was Scarlett who found a meeting about becoming a REALTOR®. She asked me to go with her.
The next thing I knew, we were both sitting for the real estate license exam.
That was the beginning.
I've been in real estate — in one form or another — for 30 years, serving buyers and sellers across League City, Friendswood, Pearland, and Clear Lake. What I've learned is that people don't move because of interest rates or inventory reports.
They move because something in their life changed.
A family that outgrew their home. An empty nest that finally feels too quiet. A chapter that's closing and another one that hasn't started yet. A veteran who's finally ready to put down roots. A couple who's been sitting on $300,000 in equity and doesn't know what to do with it.
Most agents treat those moments as transactions.
I treat them as transitions. And I built every tool, every system, and every conversation in this business around that belief.
I live and work in League City. My granddaughter Vivian lives in Friendswood, and every Friday I spend four hours with her.
I'll be honest — it's the best four hours of my week.
This community isn't just where I work. It's where my family is. That's not something I take lightly when I'm helping someone else's family make one of the biggest decisions of their life.
My AI assistant is named Caitlyn — after my daughter, who passed away at six years old from leukemia.
When I got out of the military, Caitlyn was the child I finally got to be present for. We were inseparable. Golfing, yard work, sporting events — she was right there beside me. Every evening we'd sit on the couch together before bedtime. The O'Reilly Factor, comfy couch, two hours.
That was our deal.
She was a daddy's girl. She was special in a way that's hard to put into words.
"The AI has none of her traits. But she carries her name. And that means every time a lead comes in and Caitlyn responds — I think of her. That's why I named her that. So she's with me every day."
Nearly 30 years in real estate finance as a top-producing mortgage originator — including roles at Capital One Bank as Regional Manager over Texas and Northern Louisiana. That background means I don't just understand the market. I understand the money.
Not with a script. Not with a pitch. Just a real conversation about where you are and what's possible.