I run my business from my home in Kansas City, Mo. and I have 3 awesome boys: Jacob (10), Elijah (5), and Isaac (3)

Here we are for recent family pictures:

A little background on myself:

I'm originally from the Bay Area of California.

I moved to KC with my parents when I was 12 years old.

Prior to my venture into real estate, I spent 10 years in the U.S. Navy.

After graduating with an honors degree in Finance from Avila College, I went to work in NYC as an investment banker at UBS Warburg.

This was May, 2001.

In all, I ended up losing 12 friends to the World Trade Center tragedy and eventually moved back to KC in March, 2003.

I started my home inspection business in May, 2003, but it was tough going in the beginning.

I felt like I spent my first 2 years looking for a black cat in a dark room.

I had to get a couple of jobs through the years while I found my own way and figured out what I should really be doing for a living.

But I always came back to my home inspection business.  It was always the one I thing I really enjoyed and was really good at.

My attention to detail I brought from my time in the Navy and my technical side from college, made for a particularly good fit.  I just had a hard time finding new business.

So in June, 2007, I had just gotten a job as a salesperson for a local e-commerce company when 20 of us were called into a meeting and promptly told that effective immediately, we were all out of a job.

And also away went my insurance benefits.

This was also just 6 weeks after starting.

That's when I realized I would never work for anyone else again - it just wasn't worth it.

So at that point, I began burying myself in offline and online marketing, got myself a business development coach, and never looked back.

And now fast forward one year.

2008 was a banner year for us with a 279% growth in revenues (that's not a misprint).

And we'll be doing the same things throughout 2009 to continue the momentum and a few other things to build massive growth in other areas of our lives.

I know that I now finally understand the home inspection industry like the back of my hand and how to perform an excellent home inspection that absolutely thrills my clients and also build a relationship that keeps them coming back for their next home inspection.

God is good and continues to bless us and everyone we come in contact with.

God Bless!