My father always said I should sell real estate!

When I was growing up in Alaska our family owned a large amount of rental properties. By the time I was 10 years old I was helping clean the apartments on the weekends and fielding calls on the units for rent. I learned about business very early in my life. It has always seemed natural to be in business for my self.

A year after being married when I was 21 I had the opportunity to buy a flower shop so I did. Arctic Blossoms was located in downtown Anchorage, Alaska and was a thriving business catering to the Attorneys and business people of the downtown area. I enjoyed the floral business but you were definitely married to it. I wanted to have a family so I sold my business.

Once I had my first son Peter, the economy in Alaska was changing a lot. There were a lot of foreclosed properties and my husband Brian worked for a bank at that time, they were desperate for someone to clean the homes, trust me all my years of cleaning experience paid off for these jobs. I fell into cleaning homes that had been burned for my next job. It was a very interesting job working to restore homes that had fire and smoke damage. At that time I found out we were going to have another child so I left that position to stay home with the kids.

After taking some time off for our new son, I fell into a job bathing dogs for a friend who was a dog groomer. I love dogs so it was a lot of fun. My friend wanted to retire; I started to train to become a full fledged dog groomer. I opened my own shop in my garage, I had loyal cliental and made very good money but it was hard physical work. When we moved to Oregon I was glad to let the grooming go, now I groom two dogs my own, Bellagio and Luxor, my standard Poodle.

I homeschooled the boys up until their freshman years and then they attended CSLewis Academy. Peter graduated valedictorian he has graduated from George Fox University and was married July 29, 2006 I have a lovely daughter! To this date I now have two beautiful grandsons, Andy graduated fromWhitworth College in Spokane and holds a Marketing degree.

We have a new addition to our family. In November of 2007 we adopted Edik from Russia. He is our 14 year old son and a joy to have in our family. He is a kind, gentle and compassionate young man. He is learning what it means to be in a family and has an incredible passion for cars.

My why for selling Real Estate was to earn money to help pay for the boys’ private education at C.S.Lewis Academy and that was a good reason. But the more I do it the more it turns into a passion of helping people which I truly enjoy doing.

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