Our Story in Virtual Real Estate Investing

We met in a chance meeting one day when Jess was promoting her first book stateside in 2010. I knew the moment I met her that I had to make her mine. She said she decided to give me a whirl because I was from the south and had a truck! HA! Africa has always held a MAJOR part of our hearts. It was there that we began merging dreams of Jessie's focus on children's homes in Africa, with my real estate investment business. But it took a while to see those two dreams become one. What didn't take a while was getting her to take my name. 6 weeks later, we were married on a beach in Mozambique, Africa under a million stars and at the edge of the Indian Ocean. I thank God everyday for that chance encounter and the unction to ask that ornery northern blonde for her number. 

Life took on the usual newlywed story of figuring out how to merge our lives together. Like many, we shared incredible highs. But in 2014 and 2015, we buried out newborn sons, Beau and Montgomery. Life was pretty hard. But in that sadness, we wanted to show our two living children, Jolie & Tuck that grief can be powerful.  In 2017 we took the LEAP and moved 10,000 miles away to Uganda, Africa and gave our business the testing it needed to succeed anywhere in the world.  We loved Real Estate Investing. We also knew we wanted our family to live adventure. And more than anything, we wanted to show our kids that our response to pain can change the world. 

We laugh now thinking back to those days where we would buy and sell investment properties with only a smart phone on a boat in the Nile River. There were many nights we were without power and we would do business by candle light with only a mobile wifi box!   Our time in Africa showed us the value of virtual REI and we are grateful for the freedom of a mobile family business.  We are currently on the Gulf-Coast & love coaching others who share a passion for real estate investing! Oh, and our family has expanded! We have been blessed with 2 more sons, Beau (who is named after his brothers in Heaven) Gentry & Shepherd. Life with five kids, homeschooling, traveling and running a family business is chaos -- holy chaos. And we love every minute of it!