When you love helping people and are genuinely obsessed with houses, real estate isn't really a career, it's just life.

For more than 30 years, Monte Nido has been home. Patty raised her four daughters here, in this little canyon pocket the locals call the Mountain Nest, watching fog roll across the Santa Monica Mountains, hiking the trails, dancing badly at the community square dance, and cheering at the annual egg toss like it matters (it does)...