Born and raised in Simi Valley, and still here. I live in town with my wife Sasha, our son Landen, and our daughter Collins, and I have spent the last 13 years helping families buy and sell across Ventura and Los Angeles counties.

Somewhere past 180 transactions and $150 million in represented volume, the thing I keep coming back to is that real estate is about people, not paperwork. A first time buyer who is nervous about all of it and a longti...