I am honored and tickled pink that there was an article written in my local paper about my niche in real estate and what I do. The title is “No barriers to a dream home”. My mission is be of serve to the WHOLE disability and “aging in place” community. Hopefully the article will bring more business my way but as quoted in the article, “It’s very rewarding; it’s not about the money. It’s more about helping people find the right home that’s going to work for them.”
This is a link to the article.
I do, what I do because it comes from my heart. I have always been around people of “different abilities”. My sister was born deaf and due to the effects of Rubella she was more fragile than most kids plus she could not speak their language. When she died in 1983. After this, I threw myself into work in the Deaf community. I learned to respect their culture and love ASL, their language. It is sad to admit, but my signing skills improved after she died. It was because of the immersion. I was the best signer in my family but when I went to her school ( Austine School for the Deaf), I have vivid memories of saying to her friends “Say it again, slowly”. Immersing yourself in a culture teaches you quickly. I owe a lot of who I am today to my sister Susan and my experiences growing up with her.
Susan, in some way, prepared me to be Joshua’s mom (my youngest son). Joshua has autism. He is high functioning and fully included in school, but he will always struggle with his autism, social things and emotions. There have been times in his life when he exhibited classic autism: not talking till the age of 4 1/2, flapping his hands, biting himself, talking to himself with rote scripts, ect. Because of inclusion, he has done very well. He has incredible gifts to share. He is very gregarious for someone with autism and the kids in school genuinely like him. He is not afraid to stand up in front of a crowd and do his thing. You should have seen him at his poetry slam at school last year. He ROCKED the house.
Yes I am a proud mom.
Albert Einstein once said, “Everyone is a genius. If you judge a fish on it’s ability to climb a tree, it will live it’s whole life believing it is stupid.” I love this quote.
I do what I love: helping people and being of service in my community. It just happens to be focused in real estate. It seems to have served me well….ten fold.
