Let's start this story from its very beginnings, shall we?  I moved to Arizona from New Hampshire back in the summer of 2004 seeking warm weather and opportunity.  I got a job as an assistant mortgage loan officer located in Ahwatukee and fell I love with the area.  Although I lived in Gilbert at the time, I had always dreamed of moving to the foothills.

Fast forward a few years to 2007 when I got bored doing loans and decided to jump into real estate. Within three weeks I was fully licensed as a salesperson and, having had a few years in the mortgage industry, it didn't take long before things started rolling and I was getting pretty busy. 

I got really good at listing and negotiating short sales, which was probably a good idea because that was pretty much all that was selling at that time, and that's when it happened...that's when I met Matt. 

Matt was also in real estate and represented the buyer on one of my listings.  Short sales are everything but short and these aren't your average transactions so Matt and I had a lot of opportunity to get to know each other over the course of a few months.  I liked him immediately and especially when we discovered that he too is from New Hampshire and his parents actually were from my hometown.  How freakin' coincidental is that?  And not only are his parents from my hometown but his father actually grew up across the street from my mother and they knew each other!  It had to be fate so we decided to get married and have a baby. 😊 Why not, right?

Once the baby came we realized that our then perfectly sized little Scottsdale home was no longer perfectly sized and moved into one of Matt's projects in Mesa which was supposed to be temporary...except we ended up staying there for over three years.  

Why?  Because it was hard for two people to agree and decide where we wanted to live with so many things that are important to us like schools, amenities, freeways, dog/family friendly recreation and restaurants and bars that we enjoy.