I didn’t come from real estate. I came from oil and gas. I understood land, mineral rights, and how deals get structured in industries where the stakes are real and the margins are thin.
When I moved to Grand Junction, Colorado, I saw something nobody was talking about. A housing crisis. Not the kind you read about in national headlines — the kind where teachers, nurses, and tradespeople can’t find a place to live in the community they serve.
Nobody was building here. The institutional developers didn’t care about Western Colorado. The local builders didn’t have the capital or systems to scale. So I built it myself.
Fort + Home started as a construction company. Then it became a development company. Then we added capital — because if you want to build at scale, you need to control the money. Then property management, because if you build it, you better know how to run it. Then a hotel, because the opportunity was there and we had the operating muscle. Then brokerage, because market intelligence matters when you’re making eight-figure decisions.
Six divisions. One company. Vertically integrated from dirt to doors to distributions.
Builder’s View is where everything we’ve learned becomes yours. The tools we built to run Fort + Home. The lessons we learned the hard way. The systems that actually work when you’re building in markets nobody else is paying attention to.