I bought my first house at 25 years old before I got out of the Army. It was a 100 year old condemned crack house, and I paid $35,000 cash for it. Money I had saved up from being deployed overseas the previous year. It was in Waco TX in 2005, which was about 10 years before Chip and Joanna made the city famous.

When I left the Army in January 2006 I started community college and lived in the crack house with no running water, no heat, and the only power I had was a temporary pole in the yard where I could run an extension cord into the house.

Since then I have bought and sold around 50 properties, but 2627 Sanger Ave has had a special meaning for me since 2013 when I bought it. I've been fixing it up little by little ever since. You still can often find me up on a ladder or under the house crawling around fixing something or doing some kind of project around the property.