The past 37 years of my professional life has been spent building positive relationships with people at Simley High School in Inver Grove Heights as a teacher. My charge was to help others achieve goals, solve problems, and design pathways to best reach and guide my students. My career path may have changed but my approach in dealing with people has not. In education we lived by the motto "do what is best for kids." My motto as a real estate agent is "do what is best for your client." For me, the crossover from education to real estate is natural as I can utilize 35 years of developing personal skills to help a new and different set of clients.