The person behind the portfolio
Builder, first.
Ogden, Utah. Married to a veterinarian worth building hospitals for. Allergic to the phrase 'someone should really…' — because if it's worth saying, it's worth building.
The short version
I make things exist that didn't.
Some people optimize careers. I accumulate things that exist because we built them: two veterinary hospitals, a rental portfolio ten years deep, a stack of houses rebuilt from the studs, an IoT company with thousands of devices in the field, and a consumer product about to meet the world.
The pattern under all of it is the same. Find something broken, undervalued, or missing. Do the unglamorous work everyone else skips. Then hire the right people, document the playbook, and build the systems — because a company isn't finished until it runs without its founder. We've even proven the full arc: bought a business, ran it well, and sold it on our terms.
The best of it I've built with my wife, Nicole Sorensen, DVM — the veterinarian behind both hospitals, and the reason "built with my own hands" and "built with heart" aren't different sentences in this family.
The chapters so far
The first property
One house, one loan, one conviction: real estate rewards the person willing to do the unglamorous work.
The Valley House Inn
Nicole and I bought and operated an inn — full owner-operator life — then sold it so she could chase her real calling: veterinary medicine.
Worst-to-first, on repeat
Co-founded Pando Properties. Roughly fifteen full-scale renovations — hoarder houses and dilapidated shells returned as high-end homes.
Meterra Systems
Co-founded an IoT monitoring company for rural America. 2,000+ devices now working on farms, ranches, and water systems.
Mtn Green Animal Hospital opens
Built from bare ground with Nicole. Morgan County gets an independent hospital; Nicole gets the practice she always described.
Agave Animal Hospital
The second hospital, rising in St. George — already ranking in search before the walls are painted.
Horizn
A precision sunrise alarm — the consumer product I wanted, so I built it.