Dan Rath CRS, ABR, SRES

It was a dark and stormy night! Okay, it might have been night, but I’m not sure about the stormy part. The point is, I wasn’t born with the dream of carrying around a little briefcase and becoming a real estate agent. My dream was to be a radio and television sportscaster.

And for more than 25 years, I went to the Daytona 500, the Final Four, and the Masters. I met Michael Jordan, Dale Earnhardt, Bob Hope, and even President Gerald Ford. However, life has a way of rewriting our stories.

The real estate chapter began in 2001 with my wife, MaryKay. We are now the Dan Rath Team, with my daughter Katie and son-in-law, Phillip.

People tell us all the time they want a one-story or a two-story house. But I have learned homes have dozens of stories. In those stories, I find satisfaction, challenge, success, and sometimes failure, but each result helps me to better understand and serve my clients.

As a child raised by a single mother, I have a heart for the mom client who needs a protector, someone to be on her side as she strives to provide a safe and stable home for her children.

As a son taking care of his mother in her final years, I respect the adult child who later must sell their mother’s last home and which was their first home. 

As a friend to a family with a special needs child, we have learned he didn’t need granite countertops or hardwood floors; he needed freedom from the body he was trapped in. It came from a house that few wanted; a dead-end street, the lovely wooded backyard cut down to make way for a 300-car parking lot, but used only on Sunday mornings for churchgoers. Where, for 6/1-2 days of the week, it is the little boy’s sanctuary; it is his haven, his freedom to drive his little blue motorized dune buggy and, for a few minutes, feel like any other kid.

Yes, we buy and sell houses, but, more importantly, we help you find your way home.