In 2005, I was working on remote vacation home for my client, Joe. He needed some help when his general contractor flaked on him. After working for Joe for several weeks, he summoned to his office in Denver. His office was in a very affluent complex where the secretaries are referred to Assistants and make more money than most contractors. As I entered the office, I saw Bobbie for the first time. I had spoken with her on...

My wife, Marge, and I had known Don and Suzy for three or four years. Don is medically retired from the military; something with his heart. Suzy sells real estate near our second home. Ever since we found our mountain cabin through another agent, they have been giving us a hard time about not using through them.  My wife became a senior partner at her firm, so we had to look for more property, or at least more expensive p...

One night while working a Military conference at Fort Bragg, NC, I got a wild hair up my butt and started hanging out with a driver that worked for me. He was well built, but short compared to me. He was a Hispanic man called Hector. Standing together, we couldn’t have looked more like complete opposites. We agreed to meet at the local club that was the watering hole for the people attending the conference. Hector and I o...