Our Story. Who are those folks at GreatSpouseGreatHouse.com?

Welcome all to the very first post for Great Spouse Great House!!!


For those of you who don't know about us...let me tell you. I am a full time real estate agent with Prudential Unlimited Realty in Brookline and specializing in the greater Boston area. My husband TJ is a part time agent working with me while building his own business Lighthouse Financial Services, Inc. In August we got married and were introduced to the wild world of wedding planning. Enticed by elaborate venues, picture perfect photographers, and florists who decorated with the most exotic species available, my husband and I decided not to have the big, elaborate wedding like many of our friends. Instead we had a small gathering of 50 of our closest friends and family. While we planned our wedding on a budget, it was still quite beautiful and really the perfect day.


I feel that everyone is entitled to have the wedding of their dreams, whatever that may be. Big or small, local or destination, day or night. However, I don't understand people who go into debt of $10,000, $20,000, or more just for one day. (We all know those people!) It boggles my mind when I meet people who desperately want to buy a home but can't get a loan because they have too much debt from their wedding.


Now we were already homeowners before we got married. However, the 1 bedroom condo that seemed so fitting for the two of us and our cat Cali three years ago, is now way to small for our growing family. (we have added another cat Sasha and a dog Bailey). Knowing that we would have to buy another home in the near future really kept us on budget with our wedding.



With our own dreams of the perfect home out there, we kept thinking how many other couples were in the same boat. Other young couples like us, starting off their new lives together hoping to have that happy ending with a beautiful colonial behind the white picket fence. (Ok now it's the trendy loft in the city! Different strokes for different folks.)


I know in my own experience, I personally like to work with people who are similar to myself. I don't really relate to the 65 year old, divorced real estate agent who doesn't even know how to text and asks me what a blog is. With that thought, TJ and I decided to focus our attention on working with people we could really relate to like engaged couples and newlyweds. Who better to understand what they are going through then people who just went through it themselves.


And that my friend is how http://www.greatspousegreathouse.com/ was born.