For owners who care who is behind the work.

Before hospitality, I spent six seasons as a federal wildland firefighter on high-performing crews in the West. That work taught me team-first discipline, calm under pressure, and how much leadership matters when timing is tight and the stakes are real.

I learned this business under mentors who held a high bar for hospitality, stewardship, and follow-through. They taught me to pay attention to how a home feels, how a guest is treated, and whether the systems behind the work actually hold up as complexity grows.

Over the last several years, I’ve kept refining that craft by operating short-term rentals and furnished rentals across multiple markets, asset types, and launch conditions.

Over time, that experience taught me to see the whole picture more clearly: not just what helps a property perform well, but what protects the asset, mitigates risk, and ensures that the guest experience is thoughtful, consistent, and genuinely cared for.

What matters to me is helping a home perform well without losing what makes it worth caring about in the first place, while making sure the standards and systems behind it hold up, guests feel looked after, and the people trusting me with it feel their trust was well placed.

After becoming a father, it felt right to bring that experience back to the region where I grew up and build something more selective, more personal, and more grounded. I built Palisade Stays for owners who want judgment worth trusting, intelligent stewardship, and a home that is looked after intentionally from the start.