Meet Ryan
After graduating from Oklahoma University, Ryan worked for various companies in Oklahoma City and Tulsa over the next several years, eventually becoming the sales manager of a publication in Tulsa, but he felt as though he was still not in a position that would allow him to reach his full potential. The year was 2008. It was at this time that his father's health took a major turn for the worse. However, he was the same genuine, gregarious, charismatic guy that he was known as over his entire life. During his month-long hospital stay, and through much insistence, he convinced an attractive Dominican-born nurse (Attractive in scrubs? Now that's saying something!), who he had developed a special relationship with, and himself to start talking on the phone. One night his heart stopped, this time for good, but not before he had put Betty and him together in his final days, when the best he could do was to write notes, with much hardship, still urging us to “go out." He planted that first kiss on Betty the morning of his funeral, and the rest is history.
Shortly thereafter, Betty saw an ad calling for agents at an independent, high-volume real estate firm, Accent REALTORS®, in Tulsa. The lessons that had eventually manifested, with much tumultuousness, through his 14 years working in restaurants: hard work, meticulous service, and thorough communication, along with the confidence and sense of greater purpose that he discovered during his return to the university, suddenly seemed to fit his new job description very well. Ryan got hired on, soon became the highest-producing agent on the team, and wound up closing 130+ real estate deals there over the next 5 years. He finally felt as though he had found his calling.
When her family relocated to colorful Colorado, and Betty and him gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, the volume became deafening for her family to follow them to Denver and take advantage of the increased opportunities that this vibrant metro area had to offer. Anyway, he thinks that's what they meant by “get that baby to Colorado!" It was during this ongoing discussion regarding the move, that Betty's dad put him in touch with Dave Easton, Managing Broker at Elevation Realty. Dave's knowledge of the area (as a metro Denver native), willingness to spend time with me to ensure his success here, and emphasis on always doing the right thing for his clients appealed to him greatly. Ryan joined forces with him at the start of 2015, and the future has never looked brighter for the McDaniel clan!