Jeannie Probst Hogan

Sunset (Utah) / Washington (Hanley Hills)

GOOFING OFF AND PREPARING FOR SHOULDER SURGERY!

LUCKY ME...1 grandson Nicholas MOVED BACK HOME THEN GOT HIS X-WIFE PREGNANT! That's 3 great grandchildren now! The two younger grandchildren live with us right now. Zoey and Zane are happy to be back in Junior High School after Covid! Jessica, the oldest, Graduated her masters and earns $90,000 a year! (2 down and 2 to go!). I think she just turned 30 this year (feeling OLD YET?). Nicholas is now working with his father-in-law's business. He served some time in Afghanistan...got shot...died twice while they tried to revive him. I think he got a purple heart for that!

IT'S VETERAN'S DAY (11/11/25)! Patrick served 6 1/2 years in the Air Force ! GOT HIS DRAFT NOTICE SO HE INLISTED IN THE AIR FORCE! SHARP SHOOTER MARKSMAN, HAND TO HAND COMBAT AND APPARENTLY REAL DEADLY WITH A MILITARY KNIFE!Busted Ass enough - SSI pays us a bit over 4k a month! Pat's still consulting high tech Oracle Cloud and as soon as I get my left shoulder fixed, it's back into Real Estate I go! Just renewed my CA Broker's License. Can't stand sitting on my butt!

LA recently decided to let property owners convert or build second units on R1 properties, so we're about to convert our garage into a two bedroom soon. The appraisal just came in at $1,100,000 for our house, so there should be plenty of funds to convert our garage! That should value up our property another $500k. The house right behind us recently sold for $1,600,000. I guess we bought in the right neighborhood! Original purchase price - $129,000. Built a company from scratch, with my Patrick and a few partners, in the Silicon Valley during the "bubble" - called Netfish Technologies and sold it for $311 million stock for publicly traded stock. I was the catylist by taking my California Broker Real Estate training and my Oracle Applications training...and farmed the Silicon Valley for contract leads for Patrick etc. Placed him at Cisco Systems on a direct contract, bypassing the onsite manager, and that eventually became our beta site. Here I will say - nobody said I couldn't do it and Patrick taught me the "jesuit principle" real well.

I can actually say, for a period of time, Pat and I were "multi-millionaires". Our founding shares were worth in excess of eight million dollars until 9/11 hit. It's aftershocks and "margin call" was the result and I ended up paying a little over $161,000 to the U.S. Treasury as a result of the impact of 9/11 on the stock market (are we saying ouch yet?) I still believe that our "economic downturn" was a bunch of after shocks tied to that tragic event.

So - hi ho...it's back to work we go for now! We're "too young and spry" to retire! Future dreams - build up the current house.

Right now poor Southern California is recovering from having awful fires. We'll see what this does for the value of our home with the increase in demand. We have a new neighbor right behind us from Alta Dena. I'm sad for all of my neighbors impacted by the fires!

High School wasn't a lot of "fun". Looking back, most of my close friends were in the top 10 %. Found my IQ scores in my high school transcripts... Really had enough talent to do just about anything...really would have loved to join Orchasis but needed a part time job after school (that's were I went after school!)! Took a Briggs...x in every box and areas suggested for career -TEACHER (HOW BORING!)

Being buried in the middle of 8 children motivated me to get a job the day I turned 16 and I've been working ever since! The summer between my Junior and Senior years I ended up being the only paycheck to feed my brothers and sisters for about a month as my father ended up in the hospital. Surprise - you never knew it...I never complained!

I would have loved to have join a club or two or do dance, but it wasn't in the cards. I was and still am a naturally gifted dancer. Finding my husband, Patrick Hogan, and holding hands at the football games, I guess my favorite. Love at first sight! We just both agreed to marry each other - no proposals here. Loving him yet not knowing I was hooking up with a genius - I guess. Even yesterday he told me I was "stuck with him". HEY MR RAGGLAND! We celebrated 52 years. Right after the last reunion, we were married 50. In 8 years we will celebrate our DIAMOND ANNIVERSARY.