Jeannie Probst Hogan

Sunset (Utah) / Washington (Hanley Hills)

Getting Bored...Have Real Estate Broker's Licence can sell!

LUCKY ME...1 grandson Nicholas MOVED BACK HOME THEN GOT HIS X-WIFE PREGNANT! That's 3 great grandchildren now! 3 of 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! (1 down and 3 to go!). Nicholas is now teaching other new Long Distance semi-truck driver. He just got promoted.

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 at 65! Future dreams - build up the current house, sell it and move to the Seattle area...(Scratch that - they need to clean up their act!) Build a smaller, something new - like a Tree House - and watch the boats go by!

Patrick is working as a consultant, subcontracting for Berkshire Hathaway. He handles Oracle Cloud. I'm in the process of getting my Real Estate continuing Ed out of the way. At least Patrick and I busted butt - we earn $4,000 a month social security.

Right now poor Southern California is having awful fires. We'll see what this does for the value of our home. I'm sad for all of my neighbors impacted by the fires! Pray for all impacted!

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!

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". We celebrated 46 years this year and it will be 50 at our next formal class reunion.