In 1994, Devone Richard bought a property, renovated it, and sold it — with his own capital and his own risk. That flip became D.A. Richard Investments, then Southern Pacific Funding, where he wrote the financing behind other people’s deals and learned how a transaction actually gets underwritten.

He earned his California broker license in 2013 and his Nevada license after that — not to expand a territory, but because his own clients kept crossing that state line. California sellers are the largest buyer group in Southern Nevada, and they arrive with questions no single-market agent thinks to answer: about basis, about timing, about what the proceeds actually buy on the other side.

Three decades on, Devone still runs a deal the way an investor does — whether he’s representing the buyer or the seller. A listing is priced from what actually closed in that pocket of the market, not a portal estimate. An offer is qualified before it’s celebrated, and a purchase is underwritten before it’s made. The person who finds or lists your home here is the same person representing you there.