Community Highlights: Meet Tim Jones of Jones and Homes Real Estate

Today we’d like to introduce you to Tim Jones

Hi Tim, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
Well the story all starts with moving out of my house when I was 18 years old and still in high school because I wanted the freedom to get out on my own and express my liberties. (this being a very hard life as I was living in my car at that time and getting help from my friends that believed that I deserved more and graciously would let me sleep in the basement of their parents houses when it got to be too cold. And in those moments I grew to want a better understanding of how houses worked. So i went to community college and got an associates degree in business so that I could have basic foundational knowledge about how business work and was playing football as a starting linebacker that helped my team get from 26th in the nation to the 10th ranked Junior college in the nation at coffeyville community colle! (yes it’s an actual school).!
After school I went to KU walked on the team and ultimately decided school wasn’t for me so I dropped out only with my associates from coffeyville and coming up short from a bachelors at KU.
Once I dropped I started off in real estate and read 50 books on the subject as soon as earning my license in 2019 with “Remax beyond” in Olathe KS (the only remax in olathe). My first year I didn’t do well and only sold 4-6 homes… But I knew that I needed a mentor to learn before I could earn and so I got with a mentor names Taffy from the Block and we created a team, also receiving mentorship from Donald Payne of Vision Realty in Columbus, Ohio (where I was born). With his extensive knowledge he still mentors me now.

So at that moment my whole life changed because I started to understand that selling real estate isn’t actually about selling at all but more so informing the lost and shut in, the renters that parents had never had house that … this is possible! When growing up I’d not seen too much representation of a minority real estate agent that was successful in real estate and so because of that I sarted Jones and Homes team which was also when we transitioned into just being a real estate team that cultivated representation into the community’s that we lived in by doing food drives and by doing trash pickups with Juliana Alvey, a community activist in kansas city kansas. And throgh her great works we went and collected trash around the community with 50 + people helping grow the vision of exponential change one piece of junk at a time. This started to snowball effect our business as we started to understand the people that were around us and grow in our efforts toward solving seemingly small problems that would create a huge change within the small ecosystem of our neighborhoods. So with my 4 person team (at the time) we began to educated people with having buyers seminar classes which basically just teach people more about how houses work and how life works through financial literacy!

After all the community activities we decided that we needed to impart more change on people by not just speaking about ownership but actually imparting it by buying my own comercial real estate building (3218 strong ave kansas city kansas 66106)in the historical argentine neighborhood of kansas city kansas mostly known for it’s heavy latin population at almost 91% hispanic! With this we felt that we could directly impact people that may not know about real estate bc of not being from this country or because of their environmental upbringing. And so now we’ve spanned into a full blow real estate brokerage that handles everything from A to Z. Rehabbing Houses, renting houses (to qualified applicants) , and helping people with buying and selling their houses to help build generational wealth! And as it stands at the moment we are the youngest minority owned real estate company in the mid-west which is a huge honor because it means that we are industry disrupters and are changing the landscape of what it looks like to be a realtor when historically it was older and white– now we can give more representation to those that not only want to buy or sell but those that want to join in becoming a power house for change within their community with youthful bliss and energy!

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The biggest hurdle was being called too young to step into a broker roll and lead when i’ve only been in the industry for 7 years (5 years as an agent) (i was just a real estate investor before that). One of the hardest parts was also living in a (1,000sqft) house with 6 roommates in my 2nd year of real estate because I bought the house and wanted to keep my bills low while not earning much in my second year as a real estate agent.
Also I worked 90 hours my first 6 months in real estate without making a single dollar and only having 6 months of reserves and then sold my first deal on month 6.5 which took me out of the negative with credit cards.

As you know, we’re big fans of Jones and Homes Real Estate. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
We specialize in building generational wealth through real estate for our community! Providing representation in a space that lacks color and diversity is how our actionable item toward the city and peace to the world! We love to help people by homes, new investors grow their investment portfolio, diversify income, and rehab properties to help replenish an old house to its splendor.

What does success mean to you?
By sprouting inspiration unto others through being a vessel of light from God into others lives who didn’t think homeownership was possible!

Pricing:

• Free buyer Consultations
• Free credit builder consultations
• $175 Home evaluations

Contact Info:

• Website: https://jonesandhomes.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jones_and_homes/
• Facebook: Jones and Homes real estate
• LinkedIn: Tim Jones
• Youtube: Jones and Homes real estate