Our story
Where we came from, what we got wrong, and what we do about it.
Started working at fourteen.
Coming from a blue-collar family, I started working at fourteen — a paper route — and never stopped working since.
At twenty-six I left for the Navy and spent fourteen years in special operations.
We hired the wrong general contractor.
In 2024 I was running fix-and-flips. He cost us $350,000 across three projects, delayed us eighteen months, and walked off the last one with $70,000 of our money — three mortgages and hard-money costs against no revenue.
I own it. I didn't vet him properly, and I let the delays run far too long before I removed him.
We sold our remaining assets and returned 100% of our investors' principal. They got their money back. We didn't get ours.
Every one of them would invest with us again.
We do the work on deals we walk away from.
Nine parks. Five states. Five weeks.
Most sourced direct from owners with no broker. We passed on nearly all of them.
On one, a charge code worth ten percent of the seller's reported income had vanished from his own rent roll — $205,000 of value nobody had mentioned. On another, a single county tax document swung the price by $370,000.
Built for our family, and the families we served with.
Our investors are Veterans and military families — people who earned their capital the hard way and want it in something they can see and understand, run by someone who picks up the phone.
We ate a loss so our investors didn't.
A large syndicator has a hundred assets and an investor relations department. We'll have a handful of parks and a cell number.
That 2024 loss is the only real evidence of how someone treats other people's money. We have our own skin in every deal we do.
Why "Hammerstone."
A hammerstone is the oldest tool humans ever made — a plain, hard stone used to shape everything else. No moving parts, nothing to break. Just something dependable that does hard work and lasts. That's the standard we hold ourselves to.
We have spent 14 years operating where failure was not an option. That standard does not change.