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Our company was started by a squirrel.

It sounds like the beginning of a joke. It isn’t.

A squirrel changed the direction of our family’s life—and eventually became the reason Homes For Workers exists.

Our family has been in the construction industry for more than 30 years. We’ve worked the long days, traveled for major projects and corporate builds, and spent months at a time living out of hotel rooms. We know what it feels like to finish a hard day’s work and return to a room where your bed is also your living room, your kitchen is a microwave, and there really isn’t anywhere to feel at home.

For years, we accepted that as part of working on the road.

Then one day, the problem followed us home.

A squirrel got into the attic of our family home and chewed through an electrical wire. That damaged wire started a fire. Thankfully, our family was safe, but the fire spread quickly enough that our house was no longer livable.

Suddenly, we weren’t construction people talking about what it was like to live away from home.

We were a displaced family without a home of our own.

Our insurance company told us the repairs were expected to take about eight months. Their proposed solution was simple: a hotel room.

For eight months.

For our family.

And our four dogs.

We looked at each other and immediately knew:

“There is absolutely no way we can live like this for eight months.”

We were still running our construction company every day. We had tools and equipment that needed to be protected. We had four dogs that needed space. We needed somewhere to cook, somewhere to wash our clothes, somewhere to sit outside, and somewhere we could actually live.

We couldn’t imagine eating restaurant food every night for eight months. We didn’t want our dogs trapped in a hotel. We didn’t want to worry every night about tools sitting outside in a parking lot. And after working all day, we certainly didn’t want to come back to four walls and live out of suitcases for the better part of a year.

We didn’t just need somewhere to sleep.

We needed somewhere to live.

So instead of moving into a hotel, we found a house.

Finding one for only eight months turned out to be much harder than it should have been. Many landlords wanted a one-year lease. Other properties came with restrictions that didn’t fit the way a real family lives. We ultimately found a home and furnished it ourselves while continuing to operate our construction business.

It was stressful.

But when we finally moved into that house, something happened almost immediately.

Life started to feel normal again.

We could make breakfast in our own kitchen. We could wash our clothes whenever we wanted. Our dogs could run around in a fenced yard. We could grill dinner. We could sit in a living room. We could invite family over. We could close the door at night and feel like we were in our own space.

And that feeling changed everything.

We realized there was a huge gap between a hotel room and a long-term lease.

And we believed there had to be a better solution.

That was the beginning of HomesForWorkers.com.

We built the homes we wished someone had built for us.

Homes For Workers wasn’t created in a conference room. It wasn’t created by somebody looking at a spreadsheet and deciding workforce housing looked like a good business opportunity.

It was built from experience.

Built from construction. Built from months on the road. Built from a house fire. Built from trying to keep four dogs happy while our family didn’t have a home.

And ultimately, built around one simple idea:

“If somebody has to leave their home to work for your company, they deserve a place that still feels like home.”

That’s why we don’t believe workforce housing should mean doing everything as cheaply as possible.

We want the people staying with us to walk through the door and think:

“Wow. They actually took care of us.”

So we focus on the things that matter when you’re living somewhere—not merely sleeping there.

Some of our homes also include pools, hot tubs, fire pits, outdoor bars and game-day patios.

Not because every worker needs luxury.

But because every person deserves some quality of life when they’re spending weeks or months away from home.