My Las Vegas.
Our story.
A neon bender, a blind date, three boys and a 2,000-mile drive. How two Florida kids ended up selling homes in the desert.
We believe where you live makes life better. We've watched it happen for our own family and for hundreds of clients.
Jeff & Lee Ann
It's in Vegas
My family has worked with glass for three generations. By 19 I could bend neon.
One morning my dad told me he'd found me a job bending neon. I asked where. He said, "It's in Vegas." I said, "What's the bad news?" That's still a family joke.
I left Orlando by myself and drove west. Las Vegas in 1991 was the neon capital of the world, and I spent my days lighting it up.
A setup from her family
A few years later I was back in Florida, making neon in a shop with Lee Ann's brother. Her family decided the two of us should meet.
Our first date was on a Saturday. We went out three more times before Friday. Three months later we were living together, and the next year we were married.
Lee Ann: My dad was an artist. He gave free art lessons to neighborhood kids, and my parents took two teenagers into our home who became family. When our three boys came along, I stayed home with them.
Westbound on I-15
By the early 2000s, LED signs were replacing neon everywhere. Las Vegas was the last place I could still make a living at it, so in 2004 we loaded up the three boys and headed west.
Lee Ann: I had never been out West. We drove in on I-15 in the middle of August and the dashboard said 115 degrees. I fell for the desert anyway, and I've never wanted to leave.
That first year back, I bent about three miles of gold neon for the new tower at Mandalay Bay.
Trading neon for real estate
Once the boys were in school all day, Lee Ann got her real estate license in February 2006. I was burned out on neon, real estate looked like fun, and my dad's best friend was a broker. I had my license that October.
Then the market crashed. We built one of the busiest short sale practices in Las Vegas and closed hundreds of them, helping families get out from under homes they couldn't keep.
We've split the work the same way ever since. I find the house, price it, market it and negotiate. Lee Ann reads every line, watches every deadline and makes sure you understand what you're signing. She calls herself the yin to my yang.
Songs, a sign and a movie
We're songwriters, and for a while we were a working band. We toured, lived in Nashville for a couple of years, and once rolled into Taos, New Mexico in time to hear our own song on the local radio.
We recorded an album at Sonic Ranch, a studio on a 1,700-acre pecan farm outside El Paso, with our friend Aaron Lee Tasjan. One song didn't make that record, so I emailed Bob Clearmountain's manager and offered to build Bob a custom neon sign in exchange for a mix. He said yes. We drove the signs to Santa Monica, and Bob played us his mix in the same room where he mixed Born in the U.S.A.
Eddie Spear mixed our last album, Lost Vegas Hiway. Two days in the car with a very strange real estate client turned into a set of songs, then music videos, then an hour-long film with the same name. It streamed on Amazon Prime for close to eight years.
We also wrote a book together, Roadmap to Your First Home.
Home in Henderson
Today we live in Inspirada, in south Henderson. Most mornings start with a walk around Potenza Park with our dog Sophie. Our three sons are grown, and we have two grandchildren and four foster grandchildren.
Lee Ann: Being a granny is my superpower. On a good Saturday I've got sourdough in the oven, and we end the night at our favorite sushi place.
We sponsor the Inspirada Community Association, and Jeff has filmed more than 500 videos on homes and neighborhoods around the valley.
Our favorite part of this job is handing over the keys. A close second is seeing a past client's holiday photos, taken in the house we helped them buy.
Come sit down with us
Jeff Mix
Real Estate Professional · Nevada S.0074457
Search, pricing, marketing, video and negotiation. “I want clients to remember two things about me: I worked hard and I was honest.”
Lee Ann Mix
Real Estate Professional · Nevada BS.0143453 · Certified probate expert
Contracts, deadlines and escrow. She makes sure every client understands what they sign, and she loves the day they get their keys.
Let's find yours.
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