#227: Transforming the Lives of Military Families through Wealth-Building Housing Solutions with Rich Halverson, USNA ‘05

<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“We are committed to our purpose, our mission to help our members live well and serve better so we like to think ahead as to what it means to craft a new model for housing and building wealth. We want to have a true impact on the main problems we’re attacking…not only on our members’ ability to build wealth, but also the connections our members are having to the local communities in which they live.”</span></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Rich Halverson (USNA ‘05)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rich Halverson (USNA’ 05) is the Co-Founder of Joint Homes,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">a tech-enabled residential housing platform serving the military community by offering serving families exclusive access to beautiful homes as they move through their careers including integrated services that make it easy for them to be at home and the financial benefits of ownership so they can turn their rent into wealth.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Rich</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">created Joint Homes with Army veteran, Mel Levey (USMA ‘07) in order to solve the challenges they experienced at home while serving in the military. After multiple combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and 16 military moves between them, their combined 25 years of service is the driving force behind their company’s mission.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, we discuss:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The unseen financial impacts of military service</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Joint Homes provides military families with the personal and financial benefits of home ownership through rental properties</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Where Joint Homes sources housing for military families</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="