MENTORS Magazine

66 | MENTORS MAGAZINE | EDITION 1

We run a successful real estate business and

are approaching our 10th anniversary of

having created the firm.

That’s the short story.

As with many entrepreneurs, there is much

more to tell: lessons learned along the way,

difficulties overcome and advice we have for

others in the same position. Happily, we can

report that at the end of the day, the re-

wards of success far outweigh the problems

that we encountered. Not that it has always

seemed that way.

We are Christopher Barrow and Darcy Alkus-

Barrow and our company is Foundation

Homes Property Management. We are locat-

ed in Marin County California, a bucolic area

of Northern California just across the Golden

Gate Bridge from San Francisco. Our area is

In building our business,

we faced the normal

hurdles of a married

couple working together