This website exists because I want other women to know that they can own a home. And not just know it in theory — actually know how to do it. How to figure it out. How to get through the overwhelming and exhausting and occasionally hilarious process of becoming a homeowner on your own terms.
That's it. That's why I'm here.
When I sold my house, I originally wanted to make it available only to a single woman buyer. I felt the responsibility of it — of lifting another woman into a similar situation to the one I'd found myself in, of passing something forward. But there simply wasn't enough data in that market to support limiting the sale that way, and I had to open it up to all first-time homebuyers. So instead, I built this.
If you're a single woman thinking about buying a home, please read my guide on how to buy a house as a single woman specifically — because there are aspects of this process I hadn't even fully thought through myself, and I consider myself a pretty progressive person. There are things worth knowing that nobody tells you, and I want to be the person who tells you.
We Still Have a Long Way to Go
Every single woman I have ever told this story to has been genuinely shocked that I bought a house by myself. Particularly women over the age of about 50 — because for them, the era when it was legally impossible for a woman to obtain a mortgage on her own is not ancient history. It is literally within their lifetime. That's not a metaphor. That's just true.
And I think that matters. I think it's important that we acknowledge where we come from and where we are now. Both things. The distance we've traveled and the distance we still have left.
Here's a small example of what "still have a long way to go" looks like in practice:
Every single vendor, contractor, and service provider I worked with during my time as a homeowner — including women and women-owned businesses — asked for the man of the house. Every. Single. One.
Not some of them. All of them.
And look, I understand it. It's a conditioned reflex. It's decades of assumption baked into an industry. It doesn't always come from a bad place. But it is a thing, and if you're a single woman buying a home, you should know it's coming so it doesn't catch you off guard.
My advice: don't let it ruffle your feathers. You are the man of the house. You are the woman of the house. You are the owner of the house. Act accordingly, and let the paperwork do the rest.
This Is the Point
Showing the world that women can buy their own homes and run things — that's the point of all of this. Not in a way that excludes anyone, but in a way that makes it undeniably visible.
Because visibility matters. When my grandmother watched me sign the papers on that house, she saw something she hadn't been allowed to imagine for most of her life. And I want other women — at every age, in every market, in every zip code — to be able to see themselves in this process too.
You can do this. It is figure-out-able. And I'm going to show you exactly how.
