I’ve been working with a group of investors who had partnered with the Seattle Housing Authority to build market-rate homes in the Rainier Vista, a housing development in South Seattle. It was a unique group of men brought together with a common purpose and goal and to build attractive and affordable housing, and the group named itself after George P. Riley, the first African-American landowner in the Washington and Oregon territories. Aubrey Cohen of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote about this interesting group of men in “Southeast Seattle group pays homage to African-American developer”.

Over the past year of working with this group, I’ve become acquainted with several of the principal investors and count them as my friends.

I was recently invited to a summer pool party at one one of the investors home, David Tyner and his wife, the artist Diane Christensen. We had a marvelous time and I was able to meet David’s beautiful and talented daughter, Whitney Tyner who’s the PR Coordinator for Zillow. Whitney has real estate in her veins, as her mother Debbie Jungquist also works in real estate for a local ReMax franchise.

As I had mentioned before, I’ve joined the Bloggers Council on Front Door and they sent me a Flip video camera to play with. I made a quick video of the pool party to share with the hosts and their friends. It’s simple, but the software that come with the Flip makes is a breeze to make fun music videos to share. Eventually, Front Door Blog will be posting our videos online.