My mornings usually start the same way: an extra-large cup of coffee and my two kids filling the house with their contagious energy. Then I head to our beautiful Coldwell Banker office in downtown Cannon Falls. On my desk sits a somewhat unusual photo. A snapshot from 1998 of a large, outdated fifth-wheel camper parked in Kenyon, MN. 

That camper was one of my parents’ first homes when I was a newborn. They were young, broke, and starting with n...