We have a a lot of situations with tenants where my EOSC values guide me in my decision-m. We've rented before to people who are sex offenders. Um, not always, but even one time before I got married, I was living in what we call the Vic. It's the Victorian. It's got six bedrooms and I live there. There were five other guys living there. And I was approached by somebody who had a friend that was coming out of prison that was a sex offender.
They wanted them wondered if they could live in one of the rooms in our house. And I was like, uh, maybe. So, I talked to the guys in the house. I said, "This is a guy coming out. This is a situation. Would you be willing to have him here at our house? Cuz it means that all of us live in a house that's on the sex offenders list. I'm a professor at Kraton and my house will be on the sex offenders list because I'm going to have Chris living there.
Are you willing to go along with that?" I am. And they were like, "Yeah, okay. We'll try it." And so we had Chris at the time live in our house for over a year and our house became then on the sex offenders list. So that's an example of making a decision definitely unusual decision maybe to have someone renting from you in your own home that most people probably wouldn't. Um, there have been cases where I've rented, there was one case where I rented to three guys coming through the Sienna Francis house program here in town, the Open Door Mission and then Sienna Francis.
And the three of them had been in prison and come out. Of those three, one of them today is over at my office um transferring stuff from one of my computers to another computer and he's doing great. He's done fantastic and he still lives in the house that we rented to him 10 years ago coming out of that situation. One of the other guys died and the other guy fell off the wagon and who knows where he is, but one of the three made it.
And I'm so grateful that I made that decision. I talked to the neighbors before I had those guys move in there. They're like, "Yeah, we're willing to try it." And so those kind of decisions, you sort of step out and put your neck out in a way for someone else that you don't have to. Um, you also put yourself at risk because being an entrepreneur is really about risk-taking. And so I'm willing to take risks most entrepreneurs maybe wouldn't with a person with bad credit history.
We rent to a lot of people with bad credit or that just have terrible situations that they're coming out of. And so that all of those are opportunities for us to love people and give them the gift of hope and possibilities where other people aren't willing to give them that chance. We can't do that with everybody, you know. We have to have we have to have enough stable renters that we can help the problem children. We can't just only rent to problem children, but we try to do a lot more of that than most people would.
