Our Team - ABWR Staging

Team Members

Your Colorado Real Estate Team

Local professionals guiding clients across Denver and the Front Range

At A Better Way Realty, you’ll work with a team that understands the local market and the people who call Colorado home. We’re committed to providing honest guidance, personalized support, and a smooth experience from start to finish.

Jim Flint

Jim’s role is to help you design a business plan to meet your goals and assist you with selection of the financing. Jim has 40 years of rental property experience. Starting in the early ‘80’s, Jim began forming partnerships. By 1986 he had formed 13 partnerships, each buying a specific property in Colorado, Wyoming, or Florida. The properties consisted of mobile home parks and self-storage facilities. These partnerships were comprised of about 100 different individuals who contributed a total of about $2,800,000 and purchased $12,000,000 of property. Subsequently, these properties were sold for $20,800,000.

From 2007 until now, Jim has formed an additional fourteen partnerships. Four of these partnerships own self storage facilities, totaling over 2,100 spaces. The other partnerships own group homes, triple net leased buildings occupied by major US corporations, an office building, industrial land, and development land in Tabernash, north of Winter Park, CO. One partnership has done over 400 loans to flippers, and other short term loans. Three hundred and fifty partners contributed $22,500,000 and purchased $60,500,000 of income properties.

Jon Wells

As a Colorado native with over 25 years of experience in real estate sales and investing, Jon Wells has built a reputation for helping clients achieve financial success in the Denver Metro market. With a consistent average sales volume of $10M annually since 2010, Jon has developed a proven approach to real estate investment that focuses on building long-term generational wealth.

Previously a Managing Broker, Jon, now serves as an investor coach, working closely with clients to guide them through the complexities of many different types of real estate investment from Single Family Group homes to Multi-Family Syndications. By partnering with top-tier industry leaders, he and his team of trusted professionals ensure every client has all the resources required to accelerate their wealth-building journey.

Laura Jordan

Laura Jordan comes from a commercial insurance brokerage background of 9 years in both California and Colorado. After investing in real estate from the consumer side for a number of years and earning an MBA in 2013, she decided it was time to take her skill set and love of great relationships to a new level as a Realtor. Laura loves working with her supportive, creative, and collaborative ABW family to help her clients thrive in their homes and investments!

Vern Harris

Vern is a senior housing investor, licensed real estate broker, and entrepreneur with more than 35 years of experience building and scaling independent businesses.

In 2014, Vern turned his focus to real estate—specifically Assisted Living and Memory Care—and has since closed more than 80 transactions totaling over $100 million across Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, and other high-growth markets. He specializes in helping investors, operators, and capital partners acquire, sell, and reposition senior housing assets through creative and bankable strategies.

Vern leads Grand Avenue Business Brokers and serves as an Investment Partner at A Better Way Realty, focusing exclusively on senior housing dealmaking. Whether it’s a stabilized cash-flowing community or a distressed facility in need of a turnaround, he brings hands-on expertise in NNN leases, lease-options, seller-financed structures, and debt–equity packaging that works in today’s market.

He also founded the Denver Association of Assisted Living Residences (DAALR), now the largest ALR network in Colorado with more than 1,200 members. The organization has hosted over 100 events connecting operators, investors, lenders, and thought leaders shaping the future of senior housing.

Vern holds certifications including CSHIP Level 2, CBI, and SRES, and he is passionate about helping others navigate the business of care—whether they are looking to scale, exit, acquire, or raise capital for their next Assisted Living or Memory Care project.

Kristine Mottram

I’ve been licensed since 1999 and I’m a life-long learner in an office with a vast amount of expertise and resources. My focus is to serve each client by providing solutions, solving problems, and advocating for them. My backgrounds as a CPA prepared me to be organized, efficient, and an excellent communicator which is critical in the complex real estate transaction. My creative side will help you earn top dollar through staging and presentation advice. I serve the metro Denver area and I have been designated as a Seniors Real Estate Specialist. Please contact me to see how I can be of service!

Kip Farnsworth

Kip Farnsworth has 19 years experience as a property manager/owner and has held a Colorado Real Estate license for past 13 years (# 40016603). Kip joined A Better Way Realty in 2011 after working as a REALTOR ® in Longmont where he specialized in new construction, Condo conversions and Investment properties. Currently he has several properties ranging from single family homes to commercial retail and office space, to land development properties that he owns and manages for himself, as well as investment groups. He also has an extensive construction background with experience in overseeing and managing all types of real estate developments and construction projects. When he is not helping his clients find the best suited real estate for their needs he keeps busy with Fix n’ Flips of his own.