Inspiring Conversations with Kevin Root of Life & Legacy Properties

Today we’d like to introduce you to Kevin Root.

Hi Kevin, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I bought my first home in 2011 – a real fixer-upper that had a concrete driveway and tumbleweed collection in place of a front yard – so I guess that was my start in real estate. In 2014, my real estate agent asked me to come to work with him, and I spent the next nine years helping build his business into one of the top real estate teams in Colorado, with over $250M sold and ranking consistently in the top 1% of real estate agents in the state.

In late 2023, I branched out on my own to build my own team, so now things feel both new and not new at the same time. There is probably a healthy fear when starting something new that no one will care, but people have been overwhelmingly supportive and the business is off to a great start.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
In many ways, I was able to start in this industry on second base. I started after the 2008 recession, in Denver, in a support role for an established business, in an industry that COVID didn’t shut down. Zooming out, that was a mostly smooth road.

That being said, anyone who has had to start over and build a new thing as a primary source of income for a large family knows there can be sleepless nights. I have a wife (age: forever young) and four sons (ages 8, 6, 5, and 2), so I feel a healthy pressure to show up every day to work hard and make things happen. It’s a good weight to carry.

For me, any struggles in business are secondary to what I see as my main responsibility to be a loving husband and father. If I put in “the work” to make home a happy place, I can handle a lot more of the ups and downs of work. Give me the joy of a happy home and struggling business over a thriving business and broken home any day.

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
Life & Legacy Properties is my residential real estate team. We help people buy and sell homes and small investment properties. I don’t do large apartments or commercial properties.

I’m savvy enough to help the young person hustling to buy their first investment property, experienced enough to handle a million-dollar sale, and trusted enough to help out when you need an agent to refer to your grandmother who still pays her bills with a paper check in the mail.

As my brand implies, I’m here to help everyday people take the next step for the life they are building now AND advise them in creating the legacy they want to leave behind.

What are your plans for the future?
For the future, I’m not worried about the business “making it.” Success will take care of itself. I’m focused on building a business that’s pointed in the right direction, so to speak. I’m looking forward to creating something that people WANT to be part of – in a way that goes beyond real estate. I want people’s lives to be BETTER because of my business.

I want the word on the street to be, “Become a client and supporter of Life & Legacy Properties because of the difference the brand, the profits, and their community are making in tangible ways – even if (maybe especially if?) it never gets posted on Instagram for clicks and likes.”

I’ll share one way, for example, in case it helps get someone else’s wheels turning. Even while building the business, my wife and I are actively involved in helping reconnect refugee families who have been separated across continents by war. We’re not waiting on that. It goes back to that healthy pressure idea. I need a cause that’s worth giving my life for, and now it’s my job to create a business to support it.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.lifeandlegacyproperties.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/lifeandlegacyproperties
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/lifeandlegacyproperties
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-root/
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/kevin_Root