Meet Patrick Brown

Today we’d like to introduce you to Patrick Brown.

Patrick, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
I came out to Colorado after attending Burke Mtn. Academy in Vermont to ski race for the University of Colorado in Boulder. I had never been to Boulder before that fateful day I stepped off the RTD from Stapleton International Airport on Broadway, in the center of town, with a ski bag full of skies and two duffle bags. Within hours I knew Colorado was my new home and I was here to stay.

To stay in shape for skiing, my roommate at the time, Tyler Hamilton, and I would ride our bikes like crazy in the mountains above Boulder. By the time we graduated from CU, Tyler was a professional cyclist and I was a professional triathlete competing all over the world. This would be my life for the next seven years. The places I saw (I raced on every continent of the world except Antarctica) and the people I met changed my life forever.

I retired from being a triathlete in 2002 after the Xterra World Triathlon Championships in Hawaii and started my real estate career. My first listing was the most expensive house on the market in Boulder at that time. I remember creating a website for the listing and I think I may have been the first or one of the very first agents to do this. I remember spending so much money on marketing and the fear of failure was more than I ever experienced as an athlete. I HAD TO SUCCEED. Long story short, I sold the house for $50,000 over asking price and my real estate career was launched! This has been my life for the last 18 years!

Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
Learning how to fail is the most important thing we can learn. It’s how we respond to this failure determines how much success we will have in our chosen paths. To say I have failed is an understatement. As an athlete, I probably failed over 90% of the time. This taught me not to have a fear of failure. I allow myself to be upset with a given failure for 24 hours max, then after that, I’m done with any sort of negativity. We can learn from every failure, even more so than from our successes. I remind myself of this every time I fail. Almost all of my greatest successes have come right after some sort of failure.

Being gay and a professional athlete may have been one of my greatest challenges, as I felt it was just not acceptable to be out at that time. Once I came out to my family and friends, I for some reason, did not feel the need to compete as a professional athlete anymore and that is when I started my real estate career. My goal from that day on has always been to be fearlessly authentic and as true to myself as possible. When I share my truth with my clients, they feel they can share their truth with me. This leads to a very productive working relationship that usually lasts a lifetime.

We’d love to hear more about your business.
Having lived in Boulder for over 30 years and widely recognized as one of Boulder’s most successful real estate experts, Patrick Brown cuts a distinctive figure in the Boulder community. Whether working on his own historic home on Mapleton Avenue, helping clients create their own dream home, or closing one of the largest residential real estate deals in the history of Boulder, Patrick approaches real estate with his own unique combination of intelligence, athleticism, passion and humor. Equal parts seasoned professional, experienced negotiator, and competitor; Patrick is able to acquire the BEST properties for his clients in Boulder’s very competitive real estate market.

Patrick has sold luxury properties all over Boulder County and has the track record to prove it. What makes Patrick different from other top-producing agents is his extensive experience in real estate development. Clients rely on his innate ability to identify potential properties, work on design concepts, create smart and functional floor plans, select finish specifications, and finally market and sell for a substantial profit.

Patrick also has valuable experience in multi-family developments; this is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the Boulder real estate market. His most recent successes have been 18Pearl, 4-luxury townhouses located on Boulder’s famed Pearl St. Mall, The Mark, 8-luxury townhomes located on Boulder’s famed Pearl St. Mall, The Balsam, 5-ultra high-end condos in Downtown Boulder, and now his new current project, Odonata, 10- luxurious townhomes located on West Pearl St. at the foot of the mountains. Patrick worked with his clients on everything from initial concepts, floor plan creation, interior specifications, to pricing and ultimately selling all units before project completion setting a record price per square foot.

If you had to go back in time and start over, would you have done anything differently?
I always knew when I was a young kid that I would be a professional athlete, although I was not quite sure what sport. I really thought I would go to the Olympics for skiing. Once I was a professional athlete, I always knew I was going to be in real estate, somehow, after I retired. This may sound strange, but I had a very strong intuition about both of these things, and this intuition is used to guide me in my business.

The only thing I would do differently is to live openly as a gay man when I was a professional athlete. and be proud of it. There were not any openly gay role models for me when I was a kid and I would have loved to be a positive role model for kids when I was an athlete.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.PatrickBrownGroup.com
• Phone: 303.819.2374
• Email: Patrick@PatrickBrownGroup.com
• Instagram: PatrickBrownGroup

Image Credit:
Chris Nyce

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