When she was young, Arden would go to work with her father who was a Steeplejack (a craftsperson who scales buildings, chimneys, and church steeples to carry out repairs or maintenance), played with Lincoln Logs, and went to school to be an Engineer. After working as a Structural Engineer in Portland, Maine for four years, she and her husband (also an Engineer) realized they could have a better financial situation if they bought multi-unit housing. 

They worked with a very helpful real estate agent, and learned as much as she could. She bought her first investment property in Portland when she was 22, in 2018. They continued investing and use a spreadsheet that they customized to meet their needs. Arden quickly got hooked by the real estate industry. She then went to school and obtained her real estate salesperson’s license.

When Covid hit, Arden realized she wasn’t going to be an Engineer for her entire career. While it was an awesome job with a great company, and she could bring her dog Benny to work with her, working from home during Covid helped her realize the company wasn’t the right fit for her, since it stripped away all the fantastic things about the job. But then friends and family then started reaching out for help with real estate, which she really enjoyed.

Arden doubled the size of her real estate portfolio within 6 months of working full-time and produced the highest GCI of all solo agents at her brokerage for March of 2022, exactly 12 months after she left her Engineering position. In just four years she now owns and operates 25 units in Southern Maine with a total value of over $3 Million dollars and her net worth just surpassed $1M last month. She loves her job and the people she works with. She is passionate about the power of real estate.

Contact Arden by email at [email protected]. Visit Arden’s REALTOR® website SoldwithArden.com or investment website HeadLightHomes.com to learn more about her real estate career. Stop by her Facebook business page facebook.com/soldwitharden or her Instagram business page instagram.com/soldwitharden to see what’s new with her work as a REALTOR® and personal real estate investments. 

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