{"id":17235,"date":"2020-10-10T03:45:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T10:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=17235"},"modified":"2020-10-10T03:45:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T10:45:04","slug":"rama-and-sunil-mehra-the-american-dream-and-teaching-young-lions-to-hunt-howling-about-the-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17235\/rama-and-sunil-mehra-the-american-dream-and-teaching-young-lions-to-hunt-howling-about-the-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Rama and Sunil Mehra – The American Dream and teaching young lions to hunt | Howling about the Positive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author’s note: This post is about Rama Mehra and her team<\/a>. They work in the East Bay in northern California. Feel free to click that link and see who they are, and what they do. With all of the negativity in the world these days, each week I am going to highlight some of the amazing people I have met during a career of almost 20 years serving as a technologist in the real estate industry. I am also going to highlight a few things that I have learned from each of them. Are any of these people perfect? No, none of us are…but if there is one thing that I have learned, it is that each person does at least one thing REALLY well. Sometimes many things. Finding that good that is in each person and learning from it has been a fun and rewarding life experience for me.<\/p>\n

Here is a picture of their team:<\/p>\n

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So what is your version of the American Dream? Would you chase it to a new country? Would you learn a new language to seek your fortune? Would you be flexible and yet tough enough to deal with new cultures and customs? America offers freedom. Freedom provides opportunity. Opportunity brings challenges. Challenges bring character and strength. This is what attracts the best of the best to immigrate to America. And people like Rama and Sunil coming here is EXACTLY what should be celebrated about this country.<\/p>\n

One of the amazing things for me about working in the real estate industry have been the incredible people that I have met. I am a family guy. I love and appreciate the talent that it takes to be a spouse and a parent. I have often fallen short, but I love the relationship that I have now with my kids as adults and wth my wife, Jen. We have 4 young adult (now) kids. When I met Rama Mehra and her husband Sunil there were a few things that almost immediately struck me about them.<\/p>\n

First was how well they treated each other as a couple. When they immigrated to Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author’s note: This post is about Rama Mehra and her team. They work in the East Bay in northern California. Feel free to click that link and see who they are, and what they do. 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