JNL has been an award-winning realtor since 1974 and has been actively involved in residential, commercial (official member of the Re/Max Western Canada Commercial Division), resort properties, farms, vineyards, investment opportunities, and development. His dedication to the wants and needs of his clients has won him lifelong friends.  He has a ‘one-on-one’ approach that instantly puts you at ease. His easy going, laid back manner masks the fact he has a superior knowledge of real estate which allows him to handle every situation, easy and difficult, that often arise in transactions. “I believe that, while buying and selling real estate is probably the biggest financial experience most people will ever have, doing so should be stress and hassle free, positive, fun-filled and rewarding!” JNL believes the secret to a win-win experience is to listen, understand and then act. He is often called ‘the voice of experience!’

There is no substitute for solid experience in any industry. Real estate is no exception. JNL has many accomplishments to be proud of during his interesting career. One such experience was recently working for Donald Trump in Hawaii were his sales team set a record by selling over $700,000,000 worth of condos in under 9 hours. Over the years he has represented other large corporations including Texaco, Kenworth Trucks, B.C. Hydro, Intrawest (the largest owner of ski resorts in the world) in their real estate divisions, and doing real estate project management. He has also owned and operated his own real estate companies, construction and development firms and investment corporations. He and his wife Patti spent a few years in the Caribbean on the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras with their son who owns and operates the RE/MAX franchise in that sunny area.

JNL’s real estate career has taken him from the beautiful Okanagan to White Rock, then to Whistler, the Caribbean and Hawaii and now he and his lovely wife are back in the South Okanagan where he says they belong. 

JNL, originally from the Coast, started vacationing in Osoyoos back in the 60’s. “I would come with my young family and spend 3 glorious summer months here. To keep my active mind busy, I opened a fish ‘n chip joint in Osoyoos called Captain Jim’s Olde English Fish ‘n Chips. We were the first to serve fresh battered fish in the Okanagan to my knowledge and people loved it. My family loved the area so much we moved to Kelowna where I carried on my regular real estate business
For the next 15 years. We followed the kids to Vancouver (White Rock) and got in on the real estate boom there in the 80’s.”

Over the years JNL has seen many people leave the real estate industry but the honest, caring, concerned and dedicated sales people have remained. JNL has earned a well-deserved senior chair in this industry by adhering to the principle to ‘do to others what you would like them to do to you’. It has served both his clients and himself very well.

Although real estate has been a large part of his life over the years, JNL has found time to be active in many activities including: surfing, mountain biking, varied sports, his love of music and writing (he wrote the book: ‘How to use your Realtor to make YOU Money’) along with many poems and book drafts. His love of the sun and beach has taken him to many exciting spots. He and his wife Patti, (also a realtor with RE/MAX) enjoy their four grown children and eleven grand children at every opportunity. JNL’s dog ‘Billy Boots’ an overly wise Pom, accompanies him to work and usually rides ‘shotgun’ in his truck.