Why We Started Mission Ready Home Services

A Story About Service, Struggle, and Coming Home

People often ask us how we ended up in this line of work, fixing faucets, mounting TVs, repairing the little things that keep a house running.

It’s a fair question. And the answer doesn’t start with a business plan. It starts with our life, long before Mission Ready ever had a name.

I met my wife, Elizabeth, shortly after returning from my first deployment to Iraq. We were just beginning to build a life together, navigating military routines, growing our family, and facing the realities of constant moves. Over the course of two decades, we bounced from base to base and, house to house, never quite settling, but always adapting.

Some houses were better than others. Some were safe, dry, and decent. Others… not so much. There was the place with the flooded basement. The one with the fuel oil furnace. And our personal favorite, a home with a yard full of sewage.

No matter where we landed, there were always things that needed fixing. Small things, mostly. But they piled up and when I was away, which was often, Elizabeth was the one left to manage it all: six kids, a full household, and a growing list of repairs.

Finding help wasn’t easy. Contractors were overbooked or uninterested in the “small jobs.” Prices were rarely clear. Timelines were vague. And when someone did show up, it often felt like they were doing us a favor rather than solving a problem.

We leaned on friends a lot, good people who helped when they could, but even then we knew we were stretching already-stretched resources. It never felt sustainable and it always felt heavy.

That weight of managing a home without reliable support stayed with us.

Even after I transitioned out of the military and moved into tech and operations roles, that feeling lingered. I worked in IT, managing hundreds of systems for small businesses. Later, I led operations in the lumber industry, building software tools and managing production. The work was challenging, the people were good, and the results were measurable.

But I felt disconnected.

Something was missing.

I missed helping people in a way that felt personal.

It was Elizabeth who nudged me toward something different. She reminded me of all those years we struggled to find help. Of the time we spent trying to make things work with little ones underfoot and no margin for error. She asked the question that changed everything:

“What if we became the help we always needed?”

So that’s what we did.

We started Mission Ready to serve families like ours, the ones trying to hold it all together, who don’t have the time, tools, or energy to fix a leaky faucet or rewire an old switch. The families where the to-do list never seems to shrink, and every fix feels like one more thing to manage.

This work isn’t glamorous. It’s not flashy. But it’s deeply meaningful.

Every time we walk into a home and solve a problem that’s been lingering, every time someone tells us, “I’ve been meaning to get to that for months,” and we take it off their plate, we feel like we’re doing something that matters.

We built this company not just with tools and training, but with empathy. We know what it’s like to feel overwhelmed in your own home. We’ve been there. And now we get to be the people who show up, do the job, and leave things better than we found them.

That’s our mission.

That’s our story.

And we’re grateful you’re here to be part of it.