My Story
Six Years, Seven Communities, One Reason
I am a full-time real estate professional based in Buena Vista, Colorado, working across the seven Central Colorado mountain communities I know best: Buena Vista, Salida, Leadville, Fairplay, Twin Lakes, Ranch of the Rockies, and Nathrop. The work is residential homes, land, and select investment property. The clients are first-time buyers, long-distance relocators, second-home owners, and seasoned investors. The common thread is that they want to live here, or own a piece of here, and they want a real person walking the math with them.
I came into real estate through the same door most of my clients do: I fell hard for mountain living and wanted to help other people figure out how to make it work. That sounds like a tagline. It is not. It is the actual reason. Buying out here is more complicated than buying on a Front Range cul-de-sac. Water rights, well permits, septic feasibility, snow plowing, propane delivery, the difference between a 30-minute drive in July and a 90-minute drive in January. I learned all of that the hard way, on foot, and now I use it on every transaction.
My practice is built on a balance most local agents do not offer: residential, land, and investment under one roof. If you are weighing a finished home against a piece of acreage to build on, you do not need two agents to compare the math. If you are an investor running the numbers on a short-term rental, I can pull the comparables on both the income side and the resale side. The three categories inform each other, and clients who work with me on one often come back to work on another.
I run High Rocky Living as my brand, powered by Worth Clark Realty. That pairing matters. The boutique-and-local part is the day-to-day: the personal phone number, the hand-curated MLS feed, the inspection I attend in person. The Worth Clark part is the back-end infrastructure: the legal, the marketing technology, the national referral network, the agent training. Boutique service, real brokerage backing. Neither alone would serve you as well.
What clients tell me, in their own words, is that I communicate clearly and follow through on what I say I will do. The Burns family put it bluntly: "She does what she says and says what she will do." That is the only standard worth holding. Outside of real estate you will find me on the trails, on the Arkansas River, or with my family making memories in the mountains we get to call home.
"Christian was a fundamental part of our being able to find the right fit in Buena Vista."