HOME, ON HER OWN TERMS: A Life of Courage, Service, and Refusing to Wait for Permission (The Wake Up Authority Series)

HOME, ON HER OWN TERMS A Life of Courage, Service, and Refusing to Wait for Permission Before she was one of Coronado's most decorated real estate brokers, Gerri-Lynn Fives was a young Army officer standing on a hospital carpet in labor, ordered into uniform for her own graduation because showing up wasn't optional. Before the seven-figure listings and the twenty-six-year career, there was a single mother turned away by landlord after landlord at Fort Huachuca — until she stopped waiting for anyone's permission and bought her own home with her VA loan instead. Home, On Her Own Terms is the story behind the résumé: the military service, the institutions that failed her, and the discipline that turned every setback into the next credential, the next committee seat, the next reason a client could trust her with the biggest decision of their life. This isn't a real estate guide. It's the story of a woman who kept getting up — on the water, in uniform, and at the negotiating table — long before anyone handed her a reason to. For clients, colleagues, and anyone who's ever been told no by the system they served: this is what happens next. Gerri-Lynn Fives is an associate broker with Pacific Sotheby's International Realty in Coronado, California, a two-time REALTOR of the Year, and a former commissioned officer in both the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy. Most mornings before her first showing, she's still out on Mission Bay, rope in hand.