about lease2own dream home
We started this company because the right people kept getting the wrong answer.
In 2017, after one too many conversations with families who had done everything right and still couldn't buy a home, we started Lease to Own Dream Home. We operate by a single rule we borrowed from Dave Thomas: We do what we say we will do when we say we will do it. No fine print, no surprises, no excuses. The families in our program and the sellers we worked with know us by it.
How a 2008 crash turned into a 2017 company and an 8-year mission.
- The self-employed
- The recently divorced
- The medically recovered
- Anyone whose financial story doesn't fit a 1990s W-2 template
After the 10th time he heard the bank said no from someone who clearly had the means to own, Tom built a program we now call Flex-Lease. The point wasn't to invent a new financial product; it was to give people who had been written off by the system a real, structured, ethical way to get into a home they were already capable of owning. Eight years later that is still the only thing we do.
Our story in four moments.
2008 The Crash
Tom watches the lending system rewrite itself — and watches capable buyers get caught in the new gaps.
2017 Lease2Own Dream Home founded
First Flex-Lease structured and closed in the Puget Sound region.
2020 BBB-Accredited
Program expands to two Western markets during the pandemic
2026 Lease2Own Dream Home expands to multiple markets
What earns the trust.
8 years of proven success
We've been doing lease options since 2017 in every kind of market condition.
Better Business Bureau Accredited
We've been a member in good standing since 2022. We invite you to verify our record at BBB.org. We wouldn't list it if we weren't proud of it.
We teach this work to other investors
When you've been doing something long enough to teach it, the methods aren't experimental. They're documented and we're willing to put our name on them in front of a classroom.
Active leadership in REI community
Tom is vice president of the Real Estate Association of Puget Sound. It's one of the region's most active real estate professional bodies. The work happens in the open.
'Better Business Bureau Member — Verify our standing at bbb.org
For rules we run the company by
Everything in writing, bring your own attorney.
We don't just allow outside review; we encourage it. There are no hidden fees, no surprise costs, and we only get paid when the deal actually closes.
If we're not right for you, we'll say so on the call
Free consultation. Zero obligation. No follow-up sequences. We'd rather lose the deal we shouldn't have done than spend three years cleaning up the wrong fit.
We don't hand you the keys and disappear
- Credit repair specialist
- Mortgage brokers who already know how the program works
- Quarterly coaching calls
The relationship is the product.
Everyone in the deal has skin in the game
Buyers are screened by a licensed mortgage originator before they sign. Deposits are real not symbolic. The program works because everyone at the table has something to lose if they don't show up, including us.
Why local matters when the deal is your house.
National Companies
- Rigid, one-size-fits-all terms
- Corporate, impersonal process
- Just collecting rent
- Hidden fees and unfavorable terms
- You are a number
Lease2Own Dream Home
- Flexible Flex-Lease customized to your situation
- Local presence in every market we serve
- Actively helping you succeed in purchasing
- Transparent, fair, ethical - no fees unless you close
- You're a family with a dream we're invested in
Where we work.
- Seattle, WA - Puget Sound region
- Spokane, WA - Eastern Washington
- Boise, ID - Treasure Valley
- Salt Lake City, UT - Wasatch Front
- Tucson, AZ - Southern Arizona
- Las Vegas, NV Clark County
- Fresno/Stockton - Central Valley
Have a question we didn't answer? That's what the call is for.
Free. No credit pull. No obligation. If we’re not your fit, we’ll say so in the first ten minutes.