Our Company

 SWELL home and living was founded on the belief that a business can genuinely be a force for good in the world.

So often we hear of businesses and particularly of big businesses, that they are: destroying the environment, bribing governments, sending jobs to other countries, buying back their own stock instead of growing their business, creating unsafe work environments, the list goes on…

We believe a business survives and thrives by the community it serves. Business should in turn serve that community, not just by offering products or services but by being actively involved in the betterment of that community. Whether that’s through donating money, time, or services to those who need it.

That’s why we donate 5% of our top line revenue to local charities in our client’s honor. We donate before profits because it’s right and also because it too easy to manipulate the numbers, which is what other companies do. Remember, Amazon has technically never made a profit though they are one of the largest companies in America if not the world.

We donate our time to local charities by volunteering. Whether that’s picking up trash from the roadside or packing bags of food for hungry children, we are out there actively making our community a better place to live.

We donate our services to help promote homeownership to the people who are on the frontlines of our communities. We offer discounts to active duty military, veterans, firefighters, police officers, EMS, and teachers. We also offer discounts to the people who work for the charities we partner with.

Another reason SWELL home & living was created was because most real estate firms don’t really care about the people they serve. With large firms, their customers are the agents that work for them. Their goal is to extract as much money from these agents as possible to line their own pockets. When SWELL was created, we wanted to be different. We wanted to focus on home-buyer and home-seller’s needs, providing unparalleled service. For this we could charge a lot more. But it all comes back to serving our community and we’d rather save our clients the money. We believe exceptional service will have our clients coming back to us again and again as well as referring us to their friends and family. This is how we’d prefer to be compensated, not by over-pricing and under-delivering…

We believe we can be the change we wish to see in the world. Our hope is to inspire other businesses to put our community first, because a stronger community means a better place to live for everyone.

Owner/Founder

Ty Shaw