Chapter 7 - TYLER’S MOUNTAIN DREAM
My parents found me because Tyler used my name in a loan application.
After years of short-lived jobs and expensive interests, he decided to develop a luxury wellness retreat in Colorado.
He had no construction experience.
No hospitality background.
No significant savings.
He did have a polished presentation, expensive renderings and parents willing to believe confidence was the same as competence.
The project was called North Star Sanctuary.
Tyler planned glass cabins, meditation platforms, imported stone pools and a restaurant supplied by “hyperlocal mountain farms” that did not exist.
The land alone cost more than he could finance.
Dad mortgaged their house to provide the down payment.
Mom withdrew retirement savings.
When the first lender rejected the project, Tyler found a private bridge loan with a high interest rate and short maturity.
To strengthen his application, he listed me as an experienced construction adviser who had “verbally committed” to overseeing the build.
I had never spoken to him.
The lender searched my name, found Elk Creek Works and attempted to verify my involvement.
That was how my parents learned where I lived.
By then, North Star Sanctuary had stopped construction.
Contractors had filed liens.
The bridge loan had entered default.
Tyler had used part of the construction budget for a luxury SUV, promotional travel and a launch party.
My parents’ home secured one of his guarantees.
Foreclosure proceedings had begun.
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They needed $640,000 to stop the sale, resolve immediate liens and extend Tyler’s loan.
They looked at my cabins and decided I could provide it.
