CHICAGO — Maybe we should start first with Kevin Warren’s starter home in Overland Park, Kan., way back in the early 1990s when he was just out of law school and getting his career off the ground as an agent. At the time, Warren admits, the yard outside the house he and his wife, Greta, shared was far from special.
But then word began trickling around that the neighborhood was awarding a “Yard of the Month,” complete with a sign to honor the winner. At that moment, Greta knew what was next.
“She looked at me and said, ‘I know what’s going to happen here,’ ” Warren said. “Our yard was OK. But once I saw that sign up? I got the mulch, I was bringing out experts, I’m cutting the yard.”
