After many years of coaching and constantly doing deals himself independently, Chris Prefontaine founded Smart Real Estate Coach in 2014, bringing in his son Nick, daughter Kayla, and son-in-law Zachary as the company began to grow. The family team coaches investors on how to properly scale and automate their businesses. In 2003, Nick was in a severe snowboarding accident that left him in a coma for over 3 weeks. The doctors told Chris and his wife Kim that their son probably wouldn’t walk, talk, or eat on his own again. With a tremendous amount of care and encouragement, less than 3 months later, Nick was literally running out of Franciscan Children’s hospital overjoyed. As a way to pay forward the gift that was given to the Prefontaine family, a portion of every real estate deal is donated to Franciscan.