I can honestly give credit to my mom for helping to orchestrate all of this. Me, my mom, and brother have a real estate team together and Jamal has his own home inspection company. My mom had used Jamal before with one of her clients and when she first met him she later told me about a young guy who was a home inspector and she went on to sing his praises about how nice he was, how professional he was, etc. But I knew that was code talk for “y’all should meet” because at that time she was really trying to hook me up with every seemingly decent young guy she met. Fast forward to 2022 when I was purchasing my own home and my mom was like “You should use Jamal for your inspection.” So I reached out to him, he did my home inspection, and we talked a bit about real estate and how my mom recommended him. A few weeks later, I followed up with a question about my report and he answered it and then followed up with a text invite to 12 Stories bar in DC for one of his line brothers birthday that weekend. Me and my sister showed up (b/c I needed a wingman) and I guess you can say the rest is history. We went on a date every day that week and a year later, in 2023, we got engaged.