VIRTUES & OPERATING PRINCIPLES
gRIT
“Grit is about sweat, not swagger. Character, not charisma. Grit is the result of a hard-fought struggle, a willingness to take risks, a strong sense of determination, working relentlessly toward a [commitment], taking challenges in stride, and having the passion and perseverance to accomplish difficult things, even if you are wallowing in the most difficult circumstances” - Grit to Great, by Linda Kaplan Thaler & Robin Koval
GROWTH MINDSET
We are always growing, learning, and optimizing - that’s what makes the journey and experience so enjoyable. It also means that we are being creative and looking at unique ways to maximize efficiency, potential, comprehension, and community.
dILIGENCE
In ourselves, our decisions, who we work with, a given property, and how we care for our assets.
SERVANT LEADERSHIP
Scovy Ventures is bigger than us. We have the ability to reach and impact so many lives! We collaborate, partner, coach, mentor, are empathetic, authentic, and just care about people. This helps us:
Providing clean and safe homes
Improving communities
Supporting local charities and organizations
Nurturing a vehicle for the creation of wealth and stability
TRANSPARENCY
Transparency and honesty feed our integrity and relationships. It gets the most out of our relationships with you, lenders, investors, partners, sellers, our families, and friends. We want you to know where we are in our journey. Our milestones, successes, failures (and what we’ve learned from them), triumphs, underwriting, case studies, and finances are all on the table.
AGILITY & FLEXIBILITY
Markets change, people change, priorities change. We must grow and flex, give, push, relax, wait, race when appropriate. Sometimes, things don’t go as planned, or our experience fails us. That’s okay, as long as we take those lessons and adapt.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong one stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the one who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if they fail, at least fails while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”