Meet Scott, Jeanalin and their boys of Semper Fi Homestead
Hi y’all. We’re Scott and Jeanalin, married for 20 years and raising two teenage boys here in Las Vegas. We are Semper Fi Homestead, a licensed and insured mini homestead built on faith, resilience, and community.
Our mission is simple but powerful: to educate and inspire others to utilize the land they already have, no matter how big or small, while delivering smiles through animals and connection.
Our Homestead Journey
Our property is zoned for 20 chickens and 2 large livestock. I proudly earned the title of crazy chicken lady and successfully rezoned our property to allow 30 chickens. Our long term vision is to purchase our neighbor’s land so we can expand our cow cuddle experience, after witnessing firsthand the pure joy our cows bring to the community.
To afford our homestead lifestyle, we practice land hacking and house hacking. We rent unused land to neighbors for RV's, boats, and cars, and we rent out our attached casita as a furnished midterm rental. These strategies often cover half of our mortgage, and some months even more.
Real Estate and Investing Background
Scott and I are both licensed real estate advisors. Scott does residential and I do commercial. We love helping friends, family, and the community buy, sell, and invest in real estate. Our investment experience includes:
3 live in flips
1 traditional flip
1 long term rental
1 midterm rental
3 multifamily syndications as Limited Partners
I even helped an investor scale his portfolio from 1 door to 17 doors with a mixed rental use from rent by the room, short term, medium term and long term rentals
As Limited Partners, we also invest in a portfolio of Crunch Fitness gyms across Southern California, a gas and oil company in Corpus Christi, and a documentary currently being shopped by major streaming platforms.
We previously partnered in and operated a memory care home for five years, serving the senior community. After selling the business in 2023, we opened an investment company focused on wholesaling and flipping homes to help revitalize the Las Vegas community.
4 chickens lead to our accidental Cow Cuddle Experience
We sell, barter, and donate farm fresh eggs to the community. We also have therapy trained dogs we take to care homes, hospitals, and schools, and we noticed how much joy people experienced simply spending time with our animals.
The cow cuddle idea happened by accident. So many people reached out wanting to meet our steer (castrated bull), Johnny Cash even before we even got the chance to pick him up. We had to wait a couple months before we could pick him up because he was still feeding from the momma. I documented the entire journey, from bidding on him to learning cattle care, building the bullpen, and bringing him home. We decided to test cow cuddles at a farmers market, and the response was overwhelming.
Neither of us comes from farming backgrounds. We learned everything from the ground up and documented the journey. I love sharing our homesteading journey and sharing the reality of learning as we go.
Faith, Hardship, and Why We Share Our Story
Our story is not glamorous. Scott and I both grew up in single parent households with significant financial struggles. My mom relied on welfare, food stamps, and Section 8. When Scott and I first got married, we slept on an air mattress for four months and furnished our home with $100 worth of donated furniture from a fellow Marine.
We have also experienced deep loss. Scott lost his mother to breast cancer at age four and later lost his father to lung cancer in 2016. I lost my dad to a heart attack in 2009 and my mom to severe cirrhosis in 2011. Both were only 50 years old. Losing both parents so close together deeply impacted my mental health.
Scott served eight years in the Marine Corps as an 0331 Machine Gunner, with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. He lives with PTSD, and one of our dogs is service trained to support him. After his third deployment, he chose to leave the military to be present with our young boys.
Scott later became a nurse and worked as a COVID travel nurse, a season of sacrifice that helped change the trajectory of our future. I like to say I turned Scottie into my Sugar Daddy because I let him go be a travel nurse, haha! As you all know Travel COVID nurses made baaank. LOL! But in 2023, after burnout, he left nursing and we went all in on real estate and homesteading, trusting God completely. So Scottie is now my Splenda Daddy since I don't have my Sugar Daddy anymore. Haha!
Scottie still has his nursing license and God willing, plans to go back to school for Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to better serve Las Vegas in the mental health field as we found its a huge need here in Las Vegas. Especially for veterans.
I live with depression and anxiety rooted in grief and loss. During one of Scott’s deployments, I received equine therapy through the Marine Corps and volunteered at a horse sanctuary, eventually becoming the head volunteer and helping with fundraising. That experience changed my life.
Walking by Faith and Serving the Community
God has clearly called us to open our homestead to the community, especially through our animals. We believe animals have played a vital role in saving our mental health, and we feel called to share that with others.
Our vision includes:
Cow cuddles and steer smooches
Hanging with our chickens, turkeys, cows, and tortoises if they are not sleeping
Educational homestead experiences
Future offerings for disabled veterans at no cost
We aim to partner with 4H to educate and empower the next generation of little farmers through hands on, sustainable agriculture, entrepreneurship, serving the community and fundraising initiatives. Kids will learn how to grow, make, and create using real homesteading practices while gaining basic business skills like pricing, customer service, and financial literacy. The program will culminate in a curated youth farmers market where participants can sell what they have grown, baked, or made, building confidence, responsibility, and a strong connection to their community and food systems. A Portion will go back to the homestead.
A Note About Our Animals
We originally planned to offer equine therapy but discovered I am severely allergic to horses. We bought a mini horse so Johnny Cash could have a bestie. But after exhausting all medical options, we made the difficult decision to rehome our mini horse to an equine rescue that provides horse assisted therapy. We are grateful he is safe, loved, and continuing his purpose.
We later welcomed Holy, our future milk cow. She is a Dexter and the sweetest, slightly spicy little button.
Our Why
We truly believe our animals saved us. Our mission is to share that joy with the Las Vegas community, while teaching others that homesteading, investing, and community are possible no matter where you start.
Thank you for your prayers, encouragement, and support as we continue to walk this journey by faith.
