I am excited to share this month’s client spotlight, Art and McKenzie Basaldua owners of Excellent Quality Commercial Cleaning, LLC.  The reason I picked Art and McKenzie is because McKenzie posted something not too long ago about her business and a huge milestone that made me think “YES! This is why we do what we do” and I want others to be inspired too.

Art and McKenzie own Excellent Quality Commercial Cleaning, they are a local cleaning company that does everything from residential to business cleaning and I have seen firsthand, it’s never ending, and I am not 100% sure what McKenzie feeds herself, but I swear she never sleeps. 

​McKenzie learned from a far too early stage in life heartache when she lost her dad at 11 years old, she states that the next 3 years were a whirlwind that she can’t remember, her mom was lost in grief after the loss of her dad. But here is what stopped me in my tracks. McKenzie was 14 years old when she learned she was pregnant with twins.

Maybe this grabbed my heart strings because I too am a mother of twins and I can’t
even fathom the thought of raising my twins at 14, I hardly survived raising them at 27 and we are only 13 years into it.  But wow, 14 years old and having twins.

McKenzie said there was an article in the newspaper about her titled “Cinderella’s
Dreams Shattered” which stated she would live in poverty and never amount to anything living off the system. Fast forward now 30 years, man did she prove them wrong. 
Now I know it was NOT easy and I know McKenzie and Art fight for their business and keeping it going every single day. Art and McKenzie have been married now for 18 years, they have 5 children and 15 grandchildren. When they are not working, they enjoy family time going fishing, hiking, 4 wheeling and McKenzie recently joined the roller derby team in Kuna.

They said the reason they started to work with us was because they needed to provide a plan for their staff and themselves a retirement plan so that each of them could start planning for their future, they liked the simplicity of that fact that we could help them with multiple items all in one place. Owning their own business, they know that customer service is important, they love the excellent communications that they receive working with our team and that fact that we take prompt attention to any concerns they have.

Now, when I first stated that, “YES! This is why we do what we do” it’s not because we helped Art and McKenzie get their business to where it is at now, they have solely done that on their own, with hard work, long days and nights, we had no involvement in that. BUT our goal as a team is to help wherever we can to see our clients be able to succeed like they have.  Whether it’s planning a retirement account for them, buy/sell agreements for others, estate planning, succession planning, ideas to help grow business or simply planning for your retirement whether you own a business or an individual who’s looking at the future, we want to be the ones that are there encouraging you and helping your dreams come true.

We are excited to introduce our March Client Spotlight.  Justin and Amy Robinson with Lionsgate Enterprises, LLC.

First, I want to start off with if you have never meant Justin or Amy, you are missing out they are two of the most generous, fun and caring people you will meet.
Justin and Amy are the owners of Lionsgate Enterprises.  Lionsgate Enterprises specializes in fine kitchen cabinets at reasonable prices. As the Treasure Valley's largest cabinet shop and they pride themselves in producing kitchen cabinets of the highest quality.

I am not sure how its possible that Justin and Amy have been married almost 28 years when Amy doesn’t look over 30 years old but in July of this year, they will be celebrating their 28th year together and they have two kids, shortly after they celebrate their anniversary that they will be celebrating another milestone in life, they will become grandparents to a baby GIRL due in August. Family is extremely important to them and when they have the time they love boating, motorbikes, snowmobiling and I am sure even more traveling in the future once the new addition arrives.
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When juggling a thriving business, a busy family the last thing you really want to do is worried about taxes and bills and everything else that goes with those constant worries of business owners, so when we asked them why they first came to us they said because they needed to make the most of tax deductions in creative ways. After their first meeting with the ADALANT team they enjoyed that Justin was engaging but not pushy about his ideas and thoughts on what would work best for us.
With ADALANT’s team approach, their ideas on investments and savings we felt like they were the right fit for us, Justin and his staff are top notch.  They know their trade and they work hard to make sure everything is taken care of property, because of this we have always felt comfortable recommending them to others to work with.​

Thank you, Justin and Amy for letting us share your story.