About
Fifteen years on stage, then I bet on myself.
I am a REALTOR® with Williams Trew here in Fort Worth. Before this I danced professionally for fifteen years with Texas Ballet Theater, and so did my wife.
I grew up in my parents' dance studio in Naperville, Illinois and started when I was two. I left Point Park University after two years when Texas Ballet Theater offered me a trainee spot, moved to Fort Worth, met my wife the same year, and married her in 2017. We have a daughter now too.
I danced the Nutcracker every year until I was thirty four. I left on purpose. The physical toll adds up, and it did not pay enough for the family we have now. Real estate was a move toward stability, not away from art.
The part that made me want to do this
My wife and I bought our first home directly from the people we were renting it from. No agent, nobody guiding us. We thought we were keeping it simple.
It was a lot to go through without anyone walking us through it. Contracts, deadlines, inspections, and a constant low-level question of whether we were doing any of it right. We got through it, and we later turned that house into a rental, did the backsplash and the painting and the wall repairs ourselves, and learned what actually adds value and what does not.
But I remember the feeling of not knowing what I did not know. That is the thing I am trying to prevent for other people.
What ballet actually taught me
Being corrected every day for fifteen years is useful training.
Ballet is coaching, repetition, and delivering under pressure on a night that cannot be rescheduled. You are critiqued daily from childhood, so feedback stops feeling like an attack and starts being information. You learn to stay calm when something goes wrong mid-performance, because stopping is not an option.
A closing is not a stage. But deadlines, other people's timelines, and things going sideways at the last minute are all familiar territory, and I do not panic in them.
Where I work
Fort Worth, mostly the west side.
My family is rooted on the west side and that is where I know the streets best, from Arlington Heights and Monticello through Ridglea and Overton Woods. I also work White Settlement, Wedgwood, and Chapel Creek, which are where a lot of first homes in this city actually happen. I travel to Aledo, Benbrook, and Weatherford, and I will go further for the right client.
I also spent fifteen years inside this city's arts community and my wife is still part of it. If you are moving to Fort Worth for a company, a school, or an orchestra, I understand how those schedules work and what it is like to plan a move around a contract year.
Get in touch
Tell me where your story begins.
It might start with a number you are not sure about, or a street you keep driving down, or a lease that is up in March. Wherever it is, that is a fine place to begin, and none of it has to be figured out before you write to me.
Ask me the thing you think is too small to ask. Those are usually the ones worth asking, and if it turns out now is not your moment I will tell you that too.
Riley Moyano
REALTOR®, Williams Trew
630-303-1045
riley.moyano@williamstrew.com
2821 S Hulen St, Fort Worth, TX 76109