Founder & CEO
Jeff Walston
Jeff Walston is the Founder and CEO of Employee Home Advantage.
Jeff is a U.S. Air Force veteran and housing industry professional with firsthand experience across lending, real estate, and small-business ownership. He served in the military prior to 2008 and entered the mortgage industry shortly before the financial crisis, continuing to work in lending through and after the market collapse. That period gave him direct exposure to how housing finance, employment stability, and systemic risk intersect under real economic stress.
During that same period, Jeff also worked in private security on large government contracts overseas, developing a disciplined, execution-focused leadership style in high-stakes environments.
In 2013, Jeff founded his first small business, which he successfully operated and later replicated in two additional states. Through that experience, he gained practical insight into hiring, retention, payroll, compliance, and the true cost of employee turnover.
Today, Jeff is both a licensed loan officer and a licensed real estate agent, providing real-time visibility into how housing affordability, lending requirements, and workforce stability interact for working families and employers. That dual perspective directly informs the design of Employee Home Advantage — an employer-sponsored housing benefit structured to improve retention without exposing employers to lending risk, housing market volatility, or balance-sheet obligations.
Jeff founded Employee Home Advantage to address what he sees as a growing workforce issue: employers are increasingly losing skilled employees not to competitors, but to housing instability. His approach emphasizes conservative design, predictable economics, and long-term durability over short-term growth or financial engineering.