Personal Memo from our Founder:

In this day and age, when no one wants to take responsibility, I am the guy who’s responsible for everything that happens at BocaClosings℠, good or bad. If you want to know about us and the culture at BocaClosings℠ , including how we look at our clients and partners, you might want to read about the guy who is standing up and taking responsibility:

The culture at BocaClosings℠ is a reflection of the upbringing, education, interests, and qualities of our founder, Grant Kehres.  Every member of the BocaClosings℠ team has been screened for their commitment to excellence and retained for their genuine interest in adding value to the lives of our clients, our Realtor friends and colleagues.

Born of mid-western parents who instilled in him the mid-western work ethic, Grant learned the lessons of early to bed, early to rise, hard work and take pride in one’s work.  His family settled in Boca Raton when it was a small town of less than 1000 people.  His earliest memories are crossing the one lane, wooden Camino Real – Boca Inlet Bridge twice a day going to and from school.

A diligent student, he attended St. Andrews School in Boca Raton, Florida’s premier British-style all boys prep school.  Imagine his excitement to learn that for his senior year, St. Andrews would be for the first time in the school’s history, co-ed.  Imagine his disappointment that only 6 girls were admitted to his class!

Grant finished Salutatorian at St. Andrews and earned admission to Babson College.  For decades, Babson College has been recognized by US News and World Report as the #1 school in the world for Entrepreneurship and was recently named the #2 best overall college in America by The Wall Street Journal. (If the editor of The Wall Street Journal had attended Babson College, we are willing to bet Babson would have been named #1.)    Not a fan of being second best, he was determined to work harder and earned a dual degree in Investments and Economics, graduating valedictorian.   He completed the four-year course of studies in 27 months with a nearly perfect 4.0 average.

Following his undergraduate education, he continued at Babson to earn an MBA in Finance and was then admitted to the College of Law at Vanderbilt University where he graduated with a Doctorate in Jurisprudence. A true doctoral program, his doctoral paper was titled: Impact Fees in Florida – A New Method of Finance or an Unconstitutional Tax Under the Equal Protection Clause?

Upon graduation from Vanderbilt, he returned to his hometown and opened a law practice.  Shortly thereafter he was invited to speak at a sales meeting of a local real estate company.  The very next day he was asked by one of the Realtors®  from that meeting to handle the Realtors’® real estate closing.   It wasn’t long before the Boca Raton Realtor®  community discovered that his understanding of business mastered at Babson College made him different from other attorneys and title companies; that he understood how to make “deals work”.   His practice grew from that first closing to having handled over 11,000 clients and over 14,000 closings.

In 1993, he was board-certified by The Florida Bar’s Board of Legal Specialization and Education as a Real Estate Law specialist.  Of Florida’s 112,000 attorneys, only slightly more than 400 are board-certified specialists in Real Property Law. (Data as of 2025).  Board-certified lawyers are recognized by the Florida Bar as specialists in their area of practice.  To maintain Board Certification, a lawyer must first 1) pass a stringent background investigation by The Florida Bar as to experience and ethics, 2) obtain recognition by his peers as an expert in his area of practice (the peer recognition is solicited anonymously by The Florida Bar), 3) pass a separate specialized bar examination in the lawyer’s specialty, and 4) must re-certify every 5 years and take 75 hours of specialized, advanced continuing legal education during each recertification cycle.

An early adopter of technology, BocaClosings.com became a reality in 1999 and has grown from that first closing as a solo practitioner to a boutique law practice supported by several title insurance paralegals, a non-title department specializing in providing legal representation to the non-title side of real estate closings, and a probate department which helps clear real estate titles for the BocaClosings℠ title insurance and closing departments.

Along with his professional development, our founder has found time to reign terror upon fish on both local lakes and far-away trout streams, play golf at a high level (a 6 handicap and former Club Champion at the Deer Creek Golf Club), become a world traveler, was a nationally ranked competitive swimmer, a car dude that enjoys restoring, maintaining and driving his two daily-driver antique British motor vehicles, and a cat dad.  Grant loves to dance, but from time to time, he has been known to aspire to more lofty pursuits like turning the world upside down flying vintage aircraft.