REAL ESTATE
ASHA KLARICH
Love, Serve, Transform, Connect:
A Story of Advocacy and New Beginnings
By Tamara S. Wolfe | Photos by Rebecca Kay
“I DON’T CARE IF I’M BROKE AND LIVING UNDER A BRIDGE — I’m never leaving the bedside of my babies.”
But for Asha Klarich, it felt like everyone had left her.
A former immigration attorney now working as a realtor with Prime Real Estate Experts (PREX) of Lehi, Asha faced her world being shaken to its core.
Her husband was serving his medical residency in New York when she became pregnant with twins. There were complications. Her babies arrived far too early. Her daughter, though fragile, was stable. But her son, born with a heart defect, remained in the NICU for months. Asha never left their side. She lived at the Ronald McDonald House. Her husband’s work was 80 miles away, and she faced those long days and nights alone.
In the midst of this crisis, she lost her job.
Her small law firm didn’t offer family and medical leave benefits. “My managing attorney called,” Asha remembers. “He told me, ‘We have a caseload. We don’t know when you’re coming back, so I need to replace you.’” When her son died at four months, no one from the office reached out. “I didn’t hear from anybody. Not even a call.”
Yet in her loneliness and grief, something opened.
“Losing a child puts your life in focus in a way that nothing else truly can,” she says. “I realized I needed connection. I needed to ease the emptiness.”
Asha had built her life around success. From the time she was nine, she knew she wanted to be an attorney. She imagined the corner office, the tailored suits, the prestige. It was the life she believed would make her father proud. He had emigrated to the United States to attend Cornell University and valued education and financial success above all else. Love, in his world, seemed tied to achievement.
Her mother’s love was different. Unwavering and unconditional. “Whether I became a teacher, a doctor or attorney, she would’ve supported me,” Asha says.
After her parents’ divorce, Asha, her brother, and her mother lived with her maternal grandparents in Falls Church, Virginia. Her grandparents, principled and generous, taught her to work hard and to live with integrity. Later, when her mother remarried, they moved to Rocky Mount, a rural town in southern Virginia. They lived simply, chopping wood, fishing, and living off the land. “We didn’t have much, but I never felt poor,” she says.
That upbringing stayed with her. So did the yearning for financial stability. And even more deeply, the call to be an advocate.
Asha moved to Utah where she earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Utah. She then headed to New York to attend SUNY Law, choosing the school to be close to her husband’s residency. She excelled in law school, graduating with top marks, and pursued immigration law to advocate for refugees and asylees entering a daunting system.
“I wanted to represent people who had a goal but couldn’t reach it alone,” she says. “That’s why I became an attorney, so I could be their voice.” Although connection felt fleeting once the client’s aim was achieved, her career was thriving.
That was before her babies were hospitalized, before she was fired, and before the economy had spiraled into recession. Yet, as the job market tightened, she still turned down two lucrative government positions. “The offers didn’t matter,” Asha says. “My place was beside my babies.”
She returned to Utah in 2011 with her husband and two children — her surviving twin daughter and her youngest, a son. But this time, she carried a shattered heart. Her marriage ended soon after. And she found herself navigating divorce, selling her home, and beginning life as a single mother.
Real estate came gradually. She began managing short-term rentals, and friends started asking for guidance. She realized how intimate this work could be — how helping someone leave a home, find a new one, and start a new chapter, could offer the meaningful connection she’d been missing.
With her background in law and mediation, she brought calm and skill to complex transactions. She especially connected with clients going through divorce. When a friend needed help, Asha stepped in — not just as a realtor, but as a steady presence in a time of upheaval.
That kind of advocacy felt true to her heart.
When she visited PREX for the first time, something touched her soul. At the end of the hallway, a sign read: Love. Serve. Transform. Connect. “Those four words weren’t about marketing,” she says. “They embodied everything that had become central to my life.”
At her first brokerage meeting, no one asked about her sales goals. They asked about her story. Her values. “It was the opposite of the law firm,” she says. “There was warmth and openness.”
She joined PREX in 2024.
Today, Asha specializes in helping clients through difficult transitions. Many come to her in tears. She listens. “Hearing them is an act of love,” she says. She brings legal insight, emotional intelligence, and clear strategy to every transaction. The work is personal, purposeful, and healing.
Asha is now remarried to a man who lifts her every day. Her daughter is now 16, and her son is twelve. “My children hold me accountable more than anyone else,” she says. “I want to model for them that it’s never too late to rebuild your life.”
“I hope they see a mother who is joyful, and who helps others,” she shares. “Someone connected to purpose, and who wants for them, an inspired life.”
Asha still grieves. She always will. But in that hollow space, something lasting has entered: A life shaped by love. A call to serve. The courage to transform. And the beauty of connection.