As I begin this long story I’ll start from the beginning, I’m from Texas, and my Dad decided to quit Ah-hem (retire) from working 9-5 and start building homes. He built our first home while I was very small and then the 2nd with a lot of help from his home-schooled children (I have 2 brothers, 1 in general construction and one a master electrician now). One day he decided to put our home up for sale and decided Arkansas was a good place to start building new spec homes, I was 12 at the time and of course like any child not knowing anyone or anything but the vast open spaces of Texas, I was devastated.
After we arrived, we stopped in Hot Springs Arkansas, my father decided this is a good place to set-up shop and build. Well the first property we bought didn't perk it was a for sale by owner (sort of - that's another story for another time), and was in the country, no city sewer, my father is now in a new world, its gonna cost somewhere between 10-20k for a sewer system. We didn't have that much to invest and complete the house, so a few years later he sold unfinished to buyer that could finish it. We moved on built another house, and yes I helped do everything from sheet rock, tape bed and texture, to electrical work, and plumbing, and of course design. We’ve only built a few houses in town, and I can still name the homes I helped build.
In the meantime my mother decided to invest in a Candy Store named Sweet Tooth Candies, which a few years later became Sweet Tooth Candies and Deli, and now Sweet Tooth Catering. I became old enough to get a “real” job hahaha Sonic was my first job at 15 or 16. Eventually I started working at Xerox met my husband and worked my way up the ladder eventually managing production environments, travelling around the globe meeting and seeing the different cultures and people in a variety of environments. Building and selling my own homes and market ups and downs, after 20 years I decided to go back to how I was raised in the building industry and I remembered how much I love design, seeing houses, looking at the potential every house has, remembering the problems my father had building and decided I wanted to be in this industry to help someone not have the same problems and help them see the potential that I see and maybe one day retire (someday).
Home Types:
Lot/Land, Commercial, House, Townhouse, Other, MultiFamily, Condo, Manufactured
Years of Experience:
7
