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I am a REALTOR and I help people buy and sell houses. I help first time home buyers, relocating people in to or out of the Twin Cities and diversifying client's investment portfolio by guiding them to make wise choices in investment real estate.

Have you always wanted to run your own business? What were some of your previous jobs / companies?

Yes. It has always been a dream of mine.

I grew up with a "wheeler dealer" father and I learned how to sell at an early age.

I was always the kid selling Kool-Aid or bike parts out of my garage. I had goals and worked hard to achieve those goals. I have been a big comic book collector for a number of years and the only way I could afford to buy them was to work for them. I went even as far as to iron my money to make a large presentation to the older sellers of these comic books (I was twelve).

I had been involved with computers for a number of years and had my own business selling Apple Computers to graphic designers. My business partner and I grew it to a $6,000,000 company with 26 employees. We were a casualty of decreasing hardware margins and increasing labor costs. We were part of the dot.com bomb and were on the wrong side of the funding fence. I decided to get back in to real estate as I had been involved with it before, knew the industry from my father and I had always made money buying and selling homes. I have owned real estate since the age of 21 and have never rented an apartment. I believe in the product I sell. You would be amazed how many real estate agents don't even own real estate.

Have you got any qualifications? Please tell us about yourself academically?

I treated my high school like my college education. I took tough college level classes in high school because they were free! I did my homework and studied hard to get decent grades. I wasn't sold on the idea of going to college and my parents and I hadn't planned financially for me to go. I discovered at a young age that the sales/marketing profession was my calling. So I went to many sales seminars (Tom Hopkins) and sold computer equipment during my junior and senior year in high school. I continued working for that company and decided to take a year off from school. I attending a local community college and took sales and marketing courses in the evenings.

I felt that I could teach most of the classes because I had real world experience and I totally understood sales and marketing. So I dropped out to start my own computer business.

I learned real estate from my father who is a REALTOR and a builder. I also was mentored by a friend of mine and she taught me the relocation real estate business.

How / when did the idea of your website / company come about?

I find that most REALTORS or real estate agents are cheap and they don't treat their business like a real business. Most real estate websites are template based and don't do much on the search engines out there. I went after the best web programmers and content writers to create what I believe will be an award winning website when it goes for full launch the first week in August 2005. Because I work with many out of town customers, it was important for me to appear high on Google's search engine and it was important to provide out of Towner’s with as much information about the area as possible, with out confusing them. I also wanted to get the message across that I am an approachable person and I will take the small business with the big business. I also wanted to create a central resource for me when I need to look for information for clients.

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