Personal Life
As I write this, I am 39 years young. I have been happily married to a special woman named Carrie Jones for 19 years! We have 4 awesome sons ranging from 4 to 18 years of age. I grew up in St.Cloud Florida to some God fearing parents who reared me right and taught me love God, be honest, and to find a passion for hard work. At 20 years and 19 years of age, my wife and I moved to Las Vegas for 15 years as she answered the call to serve the US Air Force. It was in Nevada at the age of 23 that I decided to start serving in the field or real estate. I sold thousands of homes in Nevada as a broker owner of Horizon Realty Group. I’m going on nearly 4 years now serving Central Florida, my hometown, and loving it!
What is most satisfying in the real estate business:
I love the satisfaction of being the resource a home seller was longing to find. Like they look at you and say – “Your EXACTLY who we have been looking for!”. It’s awesome. Candidly, 50 to 60% of the homes I sell, I am coming in behind another agent who didn’t get the job done after months of trying.
What are your hobbies? – I love to get a good Crossfit session in. That keeps me energetic through long days. I look forward to it daily and Clermont Crossfit is one of the best and most organized boxes you will find. I also enjoy reading. I go through seasons where I will read voraciously and push through 30 to 40 books in a year. Reading has been invaluable in so many ways.
What do you do for investment? In raging seller markets, I like short term flipping and in down markets, I like running in with cash and buying distressed homes to buy and hold till it turns hot again. I don’t like stocks except for established blue chips. Also don’t take this as investment advice. 😊
What do you do for fun? We love the lake! We live on a lake in Winter Garden and have a ski boat. We get out as much as we can. Also, we are Disney fanatics. We visited Disneyland nearly 100 times when we lived in Vegas. I also like golf but with 4 boys, I prioritize most of my time with them now and don’t play as much as I used to. Those times will come again and I will be a scratch golfer in no time! 😊
Whats your goal in 2019? I want to help 180 sellers across Central Florida get top dollar AND we want to give $50,000 to charity annual in the next year.