I have had a number of different job and life experiences which has lead to me to enter into the Real Estate Business a few years ago.

I graduated  from the Univrsity of Tennessee in 1968 with a BS Degree in Agronomy - study of soils and grasses.

I entered in the US Army in 1969 Honorably Discharged in 1971 after  17 months in South Vietnam

For the next 15 years I help construct and maintain golf courses in the Tampa area.  At one point i was the Supt. in charge of  three golf courses.  One of those courses hosted a Senior PGA golf tournament for two years.  I was able to meet and play with some of the finest golfers during that time.  That exposure must have rubbed off on me as I was able to elevate my own game,  competed and won a number of city, state and national championships 

Upon leaving the golfing arena, my wife and I purchased 25 acres in Plant City, Fl.  My wife developed  a Saddlebred horse business.  Actually we did quite well in the breeding and showing including a Reserve National  Championfor in the 3-year old  bracket.  I developed the remaining parcels for a tree nursery,  landscape installation, maintenace and irrigation business.  This we did for 15 years.

My wife - Jane - has a background in banking and accepted a job as President of Ocala Community Credit Union and has been there for 14 years.  We communuted for a period of time, sold the farm and moved  permamently to  Ocala in 2002.

Fours years of a re-roofing salesman in Marion County showed me that I needed to keep my feet on the ground and thus entered into the Real Estate Business with Weichert Realtors/Hallmark Properties in 2007 

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