ON THE LEVEL: Who ya gonna call? Myth-buster real estate accountant Rob Phillips
CHARLOTTE – If the first thing you think of when you think “accountant” is “Louis Tully,” you have not met Rob Phillips, CPA. At 6’5”, this basketball-playing, savvy and slyly […]
ON THE LEVEL: Ryan Clutter comes from nation’s capital to Charlotte’s capital market
CHARLOTTE — Sharp. That’s the word for Ryan Clutter: sharp-looking and sharp-thinking. Yet he’s down-to-earth, as you would expect from his Indiana upbringing, and self-deprecating to boot. Clutter is senior […]
ON THE LEVEL: Dave Simpson of Carolinas AGC lobbies in the lobby
CHARLOTTE – Dave Simpson gives good quote. That’s because before he became a Raleigh-based lobbyist for the Carolinas Association of General Contractors, he got good quote. He was, in other […]
ON THE LEVEL: David Botsko of Keller Williams is a not-so-secret real estate agent man
CHARLOTTE – David Botsko is a double agent. For 27 years, Botsko was a federal investigator. After he “retired,” he put in 11 years running the fraud investigation arm of […]
ON THE LEVEL: Roy Alexander goes from green cards to green spaces
DAVIDSON – Roy Alexander, executive director of the Davidson Lands Conservancy, is one of those people you can’t help but be in awe of. At 71, he has literally spent […]
ON THE LEVEL: Kevin McClave: Former golf pro sets a new course for Henderson Properties
CHARLOTTE – Kevin McClave had a twin emergency last week but lived to tell his tale. McClave, as fresh faced as his freshly minted new title – principal and sales […]
ON THE LEVEL: Tony Smith lobbying the Legislature — and for the engagement of Realtors
CHARLOTTE – There’s a Jaguar in the parking lot of Wanda Smith & Associates Realtors, a Rolex Yachtsman on the arm of owner Tony Smith, and a couple of valuable […]
ON THE LEVEL: Lee Cochran takes the long way home – to affordable, mixed-income homes
CHARLOTTE – “Sometimes,” as three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee put it, “it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short […]
Julianne McCollum: A tree-loving, MBA-holding, Internet-savvy geeky-hippie with her marketing mojo on
CHARLOTTE – Some good PR people don’t like marketing themselves; they’re all about their clients. So it took about two months of cajoling, hounding, and email-stalking – everything short of […]
On the Level: Mary Ludemann tells the North-South, wife-husband, in-out story of New Old
BAXTER VILLAGE, S.C. – The first surprise for Mary Ludemann was that the remodeling job got the attention of Better Homes and Gardens’ Kitchen and Bath Makeovers in the first […]
Dan Clodfelter: Call him senator, mayor, Mr. Clean. But you can’t call him on the phone anymore
CHARLOTTE – Used to be, not that long ago, that you could just call Dan Clodfelter. If the Democratic District 37 state senator from Charlotte didn’t pick up, he’d generally […]
On the Level: Jonathan Osman is an on-the-level Realtor who puts the ‘real’ in real estate
CHARLOTTE – Realtor Jonathan Osman tells it like he sees it. He does so on his blog, Real Estate News and Opinion, and he did it in person with On […]
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