“Always listen to your mother!” Kevin LaRue says. “If I would have listened to my mother coming out of college, I would have entered real estate a lot sooner. Mothers are always right!” After graduating from Radford University with a teaching degree in Health &...

Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp. If anyone in the mortgage industry was prepared to meet the unexpected challenges and opportunities that came with 2020, it was Chris Channell of Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp. The home financing professional had made his start in...

The decision to enter real estate came at a significant point in Monica Gibson’s life. The company she was working for had asked her to move to their corporate headquarters in Connecticut. At the same time, she and her husband, Mark, a corporate accountant, wanted to...

Sara Rodriguez not only helps facilitate “The American Dream” through her company, Titan Title — she protects it. “I used to be an immigration attorney, and a lot of my clients would come to me after closing, asking me to explain what was in their closing documents,”...

Ray Gernhart, of RE/MAX Executives, has always had his heart set on being a star. For the first 22 years of his life, he pursued that dream in the entertainment business. Yet, as anyone who has tried to find success in that field knows, ‘making it’ isn’t easy. “Trying...