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Previous Career / Education:
Currently Broker / Owner / President of Real Estate Company, active in commercial, residential, investment (including Real Estate Assets inside retirement plans & IRAs), as well as participating Real Estate Investor.
Owned, managed & operated: Echelon Fine Homes (interior design & luxury home construction).
Negotiator, Advisor, Consultant to companies & business professionals in improving company styles, products, services: “Finesse Your Services & Products”
Consultant / Negotiator / Advisor between Home Purchasers - Builder - Architect in Custom, Luxury Home Purchases & Construction.
Consultant / Advisor to Real Estate Investors.
Property Tax Auditor - Certified.
Mortgage Loan Officer.
Completed Certified Commercial Investment Member / PhD of Real Estate -- Was first Broker in State of Texas licensed on basis of CCIM courses.
Graduate of Barbizon Modeling School & have been active in ramp & photo-shoot modeling.
Negotiations Specialist
Attended University Of Texas & Brigham Young University.
Regional Manager For Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate (Meredith Corporation Franchise Division)
Published Author
Family / Spouse:
Am a native-born Texan
Single. No children. Favorite Pet: beautiful German Shepherd named Lieben - a gift from God. Mother, Marina, lives in the Texas Hill Country. Father, Joseph Bartholomew, deceased as of 2002. Two sisters: one married with 12 children, 27 grandchildren & 1 with 2 children.
Hobbies / Interests:
Dancing is what I love to do more than anything. My first love is ballroom - especially Latin, i.e. tango & cha cha, although I enjoy freestyle, disco, swing & push.
I am avid about fitness, health, nutrition, working out faithfully, both weights & aerobic, a minimum of 5 days weekly. I have learned that proper nutrition is critical to positive results from workouts.
I am a marksman.
I enjoy reading, all varieties of literature; however, I especially enjoy challenging, very involved mysteries.
I enjoy designing clothing & also sewing, to include crochet, embroidery.
I am a professional speaker & am available to speak for your organization.
I love learning, both about what I am already involved & any number of new subjects, experiences, other people & personalities.
I enjoy driving a solidly, well-built, high-performance automobile, especially a sports car.
Writing – Am published author.
Civic & Charitable Activities:
I am a Christian Believer, currently a member of & actively participate at a Church in Plano, Texas. I have taught Bible Study classes for children ages five to nine, twelve to fourteen. Also, taught Vacation Bible School.
I have been & currently actively support the Hill Country Youth Ranch, both personally & financially. The HCYR is a community ranch that takes in children who have been physically & mentally abused almost to the point of death & raises them until they can be restored to their family or are grown & graduate to college or the world of business or a marriage & family. It provides them a family with house parents, counseling, schooling in an accredited Charter school, every possible activity from sports, mechanics, computer training, speaking, singing, music, sewing, woodworking, arts & crafts, etc.; however, most of all, a loving home.
Whenever possible, I attempt to make a difference in the lives of other people, especially young people.
Actively participated in prison ministries, primarily for younger offenders in high - security prisons, going into the prisons to teach the Word of God & Salvation.
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