Biography: Chris is a native TEXAN - born and raised in Austin. 

Chris began his real estate career while attending UTA in 1969 performing odd jobs, painting, changing locks, moving furniture (back when furnished apartments were offered!) and cleaning several swimming pools for several apartment complexes located in Arlington. 

Moving to Houston in l971 Chris continued his involvement in the real estate management industry serving as an on-site maintenance man for a 32 and 47 unit apartment complex which involved performing virtually all needed general maintenance for these family complexes.  This experience led to a position as a maintenance supervisor over a portfolio of local properties (1,500 residential multi-family units and several commercial properties) wherein he assisted the regional manager of a national based apartment operator in all management/maintenance functions. 

Chris continued this experience with another local Houston firm that included responsibilities over several commercial properties and multi-family properties and was instrumental in creating and building a  division of one of the first condominium and homeowner’s association management companies that remains in business in Houston today and is one of the leading firms providing such services for several thousand condominium / townhome units. 

During this experience Chris began his professional education in real estate and earned his real estate sales license in the mid 70's and subsequently earned a real estate broker’s license through the TREC and remains one today.  He also began taking courses to qualify for the CPM designation - Certified Property Manager - a professional designation awarded by the Institute of Real Estate Management and received the designation - Key # 7327 - in 1980.  There are approximately  20,000 CPMs worldwide - but only a few in the Denton area.   He also began teaching management and maintenance courses for the Houston Apartment Association and the Houston chapter of the Community Associations Institute (having been a founding member of the Houston Chapter and subsequently served as President for 2 years) as well as being very active in and  serving on many committees and in many capacities of both those and other organizations. 

Moving forward Chris served in capacities as Texas Regional VP, based in San Antonio,  over a large portfolio (several Texas locations) of apartment properties (5,000 units) and commercial properties (500,000 SF) for an out of state asset management company and later as department head overseeing approximately 750 residential, small commercial and small land tracts (REO Properties)  statewide for a major Texas S&L in the mid 80's (Bryan and Houston based) and an additional assignment as a multi-family asset manager over 2,500 apartment units located at a dozen sites in several different states in the central and eastern time zones for a major national S&L (Houston based).

With the national S&L crisis came the formation of the RTC - Resolution Trust Corp (a division of the FDIC).  Chris was one of the earliest employees of the RTC in Houston in 1989 and served in a variety of capacities during a 6 year stint including property management, asset management responsibilities over varied real estate portfolios with values in the several hundred million $ range as well as a department head (Dallas – OCOS -  Office of Contractor Oversight and Surveillance) directing a staff of 20 + accountants and investigators -  overseeing hundreds of audits and investigations of irregularities of contractors providing services to the properties and portfolios under the control of the RTC.

With the closure of the RTC Chris returned to the private sector to practice real estate and  spent several years providing  professional quality real estate management and real estate sales & leasing services to area residents and investors in the Denton area for a national franchise real estate sales organization. 

Desiring to be more involved in the local commercial real estate arena - and more freedom to pursue real estate in the area - Chris joined forces  with Scott Brown & SBP at the outset of the formation of the REAL T  TEAM to provide professional quality real estate sales, leasing and management services for residential, retail,  commercial, farms and ranches,  multi-family properties, homeowner associations and land tracts.  Today - Chris serves as the Property Manager for SBP Commercial, which  is the largest commercial real estate brokerage services company in Denton County with approximately $500M in commercial property (land and commercial facilities - sale / lease)  listings.  SBC has 10 agents and 2 offices to serve our clients.    Chris also serves as GM for the Real T Team (residential sales) which has about 75 agents and 10 offices to serve the needs of Denton and surrounding communities and oversaw approx $100M in residential sales in 07.    He also serves as Property Manager for SBP – which is the largest residential property management services company in the Denton area with over 150 clients and a portfolio of 600 + properties currently being managed throughout the Denton County area.   With 10 years service with the company, it has enjoyed tremendous growth and recognition as being a leader in the commercial real estate arena in the area.

Chris lives in Denton and has 3 grown children, a 3 year old “perfect” grand-daughter  and is  involved in many local  activities  and is very  active in many area church and civic functions.   He currently serves on the board  and is immediate past president of  the board of directors for  the Greater Denton Wise County Association of REALTORS (750 members) for 2009.  He is also active in such as TAR (Texas Association of REALTORS), NTCAR (North Texas Commercial Association of REALTORS), REALTORS Commercial Alliance and NAR (National Association of REALTORS).  He is also active in the Denton Chamber of Commerce as well as the Argyle Chamber of Commerce and participates in many of their programs and events as well as both the Denton and the Argyle Economic Development Corp. to further promote and support business activities in both communities.  He enjoys his children and granddaughter, reading books and magazines, cooking,  BBQ, antiques, fishing, country,  antiques, movies, all types of music, surfing the net and 2 Basset hounds - Nickel and Penny!