Anthony and his team comprise over 51 years of real estate expertise. From left to right, they are
Carrie Megan Whittington, Eddie Sajjad, Robert Morin, Judy Cook, Anthony, Adam Metzler, Kevin
Anderson, Tasha Royal, and Rashad White. Photo by Gwen Juarez.
It was also at Greenwood King where
Anthony first became aware of the world
of real estate. From the age of seven to
nineteen, Anthony helped his father on
the weekends and often conversed with
the top producers there. He listened intently as they readily shared their expertise with him. Little did he know that the
seed for his love of real estate was firmly
planted!
While in the Cooperative Education Program, Anthony was also on the Varsity Basketball Team. Every day, Anthony would
leave school at noon and go to work but
then he would return at 6:00 pm to attend
basketball practice. In addition, this busy
young man would work on the weekends.
He already recognized the importance of
working hard, staying focused on the goal,
and using his time effectively.
Always a good student in just about
every subject, Anthony’s favorites were
reading and writing. Both would prove
quite useful in the future when filling
out forms and writing contracts. When
Anthony was 16 and entering his junior
year of high school, he learned about
the Cooperative Education Program
that allowed students to attend school
a half day and then work a half day with
companies approved by H.I.S.D.. Anthony wanted to work as much as he could
with his father and this program would
allow him more time to do so. In his first
attempt in entrepreneurship, the determined young man took the initiative to
fill out all of the necessary paperwork for
his father’s landscaping company to become a corporation and also recognized
with H.I.S.D.
Previous to getting in the Cooperative Program, something very notable
occurred when Anthony was 14. He
received a letter from his uncle, James
Landry, who frequently wrote to him
while he was stationed in Saudi Arabia
while serving in the Army. This particular letter, though, was quite different because his uncle challenged him to write
Curtis Warden and Brian Scott are Anthony’s
out his goals for the future. He then in“Go to” guys and together they create “Living
structed Anthony to make copies of his
Masterpieces!” They are seen here in a custom
goals, mail one copy back, and bury an(6-person) shower that Curtis designed.
Photo by Gwen Juarez.
other copy in the backyard. This way,
Anthony would have someone to be accountable to and, one day, he could look was to buy a house by the time he was
back and reflect if he had succeeded in 24. Amazingly, after saving up nearly
accomplishing his goals.
$23,000, not only did Anthony accomplish his goal of buying a home but he did
Anthony had always dreamed of being it at the age of 21! It had not been an easy
successful but one of his specific goals path in accomplishing his dream either.
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