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Chris Dillard, CEO & President for Dillard Properties and Apartment Boy of Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio announced the hiring of a new Executive Director for Apartment Boy in San Antonio, Thomas (Tom) Mitchell of Picayune, Mississippi.
Mitchell was at LSU when 9-11 occurred and dropped his plans to go to Tulane Medical School. He joined the Army and had 7 tours of duty seeing action with Special Forces throughout the Middle East and South Korea, achieving the rank of Sergeant First Class, commanding as many as 90 men. He is an expert Mixed Martial Arts and Tactical Operations. Tom received a special award from President George W. Bush for being the first to establish Crisis Communications between the South Korean and United States Military via Satellite. He was injured in combat three times.
Dillard Properties Names Thomas Mitchell Executive Director for Apartment Boy in San Antonio
After leaving the U.S. Army in 2011, Tom owned and managed a Direct TV Business in Oklahoma City which grew to cover the state of Oklahoma before moving to San Antonio to once again enter medical school at UT Health Science Center. Once in school he learned that the loss of his eye in combat would prevent him from becoming a Pediatric Oncologist and Surgeon, so he decided to follow through on his other passion – Real Estate.
In the last three years, Tom has helped to pioneer a more efficient way of helping Texans find a new place to live. He now joins forces with Dillard Properties in San Antonio and will help to roll out Apartment Boy’s Red Carpet Service Experience for people looking for Apartments in the San Antonio, Texas area. “I’m excited to join Apartment Boy and Dillard Properties,” Mitchell said. “What they’re doing with automation and how they view the client experience in helping people find the perfect apartment made this a great fit. Plus, we’re not limited in the type of real estate deals we can handle. We can do leasing, commercial, residential or just about anything we want. There’s a lot of freedom here. And our culture is through-the-roof both supportive and challenging.”
Mitchell will be tasked with leading the team at Dillard Properties & Apartment Boy in San Antonio, including both recruiting and the extensive Apartment Boy training methodologies. “We look for high character, hard working people who understand the servant leadership model we employ,” said CEO Chris Dillard. “We’re already attracting some of the top people we’ve ever seen in our over four years of growth in Texas,” Dillard finished.
Dillard Properties and Apartment Boy started in Dallas, Texas in 2012 and has since grown to operations in Forth Worth, Austin, Houston and San Antonio. Through the Apartment Boy brand, they have more than 100,000 people a year looking for free help in finding an apartment. Through the Dillard Properties brand they handle all facets of new and used home sales and leasing in addition to working in commercial leasing. They have more than 70 real estate agents working and in training and expect to have more than 200 by the end of 2017 with 30 plus employing the Red Carpet Service Experience model in San Antonio alone.
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