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 1971 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 units) wherein he assisted the regional manager in all management/maintenance functions.

Chris continued this experience with another local Houston firm that included responsibilities over several commercial properties and was instrumental in creating a condominium and homeowner's association management division that remains in business in Houston today and is one of the leading firms providing such services for several thousand condominium 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 some 20,000 CPMs worldwide—but only 2 or 3 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 as well as being very active in and serving on many committees and in many capacities of both those organizations.

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

With the Texas 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 an investigator and a department head overseeing hundreds of audits and investigations of irregularities of contractors providing services to the RTC.

With the closure of the RTC Chris returned to the private sector to practice real estate with Century 21 in Denton providing professional quality real estate management and real estate sales services to area residents and investors.

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 & Scott Brown Properties at the outset of the formation of 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. Chris has contributed to the growth, success & formation of both Scott Brown Commercial and Real T Team. He currently is involved in general management of day to day operations of Real T Team (10 offices, 75+ agents)  and Scott Brown Commercial (2 offices, 10 agents) as well as his expertise in the property management division of Scott Brown Commercial and marketing of a large portfolio of commercial properties for sale and lease.   Today – Scott Brown Commercial is the largest commercial real estate brokerage firm in Denton County with over $300 million worth of property listed for sale, lease and/or management in their portfolio. 

Chris lives in Denton and has three grown children, is involved in many area church, community and civic functions. He currently serves as President of  Board of Directors of the Greater Denton Wise County Association of REALTORS for 2008 as well as being active in the Denton and Argyle Chambers of Commerce,  Kiwanis,   the Texas Association of REALTORS, the National Association of REALTORS and the North Texas Commercial Association of REALTORS.