More About Holly

Buying or selling a piece of real estate is a major financial transaction.  It is nice to know the background of the people that will be serving you.  One of our key team members is Holly Holmes and she wrote a bit about herself!

Hi! I am Holly Holmes, one of the founding members of TROLLY Team.

My step dad was an Erector (he built metal constructed buildings) and as a teen I earned spending money by picking up trash on jobsites and learned the basics of metal building construction. After a year of college I went work with a large erector company that specialized in jobsites of a million square feet or more.  I ran the Field Office working directly with the Superintendent and Foremen.  I was in charge of handling all the materials for the site and managing all documentation for the materials and 100+ employees.   My first taste of Texas was in 1988 when we built the Wal-Mart distribution center in New Braunfels.   During a winter in Georgia, I was standing on the back of a forklift warming my hands on the exhaust pipe I thought “there has got to be something better than this!” and back to college I went.

I have a degree from Texas State (was Southwest Texas State University at the time) in Criminal Justice, emphasis in Law Enforcement. My goal was to be a police officer, I have always believed that if there was a bad situation I wanted someone like me to stick up for me. (This is even truer when working with buyers and sellers.)  A head injury ended that dream and I got back to a passion of mine, structures.

I started my residential real estate career in dealing with “pigs”.  These are old beat up houses that we would paint and sell cheap.  We would “slap a lil lipstick on the pig”, this wasn’t satisfying and I moved to rehabbing properties.  These were a step above the “pigs” and needed some TLC and CPR to bring them back to life.  I LOVED doing that…as long as the subcontractors showed up.  Then I moved up to “pretty houses”, buying them “subject to” the underlying loan and Owner financing them.  That was a very rewarding time in my business career, so many people were happy because of the service I provided them.  Next step was to build “Spec” houses.  A “Spec” house is one built and the owner “speculating” someone will buy it.  This experience was so much better than rehabbing because I dealt directly with ONE contractor and he dealt with the subcontractors.   And then came the time to really take a risk, I bought land to build a small subdivision. KAPOW! I then added the title “developer” to my list of skills.  This was so much fun, a challenge a day to find a solution that worked for everyone involved.

Over the years I have had a lot of fun, learned a ton and have created an amazing network of smart real estate professionals.  If I don’t have the answer, I have contact whom does!

Now I am working with an extraordinary group of ladies and I am wildly happy! I am happy that you found us so I get to work with you too!