About The Team

When Jim and Kris met they never would have imagined they would one day be running multiple large land databases, and in the process of a very large vacation rental database campaign.
Oddly enough, it took two 11 year old children to get Jim and Kris together, so we give them credit when things are going well and we blame them when things are not going well. (ha)

Jim and Kris' children go to the same school and incidentally was best friends in school, but it took little league baseball for the parents to ever meet.
Jim was a coach on the baseball team, and Kris was a close-to-the-dugout-fence-leaning parent.
It only took a few games before Jim and Kris became great friends.

As it turned out, Jim was a very well established multi-million dollar business owner and had land for sale in Maggie Valley and Waynesville, NC.
Kris was a very well established real estate website designer in the area, and had alot of knowledge of the real estate business and the area as well. Kris was born and raised in Maggie Valley, NC, and aside from 9 months spent in Georgia some 15 years ago, has lived in the area his entire life.
Having grown up in Maggie Valley since the late 60's, Kris has been able to see how the area has grown and changed. It also has allowed him to know the area as well as anyone possibly could. Kris' great-grandparents once owned hundreds of acres in the lower end of Maggie Valley. In fact, one great-grandfather owned what is now the Maggie Valley Country Club. The stories of those days have shaped his love for the area.

Kris got to grow up on a very large plot in Maggie Valley just across the road from the Maggie Valley Country Club. His grandmother owned around 100 acres on that side of the road, and around 100 acres surrounding the Maggie Valley Country Club, so he had the chance to hunt, camp, fish, climb, walk, and dream in the great town of Maggie Valley for many years. He lost his grandmother in the late 80's, and to this day that is the most profound event to ever happen in his life. He misses her daily. The love he had for his grandmother would shape the very person Kris is today. (i love you mom-mom)
Kris had a very large family, and a very close family. His uncle was the local mailman, and eventually started Haywood Hardware in Dellwood.. Another uncle was the local dairy-farmer, a business that was passed down from his grandfather.

All this allowed Kris the extraordinary chance to walk many acres of land all the way from Maggie Valley to Crabtree. His father was a hunter, and Kris went on many of those local hunting trips. His uncle owned multiple plots of land used in the dairy business, and Kris worked all of those acres every year growing up.

We give you all this background information on Kris to explain the amount of knowledge he has about the lay of the land in Haywood County.
If that wasn't enough, Kris has been a very successful real estate website designer in the area for better than 10 years now. Many of the real estate websites in the area was designed by Kris, and he hosts most of those websites to this day.
Having been in the real estate business for 10 years has allowed him to see the need for a land only website, and it is finally here!

If Kris is the brain behind this land only database concept, Jim is the heart of the business. Jim brings so much business experience to this project that it would take 10 pages to explain it all, but even more impressive is the amount of energy he brings to this business. It only takes about 10 minutes with Jim to see why he has been successful in every business venture he has ever taken on.
Jim grew up watching his father, Jack, make friends with every person he ever met. Jack instilled a perfect balance of great family values and business sense into his family. His father, an account executive for the county, obviously passed his business skills along to Jim as well. Jim was very close to his father, and still is very close to his mother today. The family bond shows in his everyday life. Jim lost his father just a few years ago, but Jim certainly did not lose the passion for life that his father passed onto him. Jim takes care of his mother - as Jack would have wanted him to do, and Jim wishes to pass on his fathers values to everyone he meets. (i love you dad)
If you question why you should place your land into this database, just call Jim. He can tell you every reason why it only makes sense to have your land in the largest land database in WNC. But here is what he brings to this business that helped make the business succeed: Jim IS a land owner in Maggie Valley and Waynesville, NC. He has experienced firsthand the ups-and-downs of trying to sell land in a market that is perceived to be down. He has lived the hardship of trying to market land in a region that doesn't really market land as much as it does residential real estate..until now! With that firsthand knowledge, being the great business mind he is, he knew this area needed a land only website that would actually come up in search engines when you do a search for "maggie valley land" or "waynesville land". He knew what the area needed, but like many others, he had no idea how to achieve it. The reality is that not many people know how to market in the search engines, but Kris had been studying peoples search habits and the ever-changing, ever-complicated algorithms of the top search engines for more than 10 years, so the two businessmen made a perfect fit to bring this great website to you.
Jim also brings to you something that simply can't be duplicated. His wife Paulette! Paulette is a great business-mind as well. In-fact, Jim would most likely give all his success credit to his wife. She pays attention to every little detail, and she simply will not allow Jim or Kris to be anything other than successful. So we give MUCH credit to her for this project being a success.

It takes more than just placing a few pages online to get a good website up and running, and Jim & Kris wasn't about to place a "good" website online. They knew they were going to bring you a "great" website or not do the project at all. We hope you find their efforts a success!