Personal Bio - Tom Grisak

Tom Grisak

President/Realtor/Broker of Record/Listing Agent/Webmaster

972-359-1553

The top selling Lovejoy ISD Realtor For the Past, 7 Consecutive years!

A native Texan, I was born in Ft. Worth and grew up in Richardson, Texas. I graduated from Richardson High School in 1972 and attended the University of Arkansas (class of '76) on a tennis scholarship. Back then, the Razorbacks were in the Southwest Conference. I played in the #2 position on the 12 man team in both singles and doubles my senior year. I earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the U of A and a Master of Education from the University of North Texas in 1979.

After several years of coaching high school and college tennis right out of college, and a brutal two year stint in the Oklahoma and Mississippi oil fields, I returned to Dallas to begin my commercial real estate career in 1984. From 1984 to 1997, I negotiated $68 million in sales and leases of commercial buildings, including the sale of many of Aetna's office/showroom buildings. I also earned the most prestigious national commercial designation one can attain, the SIOR (Society of Industrial and Office Realtors). To earn this designation, the broker must show 5 straight years of $7 million plus in production (their side only) with no gaps, and then be voted in by your peers.

In 1997, after two especially good years in commercial real estate, I decided the time was right to make a change. The money was certainly good, but the 45 minute drives to and from the office, the traffic congestion, endless concrete, and the fast lane of commercial real estate was taking its toll. We bought a home in the sleepy little town of Lucas, Texas and I took a year off to ponder my future.

I began my residential real estate career a year later in 1998. I had virtually no knowledge of how to market or sell a home, no coaching, and certainly no help from my competition :-) As we say in Texas, "I didn't know come here from sic 'em". As it turns out, this was the best thing that could have happened to me. I brought my own vision of marketing and a fresh approach from my commercial experiences. There was no-one to tell me how it should be done. To this day, this has set our company apart from our competition.

I was too stubborn (or ignorant) to realize you just don't start a company from scratch and compete with the "big boys". In fact, I sometimes look back and wonder how I could have been so foolish and naive to go it alone without a big company name behind me. But it worked out. I sold $5 million my first full year on the residential side as a one man shop. Our production has steadily grown every year since (we closed $29 million in sales and leases in 2007). I have led in high end homes sales in the Lucas, Fairview and Parker area every year since 2000. Our company is built around smart, professional, ethical, highly trained, and committed individuals who share my vision of how residential real estate should be sold. Every Realtor in our company shares the same fierce loyalty for their clients as I do mine, buyers and sellers alike. And we like to think we are the company the "big boys" are chasing these days :-) If you would like to see a more detailed Blog of my former life with other real estate companies and what I learned from them, please click here.

My lovely wife Rhonda is also a Realtor and handles our listings under $500,000. We have an 11 year old son (Jason), six dogs (five of which were strays) and two stray cats. We love Lucas and the lifestyle it affords us. We can be admiring this beautiful countryside one minute and 15 minutes later be sitting in a Starbucks in Allen. We enjoy and appreciate the best of both worlds!It's not hard to sell homes in an area you truly love!