Greg's Family
Greg was born June 5, 1962 in Bellflower California, he has one brother
and one sister and was raised in Anaheim, California. Anaheim,
California is the home of Disneyland and the Angels baseball team.
Greg is the father of three wonderful children, Michael, Amanda and
Zachary. Michael is currently enlisted in the United States Army, Amanda
and Zachary are living with their mother in Ohio, somewhere. Amanda is
working her way through college and Zachary through high school.
Greg remarried the best woman in the world, Jules in May of 2009. Jules
has two children, Jesse and Maddie. Jesse is the proud father of Jules
only granddaughter, Makayla.
Greg went to Katella high school, but chose to take a high school
proficiency test to graduate a year early. His plans were to get a one
year head start on the rest of his classmates, and he did. He never
graduated with his class of 1980.
Greg's Career In Construction
Greg started working full time for his father as a apprentice carpenter
at the age of 17. His father taught him how to become a master carpenter
and by the time he was 18 years old he was installing stairs on his own.
A fast learner, he would take the building blueprints home during the
evenings and weekends, to study them.
He attributes most of his success, to books and watching people. He
spends a lot of time studying business, construction, spirituality,
psychology, personal development and other people. You can learn a lot
from watching what other people do and how they react, to certain
situations. He's an avid consumer of information and enjoys watching
biographies on other successful people.
He would return to the job on Monday with questions that most of his
fellow carpenters didn't have the answers to. Thank goodness for his
father who was one of the best carpenters that Greg ever knew. It was
truly an honor to learn from a master. Greg told me," My father could
build anything, there wasn't anything that my dad couldn't build, he was
the best carpenter that I ever met."
Greg said," I worked on everything from tract homes, custom homes,
commercial buildings, industrial buildings, tilt up buildings,
condominiums, hotels and apartments. I did custom stairs, siding, roofs,
walls, floors, building lay out, arches and anything else that was part
of the house framing."
By the time he was 25 years old, he was a licensed contractor in the
state of California. He built his first room addition, when he was 18
years old for his best friends parents and built his first room addition
as a contractor when he was 25.
After receiving his contractor's license, he started building room
additions, remodeling homes and doing home repairs. Working on these
job, provided him with the ability to gather information about what
worked and what didn't. Greg said," There's a big difference between
contractors who thinks they know what they're doing and contractor who
knows what they're doing."
When Greg was 35 years old, he got the opportunity of a lifetime. He
went to work as a subcontractor for a general contractor who wanted to
build a large construction company. "I wasn't working for peanuts
anymore, it was finally time to put my money where my mouth was,"
replied Greg.
It wasn't long before we were working on 600 unit apartment complexes.
This was big business and it was time for Greg to get another education
about the construction industry. It wasn't long before everyone working
with him, realized that this was one smart cookie. Greg was assisting
the project manager, general contractor, architect, engineer and other
contractors in making key decisions about these projects.
Greg told me a story, about a time that he was talking to the general
contractor. He said," I'm like your gold coin, you carry me around in
your pocket all day, pull me out every once in a while to show all of
your friends and then at night, you place me in a protective box, to
keep me safe." The general contractor said," you're absolutely right"
and started laughing.
Money eventually drove a wedge between Greg and the general contractor.
He just finished working on two separate apartment units which caught on
fire and needed to be renovated. The deal was simple, finish the job by
December 1 and we will pay you in full. It wasn't until February of the
next year, that he received his final payment. This ended their
relationship and Greg went back to work for himself, building room
additions and home repairs.
In 2004, he went to work with his dad's old construction partner, doing
whole house remodels and building room additions. Together they finished
about 10 projects, before going their separate ways. Greg told me," I
just couldn't work for him anymore, he's an excellent salesman, but I'm
doing more than 75% of the work and not even getting my fair share of
the money."
In 2007, Greg took some time off and started building construction
websites. His goal was to create educational materials for contractors
and homeowners. His plans are to have the largest construction,
remodeling and home repair website on the Internet, in the English
language.
I would like to wish Greg the best of luck on his journeys through life,
because I can't think of anyone else who truly deserves it more than
him.
Gregs Goals for 2010
I'm planning on writing 1100 articles for the construction industry,
five books and building one of the largest home improvement websites on
the Internet. By December 31, 2010 I'm planning on being number one on
Google, Yahoo and MSN for the keywords, home repair, remodeling
contractor, water damage, home renovation and stairs.
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