Text Box: Overview Hi and thank you for spending a few more moments of your time to find out a little more about me. As most people are aware, this page is made to impress and make you with out a doubt utilize my services and expertise. I know this and certainly you do too. I can mention community services, clubs, churches etc, all to sway you that I’m qualified. Well, I am very qualified. My experience and negotiating ability will enable you the best value for the transaction at hand. My goal is and has always been to do the very best for my clients. And if the occasion arises, sometimes we need to walk and follow a different route towards a successful Real Estate consummation. Proudly in my career I have never had a ethics or complaint brought against me, ever. I intend to keep that record. Briefly as the home page outlined, I am realtor and fulltime, and as such, works feverently for my clients and customers. This is not a part time job or side business for extra income. It is my career. Ironically for better then a decade I have started and designed a Real Estate home page only to get side tracked and never upload it. In mid February 07, I decided to finally get a web presence online and made up this page site from scratch. Quite a few changes have occurred since the advent of the world wide web but I seem to have the basis still and the page appears friendly to users. I presume it will be a ongoing process and the site will continue to embellish more and more features. Keep checking back. Family Background I am 52 years old and have been in the home building, home trades and related industry since the age of 10. Some of you might question that seems rather young, well true enough but still true… My great grandfather Frank Hill started building and selling homes in the early 1920’s. This was followed also by his son Russell Hill, whom was my grandfather. My grandfather just recently passed and many years back started utilizing my early abilities when I was very young. By age 12, I was spending the summers after school helping build new homes, apartments and assisting him as MAI Appraiser. Also from this early age he had me start maintaining his 200 apartments units and assorted properties. This was hands on experience from setting toilet wax rings, painting, scrapping, sweeping, mowing, well you get the brunt of my endeavors. Back then I felt I had no life as after school I worked. In hindsight my grandfather set my present career, real estate and a side inventor. He thought me how to do things and taught me his secrets of Real Estate. My grandfather was a very accomplished man and for better terms , just a hard worker. He was always on the go and even climbed the great pyramid at the age of 80. Point is he built 1000’s of homes, held many rentals and was a successful realtor and appraiser. He thought me much of what I know of the business and I am forever grateful and I presume that’s why I purchased my first rental property at age 18. My father Larry, has also taught me a huge amount of this ever changing business. My father originally, after first married, started working for a company which our family also helped start called Iowa Securities Co. This was founded in 1904. For many years my father was a loan officer and more recently the Manager of the branch in Waterloo Iowa. Changes in this industry finally swelled to the point of him going out on his own and taking over his fathers Real Estate Co, Hill Realty Co. Hill Realty in the 50’s and 60’s was without a doubt the leading Real Estate company for the Cedar Falls market area. So in a quick recap I am a 4th generation to be in the home building and Real Estate sales industry. Personal Background After school I started and ran many different personal businesses in conjunction assisting with the families building and apartment rentals. I owned a painting company and did new and existing home painting and related trades. I also spent a little over 2 years as a apprentice election. Shortly later in 1978 I received my salesperson license and Realtor status. I married my high school sweetheart in 1979, (Mary) and I have 3 children and 4 grandkids. Mary is the Account manager for a company called ITM, (Insurance Trust Monitor) here in C.F. My oldest son Matthew, (26 is GM for the Cedar Falls Poncheros . My daughter and middle child is Megan, is 22 and is finishing up her Medical classes at Hawkeye Community college in Waterloo, she also works for my eldest at Poncheros. Marshall, my youngest child is 16, he attends Cedar Falls High School and is a sophomore. He is active in basketball, football, track and of course addicted to sitting on his butt playing video games. Never less he is a great son… Matter of fact I’m truly blessed with 3 beautiful children and 4 grandchildren. Marshall intends to shortly also work for his oldest brother at the restaurant. He needs his own car now….. In the early 90’s I decided I would like to start my own brokerage firm and at that time also start my own home-building co. I left my father’s office with much remorse but a large challenge and headed out on my own. I had been managing the Chalet Center On University Avenue and made a deal for a 1800 sq foot suite. This was big start but also an huge construction endeavor. I had to build all the walls, wire the suite, paint, trim, doors etc. After some time and using a folding card table for deals I grew the company. Eventually I had 7-13 salespeople over a decade of time. Location of the office moved over time to better locations, Rownd street for a few years and then finally downtown to a building I owned on the corner of 2nd and Main. During this time frame I purchased the locale ERA franchise rights and ran the areas ERA home network. Also during this early timeframe I started my building company. Hillcrest Homebuilders. Now before we dive into this. There is basically 2 types of people. There is the type whom brag they just purchased a new classic car and then there is the other type whom proudly states they built there classic car. I fall into the later. When I built the home I built the home. I can recall having my small child shoveling pea gravel form the pickup and having my wife and I work nearly every-nite. After my first spec home which I proudly sold at the first open I continued building and eventually got involved with a partner. We built homes in Cedar falls, Waterloo and Mason City. We not only built homes on spec we did custom homes for buyers as well. Towards the end of my building companies day I was constructing town-homes. Service Groups In other bits of info I hold a degree in digital and Analog Electronics,. In recent years, held the Vice president of the Northeast Iowa Homebuilders Assoc. VP of the Wloo/Cedar Falls Board of Realtors , President of the Cedar Falls Jaycees, past board member of the Cedar Falls |Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Main Street. Involved also in the Elks, Lions, Am Vets Post #49 and other organizations and just finished a 3 year term as board director of St. Pats Church.  And my biggest social endeavor, started and founded the Iowa Inventors Group. That’s a story in itself. You get 10-25 people whom our on the edge of ADHD and the fun begins… More at a later time. Inventions In late 2004 I founded the Iowa Inventors Group (Link) and in addition personally have been diligently addressing many new product concepts. Six patents were applied for over the last year and Winter.. Of those,  a few have been outside of a typical patent scenario. In conjunction with the above, I started U-Sell Centres  in Waterloo Iowa which is  Linked below. Developed a  throat spray for  individuals whom cannot produce salvia. Developed a method of  ridding small rodents from your home, garden, RV, cabin, bsmt, etc. Rodent Rid is non-toxic and does not harm  the pests however they simply  dislike the odor and stay away. (Link ). My biggest endeavor this past year thou is my new web site which is similar to Ebay in concept however not in function. Eswapspot.com is a e-commerce web site. It allows online individuals the ability to buy, sell and swap for free online. It encompasses many feature over and above existing sites available. ( Link ). Lastly I have a site I made up for my inventions which can be accessed by this (link).. Enjoy R&R and Hobbies R&R for me when available, entails. spending time with my youngest son and grand children. I enjoy taking things apart and putting it back together, most often successful however not 100%. In essence I’m a tickener. Stick me a garage and give me some time I’ll have it organized and will unveil some project I made. A huge love of mine is antique wood boats and more specifically Century inboard boats. And as a innovator I love tinkering and devising new concepts in my garage. In other areas I like trout fishing and golf and believe it or not repairing and fixing up my rentals properties. Some summer weekends you can find my family & self, enjoying sun and fun in the Lake Delhi area with friends/family cruising the scenic beauty the state of Iowa offers.. Below are some photos of misc. activities the past year or two. Many photos of the wood boats.

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About Michael

Lake Delhi pulling out the woodie for the season

My oldest son Matt getting the ATV in a bad spot

Harley riding in the Vegas area

Mandy our German Shepard

Click the photo to see a video of the 1964 Century running in 2006

My granddaughter , Naudia

3 Vintage John Deere Sleds, Lake Delhi

Boats congregating for a afternoon, Lake Delhi

1956 Century 20’ Coronado. Clear lake

1956 Century 20’ Coronado. Clear lake

Summer of 2006, Redoing the 1964 Century Stern area. One month later—FINISHED

July 1990, Day before the Clear Lake Wood Boat

My boat after 400 Hours of labor finished number #1  in both top categories show.

1992 ; Cruising Clear Lake Iowa some summer

Lift system I incorporated in my garage

1964 Century Resorter

Tear-down and redo for the 1956

First photo is someone's else's 1964.   I have taken a photo of my 64 to the right,  showing the deep uniform red luster and color I accomplish with a little secret I devised . This enables the wood grain to be very even and not showing the separating planks grain and differenting cellulose basis.

The photo on the left shows my 1956 Century Coronado. These boats were very unique in style and engine availability. This boat is rare as it has a 365 CI Cadillac Motor. A man name Cal Connell took these stock motors of different car manuf. and made them specifically for Century, Chris-Craft and a few others of this era.

This motor is rated at 300 HP. It has 10.5-1 compression, 2 4BBL carburetors, hi-rise alum intake and believe it or not, a roller cam…….

Top speed was rated at 60 MPH, that is fast especially considering how heavy this wood boat is.

Purchase price in 1956 for this boat was of $5,000. In essence a average mans salary for a year.

 

 

My wife Mary & I being driven around by our son Marshall, hoping I rebuilt everything  correctly and we see land again…..

My 2 boys taking the Resorter out for a cruise

Son Marshall cruising beautiful Lake Delhi

Fly-by pass Lake Delhi 2006

1989; Applying  4th coat of varnish to the Coronado. The end result had either 11 or 12 coats. This gave the wood a unbelievable finish.

About  Michael