Today we’d like to introduce you to Brian Beachum.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I am a small town guy raised by a modest family of small farmer’s and textile workers. My first job as a teenager was in a textile mill. I had other odd jobs, but the mill work was my first real W2 job. I was destine to fall into the footsteps of my parents and grandparents. They were hard working salt of the earth god fearing Americans from the pour side of town.
I worked on third shift with my dad the summer before I turned 16, six days a week eight hour shifts midnight to 8am Monday night to Saturday morning. I learned one valuable lesson. I did not want to work in that environment for the rest of my life. Collage was definitely not in my future (that is another story for another time) so my wheels stated turning and a small opportunity appeared. I meet a girl in high school that had a stepdad that was and still is a General Contractor.
I started working with that general contractor one summer just so I didn’t have to work in the textile mill on third shift with my dad. I was afforded the opportunity of on the job training. At the time I did not realize all the lessons in life and the trade on construction I would be learning at the time. This was simply a way of not working third shift at the “Mill”.
I started working full time with the GC once I graduated high school in 1993. I got married in Aug. of 94 had my first kid in March. 95 and second in Dec. 97. Unfortunately a framing carpenter did not make enough to support a small family at that time. I moved on in the late 90’s to another talent that I had developed from a young age.
I obtained a job with a NASCAR race team. I worked for Hendrick Motorsports in the Engine shop and building transmissions and rear-end gears for ten years. I was able to make a considerable amount more money which allowed me to raise my family and put my wife through nursing school. But still I was in a “Mill” like environment for the last few years I was there. Punching a clock and no longer a real part of the team due to the way the race team was structured, I started planning my exit strategy.
I went to real estate school at night two days a week and obtained my real estate licenses. But as we all know, the country was going through the biggest economic downturn the US had seen since the great depression. It was not the best time to leave a steady pay check. I was approached by the race team management in 2010 at which time I was ask to take a large reduction in salary. This was not the best time to make my move, but they forced my decision. I a quote I use quite often and I applied it to this situation. “TAKE A CHANCE. COLUMBUS DID!”
With no sales training and a desire to create a better life I made a leap of faith. I entered a “bottom of the barrel” real estate market and started hustling. I worked under a few Real Estate firms from 2010 to 2016. I started my own firm “Pier View Properties” in 2016. Having the knowledge and training of the construction industry from a young age I obtained my contractors licenses in 2018.
I am a true self made business owner and all of the different experiences makes me the most well rounded Real Estate Broker and General Contractor you will ever meet.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Coming from a small family of textile mill workers, I had no-one to coach me on how to be self employed or own a small business. No funds from family or other to get the business started.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Pier View Properties Inc.?
Real Estate Firm and General Contractor.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.laketillery.net
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pierviewproperties
