Check Out John Davison’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to John Davison.

Hi John, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today.
I began my career in real estate in 2006, just months before the recession. Needless to say, it hit us extremely hard in Florida. After hanging in there for three years, I moved with my family to Cary and began working on a team at a local brokerage. During this time, I was going through a divorce and times was very tough. The toughest day of my life was the day that I packed my car and moved into a small one-bedroom apartment. To see the girls standing at the door, waving to me as if I would be home that night, but knowing that I would never again live in that house with them, was heartbreaking. It got tougher and a year later I found myself living in my car because I was using everything I made to support my children, who were living with their mother during this difficult stretch in my life.

Nonetheless, I worked hard, serving tables at a local restaurant while also kick-starting my real estate career here in North Carolina. I gave myself one year to succeed; that is, to earn enough as a Realtor to be able to quit my job as a waiter and spend more time with my girls. Hannah and Hope were 9 and 3 at the time. God willing, that year went well enough that I was able to quit my restaurant job and get an apartment. I and the girls were on our way to finding our “new normal.” Fast forward to today. Through the grace of God and the help of a lot of good people along the way, my real estate career flourished, as did my relationships with Hannah and Hope.

I was never a deeply religious man. As a matter of fact, you could say I was an agnostic. Then, in 2016, I found a home at Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Chapel Hill. Once again, I was blessed, this time with a loving church family that affirmed and encouraged me and the girls. In 2018, I began attending Campbell University Divinity School and graduated in 2021 with a Master of Divinity (MDiv). During this time, I prayed about how God wanted to use me.

The answer came in 2020 after the untimely death of the child of two friends of mine. I got to know them through the Miracle League of the Triangle, a baseball league for special needs children. I coached their son. When their daughter passed away, it weighed heavily on all of our hearts. After attending the funeral, they asked me to help them to sell their house. It didn’t feel right to get paid to do it, so we agreed that they would make a donation to the Miracle League of the Triangle in lieu of paying me. On the day I left the closing, I sat in my car and looked at the donation check and broke down in tears. Something was tugging at my heart, but what?

The feeling I had was the conviction of the Spirit telling me to listen. What I heard was one thought, “this doesn’t have to be a one-time thing, this can be an every-time thing.” Several months later the UB4ME Foundation was born.

The experience with this family prompted me to form a nonprofit organization that would solicit real estate agents as members and encourages all of the members of the organization to make donations to one of five local nonprofit organizations (Local5) that the UB4ME Foundation would support and promote. The donations would come from the agent from their real estate transactions and the nonprofit of choice would be selected by the real estate client. In addition, the UB4ME Foundation would keep its members informed of volunteer opportunities with each of the Local5, encouraging the agents and their clients, friends, and family to participate whenever they could. Since 2020, the UB4ME Foundation has been supporting Local5 with donations and volunteers, while creating awareness of the good work that these organizations do in their community. The organization is proud to build relationships between neighbors while strengthening neighborhoods.

In the end, the call was not to real estate or to ministry exclusively, but to both, concurrently. My ministry would not be confined to any one particular church, but rather the driving force behind every relationship that I develop through my real estate career, as well as my personal life. My goal is simple, to use my God-given gifts and talents to reduce human suffering in the world and make a positive impact on the lives of every person that I come in contact with. To put it simply, to love my neighbors as I love myself. Sometimes I can be seen doing that at a volunteer event, other times by helping someone in need, and every day, by the way, I counsel and take care of my real estate clients.

I lead a blessed life and have an interesting story to tell. Then again, so do you. I’d love to hear it sometime.

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I am a residential real estate agent and broker working with Hunter Rowe Real Estate. After pouring through sixteen years of testimonials, I would say that I am most known for the way that I build relationships with my clients and the care by which I counsel and take care of them. They always feel as though I have their best interest in mind. Also, my clients seem to be very appreciative of my extensive knowledge of the real estate business in general and the countless hours that I have poured into becoming a master of my craft.

I’m most proud of the long-lasting relationships that I have built and the fact that my clients trust me so much that they often solicit me for my opinion on various topics, knowing that they will always get a response that is well thought out, honest, and in their best interest. What most sets me apart from others is my brutally honest approach to relationships and the fact that I meet people where they are, accepting them for exactly who they are, with a lot of love and absolutely no judgment.

We’d be interested to hear your thoughts on luck and what role, if any, you feel it’s played for you.
I’m not a proponent of luck. Things happen, both good and bad. The key to life isn’t in what happens to us, but in how we react to what happens to us.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.jdavisonrealtygroup.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jdavisonrealtygroup/