Kevin Jones has had a very unique background in which he calls Homeless to Hummer where life experience has had the most impact on who Kevin Jones is today. Everything Kevin has he has earned, he and his wife struggled for many years and have endured the pain and discipline to get where they are today.
EXPERIENCE:
Leaving home at 15, and being homeless by 16 has created a focused mindset with many traits including persistence, compassion and focus. Serving six years in the US Navy taught Kevin discipline and tactics, owning several businesses has allowed him to grow and understand the nuances of how business actually works, being in real estate for over 30 years Kevin has learned the ins and outs, understanding the cycles, what to do, when to do it and creatively designing the best circumstances for his clients.
LIFE LESSONS:
Kevin has done some pretty amazing things like serving in the military during wartime, trained firefighter, Military police including serving at NIS Long Beach as an investigator, to being general manager at the largest volume dealership in a nationwide automobile sales company, to owning 19 businesses from clothing stores, postal centers, pay telephones to cellular and pager stores.
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT:
Kevin’s experience and training in both the military and civilian world have given him a tactical advantage and ability that few others have had the opportunity to experience and learn from. These life experiences allow him to connect with people at a different levels, understand and give him the ability to work through the daily opportunities that come up and negotiate through any situation and create a win for his clients, mainly because he is not attached to the outcome.
If you know Kevin you will hear him say frequently, no emotion, no ego, there is no place for it in business.
REAL ESTATE:
Kevin Jones started in real estate in January of 1992 briefly as a Residential agent and quickly moved to the commercial and income producing types of properties of the business. This was great until the Northridge earthquake in January of 1994. Being located in Sherman Oaks, we were in the epicenter of the damage to the San Fernando Valley. Kevin again transitioned back to residential to keep food on the table where he did a multitude of transactions, many higher end homes to entertainment related people that many refer to as Luxury Homes. Here on the Central Coast Kevin has had the opportunity to work with many high end clients, some from the Burbank area and others from other walks of life and areas. The great thing about this profession is that every day is different.
In 2010 Kevin Jones relocated to the Central Coast, Pismo Beach area and was introduced to Land Acquisition transactions. This was something that in the Los Angeles area there wasn’t very much raw land and the land that was available there were still what they used to call Land Brokers, that’s all they did was raw to fully entitled projects meaning they were all ready to be built.
Today Kevin is a Resi-mercial agent that handles a variety of Commercial, Income and Residential properties based upon his 30 plus years in the business.
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT:
Kevin Jones operates Property Management Solutions and RENT OUR ROOF that are separate companies with completely different focuses. Property Management Solutions is our Owner side of property management where the relationship is completely different than the relationship we have with the tenants
Property Management Solutions heart and soul gets to the core of the business that we have a fiduciary obligation and an agency contract with our owners. With our owners, we are trusted to handle their finances, we have trust accounts in their name where we hold reserve funds, we maintain their investment and are trusted to keep them in good condition and profitable. We sign an agreement that we will be their agent and handle their business in a professional like manner, we are their face and representation of their business which we take very seriously.
RENT OUR ROOF is in a nutshell a Customer Service company for our tenants. As an agent or company we have no representation of our tenants, we have no fiduciary obligation other than ethics and we have no signed or implied agency with our tenants. We owe the obligation to provide a good value for the amount that they are paying for the use of the space.
AUTHOR:
Kevin Jones is an avid reader and writer. Every morning Kevin gets up at 0400, reads for an hour and then writes for an hour and usually is on a mastermind group call for an hour. By 0700 Kevin is hitting the ground running! Currently Kevin Has several books, his first, Its All About YOU written in 2006 and is currently being revised for its 20 year anniversary, Focus Now recently revised is an easy and short book on how to develop a Powerful morning mindset, Mindset Now is focused on Designing and Developing the Ultimate Mindset, the book on Affirmations came about when a client asked for a referral or reference of a book on affirmations and could not find a good one that explained how they work or how to write them so Kevin put that into a book format. The Affirmations book is also currently being revised and upgraded, going from 365 affirmations to over 1100 examples in an alphabetical format. Real Estate Explained is a full and comprehensive book about not only real estate but how Kevin Jones operates, conducts and runs his real estate and related businesses. Kevin is currently developing his Life and Career Management series of books that are an all around learning experience to get the most out of life. Kevin is constantly creating and many of these books are decades in the process with 19 more books that are in the works at all different stages.
HOBBIES / INTERESTS:
Kevin Jones first and foremost is family first. Celebrating 40 years of marriage to his amazing wife that he met and was high school sweethearts. They got married at 17 and 18 and are still on their honeymoon today! Kevin throughout the years has developed skills that he has put to work owning several businesses from clothing stores, pager, cellular, postal centers, etc., that he has enjoyed building and selling. Kevin is also a Car Guy, enjoys cars and motorcycles and always has easily two or three projects going at all times. Kevin and his wife also enjoy real estate investing, rehabbing, flipping and holding real estate investment property.
FAMILY LIFE:
Kevin Jones grew up in a home that his parents separated early, his Mom worked two and three jobs to keep the mortgage paid so he was left alone alot meaning he found his way into many predicaments. Him and his wife basically being only children and both being raised by a single Mom had a different ideas of how a family should be and operate. Together they worked together and focused on first developing a great relationship between them and providing a stable environment for their children. Today Kevin has three children, one in law enforcement, one working at Children’s Hospital and the third working on her Masters and PHD in Psychology at a top university.
You will hear Kevin state, family first. Real Estate is important but the great thing is no matter the transaction, we are not doctors and there is no life or death emergency in real estate. Property Management, there are times when things need to be handled immediately but those are not so common and are handled immediately and delegated to the appropriate tradesmen.
Call Kevin Jones today at 805-473-0300 for more information
