MEET RACHEL & KIMBERLY Finance & Insurance (F&I) Managers, Allen Hyundai Rachel Burrus started with Allen Hyundai in December 2017 after her best friend, Kimberly Slade convinced her to work with her. Rachel is a Gulf Coast native and single mother. She started her career as a corrections officer and then stayed at home with her daughter for a short while but decided she missed having a career too. She found a position as a property manager’s assistant and quickly moved up to manager. She has always been goal-oriented from wanting to provide the best education for her daughter to owning her own home. She started to feel that her tenacity for working was not being matched in pay when she took a chance in the auto industry. Rachel was apprehensive with all the work she had done to advance in the real estate industry but she took a leap of faith knowing that her friend would not steer her wrong. She started in sales but her background with legal paperwork in real estate and natural ability to sell quickly pushed her in the direction of F&I where she has found her fit. “It’s not every day you get to work with your best friend and like what you do all while getting paid to do it.”
Kimberly started selling cars in 2013 and her thoughts were “If I can handle the Marines, how hard can it be selling cars.” She broke sales records in her first year and all while trying to complete her bachelor’s degree. She attempted to stay-at-home when she had her son but felt a calling to go back to work. She initially came back part-time handling internet marketing and realized she wanted more. She began structuring deals and learning F&I and by November 2017, she was working full time. She convinced her best friend to come aboard and in less than 6 months, this best friend duo is becoming a force to reckon. Kimberly has become the highest performing F&I manager in the history of Allen Hyundai and all while finishing her Master’s in Finance and helping her husband run his business.
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Kimberly Slade is originally from Texas and a Marine veteran. She met her husband who is a Gulfport native while they were active in the Marines and were married prior to moving back to Mississippi.
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