Bret Parsons
(Continued from page 10) Turning the book’s pages to another house, Parsons says, “This
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estate agent when Parsons was in high school. Besides $250,000 worth of Indian teak wood, the English-style “home has a fantastic floor plan. It’s on the golf course on a dead end.” “That’s the best thing about L.A. because unless you know where to go or take a wrong turn you would never discover some of these homes.” Parsons has taken many turns since he came to Los Angeles after he graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in business and a minor in advertising. “The moment I graduated college I was here.” He looked up the nice real estate lady he wrote to, and took up her offer to show him homes when he came to town. He drove past the iconic columns at Fremont Place, and he talked his way past the guard saying he was working on a school project for UCLA. It wasn’t altogether a lie, as he was working on post-graduate work on architecture and accounting. “I was in heaven,” he said of the enclave’s period-revival homes mostly built in the 1920s and 1930s. He attributes his passion to his grandparents; both lived in beautiful homes, and one was a contractor who took him to job sites during the summer. His mother was a county planning commissioner, and his dad, owner of a John Deere tractor dealership, was www.tarkettna.com/breathe a bottom-line type of guy, and, while usually mild mannered, he was anything but when he told his son to get a job.
It was the push that Parsons needed, and, after six months of house cruising, he spent the next decade as marketing director at the Pacific Design Center, which he parlayed into becoming a mortgage broker. He did very well, so well he took two years off to write a book on architect Gerard Colcord in 2008. With the book came notoriety, and thinking he was a Realtor, people asked him to sell their homes, which led to
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