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 David Laughter
828-964-6303 mobile
828-295-0989 home
david@blowingrockrealestatenc.com
A native of North Carolina, now living year
round in Blowing Rock, David has thirty
years of sales experience to assist with all
of your Blowing Rock real estate needs and
the surrounding areas. He is licensed in
North Carolina and Tennessee.
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 Brian Smith
828-773-7777 mobile
828-268-0608 home
brian@blowingrockrealestatenc.com
Brian was born in Nigeria, Africa where his
parents were medical missionaries. The
family then moved to Richmond VA. He moved
to Boone in 1982 to attend Appalachian State
University.
After graduating, he owned a pet store for
six years. He then continued working in
sales for Verizon Wireless until he went
into real estate in 2002.
Brian enjoys riding his horses and spending
time with his miniature mules, donkeys and
Labrador Retriever. Brian enjoys outdoor
activities such as snowboarding, hiking,
camping and fishing in Blowing Rock North
Carolina and the High Country.
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 Jerry Starnes
828-773-6650 mobile
jerry@blowingrockrealestatenc.com
Jerry, a native of Hickory,
got his lifetime wish and moved to Blowing
Rock North Carolina permanently in 2000. Jerry’s father
traveled to Blowing Rock as a young man and
vowed to spend all his summers here. He
built a summer home here in the 50’s. Says
Jerry, “I too, promised myself to enjoy
these beautiful mountains and to live in
Blowing Rock, year round”.
A graduate of UNC – Chapel Hill with a
degree in business, Jerry continued his
education at Emory University in Atlanta
where he earned his MBA. Jerry began his
business career as an auditor with the (now
famous) Arthur Anderson auditing firm. His
diverse interests led him to Texas where he
managed sales of a steel distribution
company for sixteen years. His last steel
challenge was building a new Nucor Steel
Division’s sales from zero to $500 million
in eight years, including business
relationships in China, Taiwan and Spain.
In Longview, Texas Jerry was in charge of
building an Episcopal church sanctuary with
stained glass windows, slate floors, and
beautiful pipe organ. Jerry also had the
pleasure of developing a specialty retail
shopping village and running Longview’s hot
air balloon race.
Jerry and his wife Genie, attend St. Mary of
the Hills Episcopal Church, are members of
the Historical Society, the Jazz Society and
the Blowing Rock Country Club. They can be
found hiking, gardening, golfing, and have
promised each other to learn to fly fish
together!
Having lived in Texas for 20 years, their
children are born and bred Texans,
graduating for the University of Texas in
Austin. But for Genie and Jerry, North Carolina
was always “home”.
Looks like Jerry will be torn between golf,
fishing, and sharing his love of Blowing
Rock North Carolina with real estate clients.
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 David B. Laughter II, Broker In
Charge
828-773-7800 mobile
david2@blowingrockrealestatenc.com
As Broker in Charge, David is responsible
for the oversight of all of the Blowing Rock
North Carolina firm real
estate brokers as well as all real estate
transactions. As a partner, David identifies
and assesses potential business
opportunities for the firm. As a broker,
David represents clients’ interests in all
areas of transacting real estate properties.
David began as a commercial real estate
broker with Meca Properties in Charlotte, NC
in 2000. As his career progressed, he took
the opportunity to relocate to Blowing Rock
and pursue his dream of having his own real
estate firm. David’s vision is to create a
full-service real estate firm that offers
the highest quality of client services in
the High Country for all that participate in
real estate transactions: buyers, sellers
and other brokers alike.
Prior to his career in real estate, David
owned retail and wholesale import / export
furniture businesses with locations in
Charlotte, NC, Atlanta, GA, High Point, NC
and Foscoe, NC. Born in Morganton, NC, David
has always had a love for the mountains. In
1997, David and his wife Noelle were married
in Blowing Rock and now call it home with
their two sons David III and Jack.
David is a member of the National
Association of Realtors, the North Carolina
Association of Realtors, and the Avery /
Watauga Association of Realtors. He is
actively involved in the surrounding Blowing
Rock North Carolina
and is an active candidate pursuing his CCIM
certification.
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 Drew Taylor
828-773-9900 mobile
drew@blowingrockrealestatenc.com
Drew Taylor is a Boone native that loves the
area and wants others to live here and see
the benefits of Watauga County. A 1995
graduate of Appalachian State University
with a BA in Marketing and a minor in
History, he also played golf for the school
and then professionally for three years. His
family owned Boone Auto Exchange for almost
60 years where he operated a productive and
honest business. Now selling Blowing Rock
North Carolina real estate he will continue
to help locals as well as newcomers to the
High Country enjoy what it has to offer with
ethics and integrity. He is licensed in
North Carolina and Tennessee.
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 Anne
Smart
828-260-0413 mobile
anne@blowingrockrealestatenc.com
Anne is a native of Newport, RI who began
her love of Blowing Rock many years ago as a
family vacation destination before moving
here in 1997. She began practicing Real
Estate shortly after her move to Blowing
Rock with a Real Estate firm on Main Street
and did so for several years before being
recruited by the Ginn Company as a sales
executive for their local Laurelmor project.
Her time with Ginn provided her with many
experiences that general Real Estate does
not provide and though she enjoyed her work,
she missed her friends in Blowing Rock and
the diversity of general Real Estate. Anne
joined Blowing Rock Real Estate in August
2007.
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 Gisele
Weisman
Mobile: 719-5674
Home: 733-8110
gisele@hughes.net
Although Gisele has been frequenting Blowing
Rock for more than 30 years, she joined the
community as a full-time resident in 2003
when she decided to leave a successful
career in human resources management in
Atlanta, Georgia, to build her dream
log-home on the acreage she inherited. In
2004, Gisele moved into her dream log home
that overlooks the magnificence of John’s
River Gorge, and in March 2006, that home
was the featured “centerfold” in Country’s
Best Log Homes magazine. “I wasn’t sure that
I could transition from a high-paced
life-style in a high-rise in Buckhead to the
tranquility of the mountains, nor was I sure
that I could sustain a year-round life-style
in Blowing Rock,” says Gisele. To remain in
Blowing Rock, Gisele had to figure out a way
to make her land profitable and so she got
into the business of developing her land.
Her success enabled her to, also, set aside
time to pursue her passion as an artist
(painting and sculpting) and she currently
enjoys her status as an accomplished local
artist who is, also, featured at the Atenea
Gallery in San Miguel de Allende. While
“working” her land, Gisele developed a
passion for real estate and decided to
become a licensed broker. “Being able to
design and build my house, hand-in-hand with
being able to develop my land and to evolve
as an artist has been phenomenal… and, now I
am ready to launch into helping locals and
new-comers find and sell properties,” says
Gisele.
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 Brent
Pilkington
Mobile: 773-1606
brent@blowingrockrealestatenc.com
If you are reading this, you are probably
wondering who I am. Well, it’s pretty
simple. I am a native of Boone, a family
man, and a real estate broker. I have seen
this area of the Blue Ridge Mountains
transform before my eyes, and the explosive
growth we have seen is quite simply due to
this one thing, quality of life. In no other
place but here can you enjoy the breath
taking vistas, excellent school systems,
roaring rivers, friendly faces, and a pace
of life that helps you breathe deeply, and
through my work in real estate it is my goal
to help deliver this to you.
I have always been an avid outdoorsman, and
have participated in most sports to some
degree, and attempt to stay active in at
least one depending on the season. I have a
wonderful array of children, four of them to
be exact who keep myself and my beautiful
wife Halle hoping. As time marches on in the
real estate world one thing will remain a
constant, to buy a piece of heaven in the
blue ridge of North Carolina will be a safe
bet, and weather its large tracts, second
home bungalows, or your first or fifth home,
here in the High Country you cant go wrong.
I invite you to come and experience the
family friendly atmosphere we subscribe to
here at Blowing Rock Real Estate, and draw
upon the wealth of knowledge each of us have
at our disposal when you make your next real
estate transaction. I feel certain that I
can say in advance “the pleasure was mine”.
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