Arlington Agent/Realtor Making Her Own Name in Business

By Rick Mauch
Candy’s Filth Contributor

The identify Manning is legendary in the athletics planet. So is Summerall.

Dawn Sumrall has some thing in prevalent with both of those as she has carved out her achievements in the actual estate sector for Keller Williams.

“My company coach of the final 10-as well as several years, Dr. Craig Manning, is the psychology coach for the Milwaukee Bucks. He is astounding,” she stated. “He’s taught me to be effective in my personalized life as very well as small business.

“Our emphasis is on way of thinking, not objectives. That is unique in my field but it will work effectively for us.”
It’s served Dawn, who is based mostly in Arlington, assistance transform the lives of numerous other people as she places them in their dream houses.

Also, Dawn’s previous identify is only one particular letter aside from a single of the all-time terrific sportscasters, the late Pat Summerall (an “e” in the center of his title). In some cases, if folks don’t search near more than enough, they have requested no matter if the two are connected.

“I made use of to explain to the boys in large school he was my uncle, and they had been this sort of goobers they thought me,” she reported, chuckling.

But no matter whether it’s working with the psychological tactics from Mentor Manning, who performed his section in encouraging the Bucks get the 2021 NBA championship, or acquiring a laugh on behalf of “fake uncle,” whose voice graced thousands and thousands of homes as an NFL broadcaster, Dawn is connected to achievement. And, oh, by the way, she’s plenty profitable on her individual.

Following functioning a number of prosperous enterprises, she made the decision to try a little something that has constantly caught her extravagant — real estate. At the age of 51, 7 years ago, she determined to semi-retire out of the money arranging industry and get her true estate license.

“Every solitary working day in true estate is a huge problem and I appreciate it,” Sumrall explained. “Anyone in the business enterprise will explain to you we are true estate specialists, counselors, spouse and children business enterprise consultants, economic planners, little one and pet sitters, and everything in between.

“My assistant and very good mate Jennifer (Thompson) and I always giggle about the simple fact we must be producing memoirs of a true estate agent simply because of the exceptional ordeals we have each and every day.”

Sumrall’s new way in organization has also allowed her to get the job done with Thompson, whom she has acknowledged for a lot of years.

“I have regarded her since she was about 10 decades old as her mothers and fathers were special good friends of mine. I have witnessed her grow up, get married and her daughter is now in her 20s — Leigh functions with as nicely,” Sumrall claimed. “We normally cared for every other but by no means knew we would have the chance to perform together.”
Ironically, it was quite a few several years before she received into the genuine estate business that she recognized she experienced a fondness for it — and that she may well be fairly superior.

“We went to purchase a couple spherical bales of hay and finished up buying the most beautiful hundred acres in Palo Pinto County,” she mentioned.

None of her ancestors ended up in authentic estate. On the other hand, she reported her great grandfather started out the initially cattle sale barn in Mississippi numerous a long time in the past.

She is herself a horse trader from a very young age. She enjoys the challenge of receiving the cost just correct for all associated.

“Win or it is no deal,” she reported. “Real estate makes it possible for me to observe just one of my most-preferred matters that I figured out from being a Rotarian in my previously occupation, ‘Service just before self.’ The much more you give, the far more comes back your way in blessings.”