Woodall Construction Co. Inc Making Your Dreams Come True By Kathleen Boehmig Dean Woodall, born and raised in Cherokee County, is a man of many talents who is driven to provide his customers with quality homes. In 1986, he started Woodall Construction Company, his first business, at age nineteen. He quickly became one of the most sought-after subcontractors in the area, and within six years, the business grew to include three crews and twenty employees. At age twenty-nine, Dean began building homes. Several years later, he formed Dean Woodall Communities, Inc., built his first subdivision, got his real estate license and partnered in marketing and selling all the homes there. In 2002, Woodall Construction Company built and closed in excess of fifty homes. Over the next ten years, Dean developed more subdivisions in Cherokee County including Chestnut Hill, Sweetbriar, Pebble Brooke, Brookwood, Sweetwater, Amberleigh, Brookfield and Willow Ridge. He has built over 200 homes in Cherokee and Pickens County. In his career, he has bought and sold in excess of 1600 acres of land and successfully closed over 450 real estate transactions. In 2009, with the traditional real estate market suffering, Woodall Construction Company added remodeling and restoration to their list of services. Dean possesses some key skills that have enabled him to reach the pinnacle of a long, respected career: effective communication skills, knowledge of creative finance solutions and risk management, experience in estimating, bidding and cost management, bookkeeping, labor organization and crisis management and a vision of the final product. I so enjoy what I do, Dean says. Im a hands-on person, and I love making deals work out to everyones benefit. I really enjoy meeting people, talking to them and getting to know them and finding out what they want, then bringing that vision to fruition. Dean designs and draws some of his own plans. I enjoy designing spaces for my customers, he says. They tell me what they want, and I design it and build it. Its very satisfying helping them achieve their dream homes. We have ten full-time employees installing siding, cornices and decks onto homes we build as well as existing houses built by others, Dean says. So we are helping those who are looking to move into beautiful new homes, as well as people who want to improve on what they already have. A licensed builder in the state of Georgia, Dean is a IICRC certified water damage restoration technician and certified EPA lead safe renovator. He has been named Builder of the Week in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Agent of the Month by Metro brokers GMAC Realty. He holds memberships in the Cherokee County Board of Realtors and the Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce. Dean served on the Board of Trustees at Canton First United Methodist Church from 1997 to 1998 and as its Chairman from 1999 to 2000, is currently a member of Woodstock First Baptist Church, and is a past game director for Woodstock First Baptist Churchs Awanas Program. At this point in my life, family is my passion, Dean says. I love helping other families, and I enjoy working with mine. He continues, In 2015, I formed Woodall Family Realty with my daughter, Ashley Donnelly. This is a full service real estate company; we market my properties as well as others. Ashley is a fine realtor and a true professional. Its wonderful being part of a team with her and with Keller-Williams. They share our help each other agenda. There are two subdivisions currently being marketed. Woodall Construction Company, in a joint venture with Meridian Development, owns seventeen lots in Wild Timber Subdivision in south Pickens County, Dean says. We are in the process of building and selling homes in the high 200s to high 300s. The homes are marketed by my company, Woodall Family Realty. The other subdivision, Wilshire Estates, located off White Road in Cherokee County, is currently in Phase I, consisting of twelve, heavily-wooded lots, which range from 1.8 to 2.6 acres. Phase II, consisting of forty lots, will open this fall. Its definitely a family project, Dean says; It was developed by Dean Woodall Communities; the homes are being built by Woodall Construction Company, and its being marketed by Woodall Family Realty. To date, four homes have been started and are under contract, ranging from $280,000 to $410,000. Dean has been a leader in the real estate industry for the past thirty-one years. His hands-on experience has given him a vast knowledge of engineering and construction and how they relate to each other. He has a talent for being able to look at a project, come up with a marketable idea and efficiently turn his vision into the final product. He then has the ability to effectively market and sell that product. Unlike most developers, Dean lives in one of his neighborhoods surrounded by neighbors whose homes he built. With his talent and love for his job, Dean has risen to the top of the real estate and construction industry in the area in which he lives. Whats his success strategy? Dean says, I want anyone that I do business with to walk away happy, feeling like they got a little more than they paid for. Dean Woodall has certainly realized his own dream by helping make dreams come true for over three decades for homeowners in Cherokee and Pickens Counties. Woodall Construction Co. Inc.302 Pebble Brook TraceCanton, Georgia 30115404-314-1000WoodallConstructionCompany.com Woodall Family Realty678-230-2911WoodallFamilyRealty.com
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