About Us
Belief
We are a Christian family business. That doesn't make us perfect by any means. It only means that we strive to be honest, fair and up font in all we do. We believe real estate agents and home buyers and sellers are part of our mission field and we can do nothing more important that sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with them. Making money is not our first goal. Instead, our first goal is to be an example of Christ in all we do.
Professional
J. D. Inman is a licensed Broker in the state of Tennessee and a Realtor specializing in representing clients in the purchase and sale of single-family residences and income property in our area. I truly love the Middle Tennessee area and pride myself on my knowledge of current transactions, school districts, neighborhood information, and related services, including mortgage, insurance and inspection information.
Family
J. D. and and his wife, Brittany, own and operate the sales division of Inman Realty Group, LLC. Nancy Garrett is J. D.'s mother and her husband Dan operate the Property Management division of IRG. Brittany's dad Earl Galloway is an agent with the company as well. We like to think of all our agents as members of our family.
History
J. D. earned his Masters Degree from Loma Linda University and worked over 10 years in the healthcare industry as a physical therapist and in corporate America as Orthopedic Services Director for Gentiva Health Services. Feeling frustrated by the corporate world, J. D. decided to go into real estate sales as his mother had done when he was in high school. Soon after, Nancy decided to return to real estate as well. Unsatisfied with the "big box" model and with the equally disappointed with the alternative small office brokerages that they tried, Nancy said, "Let's open our own company."
Inman Realty Group begain in January, 2004 in a tiny little house in Franklin. Growing very slowly, the first year's focus was on getting policy and procedures in place and laying groundwork for growth. At the top of the real estate boom in 2007, there were 47 real estate agents calling IRG home. J. D. purchased a historic home in down town Franklin and got approval from the city to make that our home office.
We were the first company in the state of Tennessee to be audited by TREC in a fully paperless audit. We have never been fined or cited for any TREC violations and we pride ourselves on our office organization, virtual office HUB and our low office overhead costs. While many offices were closed or consolidated in the recent economic downturn, ours continues stronger than ever and our future is brighter by the day.
We have been approached by many of the big boys in the brokerage business who have tried to sell us on their multi-level or referral business model. We however are convinced more than ever that real estate is a people business and requires relationship between buyers, sellers and REALTORS not name brand offices or referral contracts. We prefer to work with people we know and who know and trust us. Instead of generating relationships out of referrals, we generate referrals out of our already existing relationships.
