No one will work harder…. - Austin Kelly
“Attention to detail ... he loses sleep over it!”
“Just what I love, a contractor that will put on his tool belt and work along side his guys.”
My name is Austin Kelly and I grew up in New England on jobsites.
My father is an architect and engineer, like his father before him. Building is literally in my DNA.
In high school, I worked as a manager trainee at McDonald’s at my father’s suggestion. “Management experience is critical,” he’d say. (He was right.) I framed houses to pay for my University of Connecticut degree in Economics. After college, I was promoted to head foreman at the same construction company that hired me from McDonald's in high school.
I’ll never forget the day it happened. I was sweeping the floor in McDonald’s when a man walked up to me and shook my hand. He said he’d noticed that I was a hard worker and offered me a summer job with his construction company. Leaving work that night, I could’ve turned right to go home or left to meet him at his job site. In what turned out to be a life-changing decision, I turned left.
A few years later, I moved to California, where I earned my real estate license and did a lot more construction work. I earned my MBA, specializing in Project Management. I met my incredible wife and moved back to her Outer Banks hometown, now my home, to raise a family.
Over 25 years in the Home Building Industry.
Licensed general contractor specializing in both custom homes and speculative builds.
MBA with a specialization in Project Management.