River Rats Realty

About

I was born and raised in a small farming community in central Illinois. It was there that I realized my love for cars as central Illinois is rich with dirt track stock car racing. Our neighbor raced stock cars and would take me and my brother to local stock car races to help out in the pits. After graduating high school I attended an automotive tech school. After graduating from tech school I worked for an independent garage owner until age 24 when I moved to fulfill a lifelong dream of living in California.

After landing in California in 1981 I was introduced to drag boat racing and subsequently became the owner of a drag boat which we successfully campaigned in the late 80’s to early 90’s. I opened my own boat and auto repair shop in the late 80’s and ran that shop until the early 90’s where I accepted a position with the world famous Coast Corvette and built Corvettes until the early 90’s.

After working with the Coast Corvette group I accepted a position with a professional Trans Am series team as the Crew Chief which took me to the late 90’s. where a back injury caused me to reevaluate my career path. I spent a few years writing service for a car dealership.

After buying and selling a few houses I discovered my passion for real estate.

I received my real estate license in 2005 and brought all those small town values to my professional real estate career. I worked with a large national company my 1st year in real estate then moved to a very successful independent brokerage. After 4 years with that broker I obtained my own Brokers license and opened Cravens Realty Group in Murrieta and Big Bear Lake, CA. I still own the Brokerage in California and have recently obtained my brokers license in Arizona where we opened a Brokerage in Bullhead City, Arizona doing business as River Rats Realty. We look forward to the same success in Bullhead City, Arizona that we have achieved in California.

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