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Welcomes Trey Breeding, Randy Fortner, and Clint Mickle to the Juggernaut Franchise!

Trey Breeding, Randy Fortner, and Clint Mickle have recently joined the RestoPros push, with big plans to serve communities throughout Central Arkansas. The midwest business team enters the $210B restoration industry with one key goal in mind: Help homeowners navigate unexpected property disasters by providing dependable restoration solutions and friendly service.

“We viewed RestoPros as a unique opportunity to get in on the ‘ground floor’ of a growing franchise that is positively impacting those it serves. Through RestoPros Central Arkansas, we can provide quality restoration services to the community we love and call home.”

The trio boasts an impressive and broad list of professional experience, including executive healthcare leadership, business entrepreneurship, strategy development, service industry operations, engineering, and manufacturing expertise. What drew them to the RestoPros concept, however, was the company’s culture and vision.

“We were very impressed with the values, business practices and track record of success displayed by the RestoPros parent company and other franchisees.”

Trey, Randy, and Clint aim to focus on these values in their own operation as well. The team believes in delivering the best restoration services possible, while also giving back to their community. They hope their family-oriented approach will set the stage for a compassionate and calming experience for each and every RestoPros Central Arkansas customer.

Currently, the RestoPros system provides four key emergency restoration services for residential and commercial properties. These include solutions for water damage, mold remediation, fire restoration, and smoke remediation.

As Trey, Randy, and Clint set up shop in a thriving Central Arkansas market, they’re eager to prove the difference in RestoPros’ attentive service model. The team will represent a flourishing brand that now has 14 territories open, another 10 in the development pipeline and plans to launch 20 by year’s end!

RestoPros is thrilled to welcome Trey, Randy, and Clint. We can’t wait to see the success these partners will spark in the years ahead!

Brad Kestner Joins Growing Franchise

RestoPros recently welcomed new franchise partner Brad Kestner to the mission, extending the brand’s footprint into the Buckeye State. Brad enters the $210B restoration industry with plans to launch RestoPros of East Hamilton County. His goal is to serve residential and business communities throughout Ohio’s bustling Southwestern market.

Born and raised in Cincinnati, Brad is looking forward to giving back to his local community through this new venture. He’s already a successful small business owner who is well-versed in management and operations. He also understands the equation for any winning company starts with a customer-focused approach, a mantra he intends to employ throughout his RestoPros franchise.

When taking a closer look at the RestoPros concept, Brad was intrigued by the company’s culture and vision.
“I’ve been impressed by what RestoPros has accomplished and was attracted to becoming an early franchisee, bringing RestoPros services to my home town, creating jobs, and being able to treat those people well,” Brad stated.
Currently, the RestoPros system provides four key emergency restoration services for residential and commercial properties. These include solutions for water damage, mold remediation, fire restoration, and smoke remediation.

As Brad sets up shop in a thriving Cincinnati market, he’s eager to prove the difference in RestoPros’ attentive service model. He’ll represent a flourishing brand that now has 14 territories open, another 10 in the development pipeline and plans to launch 20 by year’s end!

RestoPros is proud to welcome Brad, and we are excited to see the success that awaits him in the years ahead.

Welcomes Corey Woods to the Growing Franchise Fam!

Corey Woods recently came aboard the RestoPros push, setting his sights on serving communities throughout Jacksonville and Northeast Florida. He enters the $210B restoration industry with big plans to help homeowners in the Sunshine State’s upper corridor.

After spending much of his professional career in the corporate world, Corey was searching for a more personal connection to his work. RestoPros presented the perfect opportunity to build a business with a noble purpose. In addition to providing premier restoration services to Northeast Florida, the new franchisee plans to support his community through transparent communication, outstanding expertise and workmanship, and the best service experience imaginable.

When taking a closer look at the RestoPros concept, Corey was intrigued by the company’s culture and vision.

“The biggest difference I see in RestoPros is that this team is truly excited about making a difference in the lives of its customers,” he explained. “This company and its employees have passion and demonstrate daily why the work they perform for their customers matters, day-in and day-out.”

Currently, the RestoPros system provides four key emergency restoration services for residential and commercial properties. These include solutions for water damage, mold remediation, fire restoration, and smoke remediation.

As Corey sets up shop in a thriving Jacksonville market, he’s eager to prove the difference in RestoPros’ attentive service model. He’ll represent a flourishing brand that now has 14 territories open, another 10 in the development pipeline and plans to launch 20 by year’s end!

RestoPros is proud to welcome Corey, and we are excited to see the success that awaits him in the years ahead.

The votes have been counted and the results are in!

RestoPros of Northeast Georgia is a 2021 Best of Georgia® winner in Georgia Business Journal’s annual readers’ poll.

Georgia Business Journal readers and editors have weighed in on the best of everything in Georgia, honoring thousands of businesses and organizations in more than 25 broad business and community sectors.

The process starts with a nomination on the Best of Georgia website. Voting remains open throughout the year, with tens of thousands of votes ultimately received. The process culminates with the publishing of the annual Best of Georgia Keepsake Annual along with a statewide publicity campaign.

Best of Georgia winners and nominees are chosen by a combination of readers’ votes and editors’ input, and are vetted through several ranking sites, Better Business Bureau complaint reports, and voting pattern analysis reports.

Winners are named in hundreds of individual categories, providing Georgia Business Journal readers with a go-to-guide for the best of everything in Georgia. Georgia Business Journal recognizes three levels of winners: The Best of Georgia, Best of Georgia Regional Winners and Honorable Mentions. Within each category, there are multiple honorees named in each tier, depending on the size of the market
sector.

You can view the full list of Best of Georgia winners at BESTofGEORGIA.com/winners

Welcome To The Movement, Micah Rowell!

Former software engineer Micah Rowell dreamt of owning his own business, but it wasn’t until he met with the RestoPros team that he saw the potential in home restoration. Micah’s background in computers and passion for business ownership were his catalyst to serve the Austin, TX, community!

Born and raised in South Carolina, Micah joined the Air Force at twenty-one before planting his flag in Austin. He earned his degree in Computer Science and became a software engineer, but three and a half years into that role, Micah was eager for his next challenge.

“Owning a business has always been a dream of mine, I just wasn’t sure what I wanted to do,” Micah reflected. He was certain of one thing, however — the “kind of environment and the type of people” he wanted to surround himself with.

Enter RestoPros! Their business model checked all the right boxes for Micah and also aligned with his personal goals.

“I am very excited to be joining and am looking forward to the future!”

Currently, the RestoPros system provides four key emergency restoration services for residential and commercial properties. These include solutions for water damage, mold remediation, fire restoration, and smoke remediation. Micah anticipates high demand for these services in the sprawling Austin market and plans to hit the ground running!

Meet the Team Behind FIVE New Territories

When Burke Allen, Julie Allen, Jay Hassell, and Steve Taylor decided to take on the restoration industry, they came to the scene with plenty of collective business experience. Afterall, these newest RestoPros franchise owners joined entrepreneurial forces years ago.

Today, they’re set to tackle five territories in the Peach State. When they launch RestoPros of Northeast Georgia, its service footprint will cover the counties of Fulton, Barrow, Gwinnett, Forsyth, Hall, and Jackson. These areas come loaded with municipalities, communities – and of course, a major city in Atlanta. The four partners understand the opportunity that awaits them, and they plan to use their business savvy – along with their friendship – to propel their RestoPros possibilities.

Burke and Julie first met in middle school. They’d attend college together and marry shortly after graduation. Steve connected with Burke through their mutual work in the software sector. Ultimately, the three moved on to start their own venture, NovoLogic – a software and business consulting firm that provides enterprise grade solutions for companies in the airline, quick service restaurant, healthcare, manufacturing, and hotel industries. Jay joined NovoLogic some 12 years ago, helping the team launch another business: Cornerstone Coworking – a space that now serves more than 100 businesses and nonprofit organizations. Combined, the power partners behind RestoPros of Northeast Georgia cover all the skillset bases to be a franchise success!

Burke has a wealth of technical, sales and management experience from his time with IBM. He’s harnessed and grown those qualities since kickstarting NovoLogic more than two decades ago. At the same time, he’s guided several other businesses in their startup stages, also playing other leadership roles through involvement in the nonprofit space as well as civic organizations.

In a previous leg of her career, Julie was instrumental in helping First Atlanta Bank transition to digital check processing. Through this undertaking, she managed more than 300 employees. She’s spent the last 20-plus years serving as CFO of NovoLogic and steering the way for Cornerstone Coworking.

Early on, Steve worked as a quality control technician, then quickly shifted to software engineer for a major pharmaceutical company. He built a stellar reputation for his attention to detail and ability to solve problems on the fly. Steve went on to help found NovoLogic, where he zoned in on providing outstanding customer support.

Jay – who spent the first part of his career in leadership roles for a subsidiary of Kodak (Qualex Inc.) – came aboard NovoLogic as the Chief Operations Officer more than a decade ago. He specialized in morphing poor-performing operations into high-output teams and cultures. As COO of NovoLogic, he even gained first-hand experience in renovation. In fact, his day-to-day responsibilities included oversight of repairs and maintenance to the company’s 10,000-square-foot coworking space. Thankfully, Jay’s a certified (S-500 IICRC) Water Damage Restoration Technician (WRT). He ultimately served as the general contractor for both the design and build-out phase of the coworking space!

Shortly after the pandemic started, the four partners began looking for franchise opportunities. The goal was to continue diversifying their business portfolio, and they felt this was the right time to do so.

“Having spent the last decade and a half helping national franchise groups implement systems to allow them to continue to scale while keeping their brand promise, we decided that we wanted to put our knowledge and experience into real world practice,” Burke explained.

Their search led the partners to RestoPros.

“It ultimately came down to a few variables for us,” Burke said. “RestoPros’ business model offered an overall structure — from employees, equipment, assets, etc. that we were willing to manage and deal with on a daily basis. In addition, they offered a financial model that would support a larger group of ‘owner-investors’ and provide what is expected to be a fairly-quick path to break even.”

Burke added that their team greatly admired RestoPros’ culture of leadership, which is driven by candor, optimism, a can-do attitude, and transparency. These are all attributes needed to hit the next franchise level, he said.

Currently, the RestoPros system provides four key emergency restoration services for residential and commercial properties. These include solutions for water damage, mold remediation, fire restoration, and smoke remediation. As the Northeast Georgia partners hit the ground running in a sprawling market, they anticipate high demand. They said they’re committed to becoming known as the “Gold Standard” for customer service and feel confident that will spur prosperity along the way.

RestoPros Welcomes Jim Stokes And His Two Atlanta Territories To The Team!

As someone who grew up around service repair, Jim Stokes is the perfect addition to RestoPros. His two territories will serve Atlanta and surrounding areas to the east, north, and south of the city.

As a high schooler, and through law school, Jim worked at his father’s heating, air, and refrigeration company. This experience showed Jim the importance of answering the needs of customers and providing quality service.

After college, Jim worked mainly in small law firms and as a solo practitioner to free himself up for other pursuits. Politics was another passion of Jim’s, and he was elected several times to the Georgia House of Representatives.

In 2004, Jim managed a program that employed hundreds of lawyers to provide legal services to tens of thousands of Georgia residents. His prowess as manager led him to the role of Deputy Director. Jim debated his next career move, eventually deciding to get back to his roots by providing service to those in need.

Enter RestoPros and the $210B restoration industry. Jim’s research on the company excited him, and the ability to help people and manage a new business venture checked all the right boxes.

“The opportunity fits my skill set and has great potential for growth and success,” said Jim.

Currently, the RestoPros system provides four key emergency restoration services for residential and commercial properties. These include solutions for water damage, mold remediation, fire restoration, and smoke remediation. As Jim hits the ground running in a sprawling market, he anticipates a high level of demand for these services.

RestoPros is proud to welcome Jim to the family and cannot wait to see him reach his full potential!