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ASK A PAINTER

Corey Overcash became the owner of CertaPro Painters in Colleyville in August 2022. He provides some insight on what his company oers.

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Prairie and the Ashley Furniture store in Alliance. It is a tough market. Commercial development is still exploding in DFW. It is sometimes challenging to get where [pay] needs to be, but our guys are professionals in their craft, and we pay them more so it can be a challenge to meet in the middle [for cost]. HOW DID YOU BECOME A BUSINESS OWNER? I am a veteran of the United States Army, having served for over 10 years. I have been deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan, and also spent signicant time on the United States-Mexico border conducting counter-narcotic and counter- human tracking services. Becoming a business owner has been a dream of mine since I was a child, and I found the right t [here] as it resembles a continuation of service.

WHAT PAINTING SERVICES DOES YOUR BUSINESS OFFER? We oer commercial and residential painting, but we do a gauntlet of carpenter work, from sheetrock to removing popcorn ceiling to staining fences and deck. We do pretty much anything that isn’t structural. HOW TOUGH DOES THE WEATHER MAKE IT TO PAINT? To mitigate the heat we use Sherman- Williams [paint] primarily. We ran into issues where dierent stucco was drying too quick in extreme heat. We try to paint early in the day; we don’t want to be painting in the middle of the day. HOW BUSY DO YOU KEEP WITH COMMERCIAL PROJECTS? We’ve done the Gateway Church in Grand

ASK A DEVELOPER

Eason Maykus, the president of Maykus Homes & Neighborhoods in Grapevine, oers a look at the housing market from a developer’s view point. HOW LONG DOES IT GENERALLY TAKE TO BUILD A NEW HOUSE?

you from a need perspective—and this is a blanket comment for Northeast Tarrant County—there is a need for smaller houses. Families want a simple lifestyle, and if you are a young family you are spending all your time at games; you want a nice house, but you don’t want to maintain even a half acre of dirt. WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE AREA? What is left is ineld pockets. You won’t have mega neighborhoods; you won’t see 120 lots coming up. About 80% of our work is in Grapevine.

What we see is land acquisition and planning, and taking it to planning and zoning, and then city council sta is a yearlong process. From idea conception to developers and getting the lot is nine months and then another nine months to build, and both of those are pretty rapid. ARE THERE ENOUGH NEW HOUSES ON THE MARKET? I don’t think there is enough new construction coming up, but I will tell

Corey Overcash Owner CentraPro Painters 5004 Thompson Terrace, Ste. 108, Colleyville 817-377-9018 (residential) https://certapro.com/southlake/our-team/ corey-overcash

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Maykus Homes & Neighborhoods 604 E. Northwest Hwy., Ste. 102, Grapevine 817-308-1155 www.maykus.com

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