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Harold E. Crye is chief executive officer of Crye-Leike, Realtors, a six-state real estate empire that he and co-owner and president Dick Leike founded in 1977.
The Memphis-based company hit the $1 billion mark in sales volume in 1993 and passed $3 billion in 1999. It has about 2,300 agents in more than 60 company-owned and franchise offices in Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida.
Crye says he started out as ''a small-town boy from a little town in Arkansas'' who moved to Memphis, the nearest big city, to find a job after serving in the Army in Korea.
He was hired as a salesman with Container Corporation of America, but a real estate course at what is now the University of Memphis grabbed his interest.
Shortly after Crye earned his real estate license, he chatted over lunch break with a forklift operator at the Container plant.
''He and his wife were looking for a house,'' Crye recalls. ''I sai...
Crye-Leike is a full-service real estate company founded in Memphis in 1977. Today it is ranked #4 in the nation and the largest real estate company serving markets in Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi. Crye-Leike has a network of more than 2,800+ licensed sales associates, 600+ staff members and over 130+ branch and franchise offices located throughout a seven state region of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Crye-Leike also has a franchise location in Puerto Rico.
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