Business View Magazine - Sept 2023

37 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 9 BEACHFRONT BUI LDERS FL about a decade ago, building homes has been an enduring passion since high school. “I grew up in construction,” he recounts. “I joined the army when I was 17 and when I came back to go to college, I continued to take summer jobs in construction. I always liked it.” However, when it became time to embark on a full-time job, Shoultz switched gears and went into IT, as a Director of Technology for a company in Colorado. However, his passion for building persisted. “I got tired of writing code and staring at computer screens all day, and doing web development and database backups,” he opines. “So, in my spare time, I would buy and renovate homes. When I came home at night, I’d hang drywall and install tile.” After the homes he bought had been renovated, they were resold, or in real estate parlance: “flipped,” something that Shoultz became increasingly good at. At one point, he relocated to Buenos Aires, Argentina for a few years, and David Shoultz