Richard and Mary's Real Estate Experience

Here is our specific background information: 

Richard and Mary Howse are the owners and both have been in real estate a long time (to put it lightly)!  Mary started her real estate career in 1982 and Richard in 1984 and both have extensive experience in all aspects of residential real estate from listing property to building homes.  They began managing their own vacation rentals in 1996 on Edisto Beach and upon seeing their success their friends and family started asking them to please take on their vacation rental homes also.  They agreed to take on a select few and Edisto Beach Vacation Rentals, LLC was born in April of 2014 with the company focus being Deliberately Small and Extremely Selective.  The company remains committed to that goal! 

Mary was raised on Edisto Beach; her father was the first building inspector and her mother was the first female to be elected to Town Council.   Richard is a native of Atlanta, Ga. where he began investing in real estate, became a Broker in Charge and was part owner of a real estate company at the age of 22 while also specializing in commercial real estate with clients such as Concept Interstate Real Estate Services, Palisades Properties, Aronov Group, Amaco Oil & JDN Enterprises to name a few.  He hired Mary to sell a subdivision his company had developed and one thing led to another! 

Mary brought him home to Edisto for the first time in 1993 and being raised in Atlanta, he could not believe a beach as special as Edisto existed!  He fell in love with it and purchased an oceanfront home on Edisto in 1995; he is now a local!