Jeanie Davis |
Since diversification is a key to success, Jeanie Davis can open
all kinds of doors, all over the state. The Clay County native from
Procious, WV is an auctioneer, an appraiser and a real estate agent.
She’s been a coal miner, a dispatcher, a construction site flag
lady and a teacher’s aide. She talks and thinks the proverbial
mile a minute, wears her husband out and admits her secretary qualifies
for hazardous duty pay.
Scientists who insist perpetual motion isn’t possible just haven’t
met Jeanie.
She is the nucleus for Jeanie’s Auction, Appraisal and Real
Estate LLC. In a career path less traveled, she has auctioned pot-bellied
pigs and pot bellied stoves, sold simple log cabins and grand country
estates. She loves her work, though it is never the same two days
in a row.
Jeanie started as a secretary for a coal mining company after attending
secretarial school at Capital City Commercial College. “It was
a one year program for those that couldn’t go to college.”
She soon found she could make more money as an EMT and in the mines,
checking for dust and gases. “I was a single mom. You do what
you have to do. So I went to work at the strip mines as an EMT and
also as a dispatcher, calling trucks.” Encouraged by the men
she worked with, Jeannie took special training for advanced work at
the mine. The mine closed, but Jeanie had discovered that she could
learn what she needed and that there was plenty a woman with energy
and ambition could do.
She had been working with neighbors to get city water in Procious
and when the mine closed, she spent a year flagging vehicles when
the lines were laid. After she met her new husband, she took classes
through WVU Glenville to become a teacher, taking an interim position
as a teachers aide.
“My husband and I enjoyed going to auctions on the weekends.
He kidded me that I talked so much I should be an auctioneer. So,
I went to High Point North Carolina and got my auctioneer license.”
After she completed her apprenticeship, she started Jeannie’s
Auction Company. “I liked auctions and I liked antiques. So,
I got certified to appraise antiques. I liked doing appraisals so
much, I went to real estate appraisal school. I had to apprentice
with someone for 5000 hours –you practically live with the person-
and then for the next 15,000 hours, she signed off on my work.”
After three years, Jeanie was appraising on her own.
She liked real estate, too “So, I decided to go to real estate
school.” She says, “It was a natural progression because
sometimes there’s a gray area in handling real estate or estates.”
She passed the test to become an agent and worked as an associates
with a real estate broker. After two years, “ I decided to get
my own brokers license.”
The business name kept lengthening as Jeanie added education and
experience.
Now Jeanie is certified to perform business and commercial appraisals
as well as appraisals for estates, divorce and tax purposes on items
from farm equipment and land to art and antiques.
As a member of two national auctioneering association, she specializes
in personal property, collectibles, antiques, estate sales, farm equipment
,and real estate.
She’s a licensed WV real estate broker in the WV Association
of Realtors. She has completed continuing education on subjects from
home inspection to house mold and never gets tired of learning new
things that might help her clients.
She says, “When I tell people, ‘I can help with your
estate’, I mean it.” She does appraisals for banks, about
fifty auctions a year and handles estate sales all over the state.
Her own home is on fifty acres near Procious. She appreciates the
land. “I like to look at real estate and I think what it could
be.”
Jeanie cheerfully admits, “ I’m at everybody’s
command. I do whatever they need me to do, from baby-sitting their
kids to painting or taking up carpet. I never want anyone to feel
pushed into any transaction. She never did become a teacher; real
estate was her first love. But, in the mornings, she still works as
a Clay County teacher’s aide. There is always something new
to learn and Jeanie wouldn’t want to miss it.
Contact Jeanie Davis at 304-587-2158 or visit www.jeaniedavis.com
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