The Venture Report

Hello, I’m Larry Thompson, Founder and President of Venture Companies, the most diverse Real Estate firm in Charlotte, NC today. I want to welcome you to my blog, a place to share my insights, experiences and the lessons I’ve learned from being in the Real Estate, Mortgage Financing and Investment industries for many years.

Let me first begin by giving you a little background about myself. I graduated from Clemson University in 1994 with a degree in Finance and have an MBA from University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I served 9 years in the South Carolina National Guard as an Engineer Officer where I gained invaluable experience. I got my Real Estate license in 1999 and formed Thompson Realty along with my wife, Kim, who’s also a graduate of Clemson with an MBA in Accounting from UNCC. I began investing in properties in the Charlotte area and bought and sold so many properties, that my Mortgage Broker at that time wanted me to start doing my own Mortgages. After learning how to make the Real Estate and Mortgage businesses work together, I formed Venture Realty in 2003, where we combine the Real Estate, Mortgages and Attorneys all under the same roof.

In 2003, I became the #13 ranked Rookie Mortgage Broker in the nation.

By 2007 I was ranked #15 nationally on Loan Volume alone. I currently serve as 1 of 22 national members of RMG (Realty Mastermind Group), a group of Top Real Estate Experts in the U.S., who sell between 100 -500 homes a year. Our sole purpose is to share best practices and information on current markets strategies. I’ve also been the only agent in Charlotte, to be featured in the book “Billion Dollar Agents – Lessons Learned 2006”. To be featured in this book, you had to achieve or will achieve 1 Billion Dollars in sales in your career.

Today, under the global heading of Venture Companies, we’ve developed into a ONE STOP SOURCE for all your Real Estate needs. Our current 7,000 sq. ft. office houses Venture Realty, a full service Real Estate Firm, a branch of 1st Metropolitan Mortgage, a National Mortgage Company and Venture Investments, a company specializing in finding foreclosures and Real Estate Owned Properties. We also have a Property Management company that services the rental market and an in-house Attorney that closes all of our real estate transactions while providing legal consultation to our clients. By having all of these services under one roof, I feel it gives our clients the convenience and satisfaction of having all their needs met in one place – something nobody else can provide.

Thank you for your time and logging on to this site. I look forward to creating a place to share my experience and knowledge with those of you who want to gain knowledge and continuously learn about the changing Real Estate market. Keep watching for new additions.