A Proper Way

Chris Abbott went in several entrepreneurial directions in 2004 after his U.S. Army tour ended.

He became an inventor, a software developer and a commercial real estate investor. He also worked in land development for some of the Gulf Coast's most respected homebuilders and developers.

But it turns out Abbott's best directional decision, so far at least, was to start a multi-family residential and commercial property management company amid a crippling recession.