Commercial Real Estate Profile: Nancy Surak | Broker, Tampa

When she was little, Nancy Surak played with Barbie dolls in her backyard the way many girls do.

But in Surak's games, the Barbies weren't homemakers, or teachers, or ballet dancers. They got down in the dirt, plotted streets and built things. Surak's dolls were real estate developers.

All grown up, Surak is still playing with dirt — for the past two months as the managing partner for the Tampa area with Land Advisors Organization, a Phoenix-based real estate brokerage firm formed in 1987 that operates in Orlando and nine other states.