About The Founders
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Liz grew up on a farm in Hampton County, SC, graduated from Estill High School and Winthrop College in 1962.
After finishing Winthrop, Liz went back to Estill High to teach high school math & physics — this is where she met her husband, Boyd, and they married in 1963.
Boyd was born in Fairfax, SC, graduated Allendale-Fairfax High School and from Clemson University in 1962. He went back to him home to work in a company in which his father had been a partner. As Liz said they married in 1963 just in time for school to start.
After they were married, they moved to Clemson, SC where Boyd attended graduate school. He received his Master’s in Math in 1965. Liz taught school in Liberty, SC while Boyd was in graduate school.
Then their next step was Virginia Tech where Boyd received a Ph.D. in Statistics in 1969. During their tenure at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, Liz worked at home typing a text book for a Statistics Professor. Also, both of their children were born there – one 6 weeks after they got there and one 6 weeks before they left.
Then they moved back to Clemson where Boyd was a professor in Statistics. They were there for 2 years this time and then moved to Charleston (actually Mt. Pleasant) SC in August of 1970. They are still here. Here in Charleston, Boyd was a professor in the Biometry Department at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Lizspent my time trying to be a house wife while the children were small and not in school. What she discovered is the God did not put her here on this earth to be a “house wife” — she is not good at it. She would find something else to do.
She started playing tennis and got to the point of playing once or twice a day — she would always take the children with her and they would play with other children outside the tennis courts while the mothers played.
When the youngest child started to school, Liz got her real estate license.
Liz has been a real estate broker for 33 years in the Charleston, SC marketplace. Worked for Howell & Associates for 2 years (1976-1978), then opened The Liz Loadholt Co. with her husband, Boyd. Boyd was on the faculty at the Medical University of SC –he has his Ph.D. in Statistics from Virginia Tech. 1982 they purchased the Coldwell Banker franchise for the Charleston area and grew their company from 8 agents to 150 agents within a year.
They built the #1 real estate company in the Charleston market. In 1986 Coldwell Banker purchased their company from them and they began working for corporate Coldwell Banker.
In 1992 they resigned from Coldwell Banker and opened up The AgentOwned Realty Co.— this is a concept of Boyd’s and Liz’s — one where the sales associate owns 100% of the dividend stock of the company (Boyd & Liz maintained the voting stock).
Today in 2009, they have 14 offices (Isle of Palms, Mt. Pleasant, West of the Ashley, Summerville – Trolley Rd, Summerville – Main Street,North Charleston,Park Circle, Goose Creek, Moncks Corner, Santee, Manning, Wyboo,Sumter, Florence & Myrtle Beach) with approx. 450 sales associates.The Florence and Myrtle Beach offices are just in the process of being opened.
Liz is in process of setting up a national broker-to-broker referral network even though she believes that referral networks are on their way out. Most buyers come from the Internet these days.
Liz writes and teaches continuing education courses for real estate in SC. Courses for which she is certified to teach (which were also written by her) are:
- “Top 10 Ways to be Disciplined” ( this one she did not write)
- “SC License Law & Contracts”
- “SC License Law”
- “Contracts”
- “Understanding How a Mortgage Broker Works”
- “The Code of Ethics – Your Promise of Professionalim” (NAR wrote this 2 hour course, but she rewrote it into a 4 hour course)
Boyd & Liz enjoy the state dance – the shag and they like to have a good time together.
Boyd & Liz have 2 children who are both involved in the real estate business with them and 3 grandchildren (16, 12, and 5) who can do no wrong.
Their daughter Liza and husband, Art. Liza is the Director of Growth for AgentOwned Realty.
Claude, their son, runs The AgentOwned West Ashley operation.
Liz’s philosophy is: “If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet with a Success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau
Liz is referred to as “Mama Liz” by a lot of her agent-owners. The company are big supporters of the Mt. Pleasant recreation department, East Cooper Community Outreach, Habitat for Humanity, and Breast Cancer Research.
