Meet Dorathea Schultes

Dorathea grew up in government housing. Her parents never owned a home, and neither did she until well into adulthood, which is why handing someone the keys to their own place has never once felt routine to her. That moment is the whole job.

She was a stay-at-home mom until her son went into the Army and her daughter started high school. Real estate began as something to fill the quiet. It turned into a calling. Ten years in, what holds her isn’t the closings but the people walking into them, the first-time buyer running the numbers one more time, the veteran finally putting down roots. Deals fall apart sometimes, and she stays anyway, because the people were never the transaction to begin with.

She’s also walked the distance she’s asking others to walk. From that first house she’s built a rental portfolio across several states, including a short-term rental at the coast she runs herself. So when she sits down with a first-time buyer or an investor sizing up their next door, she’s speaking from her own experience, the mistakes included.

She lives in the Triangle with a longtime heirloom garden and a German Shepherd named Zuko. She speaks English and Spanish and serves from the Triangle to the rural counties of the Triad and everywhere in between.