Florida Realtors Newsroom

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — At a gym in Panama City Beach, a broker watched Charles Sower chat up strangers between sets and made a bold pitch: “You’d be good at real estate.” Sower laughed it off, but the seed was planted. After retiring from a 20-year Coast Guard career, he took a year off, learned he didn’t want to live on retirement alone, and decided to try the thing everyone said he’d be good at. Nine years later, the joke’s on him.