Texas based workwear brand Dickies to honor the nation's workers, Dickies is proud to announce the 2005 national winner of the 14th Annual American Awards, Tim Carroll of Bartlett, Tennessee.
Carroll, 39, buys and remodels distressed homes in the Memphis area, and personally makes quality repairs and improvements so that he can offer a safe, decent place to live for tenants and struggling first time home buyers. He was selected from among thousands of entrants, who were asked to write 100 words or less about why their nominee represents "the spirit of the American worker."
He was nominated by his wife, Sherry Carroll, who wrote in her winning entry that "He works on each house as though his family might live there. While the job can be dirty, he doesn't let that stop him. You know where he's been when he gets home on the roof, inside or under the house. He works to make quality homes affordable for other hard workers."
Carroll and his father do all the work on the houses (most of which are in Memphis' Frayser area), including replacing rotting floor joists, installing central heat and air, putting in insulated windows and new water heaters, etc. before marketing or leasing them.
With skyrocketing home prices, others have snapped up distressed low income property, done a few quick fixes, then flipped or rented them out. Carroll has a different approach."Some investors would say I'm stupid," he said. "But they believe in extending the same grace that we've been given in dealing with other people. It doesn't make sense to buy a house and expect someone to live in it, if we wouldn't live in it."
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