Bill’s first experience to real estate dates back to when he was a youth riding around the outskirts of Atlanta in a car with his Grandfather looking for land investments. After graduating from The Webb School in Bell Buckle, TN in 1979, Bill attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he majored in Economics and Political Science. He intended to pursue a career in software development after he graduated in 1982. But, with unemployment then at 10.5%, Bill decided instead to pursue a Masters in International Business Studies (MIBS) at the University of South Carolina, one of the top international business programs that required living in Rio de Janeiro for a year. After receiving his MIBS degree in 1984, Bill went to work at the International Division of the Citizens and Southern National Bank in Atlanta. He spent the next five years in the international division marketing trade finance products and managing the activities of the bank’s Edge Act Bank in New Orleans.

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Read: “American Real Estate Society Member Profile: William G. Hardin III,“ an article from the American Real Estate Society (ARES) Newsletter.