Getting to Know the Owner of Your Lake Vacation!

Family (Left to Right): Zechariah, Tammy, Eden, Russell, Elijah, Erin 

Whether you are coming to vacation at the Lake of the Ozarks or you own a rental home here, you want to know that you are being taken care of.  You need a property management company you can trust.  If the AC goes out, you want to know you have someone to call or your vacation will be ruined.  You want to make sure someone is monitoring your rental property at the Lake of the Ozarks and its being cleaned after each guest so you don't come home to a trashed home.  So this week we thought we would give you a little more information about the Owner of Your Lake Vacation, so you can get to know the person that will be taking care of you!  We asked him some questions and here are his responses.

1. How did you get into the real estate business? 
I stumbled into it by accident.  I answered an ad for a marketing director for a real estate company and soon I was managing their property management/vacation rental company and then I ended up buying the business.

2. Who is your family? 
I have been married to my wife, Tammy for 16 years and have children Erin, Justin, Elijah, Zechariah and Eden, plus a few cats and dogs.

3. What kind of music do you listen to? 
My favorite style is classic rock which for kids today may be considered “oldies”.  Groups like the Eagles, Boston, Journey, Bad Company and Led Zeppelin.  My all-time favorite band is the Beatles and each year I try to catch the Liverpool Legends performance at Main Street Music Hall.  The show is awesome and spans the entire Beatles career complete with authentic instruments and costumes.  Better yet, if you close your eyes, you would swear it was the Beatles playing, they are that good!

Russell and Son Elijah enjoying a Baseball Game! 

4. What do you enjoy doing when you are not working? 
Playing softball, coaching baseball, doing something with the kids, reading and watching baseball, on tv or live in person.  Go Yankees (and Cards)!

5. What is something about you that no one else knows?  
I am president of Freedom Through Christ Ministries.  We operate a transitional housing program for guys getting out of jail or prison. We currently house up to 20 men in two large homes on our 7.5 acre property that we recently purchased near Camdenton.  We also operate a mobile food pantry for Camden County from our ministry property feeding over 400 families each month and we just received a $500,000 grant to begin building a permanent food pantry to better serve the community.  On top of that our organization is involved in jail ministry and I teach a weekly bible study to the inmates at the Camden County Jail in Camdenton.  I have been doing that now for 13 years.

6. What motivates you at work? 
Helping our guests realize their vacation dreams and helping our owners realize income from their second home or condo at the Lake of the Ozarks which in many cases is what allows them to have that second property.

7. What is your favorite restaurant? 
Here at the Lake it would be the Cozy Coney Café, they have a great breakfast any time of day.  All-time favorite anywhere would be PF Changs in St. Louis.

8. Who is the one person that you admire the most?
A person that I would like to meet from history and that I think had an incredible effect on human kind was Nikola Tesla.  Many people have heard of the band named after him or the car that is now named after him but most people don’t realize all the things that he invented that they use every single day and Tesla could just visualize new inventions and then build them from his visualization and they usually worked the first time he tried them.  He developed alternating current which now powers the entire world, built the first hydro-electric plant at Niagra Falls in New York, discovered radio waves and developed the first radio (even though Marconi gets credit in the history books), developed radio controlled machines (the navy dismissed his remote control boat as a toy and today our military operates drones and other weapons via his invention), wireless transmission, X-rays, the electric motor, lasers, remote control and robotics just to name a few of his more than 200 inventions.

Freedom Through Christ Ministries' Mobile Food Pantry

9. What is your favorite movie and why? 
My all-time favorite movie is a WW2 movie called Kelly’s Heroes.  It is serious, funny and dramatic all at once and has an incredible cast of characters including Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Don Rickles, Carrol O’Conner and Gavin MacLeod plus a few others.  Kelly gets his band of misfits to go behind enemy lines in search of a ton of gold to make them all rich.

10. Are you involved in any charitable groups? 
Freedom Through Christ Ministries and the Lighthouse Mission.  Again helping men with addictions to live a full life in Christ as opposed to living a defeated life struggling with their addictions and going in and out of jail and prison.  We offer these men hope where many just want to discard them or give up on them.

Russell and his family purchased Your Lake Vacation in 2008 after managing the company for several years.  The company, previously known as Al Elam Property Management was established in 1986 as a property managment and vacation rental company.  Since then we have helped thousands of guests with their vacation planning.  In fact we have served more than 10,000 guests staying a total of more than 40,000 nights in the past 25 years.  Today Al Elam Property Management is a locally owned, family business dedicated to providing visitors an exceptional vacation experience in one of the many private homes or condos that the company manages.  Our hope is that we will be able to serve you and your family as well as we would our own family.  We strive to carry on the tradition that was started by Mr. Elam more than sixty years ago!

For more information please call us toll free at 1-877-284-0267!!

YourLakeVacation.com
4571 Osage Beach Pkwy, Suite A
Osage Beach, MO 65065
Local - 573-365-3367
Fax - 573-365-5076  

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