A life in real estate does not always start in real estate. For Lisa Rollins, the winding road of life led her to great success in this industry in Connecticut. From her youth at Amity High School in Woodbridge to degrees from Bay Path College and Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts and from work in banking and school administration to raising a son as a single mom along the Connecticut Shoreline, life has been full of fulfilling experiences for Rollins – and those experiences have led her to elite status as one of the top Realtors in her area.

Real estate may only have been an aspiration during her time in Boston, but it was always something Rollins considered as a career path. As she moved back to Connecticut, her love of the industry was piqued again, searching for her new home in Madison. She found work in New Haven – and spent five and a half years working as Executive Assistant to the Dean of Public Health at Yale University. With her unparalleled work ethic, Rollins found more responsibilities in her time in the Ivy League – and her boss encouraged her to take that drive to form her own company. She reflected on her time at Boston and her pursuit of work in real estate… and a new career was born as she left the world of paid vacations and days off, subsidized healthcare and savings and set out on her own.

She has not looked back.

Rollins used her connections from Yale to build a client base – working with “one hundred and ten percent effort” to establish herself as a legitimate contender in the high-octane world of Connecticut real estate. She sent out mailers, worked floor duty, and held many open houses every week – all while networking and conversing with local business owners and potential home buyers and sellers. Lisa recalls working regularly until 8pm thinking how grateful she was to have Bradley & Wall available for dinners on her way home. Her own mortgage lender gave her a strong lead early in her career – helping a local veterinarian and wife move from Durham to Guilford – and that provided the necessary spark for Rollins to kick her career into high gear. She has proven time and time again that she is willing to make the necessary sacrifices to be successful in the field… and if you fast forward a little over a decade… Rollins has become the subject of a bidding war for her elite services as a Realtor up and down the shoreline.

At this stage in her career, Rollins still has that same love of real estate that she did when she began. She prides herself on a high level of proactive, customized client service in each interaction. She focuses on quality over quantity - putting in the necessary work with each client to have them coming back as repeat buyers or sellers… or recommending others to seek her services. She loves that she can still learn and share new things from deals – calling it exciting to be able to pick up new tricks of the trade over twenty years into the field. Rollins enjoys mentoring realtors – giving them the tools they need to advance their careers quickly, as she did. As she looks ahead, she considers obtaining a broker’s license – or adding a Florida real estate license as many clients seek warmer weather.

Still, Rollins has built a home here in Connecticut – she has remarried (one of her former clients, in fact), and finds time to spend with her husband, son, and Yorkie Ginger. She enjoys paddle boarding and Pilates – and is always interested in traveling to blue waters and trying new restaurants in her community–not to mention playing bartender at home by trying to concoct different martini recipes. She has found a great deal of success in Connecticut - and credits her team, loyal clients, husband, and late mentor Joan Davis Clark for her accomplishments in a demanding, ever-changing business.