Denny Waller:  

I still get asked " are you a townie? " Guess I am. I never believed after all these years I would still be in C/U. But here I am and that's fine. A brief time at the U of I in Aviation then a surreal experience with the Postal Service for seven years I went back to school and studied everything I could find in Real Estate Licensed in 1984 I became the first sales manager for Coldwell Banker in 1986. In 1992 I started Denny Waller Appraisal and performed appraisals for Bank Illinois, Champaign National, Busey and others. I spent some time in the contract furniture business including operating an online business called Office Furniture Brokers. It was early on in the dot com era and the website served mainly as a way to reach a national audience. We sold successfully coast to coast to corporations, mom and pops and the U.S. Government. The internet bust ended that. All the warehouses filled wit...Expand for more