Hugh D. Carino Sr.:  

I graduated in '71 from Point Loma High in San Diego CA. Eleven months later I was on the road, northbound, to Washington State, with the intention of staying there for a couple of years and then heading back home to San Antonio. OOPs! Didn't make it back home until January of '85, and that was a visit only. I lived most of the 33 years between May of '72 thru August of '05 in Olympia WA. There was a short 6 months in Vernal Utah, Dec. '73 - May. '74 to work the oil fields and then back to Olympia. I left again; this time for 2 1/2 years, Sept '88 - March '91; for Oklahoma City, OK to coach Women's Fastpitch at the NAIA and NCAA II college levels before returning again to Olympia. I had coached at the Jr. College level for one year in WA state before leaving for OKC OK. Up until this time I had remained single, foot loose and fancy free! HA! When I returned from OKC I brought with me a lady and her two children. Cindy and I married in July of '91, ending my 20 year bachelorhood. We had another son in February of '93. Over the years I have dabbled in many fields...restlessness being the cause for many of the changes. I have worked restaurants, gas stations and fiberglass companies in my early days. I coached fastpitch for girls at the youth levels as well as 3 different levels of college ball, have run clinics, camps and taught private lessons for pitching, hitting and catching for girls fastpitch. At one point I was a police officer off and on during a 10 year run, and for a regular job for 25 years was a process server. (with time off while coaching the 2+ years in OKC OK.) In the middle of all that I spent a few years working radio as well...the last one at a country station in Olympia, KAYO, which is no longer around. I came to work one evening to be told the station had been sold, and my final official act was to flip a switch sending the stations controls to a Spanish station in Sacramento! Not the way I intended to leave the broadcast biz! That was in June of 2005. (The current KAYO in Olympia is not the same station, they purchased the i.d from the company I worked for.) If you read this before, it mentioned that I was running a snack route around the Washington Peninsula. I won't bore anyone with the details, but that ended November of 2011 after 4 years. Made some good money, but needed to move on. My next venture was to begin buying and rehabbing houses. We started with one up the alley from our home in '11 and did well, keeping it for 4 1/2 years before selling it. The money from that sale took me to Bisbee AZ in May of '16 to buy and flip yet another. Again made out pretty well. Then came the BIG jump. We had in '09 decided that our final retirement home would be somewhere in the Branson MO area, and thus I started looking around in January of '18 and found an apartment building. I bought it, and s...Expand for more