Kyle Ziegler:  

After high school graduation I spent one year in Denver at Parks Business School...then off to England to work for Alfred Marks Bureau downtown London temp jobs. I started Nature's Way in 1974 and left in 1979 (notably the first health food store in town) and my first business at St. Charles, Illinois. I moved to Arizona (folks moved there in 1975 but only stayed two years (but it's a dry heat!) I have been in Portland, Oregon ever since (now 29 years ugh!) For several years in Portland I worked sales and marketing mainly Portland Chamber of Commerce and hotel sales/marketing. Completed my Bachelor's Degree in 1989 graduating from Eastern Oregon State University. In 1990 I married Jim Ziegler and we combined families - his two and my two. He worked as a crime scene investigator for Portland Police and I worked for East Portland Crime Prevention and community organizing. In 1994 I went into residential real estate and 1999 became a Principal Broker and formed my own residential real estate company called CastleGate Realty. The recessio...Expand for more