Bucky

My beginnings are rooted in the outdoors and action. In elementary school, I ran for president of my school’s student government. “Vote for Bucky and you’ll be lucky” was the slogan, promoting this young buck into leadership. Being an outdoorsy kind of kid must’ve encouraged me to campaigning. I played baseball, racketball, I fished, and I hunted. At the age of 13 going on 14, I developed a high interest in hunting. I started following people starting out in the hunting industry. Around this time in 2003, people started to videotape their hunting adventures and develop them into a show. Seeing these shows confirmed my passion of hunting, and combined it with telling my story through it. After taking video classes in highschool, I began creating DVDs of hunting stories with my friends. J I was the guy who wore camo throughout high school, and I dropped out of sports those years to pursue hunting completely. I would go to different expos and meet people within the industry. I was so entrenched into hunting, I got a job at the local archery shop, and videotaped for multiple hunting television shows, such as Hunter Specialties and Driven TV from 2008-2009. September of 2008, I was traveling around the United States and Canada filming Deer Hunts. After that year, my passion began to venture towards business. In highschool, I had a friend who I used to videotape for hunting. His father owned a company called “Green Lawncare”, and occasionally we would install sprinklers for his company. My friend and I started our own lawn care business called “Ground Pros”, as well as video production through our company High Definition Creations. Ground Pros became our focus, and then another passion started to enter into my life when he pushed me to get my real estate license. We took a three week course in the twin cities, and I received my real estate license. My first house sold was to someone who worked at the company we purchased irrigation supplies from. At the time, we were still running Ground Force. I added Snappy Signs and Snappy Stop North to my operations. We both learned it’s not easy to run companies either alone or with other businesses. Ground Force was sold, and Snappy Stop North closed. My partner put his focus into auctioning, while I went into Commercial Real Estate. My schooling after high school was through saying yes to opportunities such as managing 40 units of apartments and securing properties through contract for deeds. Eventually in that process, I met my partner Nick Pompien. His father began Realty Growth Incorporated in the 1970s. Nick and I had a vision of growing the company. We’ve added team members who are passionate about commercial real estate, and we’ve added team members to help those in sales build their business. I’m continually helping my father with the marketing of Snappy Stop, running Snappy Signs, and am in love with each day of commercial real estate.