David Allan Smith

Biography

My partner Tim and I, have been residents of Leisureville since April of 2015 and full-time Florida residents since September 2011. We relocated to Oakland Park from Watertown, Massachusetts, after living in metropolitan Boston for over 20 years.

Starting in 2020, we decided to sell 11 furnished, short-term/vacation apartment units at the beach in Pompano Beach on SE 6th Street that we owned and operated in 2 buildings. This left us with 7 vacation rental units in Lauderdale by the Sea and Pompano Beach (now, we are semi-retired). In Lauderdale by the Sea, we own a 5 unit apartment building close to the beach. We converted a vacation rental condo at the beach in Pompano Beach to an annual, unfurnished rental and have one furnished vacation rental, also at the beach in Pompano Beach. We now rent the vacation apartments through Airbnb. In 2018-19 we purchased and gut renovated the Lauderdale by the Sea building employing the services of a General Contractor, Electrical Contractor, Architect and working with the Town Building Department.

I served as LakeView Club President and Treasurer from October 2011 through April 2014. LakeView Club is a 425+ unit resort style condominium association on15+ acres of land in Oakland Park, FL.

Early in 2014, we formed a corporation to purchase, renovate and furnish an eight unit, 6,000 square foot building, at the beach in Pompano Beach. The property was furnished and was operated as a short-term and vacation rental property until it was sold in the fall of 2020.

I am currently, and since 2016, an active Realtor with LoKation Real Estate based in Pompano Beach. I was a Broward County Coldwell Banker Residential Realtor from March 2012 until June 2014. This was after 12 years of successful residential sales with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Newton, Massachusetts.

After moving to South Florida, in September 2011, we renovated a 3 unit residential building in Pompano Beach, at the beach. The project was completed in February 2012 and operated successfully as a short-term and vacation rental property until it was sold in early 2020.

In my early career, I worked as a Human Resources, Manager and Director for such companies as Gillette/Duracell, in Boston/Needham, MA, and Blockbuster Video in Spartanburg, SC. For most of 1980’s, I worked as a Human Resources generalist for a number defense consulting firms in the Washington, D.C. area. I hold a B.S., Business Administration degree from Boston University, School of Management where I majored in Marketing and International Economics.