Ms. West was a commercial real estate lender and special assets banker from 1984 to 1994. Initially, she was with First with Bank of Oklahoma, N.A. in Tulsa, Oklahoma and then Barnett Bank of Central Florida, N.A.in Orlando, Florida. BBCF was purchased by Nations Bank and is now Bank of America. She started in commercial real estate brokerage in February 1995 with Faison that was purchased by Trammell Crow in July 1998. Later, she joined Carter (an Atlanta southeastern regional brokerage firm) in Orlando in April of 2000. Ms. West joined NAI Realvest in February of 2006.