COVER STORY
Labrescia Dawson President, Founder and CEO of Dawson’s Management
Ms. Labrescia Dawson is the president, founder and CEO of Dawson’s Management, a certified 8(a), HUBZone and Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) currently headquarters in Atlanta, GA. The company operates its subsidiary, Dawson’s Realty & Mortgages (which Ms. Dawson opened in 2006), and this real estate vertical oversees real estate, asset management, and property preservation. Ms. Dawson’s original work as a real estate broker in Dawson’s Realty & Mortgages led to the creation of Dawson’s Management.
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s. Dawson realized that the asset management services her company provided for entities such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), hedge funds, and banks were being subcontracted to manage government-owned properties. This realization led Ms. Dawson to pursue certifications such as the 8(a), HUBZone, EDWOSB, and others which would position her to receive state, commercial, and federal contracts as a prime contractor. But one would ask, how did she get started in all this? Well, a thousand’s step journey starts with just one step and the determination to get to your destination. And while Labrescia doesn’t come from a real estate background, she did possess sales skills that elevated her business to what it
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is today. Ms. Dawson started out her career in customer service at Gwinnett Place Ford before later transitioning to the car sales department, where she became extremely good at selling cars.
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One day, this guy walks in, and he was like what are you doing working here you’re going to be just like them, and that bothered me when he said that I’m like what do you mean ‘just like them, so a seed was planted…I didn’t know that people associated with car salesmen were being sleazy, so that thought stayed with me. Another guy walks in and says hey you should try real estate. That thought also stuck with me. It wasn’t a year later I went to real estate school.
