David Mix

David Mix was born and raised in Fayetteville, and when he was 20, while attending the University of Arkansas, he was starting off in the financial industry, working part time at McIIroy Bank & Trust in his hometown.

But an offer from a family friend, a Fayetteville real estate broker named Dave Fulton, helped put Mix on the real estate path, a road he has followed ever since. It’s hard to argue with Mix, who – when he was just 27 years old – partnered with Mary Bassett to launch his own real estate firm.

The company was founded with intentions of developing its niche in the city of Fayetteville, but it has grown to include markets throughout Northwest Arkansas. Bassett Mix is annually one of the 10 largest full-service firms in the area in terms of residential volume and has done so with a philosophy of maintaining what Mix calls a manageable number of Realtors. Within a few agents either way, Bassett Mix generally has about 30 agents at a given time, a philosophy Mix said was settled on many years ago.

Mix, a member of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal’s 2001 Forty under 40 class, said the philosophy has created continuity among employees. Seven agents have been with the company since its founding, and several others have been with Bassett Mix for more than a decade. Mix added the firm’s greatest achievement is maintaining a high level of respect in the real estate industry. The standard he sets for his company is reflected in his own personal philosophy of what it takes to be successful.