James Nelson

Jim will be celebrating 30 years as a realtor and has been representing buyers and sellers selling millions every year. His motto is to provide each client with as much information as possible in regarding their real estate transaction. He has been a resident of Northern Virginia since 1969, graduated from Langley High in 1972 and Mount St. Mary University in 1978 where he received a BS degree in Business and Finance. Worked as a sales and marketing consultant for several years before he took over a bankrupt Texaco gas station in the middle of McLean 1982. Turned the gas station around using his marketing and sales skills and made it profitable. In 1988 he flipped the gas station and that was his first real estate deal. He then worked at Pardoe and Graham for 15 years before it too was sold and has been at Long and Foster the remaining years. He has been on the Board of Directors for the McLean Business and Professional Association, The Little Beginning Day Care, The NOVA Mental Health Association and the Tysons Townes Homeowners Association. He is a member of NAMI of Northern Virginia and he is presently serving on the Board of Directors for the NOVA Mental Health Foundation.