YOUR BUSINESS AUTHORITY
Springfield, MO
YOUR BUSINESS AUTHORITY
Springfield, MO
Then: Private client adviser, Ollis/Akers/Arney
Now: President/CEO, The Cast Group
A side gig turned into self-employment for former insurance adviser Clay Trautman.
A year before he was a 40 Under 40 honoree, he and his wife flipped a house, and he ended up liking it more than he imagined.
In 2019, Trautman launched The Cast Group to buy and flip homes, as well as remodel and renovate houses for property owners.
“I always had aspirations of running a business,” he says. “It had always kind of been in my blood.”
To date, The Cast Group has conducted around 160 remodels, which Trautman, 34, says has become big business amid a spiking housing market.
His favorite job was his first, when The Cast Group turned around a home on North Campbell Avenue.
“That one’s kind of our baby,” Trautman says.
Best advice to young professionals? The resources that I have now have not been something that were developed overnight. Every individual you meet, every opportunity you get, make sure to take that and use it as a learning experience.
Plaza Shopping Center gained an arcade with the March 1 opening of The Flying Lap LLC; the repurposing of space operated by Burrell Behavioral Health resulted in the March 18 opening of the company’s second autism center; and a group of downtown business owners teamed up to reopen J.O.B. Public House.
