Saying “No” to Relocation, Local Couple Started Own Business

(BRENTWOOD, Tennessee)--When push came to shove, Jerry and Kelly Prosise decided it was time to take a stand and the couple has never looked back after Jerry left a successful corporate career. The husband and wife team became franchise owners with CertaPro Painters, America’s largest and most referred painting company. Now in its 24th year, CertaPro Painters of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, serves residential and commercial customers throughout the region.

Prior to becoming CertaPro franchisees, Jerry, 62, had worked as an executive for a financial services company while Kelly, 53, was the “‘C’ level executive of the Prosise household, which included the lion’s share of raising our four children,” according to Jerry. “I have always said that Kelly had a harder and more prestigious job than me. It is amazing the level of detail and organization you develop running a household with four children who are no more than two years’ apart in age.”

But it was Jerry’s work dilemma that forced the couple to make a tough decision on where they were – or weren’t – headed in the future. After having relocated several times earlier in his career, Jerry’s employer was mandating another move for a promotion – this time to California. “Our family had well-developed roots and loved living in Middle Tennessee, so that move was just not in the cards for us,” Jerry said. “Over the years, Kelly and I had discussed owning our own business one day. The mandated relocation by my employer inspired us to move forward in pursuing our dream of business ownership.”

So Jerry and Kelly stayed in the city they love and have relished the direction they followed, supported by CertaPro Painters’ best-in-class operational systems and procedures that make it the most professional business model in the industry. Its satisfied residential and commercial customers are the direct benefactors within the estimated $40 billion industry in the U.S. and Canada. CertaPro has been consistently ranked No. 1 by Entrepreneur magazine in its category and boasts a customer referral rate that exceeds 95 percent. “We were inspired by CertaPro Painters because their ethical and moral standards aligned perfectly with ours,” said Jerry, who sits on the advisory board of the Better Business Bureau of Middle Tennessee. “CertaPro Painters’ value statements – Deliver What You Promise, Practice Continuous Improvement, Respect the Individual and Have Pride In What You Do – were all directly in line with how we wanted to run a business. Our typical residential or commercial customer wants great communication and wants to contract with a company that stands behind its words as well as the quality of its work. They expect to be ‘wowed’ by our company with as few life distractions as possible. We live by, ‘We Do Painting. You Do Life.’”

For information call 615-503-9770 or visit https://nashvillesouth.certapro.com/.

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About CertaPro Painters

Founded in 1992, Audubon, Pennsylvania-based CertaPro Painters is the largest painting company in North America. With more than 350 independently owned and operated franchises worldwide, CertaPro provides a customer-driven painting experience for both residential and commercial properties that is unparalleled in the industry. The company’s stellar service and proven business system have made CertaPro North America’s most referred painting company. For more information, visit www.certapro.com