Laurel was born and raised in Statesboro, GA, and moved to The Grand Strand in the summer of 2020 with her husband, Matt, and their six kids (four sons, Caedmon, Landing, Bauer, Wilder, and twin daughters, Piper and Scout).

Laurel has always had a passion for homes, which started at an early age, as her mother dragged her all over south GA, looking at old homes for inspiration as they built their dream farmhouse. From then on, Laurel was house obsessed, constantly drawing floor plans, looking at books on architecture, and picking up real estate books in every town she went to. In college, Laurel worked as a title abstractor, for a title company. Laurel and her husband have renovated and sold fourteen of their own properties over the years, and are well versed in all sides of real estate, from buying, selling, flipping