The Legend of Joe Carter
After returning home to South Carolina, Joe began his career in real estate. He worked at a construction company in Hilton Head before being hired by Chicora and obtaining his real estate license. In 1974, Joe was recruited to work for Sands Investments, which was looking for someone with construction and real estate experience and with a pilot’s license. Joe worked with Sands for twenty years and eventually became its director of development. In 1999, Joe and two partners, dear friend Rusty Helm and Joe McGroarty, opened their own commercial brokerage firm, Keystone Commercial Realty. Over the span of nearly forty years, he developed innumerable condominiums, hotels, golf courses, shopping plazas, and residential communities, from Atlantic Beach to Hilton Head. Examples of his projects include Sands Village, Gator Hole Plaza, the Grand Prix race tracks, and Pawleys Plantation.
