About Us

ChangingStreets.com is about you the client and your interaction with all of our parts. As a whole we are group of boutique style firms with focus on using our knowledge and past successes and to provide you an unmatched real estate experience. 

We are a big family made up of different people in different places. We are Fathers, Mothers, Coaches, Volunteers, Marathoners, Stained Glass Makers, Educators and Students. We are in North Carolina, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada and when we are really lucky Hawaii. We are Programmers, Realtors, Assistants, Photographers, Marketing Wizards, Home Stagers, Loan Officers and Sign Installers.

None of us are all these but we all share a common trait, a desire to truly help people buy and sell homes.

At ChangingStreets.com® we love what we do and we do what we love. We are in a rapidly changing industry and we pride ourselves on keeping our clients ahead of the curve. We’ve got StreetSmarts. We’d love to go to work for you in buying or selling your next home.

The goal is simple—to raise the expectations of consumers. To empower buyers and sellers with information that will make the experience: Smart > Easy > Sane.

A great website can help you Identify possible homes, a StreetSmart agent can guide you through the process, it is both that make for the ideal experience.

Our consumer centric package includes, market facts, market analysis, community focus and the understanding your life is busy. Our job is to make your home buying or selling Smart, Easy, Sane.

Our industry focus is not to be disruptive to the current local practises but to team with local professionals that share our consumer centric vision and evolve the real estate industry.

ChangingStreets.com® was founded and created in Flint, Michigan by myself, Scott Hoyt, Mark Walmsley and Adam Abt. We believed a new, aggressive business could evolve and grow in the city Money magazine called the 275th (out of 300) best place to start a new business(not a great ranking!).

We are very proud to have grown faster than any other real estate company in Genesee County, Michigan. And now we are expanding outside the area, we currently have operations in Raleigh and Cary, North Carolina, Metro Detroit, Kalamazoo, Maui and many new markets planned. We as owners handle operations, and work with outstanding partners on designing, hosting, maintaining and improving the ChangingStreets.com  web presence. We are also active in the sales process, in that it enables us to constantly develop training and understand the needs of consumers and Realtors®.

Our Realtors® are the top producers in the area, MLS statistics prove our agents sell more on average than the agents at any other company. The key to their success, courtesy, knowledge, consistency, confidentiality and market savvy. We call this StreetSmarts.

The goals are simple—to raise the expectations of home sellers. To empower buyers and sellers with information that will make the experience: Smart > Easy > Sane.

www.ChangingStreets.com + Attentive, Focused StreetSmart Agents = Happy Consumer

 I invite you to contact me personally if you have any questions or comments. 

S. Scott Hoyt

Founder / Change, Evolution & Operations

Licensed Broker State of Michigan & North Carolina

For information on Joining ChangingStreets.com as a Broker or Area License Holder click here.

Our Leadership Team

 S. Scott Hoyt, Founder/CEO ChangingStreets.com

Scott has literally grown up in the housing industry. He started out by typing loan packages at his parent’s mortgage bank in fourth grade. Scott has unparalleled experience in the industry. He has performed every job in the mortgage industry on both the servicing, and origination sides (including two consecutive years originating over 1,000 loans per year). He has worked for a top five Real Estate Franchise as Vice President of Strategy, reporting directly to the CEO and has owned his own Real Estate firm for 10 years.

At ChangingStreets.com, Scott works with local managers, develops the strategic plan, and project manages technology development. Scott is also active in the buying/selling field as well. He manages two REO accounts and works on listings to keep sharp.

“Everything I do at ChangingStreets.com is meant to increase the consumer experience and be scalable. If my compass stays pointed in this direction it will allow both offices and agents to grow profitability beyond what they use to totally kick ass in today’s market place. We will never be able to compete in agent count with third generation huge companies, but we can provide a better consumer experience by being proactive and nimble, something today’s fifty year old companies cannot do, ever.”

-Scott Hoyt

David Nemer, Broker/Owner ChangingStreets.com  Advanced

Tim Lanphear, Owner ChangingStreets.com Advanced

David has also spent his entire life in the housing industry. He grew up in a family of builders and worked at the families building company Woodside Builders while in school. David went on  get a Degree in Construction Management from Michigan State University. David is a tireless worker with great market savvy. He not only is running and expanding his ChangingStreets.com markets he has a great deal of input into new product development and ChangingStreets.com strategy.

Tim started his career  with working a REO team in 2000 that became one of the largest in the United States closing over 500 transactions a year. Tim’s’ experience , energy and leadership have helped  his office grow over 50% since affiliating with ChangingStreets.com.

Ryan McFarlane, REO Specialist

Ryan manages our major foreclosure accounts, he  currently is oversees our Fannie Mae team and other major sources of REO business. Over the last three years Ryan and his team have built a very efficient system for managing properties  from delinquency to sale.  They have the capacity to handle over 800 properties in all phases of  foreclosure in over 8 counties in southeast MI and are currently working on a model for centralizing processing of reimbursements, inspections and property management in all counties.

Adam E. Abt, Co-Founder, Flint Market Leader

Adam has over 17 years experience in the real estate industry. Adam was quick out of the gate, winning  awards his first year at Re/Max and hasn’t looked back since. Adam is one of the biggest product innovators at ChangingStreets.com, he  is always taking the pulse of the market and finding solutions in the best interest of our clients. He is also an excellent trainer and salesman, still one of the areas to producing agents while leading the market center and managing his corporate duties. He is currently overseeing our Foreclosure Alternative Division.

Pat Oakes, President ,Flint Area Association of Realtors (again)

Pat is a dynamic  personality that has been a huge part of his market for over 20 years. Not only has Pat closed over $175,000,000 in real estate transactions (that is huge in a market with an average sales price of $100,000) he has closed more million dollar homes that anyone in his market. He is also sitting President of  the Flint Area Association of Realtors, for the second time. We are very proud to have a respected leader like Pat on our team and his input make our company better.