Elliott Jenkins
Owner, Chief Financial Officer, Hamlet Homes
Murray, UT 84107
Phone (801) 281-2223
Property Types
Land, Residential, Homes
Markets
Salt Lake City
Bio
Elliott is the oldest of the 4 partners, having been born on the 24th of July in 1965. Growing up in Utah, he thought the fireworks were just for his birthday. He is the youngest of 5 children and was raised by a single mother. His oldest sister is 18 years older than him. He was born the year she graduated from high school. His brother is 15 years older and didn’t know his mom was pregnant until she was on her way to the hospital.
He had a great life growing up in Springville, Utah, living in the same house until he graduated a Red Devil from Springville High School in 1983. He left that fall for the dorm life at the University of Utah. That was the beginning of 21 moves over the next 14 years, including stops in Seoul, South Korea, Gaithersburg, Maryland, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and ending in Draper where he has lived in the same house for the past 22 years.
He and his wife Andrea met in junior high. There is some debate about exactly when and where this happened, however. Andrea remembers him in 8th grade. Elliott remembers first meeting in 9th grade when, according to Andrea, she had “developed” over the summer. They dated through high school and then on and off for another 5 years before Andrea finally made him commit. They were married in 1988. They have 4 children (3 girls and 1 boy) ranging in age from 22 to 30 and 5 grandchildren (3 girls and 2 boys) ranging in age from 18 months to 8 years.
Elliott likes the outdoors. One of his favorite activities is mountain biking, especially in the deserts of Southwest Utah. Another activity he has recently found again is skiing. Fun fact: he actually majored in skiing the first winter at the U. This was back in the days when you could ski weekdays for $5.00 with a student ID. Those days are long gone, but the skiing is still good. He has found it is only 30 minutes from the office to Solitude, so don’t be surprised if you can’t find him in the office if it’s snowing outside.
Elliott graduated from the U in 1990 with a BS in Accounting. He’s been BS’ing about accounting ever since. He wanted to be an attorney, but after 7 years, a wife, and a baby, he decided to give the accounting thing a try. Who really wants to be an attorney anyway? He went to work right after graduation for a Fortune 500 company in Southern California. After working there for a couple of years, he decided he needed to get some letters behind his name (MBA or CPA). The CPA route seemed to fit better so he studied for the CPA exam and got a job at KPMG, one of 8, at the time, world-wide accounting firms. After working there for a year, he and Andrea decided it was time to get out of California and headed to Las Vegas with their two oldest children, Brynn and Derek. He worked for another of the Big 8 firms, Arthur Anderson, in Vegas for 3 years, leaving in 1997 to become the CFO for a local homebuilder. Courtney and Danielle (Dani) were born in Las Vegas. He started working for the local homebuilder just in time to tell them they were bankrupt. That led to a move to Utah and several jobs in the construction industry over the next 11 years. During this time, he was the Controller for Layton Construction Company and was a founding shareholder in another commercial contractor called SIRQ, which was started in 2004 with a bunch of former Layton guys.
He started at Hamlet in May 2009 with Michael Brodsky telling him that he may only be here for 30 days before the banks shut the whole operation down. It was 30 days at a time until September 2011 when they reached a final agreement with their lenders and had officially survived the Great Recession. He worked with Michael, Phil, Jon, and others over the next several years rebuilding Hamlet Homes until, in January 2017, he was able to buy the company along with Barry, Jon, and Phil. Buying the company, working with his three partners, and the rest of the Hamlet team has been the best part of his career. He looks forward to many more years with the Hamlet Family.
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