Teresa Carter Chalsma

After graduating from Radford University in 1987 with a BS degree in Business/Marketing, I spent the next 8 years loving advertising sales for various newspapers—The News Virginian in Waynesboro, VA, The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, VA, The Yorktown Crier in Yorktown, VA and The Virginian Pilot in Norfolk, VA.

Somewhere in the middle of all that I met the man of my
dreams when I went to sell him an ad for a Martial Arts School he was opening. My sales persistence paid off and we got married in 1990.

Brian Chalsma and I have been married for almost 23 years.
In 1994 I went to work in our own businesses – Chalsma Contracting.

In 1998, Brian and I started The Roofing Company, Inc. with Staci Hicks and built it to be the brand name it is in the Hampton Roads Virginia Market.

In 2005, We started The Remodeling Company with Pete Johnson and built it to the level of a premier remodeling firm.

In 2011 we merged The Roofing and Remodeling Company to share our expertise’s.

What I like most about what I do is that I don't think most of our employees realize how serious I take the importance of their life and that they become family. At the same time that can sometimes hurt. You may see someone almost as your child/sister/brother but they may only see you as a job.
I see my role in the company as more of the protector. The one that makes sure that everything is OK. If people feel like that have a "no judgment" free zone place to be and are able to work and try to achieve the common goal together, they can be more productive.

I love to take my girls to all of their activities. We have lots of fun going to swim meets and dance competitions which are to include a "Mom Road Concert of the Best of the 80's!" to include the old hip hop.

We have 3 girls who are very active in church, swimming and dance. We enjoy spending time with our family.

If I'm ever asked advice about what I tell my girls or quotes it would be this, "I will great each day with love in my heart!" Phil 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
The best advice is hold your head high and walk in a room like you own it. You are a great person and you deserve the best that life as to offer but sometimes life doesn't give it --you have to go take it. So go after it and work for that blessing you deserve.