NHE manages more than 200 apartment communities and HOAs across the Carolinas. But it’s people, not property, at the forefront of the company’s mission.
“Everything we do is interacting with people, our residents, our owners. That’s the hard part and the most gratifying part,” says Taylor Davis, CEO and owner of the company founded decades ago by his father.
“It’s not complicated. We treat people the way we would want to be treated. My dad always said, ‘We’re not in the property management business, we’re in the people business.’ And that’s so true.”
Harris Davis Sr. started the company in 1969 in Orangeburg and named it N&H Enterprises (the initials of his wife’s name, Nancy, and his own).
At 13 years old, Taylor began working summers and some weekends, collecting litter at two properties the company managed – a shopping center and an apartment community for low-income senior citizens.
“I went between the two and just picked up trash,” Davis says.
Davis left Orangeburg to attend Furman University but returned after graduating in 1994. He moved the property management company to Greenville a few years later while working through the ranks. He bought the business from his parents in 2017, and his father died three years later.