About Chairman D. Allen JohnsonD. Allen Johnson has been a Fort Lauderdale
resident since 1954. His first Real Estate purchase was a
small 2/1 home in the Progresso area for $7,995 with VA
payments of $63 per month. He shared the house with a
roommate who paid $75 per month. Johnson has bought and
sold for his own account homes, condos, co-ops, small
apartment buildings, and an athletic club that had 28
apartment hotel units.
He has had as many as 65 units and currently owns several
small apartment buildings through Prudential Properties
a real estate investment and management company he heads.
He has held a real estate license since 1968 making him
a Realtor Emeritus and has
been Vice President/Broker and Investment Property
Specialist with Anaconda Realty Company for several
years in the late 1970's and early 1980's, He also
published a newsletter-Income Property Advisor: a guide
to Income Property Investing and Management.
Johnson was a 1951 University of Maryland Business
Administration graduate and former U.S. Marine Corps
Captain. He started Pace Pools in 1956 as a one man
maintenance company. He built a small warehouse in
1956 for his :"start up" pool company. Gradually
acquired 11 additional lots and with several building
expansions and renovations later...created the Fort
Lauderdale headquarters for Pace Pools and 4 other
affiliated companies. He became Florida's largest pool
company and one of the 10 largest in the United States
in just 13 years...Building some 600 pools a year.
Web Author: Adiel Noel
Alvarez
Past Board Member-Broward County Board
of Rules and Appeals.
Past Member of Young Presidents
Organization.
Past President of Florida Swimming Pool
Industries Association.
Past President of 500 member Broward
Builders Exchange.
Past Regional Vice President and Director of
National Pool and Spa Institute.
Past Director and Member of the Executive
Association of Fort Lauderdale.
Past Director of Better Business Bureau of
South Florida.
Graduated 22nd in a class of 994-Officer
Candidate Course-U.S.M.C.-1951.
About Chairman D. Allen Johnson
Past Board Member-Broward County Board
of Rules and Appeals. 
