Rose, a sales associate, joined the Alabama Realty team in May of 2001. Combining her love of the Island, her knowledge of the area and her commitment to service, Rose is ready to assist you in finding the "PERFECT" Island home. A native of the Chicago suburbs, she began here career in the Floral Industry and has earned an Associate Degree in Ornamental Horticulture and a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration and Tourism. While working on privately owned motor yachts, she has traveled extensively through out the Caribbean, The Central American Coast, The Mediterranean and the East Coast.

After meeting the love of her life Jack Gaines, the couple settled on Dauphin Island. She has owned and operated the Harbor Lights Inn on Dauphin Island. Rose began her real estate career in 2000 and Jack runs their charter fishing hatteras the "QUEST". When Jack isn't fishing, Rose enjoys cruising the sparkling waters of the Sound and Gulf of Mexico. Rose says, "The Island is a wonderful place, quiet and beautiful. When you get out on the water, that is when you fall in love. There is a quality of life on Dauphin Island, you find impossible to explain. You have to experience it."