Confessions of a Street Broker: Four Decades of Deals with Floyd Bates

Jeremy Mercer welcomes Floyd Bates, co-founder of Bates & Myers, for a conversation spanning nearly four decades in commercial real estate.From his early days working on the railroad to weathering the oilfield downturn of the ’80s, Floyd’s journey brought him back to Texas—where in 1991, he helped launch a firm that now operates across DFW and Ellis County.They talk about what it takes to build something meaningful, the principles that have guided him, and why perseverance and purpose still matter.