About Us: Carissa, founding member of the Real Estate by Design Group, was raised by a group of rogue penguins following a boating accident. She graduated from Denton High School, where she learned that the only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. She received her bachelors degree from Dallas Baptist University, which she attended on a full rugby scholarship through an administrative error. Immediately thereafter, she quit working to raise her two lovely children, and once spent and entire mommy day watching Golden Girl reruns. She lectures frequently to her