Our company roots would begin taking form throughout the youth of RPI’s founder and President, Matt Odachowski. At age 9, Matt came face to face with the harsh reality of how devastating disasters can be. A defective stove created a fire that destroyed over 50% of his family’s home in Baltimore, MD. His family rebuilt the house by themselves and eventually sold it. Their new home would be a half built house in Harford County, MD, which was foreclosed on that his parents picked up at auction. Needless to say, his family built the other half and completely renovated the home. In years to come, the next family project would be a plot of land they bought in Ocean Pines, MD for $3500. Matt and family spent weeks in the summer and weekends throughout the winter to build the house from the ground up.

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Amongst all the building, Matt still maintained time to work other jobs. While high school was in session, he was cleaning carpets and working for Carpet Fair in Bel Air, MD. At 16, he had saved up just enough money for his dream car, a 64 ½ Mustang. Shortly after that, the gentleman he worked for at cleaning carpets told him he was going out of business and would sell him his carpet cleaning equipment. Matt found himself at a crossroad: his dream car or the carpet cleaning equipment. Needless to say, his new ride didn’t end up being the mustang, but was a red Chevette that could hold his equipment once the front passenger seat was out.