Stephen M. Carpenter is the sole managing member of Falkor Holdings LLC and the TREC Licensed Broker of record with the Broker License #: 9014814 and Personal License #: 581285.

Falkor.Rentals provides a best-in-class, full-service, turn-key property management solution for passive income generation to help you achieve financial independence with your vacation rental, home, condo or residence.Our software and technology empowers us to increase your home's exposure on 30+ websites globally while pulling their pricing data to help maximize your return on investment and passive profits. Our team & solution offers:1| $5,000,000 insurance policy for every stay2| 7 background checks for every guest3| Noise, smoke & guest count monitoring4| Wireless check-in & check-outs5| 24/7 guest communication, inquiry & booking support6| We schedule all cleaning, maintenance & repairs7| We schedule trash collection take out and back in8| Automated payments9| World-class guest portal10| Real time booking and financial reporting11| Full Tax services and moreFalkor Holdings LLC is the real estate brokerage company that is located in Austin, Texas with a dba as Falkor.Rentals for our property management.We've been in real estate for 17 years with 13 years as a licensed Texas real estate broker, property management company, SuperHost on Airbnb with 78 reviews, 4.8 stars and 4.5 years of employment at HomeAway, VRBO & Expedia as an automation engineer automating tests for all 28 websites globally.Our platform sources to Falkor.Rentals, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, Booking.com, HomeToGo, VRBO, Google, Expedia, LeaveTown.com, Holidu, Rent By Owner, Hopper, Plum Guide, Agoda, Got2Go, Hotels.com, VaycayMyWay & Bungalow Specials and 12 other websites.Your home can be live with a forecasted revenue projections in just 5 simple steps:1| Schedule a Video Call To Discuss Falkor.Rentals 2| Sign Our Property Management Agreement3| Add A Wireless Lock To Your Property.4| We Will Take Professional Photos Of Your Home5| We Onboard Your Property To Our Platform.We look forward to the opportunity to assist you with your journey to financial independence.

Owner & Co-Founder of Austin Emerald FC a professional & semi-professional indoor soccer team. Currently playing its inaugural 2024-2025 pro season in the Major Arena Soccer League in the MASL 3 South Division. Played its inaugural 2021-2022 semi-pro season in the Professional Arena Soccer League(PASL). Played its inaugural 2022-2023 pro season in the Major League Indoor Soccer(MLIS) & second semi-pro season in PASL. Played its third 2023-2024 pro season in MLIS & its inaugural semi-pro season in the MLIS2. This soccer team was created to become the premier Austin professional indoor soccer team with goals of expanding to outdoor, co-ed and women's clubs. In the future, we plan to move the team to our city called Emerald Island just east of Austin, Texas to a temporary event venue being the first 8K professional sports stadium in America and then transition in to a 80,000 seats sports stadium. We plan to develop a league to leverage the nearby underutilized East Metropolitan Park which is a recreational area with sports fields, disc golf course, fishing piers, a pool & a playground. This will allow us to develop a premier soccer club for all ages and genders with a path to progress into professional teams of all types.

Chairman of the Board of the Emerald Island Public Facilities Corporation which is a subboard of the SH 130 Municipal Management District. The EIPFC supports the Emerald Island projects and its land in the SH130 MMD district.

Board Member on the Texas Workforce Housing Foundation which is a Subboard of the SH 130 Municipal Management District. The TWHPFC is helping solve the affordable housing issues in Texas surrounding the SH130 Toll Road east of Austin, Texas. The SH130 MMD supports the Emerald Island project among other initiatives in the region. https://tehpfc.org/

- Managing Director, Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Datacenters & Communications of Central Texas Airport Holdings, Inc. & GREENPORT® International Airport and Technology Center- GREENPORT® is a 8,200'-10,000' private general aviation reliever airport for the Central Texas Region that has no FAA or TSA oversight, 100% private developer controls, fully self-sustainable, private onsite microgrid for all private utilities including energy generation, energy storage, CHHP, geothermal, water, wastewater, fiber (including all business/tenant services provided by owning the fiber), rainwater, waste-to-energy, fuel, etc. - Translate business & prospective client needs into requirements for our information and communication technology- Primary decision-maker for strategies and policies relating to IT systems- Real Estate Broker for both GREENPORT® & Central Texas Airport Holdings, Inc.- Software Engineer, Graphic Designer, Corporate IT Admin- Sales of Industrial, Commercial, Corporate, Data-Center, Cryptocurrency, Energy Generation, Energy Storage, Manufacturing, Mix-Use, Corporate Headquarters, Government, Military, Hospitality, Hangar Sites, etc.- Develop and maintain the website, blog and social media (Twitter, Facebook)

- Assemblage, Entitlement and Co-Development of a 1,053 acre private city called Emerald Island just east of Austin, Texas- Emerald Island is a new global destination entertainment city with world class hospitality & entertainment attractions while being fully self-sustainable and providing a repeatable model that will solving many of the world's social issues, national security initiatives, energy generation and storage goals, autonomy initiatives that provides a platform to blend our physical reality experiences with those in the metaverse, augmented reality, virtual reality, online event attendances, etc. with physical people and in game avatars. - Real Estate Broker, Economic Development, Hotels, High rises, Multifamily, Office, Retail, Data Centers, Cryptocurrency, Civic, Entertainment, Attractions, Lagoon, Music, Venues, Festivals,

Carpenter & Associates, Inc. (C&A), a Real Estate Company, was founded in Austin, Texas in 1971 by Charles B. Carpenter who mentored the 2nd and 3rd generations of family leadership. For over 42 years, C&A’s extraordinary accomplishments have resulted from combining our “create your own market” business approach with investigative market research, financial analysis and regulatory/political risk assessment. C&A seeks “win-win” collaboration and partnership with the local communities in which we invest and build; often leading with privately planned, funded, developed, and operated public-use infrastructures. - Commercial, Industrial & Residential Brokerage, Development and Investment- Licensed Real Estate Broker | TREC, ABOR, MLS, NAR- Brokered $215,000,000 in commercial, residential and acreage properties- Listed $500,000,000 in commercial, residential and acreage properties- Consult regularly with the CEO, Jim Carpenter, and all team members for crucial decisions on timelines, strategic initiatives, existing and potential partnerships, and negotiation tactics for major commercial agreements- Manage the Brokerage Firm's Commercial, Industrial & Residential Real Estate Development, Investment & Brokerage- Assemble, Entitle, Developer the shovel-ready $9B Emerald Island & $10B GREENPORT® International Airport & Technology Center projects East of Austin- Handle TREC and ABOR Sales Contracts for transactions- Trained and managed multiple interns and sales agents- Built and maintain the company website www.carpenteraustin.com- Create sales packages, aerials & presentations for all agents & partnerships

UI Automation Engineer II for the Property Team tasks include:- Redesign and rebuild our existing Ruby automation test suite in JavaScript using Webdriver.io, TeamCity, SauceLabs, Github, NPM, Gulp, ESLint- Designed the suite to run on all testing environments localhost:8080, stage & remotely on SauceLabs- Designed two test suites and configs to support the property & search teams.- Setup the TeamCity project and configuration to build & run our test suite- Setup SauceLabs to run our test suite remotely on their cloud-based platform for automated testing of web and mobile applications. - Setup the test suite to run on all supported browsers and devices. For desktop, that runs on chrome, firefox, safari, internet explorer on all supported versions on Windows & iOS. For mobile, that includes iPhone, iPad, Android.- Create and Maintain Jira Epic with stories for all work done.- Use Jira Kanban for the development process- Maintain a passing build in TeamCity for the new automated tests

The Traveler Experience team at HomeaAway.com develops and maintains 27 HomeAway sites including 21 international variations, 3 HA luxury sites, 3 Homelidays sites, VacationRentals.com. UI Automation Engineer II for the Traveler Experience Team tasks include:- Develop UI automated tests in Ruby over 3 environment's and 27 HomeAway owned website's- Enforce an agile automation development process utilizing our Jira Kanban board- Build selenium branches using QuickBuild which is integrated with TeamCity- Monitor our selenium coverage daily in TeamCity and strive to keep all brands / tests passing- Investigate and fix any failing selenium tests in Ruby utilizing RubyMine & GitHub- Work with developers to fix any new selenium changes prior to their branches going into Master- Monitor our production release candidate and notify the team if there are any automation failures that should block that release

The Traveler Home Team is tasked with creating a great experience, across the web and native mobile apps, for logged-in travelers. We will be unifying HomeAway & VRBO's existing traveler experience by developing new features and improving upon exiting features.My Quality Assurance Lead & Software Engineer II tasks include:- Develop the test plan and acceptance criteria in Jira for all new stories- Handle the manual & automated testing of all new & existing features- Write the Ruby Automation for all of the new features that will be consumed by both HomeAway and VRBO- Attend the Traveler Home PLT's to provide QA insight to the organization

The Global Traveler team which maintains and improves 27 HomeAway sites including 21 international variations, the HA luxury site, 3 Homelidays (HD) brands and VacationRentals.comMy Quality Assurance Software Engineer I tasks include:- Designing, developing, & maintaining HomeAway automated tests in Ruby- Analyzing and developing solutions for complex automation for multiple applications- Building, refactoring and demonstrating highly available automation scripts- Agile development processes- We use Git, Github, Teamcity and Rubymine- Test my new code across 27 HomeAway sites on Stage and Prod environments to ensure the new coverage will work on every brand

The Global Traveler team maintains and improves 27 HomeAway sites including 21 international variations, the HA luxury site, 3 Homelidays (HD) brands and VacationRentals.comMy Quality Assurance Manual Tester tasks included:- Enforce an agile development process utilizing a Kanban board with daily production deployments- Build story/defect branches using Git integrated with TeamCity- Work with developers to understand application features and write acceptance tests- Deploy stories/defects to test & stage servers and then manually test them on multiple browsers & devices- Run and investigate any selenium and unit test failures across multiple sites/brands- Record the findings of our manual and automated test results in test cases- Take turns preparing/coordinating the daily production releases and inspecting the production selenium results- Developed some fixes in Java, Javascript, CSS, SCSS, & Bootstrap for some production defects

The North American Tier II Tech Support team supports the customer service department by handling escalated customer Salesforce cases. We help solve computer issues, browser related issues, merchant services account issues, owner and traveler account issues as well as verify and report new defects to the correct internal HomeAway teams.My Tier II Tech Support tasks included:- Fix browser & computer issues, submit new product defects, verify that fixed defects are in production- Worked with customers via email, phone calls and WebEx sessions to resolve their browser, computer & account issues

- Prepare client computers for server changes and upgrades from the network- Upgraded server after removing previous outdated server from network- Connected remote VPN, office printer, external hard drives and VOIP phones- Reformat and upgrade client computers with required software- Provide after-hours on-site and remote technical support for any technical issues that arise such as: migrating client computers Microsoft Exchange email inbox from server to client computers, fixing fragmented packet issues between VOIP remote offices and local client phones

- Built and maintain the website www.securedclimatestorage.com- Solely responsible for all hardware and software decisions- Assembled and networked all technology for all locations including the main leasing office & USPS postal center- Provide 24/7 On-call IT and Technology support for all locations resolving problems such as credit card processing issues, database recovery, reformatting hardware, upgrading hardware, upgrading and installing all operational software- Resolve issues either remotely via self-installed software or on-site based on the issue on a case-by-case basis

- In my free time I managed the men's soccer program and coached the varsity team to two playoff appearance's- Duties include program management, scheduling, practice preparation, inventory tracking, and team motivation