Like millions of others, Selleck moved to the LA area from the Midwest shortly after World War II. And, as Bing Crosby crooned in a popular song at the time, he made the San Fernando Valley his home.
Selleck hammered out a living in the Post War years by selling and leasing commercial real estate. "I don't think people realize that he came out here... with nothing but the family car and the GI bill," says one of his sons, actor Tom Selleck. "He bought an 1,100-sf house for $11,000 and he risked everything on a straight commission job."
It was a gamble that paid off. The elder Selleck slowly rose through the ranks at the old Coldwell Banker Commercial Group to become a senior vice president and director of corporate communications. He left the company in 1987 to form a Westlake Village-based development firm known as Selleck Co.
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