Become an AJ Shades Dealer in Grimes County

Grimes County is Texas blues country with a lake in the middle of it: Navasota, the county seat, guards the deep blues heritage of Mance Lipscomb, the songster whose music put this corner of East Texas on the map, while the historic Fanthorp Inn stands as the 1850s stagecoach stop where travelers once rested on the road between Houston and the interior. This is a county with a story, and buyers here respond to a brand that has one too.

Gibbons Creek Reservoir gives the county its waterfront market: lake properties and lake-view homes where the shade conversation is about glare bouncing off the water, long western exposures, and outdoor living rooms that run from spring through fall. Motorized power screens are the natural specification here, cutting glare and insects while vanishing when the view matters more than the shade.

The county sits directly between the Bryan-College Station metro and the Houston growth machine, which means exurban spillover is the economic engine: ranch and timber land converting to larger-lot new builds, buyers arriving with acreage and expectations, and commercial buildings in historic downtown Navasota being reimagined for a new generation of tenants. New roofs mean new shade budgets, and they arrive in clusters.

The historic downtown commercial market is its own opportunity: Navasota’s storefronts and facades sit in a streetscape where the wrong awning looks like vandalism and the right one looks like restoration. Full-cassette retractable systems retract into clean housings that preserve the historic character, a pitch that works on both Main Street committees and the building owners who answer to them.

Here is how the map divides: our factory crews install in Southern California only, across San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties. Everywhere else, the dealer is the installer of record. In Grimes County that means you sell the product and run each job through your own crew or trusted local contractors, with our training, measuring guidance, and technical support behind every installation.