Meet Matt Magnus! Matt is the owner of Lanier HVAC Services and is married to Bethany and the couple has two children; Mary Beth, 4, and Mark, 6.
After working for many years for his family’s business, Matt opened his own HVAC company about 17 months ago.
“I like it, there’s different stresses but I do like it. We’ve been blessed with a lot of opportunities, God has blessed us with a lot of work. When I left my family’s company, I wasn’t sure what I was going to do but a lot of opportunities opened and fell into place. It was God, it was not me,” he said.
We want to thank Matt for sitting down with us recently and telling us a little more about his life and love of Hall County.
Question: What lead you to your current career?
Answer: “I went to Western Carolina University and majored in construction management and I worked for a couple GCs out of college, I worked for my family company for a while and then I started my own company…17 months ago.”
Q: What is your favorite restaurant in Hall County and what do you like to get there?
A: “My son has celiac…and my wife has become a wonderful gluten free cook, so even though I used to love lots of restaurants, her cooking would have to be my favorite now.”
Q: Who’s the most interesting person that you have met in Hall County? 
A: “I would have to say that it’s the person I admire the most, my grandfather, Loyd Strickland. He started Crystal Farms and sold it, the interchange is named after him in Oakwood. He was a man of God and a loving person and very successful but you would never know it. He wouldn’t drive a Cadillac because he thought it was too showy and when he died you found out more things that he had accomplished and done. Then obviously my dad because of his ethics and hard work.”
Q: If you could travel anywhere in the world right now, where would you go?
A: “Probably either Augusta National to play golf, and there’s a big ‘if’ there to even get on the golf course, or to play all the the British courses. I’m a big golf fan and was playing at Chattahoochee when I was 5 years old.”
Q: What is your favorite thing about Hall County?
A: “My wife and two kids. I moved away and said I would never come back to Gainesville and then I met my wife and I wanted to come back with my wife and start a family.”
Q: What former local business makes you the most nostalgic?
A: “The Cake Box, Gibsons and Big Star. I got cheese grits at the Cake Box and then of course, The Collegiate.”
Q: Where do you see yourself in five or 10 years?
A: “Continue with a successful company, we don’t want to grow the company too large and continue a close relationship with God and always being a better parent and husband.”
Q: What three words mean “home” to you?
A: “Gainesville, Thompson Bridge and Chattahoochee Golf Course.” 
The Faces of Hall County is a project to showcase the amazing people that live in our community. If you would like to nominate an interesting person to be featured please email babernathy@gonorton.com.