Mitchell has been a fixture at Indian Mountain Lakes since the beginning. He started out cutting grass and painting lot markers for his father, Leon R. Ross, who started the development in 1960. In 1975, Mitchell took over as Real Estate Broker for the company and has been consistently outselling every other real estate agent for each of those 50 years. Mitchell has sold thousands of properties during that time and has become the go-to expert on Indian Mountain Lakes real estate.