Specialization
I specialize in representing and helping clients and customers with the identification, assessment, purchase and sale of single-family and multi-family residences, townhouses, condominiums and income property. My focus is the communities of Waltham, Lexington, Newton, Watertown, Westin, Lincoln, Framingham, Littleton/Acton and select areas of Cape Cod. My goal is to make each real estate transaction a rewarding event and positive experience for the forty-sixty people involved in the sale and purchase of a home or property.

I am actively involved in local and regional business and community affairs. I keep current of real estate values, the real estate market and real estate transactions in my primary service area.

Based on considerable experience in several communities and States, I collect insight, information and knowledge regarding the area's public and private schools, the job market(s), financing approaches, the economy, traffic patterns, mass transit, healthcare providers and government as it impacts homeowners and real estate investors.

Personal
I'm am an Iowa native having been born and raised in the town of Elberon, a small rural community (pop. 200) located forty miles west of Cedar Rapids. As a boy and young man, I worked in our family's retail bulk oil and auto and farm services business and for local farmers and merchants. My youth included high school, milking cows and making hay, playing baseball, delivering newspapers, looking for that "field of dreams", and searching for meaning beyond small town America.

In 1964, my "field of dreams" took me to Boston to earn a graduate degree at Boston College, live in Boston's rundown South End and become a member of "Red Sox nation".

My family and I have lived in Wellesley, Lexington, Burlington, Peabody and Waltham in MA; Morrisville, PA; several communities in New Jersey; Dallas, TX and Clearwater, FL. We have been seasonal residents of Harwich on Cape Cod.

Before graduating from high school, I volunteered for the military draft. I served in the US Army's Fourth Division and Army Reserve, earned GI Bill benefits and graduated from Coe College (IA) with a BA in Economics, Boston College with a MSW in community planning and community organization and MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Continuing Learning & Work Experience
My pathway of continuing learning and education includes real estate, finance, public speaking, accounting and taxes, healthcare and housing for the elderly and families, entrepreneurship and the banjo.

My trail of career, volunteer activities and working includes Coleman & Sons REALTOR.GMAC, the United Community Service/United Fund of Cedar Rapids, IA; Linn Economic Action Project, Inc., IA; Health Planning Association of Mercer County, NJ; Cooper Hospital/Medical Center, Camden, NJ; Fair Share Housing Development Corp., Cherry Hill, NJ; NJ Cancer Research Commission, Trenton, NJ; Hospital Corporation of America Management Company, Boston & Nashville, TN; Coopers & Lyband, Boston; EmCare, Dallas, TX; The Sterling Group, Boston & Coral Gables, FL; Emergency Physicians Associates, Tampa, FL; Barnstable Venture Group, Cape Cod & Waltham, MA; and Healthy Communities Online, Waltham, MA.

My experience has given me a full appreciation for listening, communicating, anticipating roadblocks and setbacks, forthrightness, resourcefulness and getting the job done for customers and clients

Much of my life, work and personal rewards involve working with customers & clients, people with a dream or problem to be solved, real estate and economic development, and advocacy for issues and people that grab my attention and enthusiasm.

Current hobbies and interests include enjoying and spending time with Mary Jane, my wife, our daughters and their families; bicycling; shellfishing/clams; helping with our new North Waltham and Trapelo Road neighborhood association; my banjo; and volunteering with the Fernald League for Retarded Citizens, COFAR,and entrepreneurial and business organizations