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Born in San Francisco and after some formative years spent in San Francisco's Noe Valley and Richmond Districts, I moved with my family to San Mateo where I graduated from Hillsdale High School in 1963. From there, I attended the University of California at Berkeley majoring in Anthropology and graduating with a B.A. degree in 1967. Immediately thereafter, I became an American Peace Corps Volunteer for more than two years, stationed in a village in South India working with local farmers on increasing food production. Later I worked for several years in a consumer organization as a fund raiser. Subsequently I spent many years working for a labor union representing the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center hospital workers. My responsibilities here included negotiating, organizing, and public communication. From there I moved into the field of real estate in 1995, starting out as a real estate sales person and then obtaining my real estate broker's license in 1998.

In addition to my real estate business, I volunteer some of my time to serve on the Daily Californian Education Foundation Board of Directors, a non-profit organization made up of former student journalists at the University of California at Berkeley. The Education Foundation helps with fundraising and education of the student journalists who work on the Daily Californian, the student newspaper at the University of California at Berkeley. The Daily Californian is an independent student run newspaper founded in 1871 and is distributed to the students of the University of California at Berkeley and to many of the residents of Berkeley, as well. Currently, I am involved with other board members in establishing an endowment to provide a permanent source of ongoing funding for the Daily Californian. For fun, Mary, my wife, and I like to travel, watch movies, read books, and spend time with family and friends.

I have been with Frank Howard Allen Realtors since 1998.  Frank Howard Allen Realtors has been in business since 1910 and today has over twenty offices and more than 500 sales agents throughout Marin, Sonoma, Napa, and San Francisco counties. 

There are many qualities and skills that go into being an excellent real estate professional - integrity, in-depth community and market knowledge, marketing savvy, effective negotiation skills and a high-quality professional network, all of which are hallmarks of how I work.

That said, in my experience as a San Francisco and Bay Area agent, I've also found that providing the very best service is essentially about putting my clients first. This means keeping myself accessible, being a good listener as well as a good communicator, and responding quickly to your needs.

This "client first" philosophy has always been my approach and it requires me to continually improve my skills and ways of doing business. In addition, I've found that the latest technologies are enabling me to do everything I've always done, only much more quickly and efficiently. They've also helped me to extend the range of services I provide to my clients.

So when you decide that you'd like to buy or sell a home in the San Francisco or the Bay Area, please contact me.