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Ron
Porter (CA DRE#00893599) majored in Dairy Industries
and Engineering at Iowa State College. He worked several years
in milk processing plants, including making butter, cheese,
ice cream, powdered milk and pasteurizing processes. He is a
20 year hi-tech manufacturing manager retiree from Memorex and
Verbatim, and is now the manager of the Bay Area office of HomeBuyer
Agents, Inc. Ron was an ordinary real estate agent for ten years
with Contempo Realty, of which he was a buyer's agent for the
last half of that period. He started practicing buyer brokerage
with Altas Realty in 1995. In February 1996 he helped start
up the area's first exclusive buyer agency, Buyer's Advocate
Realty, in San Jose. That was followed in 1998 by 3 years with
Buyer Vision Realty with a virtual office in Sunnyvale. In 2001
Ron partnered with HomeBuyer Agents, Inc. out of San Diego to
head up their current San Jose office. Ron is happily married
with his wife, Beverly. He has 7 children, 5 grandchildren,
and 4 grandchildren on the way. Two children at home are their
twin boys age 9. Three children are in California, 1 in Idaho
and 1 in Colorado. Ron has 7 brothers and sisters, 1 in California,
1 in South Dakota and 5 in Iowa. He has 17 nephews and neices
and several grand-nephews and neices, some in California, Wyoming,
South Dakota and Texas, but mostly in Iowa.
Ron helps his agents provide Exclusive Buyer Agency services
in the 7 counties of Monterey, San Benito, Santa Cruz, Santa
Clara, San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa and occasionally San
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