Born 1959 in Seattle, Washington and raised in Portland, Oregon to a family of business people. My grandfather taught high school in Lewiston, Idaho and Junior College in Centralia Washington. My father retired as President of American Steel, his older brother retired as President of Boeing Commercial. Three sisters as such: older sister retired from Chrysler, younger sister works for Intel and my other older sister married well. Investor in San Diego and Real Estate • Owned and operated, bought and sold five apartment buildings 4 homes, 35 units in San Diego. Currently Owns: • 20 Units, “Talmadge Palms” in Talmadge, San Diego, CA. • 10% of a 550-acre development project in Costa Rica • Four units in Salt Lake City, Utah. • 33% of Five units in Portland, OR. • “Columbia Shores”, 41,500 square feet Single Story office building at 501 SE Columbia Shores Way, Vancouver, WA University of Oregon, 1982 • Finance & Economics Engineered Components, Inc, 1983 to 1987 • Architectural Metal Roofing & Metal Building Components Division of Fortune 500 Company Ceco. 1983 Inside Sales. 1984-5 Manager- California Plant startup. 1985-7 Outside Sales – Start up Southern CA territory. Cal-Prop Management, Inc, 1987 to present • Founded May, 1987 by Rick Thornton • Currently manages 1710 units comprised of single-family homes, individual condominiums, apartments and commercial • Twenty-seven full time employees and six part time. • Created, wrote and published the “Property Owner” Newsletter from 1999 to 2003. • Licensed General Contractor & Plumber. CA- • 15-person maintenance & construction team. • Designed and implemented a program to gut, remodel and fully re-position older beach apartments for average cost of $50,000 per unit. Completed nine buildings over four year period with average cost of $350,000 per building. • Created website www.cal-prop.com in 1998. The first web site in the country with a real time automated rental list interfacing with vertical market property management software.