• Mark is a native Californian born in the San Gabriel Valley. He was educated at the University of California graduating with a degree in Economics. While at UCI Mark was the Most Valuable Player on the basketball team for the first two years of UCI’s existence.

    His real estate career spans over 40 years starting at Coldwell Banker as an Industrial and Investment broker. Following his move to Sacramento in 1969 Mark became involved in the development of shopping centers, offices and residential subdivisions. He also started his ranching operation in Wilton, CA.

    Mark and his wife, Abbie, own Five Star Land & Livestock. Together they have one of the most respected Angus Bull Sales in the West.

    He has been involved politically with the cattle industry in his various positions within both the purebred and commercial industries. He was President and a Board member of the western States Angus Association as well as a Past President of the California Cattlemen’s Association.

    Mark also is involved with his community as a member of the Elk Grove Rotary club and was a member of the Sacramento County Day School Board of Trustees.

     

    Why should you choose to work with Mark and Ryan?

     

    • We aren’t “just real estate people.”  We own and operate a purebred Angus seedstock herd, and our family has been in the beef business for 101 years.  We have calluses on our hands and know the ins and outs of running a cattle operation (but that doesn’t mean we’ve stopped learning either).
    • Most real estate brokers show up at the office at 9:00AM and go home at 5:00PM, and sit in their office the whole time in between then.  We are out and about, pounding the pavement (or in our case, pounding the dirt and grass) looking for business.  We believe in face to face contact, and getting out into the market personally is the best way to do that.
    • We are the kind of the guys who take the “Code of the West” to heart.  If we shake your hand and look you in the eye, you can rest assured that there is no B.S. going on.  While we do appreciate the “old school” way of doing things, we are also very up to date when it comes to technology and exposure.
    • Mark offers over 40 years of real estate experience, and Ryan offers a “boots on the ground” mentality of doing a lot of the grunt work that needs doing, all the while learning from Mark.
    • Mark is a past California Cattlemen’s Association president, a member of the Rancheros Vistadores, and a member of the California Farm Bureau.  Ryan is a past California Young Cattlemen’s Committee Chairman, member of the California Farm Bureau, and is an alumnus of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity, a professional agricultural fraternity.  No one has more connections and a bigger address book than we do.  NO ONE.
    • We utilize many different ways of selling your property or finding you a new one.  We can sell a good ranch without ever putting a single advertisement online or in a publication, or we can advertise all over the place, it all depends on how you, as our client, want to go about it.
    •  We go to bat 100% for our clients.  We will turn over every rock to find you the right piece of farm or ranch ground, or to find you the perfect Buyer for your property.