Real Estate Matters

This information is reposted from the Spring 2011 St. Thomas Magazine.

Ron Peltier is Chairman and CEO of Home Services of America, Inc., a member of the University of St. Thomas Board of Trustees and co-chair of the UST Real Estate Advisory Board.  

When Ron Peltier starred as the center for the St. Paul Johnson and Minnesota Gopher hockey teams, he had a simple goal every time he laced up his skates: He wanted to win.

When Peltier, fresh out of graduate school and three years of teaching, decided to try his hand at real estate, he had a simple goal every time he met with customers: He wanted to buy and sell houses.

And when Peltier became chief executive officer, and later chairman, of what now is the nation’s second-largest residential real estate brokerage firm, he had a simple goal when faced with the opportunity for growth: He wanted to make the right deal for the right reason. (more…)