Profile
I have often said that my greatest accomplishment is and remains to be that I have been married to the same woman for over 51 years. Dr. Sandra M. Weiss, my wife, is a professor Emeritus at Neumann University and still teaches there after 47 years. We make our home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and are both lifetime residents of the area.
We have two beautiful children that we are very proud of. Our daughter, Melissa, received her MBA [Cum Laude] from Penn State University and is currently manages our rental properties.
Our son, Tom, is a Magna Cum Laude Graduate of Lehigh University and has his CPA, Masters in Tax and runs our tax office.
Professional Profile
Upon graduation from Villanova University, I began working as a Certified Public Accountant while attending Temple University Law School. After graduating and passing the Bar Exam, I became the youngest person in Pennsylvania to be both a CPA and a Lawyer. I then attended New York University Law School and was awarded an LLM in Taxation. I formed my own firm in 1985, concentrating in foreclosure and tax sale purchases for my own account, as well as real estate development, while expanding my growing real estate and tax law practice. I am the only practicing lawyer in Pennsylvania that I am aware of who is also a Certified Public Accountant and a Real Estate Broker/appraiser. I also started my own Real Estate Brokerage firm and Real Estate Title Agency. In this way, I am able to offer a full service program for real estate investors and homeowners, unparalleled in Pennsylvania.
I have handled more than 20,000 tax assessment appeals for individual properties in the Delaware Valley, likely more than any other attorney in the area. I have handled properties as unique as parking spaces, golf courses, bowling alleys, car dealerships, office buildings, contaminated office buildings, vacant lots, farms, houses, duplexes, condominiums and townhouses. The largest was a 950 unit $180 million townhouse community, and the smallest was a vacant lot designated as open space in a homeowners’ community.
In 1998 I became a partner in an organization that planned and developed the construction and operation of a $250 million, 557 Megawatt Cogenerating Gas Turbine Electric Power Plant in Berks County, Pennsylvania, known as the Ontelaunee Plant.
I have been on the Board of Delta Community Supports, Inc. for over 40 years. Delta is a 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization that aims to empower individuals with developmental disabilities to live fulfilling lives through a wide-range of community-based services.
I am a Knight of the Hospitaller Order of the Knights of St. John of Malta and have received a Papal Blessing from Pope Benedict XVI for my work with the Order. See Papal Blessing.