Southwest Property Trust

301 Blanca Place / P.O. Box 4882

Pagosa Springs, Co. 81157

970-731-4421

F. Scott Tonges - President

Named among the top 25 commercial real estate brokers in the U.S. during his 8 years with the nations largest commercial brokerage firm (now CBRE – CB Richard Ellis) out of 1200 agents, Scott began his commercial real estate career in 1976. He has been involved in brokering real estate transactions involving every type of commercial income property: office buildings, shopping centers, apartments, medical buildings, industrial properties, and both full and limited service hotels. He spent one of his 7 years with CBRE (then Coldwell Banker Commercial) as vice president and regional director of apartment property marketing and was responsible for the training and activity of apartment investment brokers in Houston, Dallas, Miami-Ft Lauderdale, Atlanta, & Chicago.

In 1983, as CEO of Polestar Corp. he developed a 5-building, $3.2 million office building project in Houston.

In 1985, during the Houston oil down turn, Scott founded his own firm, Tonges-McKelvy, The firm was devoted to commercial and apartment property management. It grew from 2 persons to 100 employees between 1985 thru 1990. The firm managed 554, 507 SF of commercial properties and 1,867 units of apartments in 5 cities – Austin, Houston, Las Vegas, Dallas & San Francisco. Their clients included Texas Commerce Bank, Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co, Apple Bank for Savings (New York). In addition to management, the firm oversaw development of a Burger King and a Savings & Loan building for CB Institutional Fund and Friendswood Savings, respectively. He has exclusively represented many private investors and institutional investors in commercial transactions including the commercial real estate investment divisions of Deutsch Bank, Imperial Bank Canada, & Merrill Lynch-Hubbard.

After creation of Southwest Travel Coupons in 1991 ( hotel discount coupons for travelers) which was distributed in 5 states, he joined Grubb & Ellis (Albuquerque), the nations’ second largest commercial real estate brokerage firm. He was named as a Senior Associate there. In addition to investment sales in the southwest, he expanded his activity to focus on lodging property sales and has been involved in transactions across the country.

Today, Scott is involved with apartment and hotel brokerage in the southwest, assisting clients in 1031 tax exchange investments and portfolio development, and private investment in commercial and residential properties in the southwest. He is currently developing specialty residential brokerage offices in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Farmington & Durango.

He & his wife, Betty, have been licensed private pilots for 19 years . He is Sr Warden of the Trinity Anglican Church in Pagsoa Springs. He graduated from Trinity University (San Antonio, TX) with a B.S. degree in physics. He is a licensed real estate broker in New Mexico and Colorado and works through other licensees in other states on special assignments and is writing a guide book on commercial real estate. A packet of client letters is available upon request or toll free, 24 hours via fax-on-demand at 888-832-2851 then 2023 when prompted.