About Us

Macor Associates Inc. is the product of two guys from different times and different places, who came together in Phoenix, Arizona in 1988. Both were devoid of any business network in bustling, growing metropolitan Phoenix. To these two, Phoenix was a new frontier. One came to establish a new career; the other seeking a way to supplement income until full retirement became desirable or necessary. Both ended up as real estate licensed business salesmen with the same firm.

After the initial enthusiasm for the new challenge, the education in company ways and means, the high level utterings of our broker/owner, we marched forth with high resolve and tremendous energy for the new career. We gradually discovered that the most craved rewards was the commission, followed by getting listings based not on proper or fair value but at any value-then convince the Seller to accept the offer. The atmosphere of high Christian beliefs was actually nothing but talking the talk, not walking the walk. It became readily apparent that most of our fellow salespeople were strictly money oriented and not performance oriented.

In 1989 MACOR Associates, Inc. was created with a hired broker who was paid a commission and we became a company determined to make the sale or purchase of a business a mutually rewarding experience with the commission as our reward.

The story has been testimony to the validity of the philosophy. Ninety percent of our listings come to us as referrals...from earlier buyers, sellers, professional people (who have observed our method of urging both parties to utilize professional advice, but not until a tentative preliminary agreement has been reached) and from people who has seen the volume of our generic public advertising.

We welcome you to visit us via email, telephone, fax, or in person. We are truly market-wide brokers, both by business type and price.
We are never paid unless we perform.

Our Team

Thomas N. " Tom" Richards
Chairman of the Board

Mr. Richards was born at home in Sioux Falls, SD, in the rolling hills of Eastern South Dakota, the third son in a family of four boys, The mid-nineteenth century home had basement foundation walls of concrete and quary rock, two feet thick, dirt floors, a coal furnace on a concrete pad with concrete under the coal bin and a little concrete pad under the washing machine. On inclement days, the dirt area became a basketball court with a tin can for a basket. Hauling the ashes became the boys' job after Dad passed away after surgery. Mom raised the boys as her project, telling the boys that when they were grown and married there would be time left for her needs. She was a Sunday school teacher and lay preacher in her church and the family truly lived their religious convictions. All four sons served in World War II, one as Navy pilot, one as an Army pilot, one as a Navy Amphibious Forces sailor, and the last as Tank Corps medic.

After the return to civilian life, Tom felt he had lost three years of his life so it was time to play catch up. He entered college in the fall of 1945, joined a fraternity, became engaged, played football and basketball, was fraternity business manager and treasurer refereed football and basketball games, for area high schools and started an accounting business in his hometown with his best friend, married in the spring of 1946, graduated summa cum laude in January of 1947 and immediately turned to the growing accounting business.

In 1952, the partners sold the accounting business and Tom became controller for the local Caterpillar dealer for eastern South Dakota, where he eventually became sales manager, leaving to take a position with a larger dealership in Utah. There, his first job was to start from scratch new company handling non-Caterpillar products for the construction and mining industry. That operation has since been spun off and sold to venture capitalists and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Tom left to become the president of a new dealership in Washington for a conglomerate owner. After getting that up and running he returned to the Midwest and assisted a longtime friend in acquiring a second Caterpillar dealership and trimmed a subsidiary company to fit into his main business in Minnesota.

Thence to Arizona, too young to retire, too strong a resume to be desirable by human resource managers, so he returned to being his own boss when he discovered the business Brokerage business. Larry and Tom are totally compatible partners for the last eighteen years. Their success is no accident.