The Dalcor Team
Our team is comprised of real estate and financial professionals with years of combined experience. Below is information about each Dalcor team member.
Mr. Dodson is the founding Principal, 50% owner and CEO of Dalcor Companies. He is also directly responsible for leading multi-family (LIHTC) acquisitions and the management and compliance departments.Mr. Dodson graduated from Angelo State University with a BBA degree in accounting in 1967. Upon graduation, Mr. Dodson joined the Dallas office of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. (predecessor to KPMG), at the time the largest of the Big “8” CPA firms. He was elected Partner at Peat Marwick in May of 1978 and became the partner-in-charge of the Private Business practice. He also served as the firm’s Southwest Regional Partner-in-charge of the real estate practice and served on the Dallas office’s operating committee. During his tenure at Peat, Marwick, Mr. Dodson completed an Executive MBA program (specifically designed for Peat Marwick partners) at Stanford University. In 1981, he was appointed by Texas Governor William Clements to serve as Chairman of the Capital Formation Committee of “The Governor’s Task Force on Small Business”. In 1982, Mr. Dodson founded Dalcor Companies, a real estate acquisition and service company. Dalcor has owned and/or operated over 20,000 apartment units in Texas and Arizona. Mr. Dodson has served on the Board of Directors of the National Multi-Housing Council where he was Vice-Chairman of the Tax Committee and is currently Chairman of the Board of the Ziglar Corporation (Zig Ziglar). In 2000, Mr. Dodson was named as Distinguished Alumni of Angelo State University where he has served on the Business School’s Advisory Board.
Ms. Yeager is a Principal of Dalcor Companies as well as a Principal and co-owner of JKL Group, LLC & JKL Realty, Ltd. Kathi has experience in government compliance and multi-family property management. Kathi was co-founder of Datatrac Information Services, Inc. which had major government contracts including, compliance and management contracts with the RTC (assisting cleanup of S&L crisis of the 1980-90’s); management and compliance of over 100 real estate properties (many of which were multifamily properties). In early 2000, Datatrac become one of the fastest growing Government Contracting companies in the country. Datatrac had major contracts with the INS, DoL, FBI and Homeland Security. The business ultimately included eight facilities across the country and employed 2200 people. Datatrac was sold to Computer Science Corporation in December of 2006. Ms. Yeager is very active and supportive of several non-profit organizations and she is on the Executive Committee for HIS Bridgebuilders.
Mr. Murff is a Principal of Dalcor companies as well as the President of JKL Group and co-manager of Dalcor Holdings, LLC. Ron has an extensive background in Banking and SEC regulations and compliance. Prior to joining JKL in early 2010, Ron was a part of one of the largest financial institutions with $15 billion in assets which operated mainly in Texas and California. His experience of over 22 years includes President of the Retail Bank Group, which included 160 banking centers, consumer lending, and investment sales. Ron also served as Chief Financial Officer for the publicly traded holding company and was responsible for coordinating the spinoff of the company from its parent company in late 2007. Prior to his banking career, he served in various financial capacities with other banks and real estate companies, having started his career at Peat, Markwick, Mitchell & Co. (now KPMG) in 1975. Ron currently serves on the Board of Regents for Baylor University and a Trustee for the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. Previously, he served as of the Board of Directors for the Federal Home Loan Bank Dallas and various other entities in Dallas and Austin, including a number of non-profit ministries.
He is responsible for regulatory applications filed in conjunction with acquiring Section 42, LIHTC properties. Mr. Plitt is also responsible for asset management and manages a “database” in which was designed to track key market data and modeling used in property acquisitions and management compliance. He was responsible for developing the Centralized Property Operating System (CPOS) with imbedded metrics utilized for efficiencies and controls in managing multifamily properties. Mr. Plitt, a graduate of Washington and Lee University and was with KPMG Peat Marwick prior to joining Dalcor in 1984. While with KPMG Peat Marwick, he advised national real estate clients by implementing standardized best practices and improving efficiencies in the economic aspects of real estate acquisitions with modeling and other systems developed by Mr. Plitt.
Mr. Weideman rejoined Dalcor as the Vice President and Director of Operations in 2012. Previously, he served in various accounting and operation positions for Dalcor Companies for 14 years. He has over 25 years of multifamily property experience. Prior to rejoining Dalcor, he served as the Regional Vice President, then Vice President of Finance for 8 years with Walden Affordable Group, LLC. Walden Affordable Group manages operations and compliance of many affordable housing, bond financed, HAP, and market properties. These properties were built or acquired and rehabbed under the Section 42, LIHTC regulations.Mr. Weideman graduated from University of Texas at Dallas with a BBA in Accounting.
Mrs. Rodgers serves as Vice President and Compliance Manager, with Dalcor Companies; She has over 17 years of experience in multifamily compliance and management. Prior to joining Dalcor she was with Walden Affordable Group, LLC where her experience included oversight and compliance on both market and bond financed properties. She has worked closely with regulators on State/HTC Bond Audits. Mrs. Rodgers leadership has resulted in many excellent ratings on reviews, inspections, and audits of properties. She currently holds several nationally recognized designations such as Housing Tax Credit Specialist and Certified Occupancy Specialist.
Mr. Yeager serves as Vice President, Director of Construction for Dalcor Companies. Dan oversees the rehabilitation and construction activities for all properties. Dan has over 18 years of government contract management experience. As Director of Operations for Computer Sciences Corporation, was responsible for contract implementations, facilities, and ongoing project and process management. Managed over 350,000 square feet of facility rehabs for 8 different startup contracts with very short lead times. He has managed process improvement programs to increase customer satisfaction requirements as well as profitability. Dan is a graduate of Texas A&M University.