Solano Real Estate Scene: Jim Porter
Article By: Jim Porter – January 23, 2026
The Hoosiers just won their first football National Championship. Indiana went undefeated this season, and over the past month, beat Alabama, Ohio State, Oregon, and the Miami Hurricanes.
Over the last 50 years, Indiana won 230 games and lost 350. In 2023, they had only three wins versus nine losses. Indiana is a big school with 89,000 students enrolled, while Alabama only has 42,000, and yet Alabama has 18 National Championships. Some call this Indiana Hoosier team the biggest underdog success story in college football history.
Solano County could do something as incredible as Indiana for our real estate market with a team effort focused on improving our schools. Solano County ranks near the bottom of the nine Bay Area counties in almost every education category.
Here are the current rankings for schools’ success:
- Santa Clara
- San Mateo
- San Francisco
- Alameda
- Contra Costa
- Marin
- Sonoma
- Napa
- Solano
This should bring out the competitive spirit of every mayor, police chief, supervisor, city council member, teacher, coach, school administrator, grant writer, real estate broker, chamber of commerce member, business owner and parent in Solano County to step up somehow and jump up to the top three.
Can you imagine the headlines across the state if the most affordable county in the Bay Area jumped ahead of Marin County or, better yet, San Francisco County, for public school success? All we need is a billion dollars this year from a couple of those California Forever investors, or maybe the Warren Buffett foundation can donate a billion to Solano County with our assurance that the money will not be wasted by politicians.
Great schools = a great real estate market and more opportunity for our kids. Let’s win.
Jim Porter, NMLS No. 276412, is the branch manager of Solano Mortgage, NMLS No. 1515497, a division of American Pacific Mortgage Corporation, NMLS No. 1850, licensed in California by the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation under the CRMLA / Equal Housing Opportunity. Jim can be reached at 707-449-4777.
