Mantica elected as Ohio REALTORS 2021 Treasurer
Ralph Mantica, of Dayton, was elected as the 2021 Treasurer of the Ohio REALTORS during the organization’s first-ever electronic vote of its Board of Directors on April 29. The historic online vote was conducted because of the cancellation of the annual Spring Legislative Conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mantica will be installed at the Annual Convention & EXPO, Sept. 21-23 in Cleveland, with fellow members of the Ohio REALTORS 2021 Leadership Team, President Seth Task, of Cleveland, and President-Elect John Mangas of Toledo.
Ohio REALTORS 2021 Treasurer Ralph Mantica is broker/owner of Kinzeler Realty in Dayton. He was first licensed in 1985.
Mantica has served as a member and in leadership on a variety of Dayton REALTORS committees and task forces, including serving as its President in 2015. Additionally, he was honored as its REALTOR of the Year in 2018, served as Dayton Director (2011-2016), on the Finance Committee (2013-2019) and was a member of organization's Joint Forms Task Force in collaboration with the Cincinnati Area Board of REALTORS.
On the state level, Mantica has served as a member of the Board of Directors since 2006. He has served as a member and in leadership for a number of the organization’s committees and task forces, including: Executive, Finance, Legislative Steering, Issues Mobilization and Legal Issues among others. He is a 2016 graduate of the Ohio REALTORS Leadership Academy, served as District 5 Vice President (2018-2019), acts as the Association's State Political Coordinator for Ohio Rep. Jim Butler (R-District 41) and was selected as Ohio's REALTOR of the Year in 2018.
Mantica has served on the National Association of REALTORS’ Federal Taxation Committee and Workgroup and Issues Mobilization. He was a NAR Director in 2015 and has recently earned the Association's Commitment to Excellence (C2EX) endorsement. He has contributed to RPAC as a Sterling R Investor since 2014 and served as Ohio RPAC Major Investor Council Chair in 2018.
He has earned the Graduate, REALTOR Institute (GRI), Accredited Buyer's Representative (ABR), and the Certified Residential Specialist (CRS) professional designations offered by NAR. He served as president of Ohio CRS in 2019. He is a 1980 graduate of the University of Dayton.
Mantica is an active member and parish council member of St. Albert the Great in Kettering. He is a member of the Archbishop Alter High School's Knights of Gold, a football alumni association.
Mantica and his wife, Kathy, who were married in 1981, reside in Kettering. They have three children, Christopher, Michael and Tim, two daughters-in-law and four grandchildren.
