ADI Scholarship Recipient Spotlight – Armond Guest Armond excelled in the financial services and mortgage industries for several years. Most recently he was a Mortgage Loan Closer for State Farm Bank, a Loan Officer with American Advisors Group, and a Home Mortgage Consultant for Wells Fargo. While employed in these positions Armond gained substantial experience … Continued
ADI Scholarship Recipient Spotlight – LaTarra Jones LaTarra’s passion for real estate is not new. It inspired LaTarra to get her real estate license while building her hair salon business. She learned, however, that representing buyers and sellers is essentially a sales role and she isn’t a sales person at heart. LaTarra kept searching for … Continued
Supervisor Spotlight – Peter Fontana Peter Fontana is the principal and owner of Cornerstone Appraisal Service, a residential appraisal firm located in Central Montana. Fontana has more than thirty years of experience in the real estate appraisal profession. He has a diverse background with extensive experience in governmental appraisal, mass appraisal, personal property appraisal, single … Continued
ADI Scholarship Recipient Spotlight – Danielle Taylor Danielle was introduced to the appraisal industry and the Appraiser Diversity Initiative (ADI) scholarship program by her cousin Vonnia Harris Davis with Blueprint 2022. Danielle instantly saw the program as a great opportunity to branch out and do something different to help fill a need in her community. … Continued
ADI Scholarship Recipient Spotlight – Beverly Ochieng Beverly was attending graduate school in Miami, Florida when she started working as a secretary for a luxury real estate sales office. Upon graduation, Beverly returned home to Columbus, Ohio, where she has kept her thumb on a housing market for the last 6 years. Beverly was known to … Continued
ADI Scholarship Recipient Spotlight – Tracy Deng Tracy has been a real estate agent in Mobile, Alabama since 2018. In 2022 she started providing broker price opinions (BPOs) which are a real estate professional’s estimate of a property’s potential sale price based on the selling prices of comparable properties in the market. Executing BPOs sparked Tracy’s interest … Continued