2023 Realtor® EXPO: Understanding Land Use with Christina Asbury
Release Date: 06/15/2023
Disability Concerns in Fair Housing
Inside The Canopy Files
Buying a home is a big undertaking – from picking a REALTOR®, to touring homes, to financing the purchase, each step presents its own set of challenges. For disabled homebuyers, those challenges are often bigger and trickier to navigate. Inside the Canopy Files talks with Mia Ives-Rublee, Director of Disability Justice Initiative at American Progress about her work advocating for disability justice and inclusion and what Realtors® can do to further the independence and dream of homeownership for those living with disabilities. Broker Relations Manager, Bryan Perkins joins the conversation...
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Paths to Leadership – Women Who Mean Business
Inside The Canopy Files
Inside the Canopy Files salutes Women’s History Month with guest host, Anne Marie DeCatsye, CEO of Canopy Realtor® Association and Canopy MLS. She and her guests, Maren Brisson Kuester and Brenda Hayden - both past presidents and industry pros - discuss paths to leadership, sharing advice and inspiration and celebrating women who are leading the change.
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The Magic of Lead Generation
Inside The Canopy Files
Realtors® across the U.S. and here at home in Charlotte faced a challenging 2022 and 2023. Last year in particular, agents navigated an inventory-depleted market, with buyers and sellers that pulled back from the housing market due in large part to rising interest rates. In this episode of Inside the Canopy Files, 2024 Association/Canopy MLS president Charisma Southerland, talks lead generation with special guest, and Managing Broker/Realtor® Marki Lemons-Ryhal. Listen in as they discuss building a customer relationship management system and leads to sustain your real estate business in...
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Understanding the Value of the Buyer’s Agent
Inside The Canopy Files
The purchase of a home is typically the largest financial transaction that a person will experience in their life time. However, the process from loan qualification to home inspection, and from disclosures and appraisals to price negotiation, – is what proves the value of a Realtor®. In some transactions the Realtor® represents the seller, while a buyer’s agent works on behalf of buyers. Listen as Inside the Canopy Files, 2024 president Charisma Southerland, and past-president Tiffany Johannes discuss the value of representation and what Buyer’s Agents bring to the transaction....
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Bridging the Wealth Gap
Inside The Canopy Files
The recent down housing market after a pandemic that altered a number of lives, has been particularly devastating to the Black community. Not only has the homeownership rate plummeted, but accessing mortgage credit has become nearly impossible outside of government-insured programs such as FHA and VA. On this edition of Inside the Canopy Files, Realtor®/Broker and guest host Allen Dargins talks with Realtor®/broker Tikola McCree, president of Charlotte Crown Realtist Association, about the 2023 State of Housing in Black America report and bridging the gap in homeownership and...
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Why I'm a Volunteer at Canopy Realtor® Association
Inside The Canopy Files
Canopy Realtor® Association is a trade association that promotes the value of Realtors® to the consumer and the dream of homeownership. The Association, with guidance from Realtor® volunteers, also provides tools, education and resources to be succesful in business, and takes pride in a Foundation that is actively improving the communities where they live, work and play. .In this episode of Inside the Canopy Files, hear from volunteer leadership and why they volunteer their time at the Association, Canopy MLS and Canopy Housing Foundation, and more importantly why Realtors® should be...
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Keys to Safety: A Realtors® Guide
Inside The Canopy Files
Whether showing a home, conducting an open house or meeting a potential new client, Realtors® face danger every day when dealing with the public. In this episode of Inside the Canopy Files, listen as Tiffany Johannes, president of Canopy Realtor® Association talks with Realtor®/Broker and Safety Expert, April Crigger-Hudson about How not to be a Victim, by developing a safety mindset, as well as best practices and a review of products with safety features provided by Canopy.
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Realtors® Taking Strides for Shelter
Inside The Canopy Files
Charlotte Family Housing is a shelter-to-housing program for working families experiencing homelessness and they are the 2023 beneficiary of Canopy Housing Foundation's annual Strides for Shelter 5K. Listen as guest host Joan Goode, Realtor®/Broker and Strides for Shelter 5k chair, talks with Elizabeth Kurtz, Executive Director and her team at Charlotte Family Houisng about how the organization empowers working families experiencing homelessness to achieve life-long self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services, and advocacy.
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Be the Pro in Professional
Inside The Canopy Files
Anne Marie DeCatsye, Esq., CEO of Canopy Realtor® Association/Canopy MLS, is back as guest host in this podcast conversation with Michele McCaskill, VP of Risk Management and Assistant General Counsel, about Why Professional Standards and the Code of Ethics are important to the profession and the consumer. Hear more about how the Risk Management team keeps an eye on general risk management issues affecting the industry, and why raising the bar on professionalism is imperative to the industry.
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Cool Market, Hot Tech! Your MLS Tech Tune Up
Inside The Canopy Files
Technology is hot, evolving and moving at a breakneck pace and the next generation of home buyers and sellers, are quite comfortable with the rapidly changing world of innovation. And the forward-thinking Realtor® trying to cultivate and reach the next generation of clients, should be too. In this episode of Inside the Canopy Files, listen in as Bryan Perkins, Canopy MLS Broker Relations Manager, Debbie Wey, VP of MLS Administration and Todd Long, Realtor®/Broker, and Canopy MLS Board of Director, discuss the latest tech and updates embraced by Canopy MLS, so you can help your business...
info_outlineOn June 1, Canopy Realtors© Association hosted the 2023 Realtor© Expo at the Charlotte Convention Center. Over 900 Realtors® and exhibitors gathered for a day of networking and learning under the Canopy!
Tiffany Johannes, 2023 Canopy Realtors® Association/Canopy MLS President recorded a special and exclusive conversation with the day’s featured speakers in an effort to make the information discussed that day as accessible as possible for all Canopy members and subscribers.
In this episode of Inside the Canopy Files, Tiffany Johannes speaks to Christina Asbury. Christina is one of only 630 accredited land consultants in the US. She is knowledgeable in many aspects of land sales, including 2031 tax exchanges, land planning and development, site analysis and more. Tiffany talks to Christina about what it takes to acquire a land consultant accreditation, the unique traits of North and South Carolina land law, and how to find and utilize your local land consultant.
Connect with Christina Asbury online here.