As a complement to her thriving real estate career, Ms. Cannata is engaged in media endeavors, including her unique role as a television host for American Dream TV "Selling the Bay Area."
SEBASTOPOL, CA, June 11, 2024 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Milli Cannata has been inducted into Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Ms. Cannata has established a distinguished reputation as a professional connector and realtor, demonstrating an unwavering commitment to helping individuals navigate the complexities of real estate ownership and investment. She initiated her professional journey at Vanguard Properties where she has been serving since 2015, excelling in real estate transactions, networking and collaboration. Additionally, Ms. Cannata excels in her work with a diverse set of stakeholders and thrives on seeing her loyal client base prosper across various endeavors. Her overall specialization is in complex country property and unique property investments.
Before her tenure at Vanguard Properties, Ms. Cannata honed her skills and knowledge as a HUD certified housing counselor with the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of San Francisco from 2009 to 2014. This role allowed her to provide invaluable advice and support to individuals facing housing challenges. Prior to this, she started her real estate career in mortgage lending in 2001, where she last worked as a senior home loan consultant at Wells Fargo and a loan agent at World Savings from 2004 to 2008. These positions laid the groundwork for Ms. Cannata's broad expertise in mortgage lending and financial counseling.
Ms. Cannata's dedication to her profession is further evidenced by her involvement with prestigious industry-related organizations such as the California Association of Realtors, the National Association of Realtors and the North Bay Association of Realtors. Her dedicated membership in and service to these prestigious associations reflects Ms. Cannata's deep commitment to remaining current in industry trends and contributing to the broader professional community.
As a complement to her thriving real estate career, Ms. Cannata is engaged in media endeavors, including her unique role as a television host for American Dream TV "Selling the Bay Area." This opportunity has provided the ideal opportunity to merge a deep passion for real estate with outreach efforts and to further extend her influence across the industry. Notably, she has been recognized for her distinct achievements and been named a top producer at Vanguard Properties consecutively from 2019 to 2023; she also humbly accepted congressional recognition with the Women's Diamante Award in 2023. Ms. Cannata also earned national honors through inclusion in the America's Best Top Realtors compilation, which attests to her professional and community leadership.
Ms. Cannata has pursued a range of professional credentials to progress her business profile. Notably, she holds diverse certifications including Certified Probate & Trust Specialist, Certified Global Relocation Specialist with Leading RE, and credentials as a housing and credit counselor with the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, and she completed the CALHFA Lending Programs Training with the California Housing Finance Agency. She is also a certified consumer interviewer through the Consumer Data Industry Association, and her broker's license is pending. Each designation further demonstrates Ms. Cannata's comprehensive commitment to the intersecting arenas of real estate, finance, counseling and consumer rights and enables her to provide knowledgeable guidance to clients navigating diverse real estate and financial situations.
Ms. Cannata's involvement in community service further illustrates her commitment to making a difference beyond her profession. She has been instrumental in developing initiatives such as SYLC Kidz – Sustainable Living Youth Co-Op, collaborating with local nonprofits like The Living Room, The Boys & Girls Club of Sonoma and Marin County, to secure sponsorship to not only teach the youth how to operate their own businesses and financial education but how to give back to their communities. Her volunteer work with organizations like the Salvation Army and KRCB Television highlights her dedication to community outreach and youth mentorship. Looking toward the future, Ms. Cannata is ambitiously planning to expand her impact by becoming a director of a nonprofit organization while continuing to develop her real estate team.
She is in recent collaboration with Emmy award winning producer and owner of The Monte Rio Theater, David Lockhart, and multi-platinum record award winning musician, Squid B. Vicious, to officially open the SLYC Kidz first location to provide a safe space for after school hours, in their own business incubator, to create their own businesses while learning financial education. The youth will be tasked to open "The Conly Tool Closet" aka "TCx2" a youth operated nonprofit designed to teach kids trades, and provide weatherization and small home repairs to low-income homeowners. The grand goal is to establish a REIT that will be used to invest in commercial real estate conversions that the SLYC Kidz & TCx2 participants will have an opportunity to work at the commercial conversions as they will learn to utilize government grants to help fund 80% of the projects to help provide more affordable housing options to their communities while learning trade skills. Squid B. Vicious is collaborating to open a nonprofit to teach the kids garage band to production, while we they utilize the theater to teach the kids how to build out a studio, build a band, and essentially introduce them to a life in audio and video production. The SLYC Kidz is designed to help the youth determine their interests and foster environments to help them learn how to work where it doesn't feel like working, while giving back with passion. Overall, the goal is to teach them to Own Your Dreams, Milli Cannata's motto.
The team will be kicking off their collaboration on June 20th at Monte Rio Theater to also announce the release of Squid B. Vicious's album Platinum Squid featuring music created over the last 40 years with the amazing musicians Squid had the honor of gracing the stage, in addition to his combined effort to assist teaching the SLYC Kidz music production. "Live at the Rio" will be held every Thursday night starting at 5:30pm. The last show will be on Aug 29. Open mic opportunities will be available for locals to be seen and mingle with old school rockstars to help them with the next steps. David Lockhart's band, Awake: a Door's Tribute, will also grace the stage on opening night. Vendors and other bands are being invited to participate and sign up for their fun summer event. Contact Milli at 707-477-7839, [email protected] to learn more.
Ms. Cannata also operates "Own Your Dreams Academy," a consulting hub designed to connect people and businesses to help them get where they want to go. Through personalized one-on-one consulting, she connects people with a solid team to help them implement their dreams. Additionally, she is establishing a production company that will provide content creation to revenue production. The SLYC Kidz will have opportunity to learn all about marketing and negotiation. The goal for the production company is to help small businesses to be seen when competing with big advertisements in the digital market.
All in all, Ms. Cannata's value is in professionally connecting people, marketing, and negotiations to help people get where they want to go.
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