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Lisa E. McKim is a licensed salesperson in the state of California (DRE #01794911) and the licensed broker/owner of McKim Real Estate in the state of Colorado. She has been practicing real estate since 2007 and is a member of the National Association of Realtors. Her areas of expertise include residential real estate, income properties, mixed-use properties, prefab and IRA real estate investments. She has been a certified instructor since 2018 and is a member of the Real Estate Educators Association. She teaches pre-licensing, continuing education and career development. Lisa’s twin passions are real estate and helping others, so she considers herself fortunate to have a successful career which has given her huge rewards for both. She is especially proud to be a part of Colibri Real Estate because of the company’s high standards of excellence and integrity.

I have been in the Real Estate field for over 20 years, I earned my Real Estate License in 2000. I also hold an M.B.A. from California State University Bakersfield. I began teaching business and sales classes at California State University at Bakersfield in 2019, and it was then I realized how much I loved teaching! Real Estate and Teaching are my passions, Through Colibri I get to combine both of my passions while helping others achieve their goals and dreams.

Actively practicing Real Estate since obtaining my California Brokers License in 2007. In 2016 I received my Arizona Real Estate Brokers license and began instructing part time at the Arizona School of Real Estate and Business in July 2016. With Colibri Group’s acquisition of ASREB my Real Estate Instructor responsibilities expanded to Colibri’s California Allied and Real Estate Express divisions. In 2019 I was honored with being named the Arizona Journal of Real Estate’s educator of the year. In 2022, earned my Distinguished Real Estate Instructor (DREI) certification. Also a Certified Distance Education Instructor (CDEI). Prior to my Real Estate career, after graduating college at California University, Fullerton with a degree in Business / Marketing, I worked in the electronics component industry in several different sales, marketing, management positions traveling extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and China. I am an avid hiker, backpacker, mountaineer, hold a United States Parachute Association Freefall skydivers license, and am a certified scuba diver. Since 2014, I volunteer with the Riverside County Sheriff Department’s Mountain Rescue Unit (rmru.org) as a search and rescue team member, newsletter editor, and as the webmaster for Mountain Rescue Associations website (mra.org). Also volunteer with our church’s sound board music ministry.

I am a 2^nd generation Realtor licensed in 2006. My career started at the start of the crash and learned most my real estate knowledge in the market that was the most challenging for any Real Estate agent to start their career. I had the pleasure of working mostly with first time and highly qualified buyers than in the housing boom.. I had the opportunity to learn how to sell homes for my cleints in a buyers market with financial challenges. With the volatility of the market back in 2006, I look to take my past experiences and to pass on that knowledge to the next generation of licensed Real Estate Agents. While imbuing the very essence of knowledge they seek to become a licensed Real Estate professional.

Mara Maj is a broker-owner and instructor in California and Michigan. With 17 years of real estate experience, she has a deep knowledge of residential and commercial sales, portfolio management and real estate development. Her understanding of pricing, risk-management, portfolio goals, acquisitions, and negotiations is a great resource for students. She holds a BS in Business Management with a focus in Real Estate Law and Finance. She is a current member of Silicon Valley Association of Realtors, California Association of Realtors, National Association of Realtors and Michigan Association of Realtors.

Kathleen’s start in the real estate industry was as a front office clerk at age eighteen. She trained as an assistant loan officer and worked her way up the ranks at a private mortgage company in San Jose, California. In 2001 Kathleen received her California Real Estate Salesperson License. Long hours of open houses, in-person loan applications, and loan signing services helped her create a list of to-dos for buyers, sellers, and the other agents she worked with to cover anything and everything that might be needed to make each process as smooth as possible. Kathleen found that she enjoyed training other agents as much as helping borrowers buy and refinance their homes. She graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and a Master of Science in Entertainment Business in 2017 from Full Sail University. She just graduated with an Ed.S. in Higher Education from Regent University and she is on track to graduate in 2023 with a Ph.D. in Higher Education from Regent University. To date, Kathleen has twenty years of experience in the real estate field, Twelve years in business management, and fifteen years as an educator.

I have been a Real Estate Broker for over 16 years. I have my undergrad degree in Psychology and Masters Degree in Organizational Management. I have managed numerous offices in North Orange County. My last position was a Regional Manager of a well-known brokerage in Orange County. At my most recent position I managed over 175 agents, conducted trainings and also conducted business planning sessions with agents. I have also had my own brokerage. I have sold homes throughout my career as a real estate Broker as well. I recently closed two multi-million dollar homes this year.

Mark has 34 years of professional experience in a variety of aspects of real estate, including financial and market analysis, project and property management, investment and residential real estate brokerage, development, affordable housing, teaching at the university level, consulting, and third-party review. Mark was also an Adjunct Professor in the USC Price School of Public Policy where he taught the graduate-level course RED510 (Real Estate Practice and Principles) in the 3-course Certificate in Real Estate Development program. He also taught RED362 (Real Estate Fundamentals for Planning and Development), RED435 (Analyzing Real Estate Markets for Planning and Development), and RED437 (Advanced Finance and Investment for Real Estate Development) to undergraduate students. Mark is a former Director of Housing Rights Center, a 501(c)(3) organization focused on preventing, litigating, and eradicating cases of housing discrimination, was a member of the Development and Audit Committees for The Trevor Project, and is an avid cyclist training for the 7-day, 545-mile AIDS Life Cycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles to benefit the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the L.A. LGBT Center.