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Michael Spickes
Stacy Cunningham Spickes
Michael and Stacy are both licensed Realtors® with Austin Realty Connection, members of the Austin Board of Realtors®, as well as both the Texas Association of Realtors® and the National Association of Realtors®. In 2001, they formed Austin Home Rescue, a company that focused primarily on helping homeowners in pre-foreclosure situations. They have committed the last four years to mastering and streamlining the Short Sale process and have worked over 250 Short Sales. They are passionate about teaching other agents the “tips and tricks” of the Short Sale business that increased their closing ratio from 50 percent to 90 percent. Their hope is to reduce the foreclosure rate across the Nation by educating other agents on how to successfully complete a Short Sale transaction with as little frustration as possible.

Michael and Stacy are TREC- approved MCE instructors and teach several different seminar formats. They have taught over 200 classes and seminars at title companies, brokerages and Realtor® associations. Michael and Stacy also co-authored Short Sale Solutions: An Instruction Guide for Real Estate Agents, which is purchased by agents Nationwide. Along with reducing the foreclosure rate across the Nation, Stacy and Michael are passionate about helping agents develop a niche in Short Sales and helping them build it into a lucrative business. This passion inspired them to begin a Coaching Club, in which they mentor agents on building their Short Sale business and act as their consultants throughout their Short Sale transactions. What makes their classes, Coaching Club and the Instruction Guide unique is that they teach students how to do Short Sales from a real estate agents perspective. Most of the education available on Short Sales is from investor to investor.

Because there was such a demand for quality education on Short Sales for real estate agents, Austin Home Rescue became America's Home Rescue in May 2007 and began offering classes and education products nationwide. Michael and Stacy continue to work their own Short Sales and lead a team of Short Sale Specialists in Austin, TX in addition to teaching classes and consulting agents outside the Austin area in order to help them successfully close Short Sales in their market.

Susan Difani

Susan Scott Difani joined America’s Home Rescue in January of 2009. She has lived in the Austin, Texas area for over 18 years and her roots in real estate run deep. She is a licensed Texas Real Estate Agent and has many years of experience as both an escrow officer and a mortgage loan officer. Originally from the small West Texas town of Ozona, she attended Texas A&M University and Angelo State University where she majored in Journalism and Communication. She spent many years working in management for a major retailer before transferring her talents to the real estate industry. She is passionate about helping people and saw the team at America’s Home Rescue and their mission as a symbiotic fit for her both professionally and personally. In her “other life” Susan is a Wardrobe and Image Consultant, enjoys dinners with friends and family, traveling the Caribbean, gardening, reading, renovating her home and spending time with her husband, Paul, and their menagerie of pets. She is also involved with volunteer efforts for various animal rescue groups and her dog, Ava, was “Miss July” in the 2009 Austin Humane Society calendar.

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