Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Realtor Resources

Andrew Consoli- has been teaching real estate and first time buyer classes for over 15 years. Andrew edited and approved Graduate Realtor Institute (GRI) courses.  Andy has developed and teaches over 30 real estate courses. He developed and teaches state and nationally approved home inspection courses, Andrew also developed New Hampshire real estate courses approved for Internet, correspondence and live presentations. Andrew teaches four courses for Mass GRI.  He teaches on a regular basis for more than a dozen real estate boards, including but not limited to Berkshire, Tri-County, Cape Cod & the Islands, Eastern Middlesex, North Shore, Worcester, Springfield, Boston, etc. He also teaches for Century-21 Council.  He has taught at conventions for Massachusetts Board, Springfield, Carlson GMAC, Jack Conway Realtors, etc.  Andrew Teaches pre-license sales, broker, continuing education, state approved home inspector courses, and contractor and EPA DOS RRP courses.   Andrew is also a certified Fair Housing Instructor through MCAD.  He holds classes in Spanish for the Spanish speaking community in Lawrence, Lowell and Haverhill.  Andrew teaches over 500 Classes annually. 

Jean Fitzgerald- teaches national designations and CEU courses for the Cape Cod and Islands Association of REALTORS®, Inc. Jean has been in the real estate business since 1977 as a sales associate, sales manager, the general manager of a multi-office corporation, and the proprietor of a real estate company. Jean brings an incredible enthusiasm and 30 years of experience and knowledge to our association.

Karen Jaworski ABR, CRS, CBR, GRI, LTG - is the office manager for ERA Cape Real Estate, LLC. She represents Buyers and Sellers on a daily basis and has been a REALTOR® with the Cape Cod and Islands Association of REALTORS®, Inc. (CC&IAOR) since 1979 and was president of the Association in 1995. Karen is also the CC&IAOR and CC&IMLS Professional Standards Consultant and a MA Certified Mediator. She instructs the CC&IAOR New Member Orientation Program and  teaches the NAR-required Quadrennial-Code of Ethics class to existing REALTOR® members on a monthly basis. Within the course, she has authored case studies that the students participate in at the end of the session. Karen co-teaches both the Salespersons and Broker pre-licensing courses and many MA CE courses at the Mid-Cape Real Estate School in West Dennis. Also, she has authored and teaches 1-2 hour sessions on relevant topics to help real estate agents increase their business and/or have a better understanding of how to ethically conduct their business when working with buyers/sellers/fellow REALTORS®. At the local level, Karen has participated as Professional Standards Chair, Education Chair, Presidential Advisory Committee Member and a Bylaw Committee Member. At the state level, Karen has participated as State Director, Alternative State Director, Regional Vice President, GRI Committee Member, GRI Dean, Education Committee Member and MAR Professional Standards Committee Member. Her classes offer advice regarding day-to-day real estate business practice.

Linda O'Connor- has twenty-five years of real estate service, Broker/Owner, Linda O’Connor, ABR, CRS, GRI, ITI, LTG, PMN, has built a reputation of honesty, fairness, diligence, and through her efforts on behalf of all industry participants, has become a well respected REALTOR^® across the state. She has served as the North Shore Association of REALTORS^® in many capacities, including Multiple Listing Service President in  1992 and 1993, and Board President in 1996. She also served as the North Shore Women's Council of REALTORS^® Chapter President three times. She is a statewide instructor for the Graduate REALTOR^® Institute, and served as the President of the Massachusetts Chapter of Certified Residential Specialists for 2007. She was named MAR Educator of the Year in 2007.

Mr. Nahigian is currently, Principal of Auburndale Realty Co. He provides brokerage/advisory and expert trial witness services to public agencies, investment portfolio groups and corporations in New England, Missouri, Ohio, California and Florida. Client have included: AT&T, Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Real Estate Group, Goldman, Sachs/Archon Group, MDFA, Rizzo Associates, Mass Attorney General, Weyerhaeuser Corp, CB Richard Ellis, and Legg, Mason.

Formerly, Mr. Nahigian was Director, Office/Industrial Division of The Robbins Group in Cambridge, Massachusetts with office/industrial responsibilities in New England. Previous he was Vice-President of The Norwood Group in Burlington, Massachusetts specializing on build-to-suits and speculative developments. He was also a City Planner in Bowie, Maryland; a planner with Perkins & Will, New York City and a junior planner with the Bethlehem (Pa.) Redevelopment Authority.

He is a Senior Lecturer at Boston University and MAR and lectured at Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, Rutgers, Lehigh and DePaul Universities. Mr. Nahigian is an invited speaker in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America and Europe by SIOR, Colliers, NAI, ONCOR, NACORE, CIREI, NAIOP, IDRC, CRE, AMPI, Latin American Real Estate Conference and other realtor associations. Mr. Nahigian has co-authored three real estate books and over 160 professional articles.

Mr. Nahigian received his BA from Lehigh University and holds a Masters in Urban Planning from Columbia University. He has earned the SIOR and CRE designations; and elected to Lambda Alpha International, an honorary land economics society. Rob served as the CRE National Chair, Public Relations Committee and is on the National Board of Directors. He serves (d) on MAR/GBREB Govt. Affairs, Agency Law, Commercial State Overlay Board, Education and Curriculum Committees; Worcester Board Ed Task Force and CBA Board of Directors.

With SIOR, Mr. Nahigian serves as National Vice-Chair, Education Committee and was National Co-Chair, 2001 Boston Convention; National Budget & Finance Committee; Nominating Committee; National Committee VP; New England Chapter President; National Education and Instructor Chair; NE Regional Vice-President; Executive Committee; National Board of Directors; and EdFund. He is a SIOR Senior Instructor and was voted the 1994/2002/2003 SIOR National Instructor of the Year.