Tina Giovannetti

investigative reporter, international photojournalist, radio and television personality, real estate advisor, real estate investor and developer came to Florida from Chicago nearly forty years ago, looking for a way to share her entrepreneurial spirit and gifts and her unending passion to help others.

Purchasing her first home for $16, 900 in the late 70's, she immediately became hooked on the endless opportunities to purchase distressed and broken down homes, completely gut them out, restore and flip them for a healthy profit.

At the same time, Ms. Giovannetti was also actively accepting free-lance assignments as an international photojournalist and investigative reporter which began in Chicago and soon she was selling pictures of the South Florida glamour and squalor to the prestigious Associated Press and Boca Raton and other Magazines.

Ms. Giovannetti has definitely packed a lot of living into her 58 years:

Behold the one-time grubby kid scrambling for a living at the age of 13 in the mean streets and projects of Chicago - a victim of child abuse, that forced her to leave home at a young age.

Now forty-five years later, witness an accomplished, fear-less woman residing full-time in The Villages, Florida with her finely-chiseled features and searching dark eyes enough to get her noticed in any group. And as she talks about the projects and growing up on the south side of Chicago, those eyes - set like chunks of coal - flash with what looks like defiance. Or perhaps it's simply triumph.

Whatever, it's definitely justified because over the past ten years Ms. Giovannetti bought and sold properties primarily in the $700K to $1 million plus range as an investor. That's a long way from her initial purchase of $16, 900 and impoverished beginnings as a child. Her undefeatable spirit and "never giving up attitude" has awarded her with an immeasurable depth of real estate and business knowledge, true confidence, a remarkable keen sense of negotiation skills and calmness regardless of the numbers involved.