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Jason Ladeira, REALTOR® at Compass (Greater Boston)

Boston, MA

Boston is Jason Ladeira's home market. A Massachusetts native from Westport, he co-leads the Livingston Group at Compass out of Hingham, working with buyers and sellers from the city itself down through the South Shore and out to the Cape. Recent sales run from a South Boston condo with a roof deck over the skyline, to a coastal cottage in Scituate, to a four bedroom colonial in Kingston, which is a fair picture of how wide his range runs. He is an openly gay agent and a NAGLREP member since 2019, a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ buyers and sellers, and he hosts monthly educational meetups on how the market actually works. Most of his clients arrive by referral and stay in touch long after the closing. Jason came to real estate after a career in corporate America, encouraged by Rhonda Livingston, who became his business partner and is still his closest collaborator. Ten years on, the two of them lead a team known for candor about pricing, careful marketing, and a pace set by the client rather than the calendar. He has been named to Real Trends America's Best Real Estate Agents and ranks among the top 1.5 percent of REALTORS® nationally. Across Greater Boston he handles residential sales and purchases, first time buyers, condominiums, luxury listings, investment property, rentals, and relocation. He also works the Chicago market, so anyone moving between the two cities gets the same agent on both ends of the move instead of a handoff to a stranger. Away from work he travels with his partner and is usually out somewhere in the city with their French Bulldog.

ProGraphix

Austin, TX

ProGraphix is an Austin large format print shop on Todd Lane, printing the work that has to be read across a room, a parking lot or a freeway: banners, signage, wall murals, window graphics, vehicle wraps and trade show displays. It has been doing it in Central Texas for over 25 years. The catalogue is wide. Banners and retractable banner stands, indoor and outdoor signs, wall murals, window graphics, vehicle and fleet graphics, transit advertising, acrylic prints and dimensional letters, canvas prints, posters, printed fabrics, table throws, hanging banners, counters, and fabric popup and tube displays. Retail and product displays, sports and arena graphics, event decor and directional signage, and museum and corporate exhibits all come off the same floor. The shop works with you from design support through to installation. It provides graphic design help and fulfillment, and coordinates pick-up and delivery, installation and removal, so a project does not stop at the loading dock. Every customer file is archived, which means a repeat order starts from artwork already on hand instead of from scratch. Eco-conscious printing is the stated core of the business and it is specific rather than decorative. The water-based latex inks are GREENGUARD GOLD certified, odorless and nickel free, and release very little or no VOCs. Rigid material is printed direct on a flatbed press, so no adhesive release liner is thrown away. Stock includes recyclable, biodegradable, compostable, recycled-content and FSC certified substrates, and the shop is phasing foamcore out in favor of its own EcoBoard and EcoBoard MAX. The rest of it is housekeeping done properly. Waste ink is collected for an authorized disposal vendor, latex cartridges are recycled, packaging is saved for reuse, the bubble wrap is biodegradable, and production and office waste is separated for a recycler that takes paper and Type 1 to 7 plastics. Media is dated on arrival and the oldest roll goes first. Thermostats are on timers, lighting is LED or fluorescent, new equipment is Energy Star, and new landscaping is native and low water. ProGraphix has served the Austin community and environment as an Austin Green Business Leader. ProGraphix is a woman-owned and woman-operated business, certified as a Women Business Enterprise by the City of Austin.

Chris Slinker + Slinker Team

Wauwatosa, WI

Chris Slinker is a REALTOR® and the owner, CEO and principal broker of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Metro Realty, working out of the brokerage's Wauwatosa office on West Bluemound Road. He has been selling Milwaukee metro real estate for 19 years. In his first year he was named All Company Rookie of the Year, and the six member Slinker Team he founded has since passed $363 million in sales. He was selected CEO of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Metro Realty in March 2015, and carries close to a hundred five star client reviews on Zillow. Chris came to real estate from a long career in public service, and it still shapes how he works a deal. He was a local municipal elected official from 1999 to 2004, served as a Legislative Assistant and Senate Director in the Wisconsin State Senate from 1995 to 2004, and worked on the US House Judiciary Committee in Washington DC on the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, handling bankruptcy, commercial law and state taxation affecting interstate commerce. Three levels of government taught him how paperwork, timelines and negotiation actually move, which is most of what a real estate transaction is. He works the full Milwaukee metro. Wauwatosa, Milwaukee and West Allis are his densest markets, and he sells regularly across Brookfield, Elm Grove, Menomonee Falls, Germantown, Mequon, Waukesha, New Berlin, Muskego, Franklin, Greendale, Greenfield, Oak Creek, Hartland, Oconomowoc, Cedarburg, Grafton and West Bend, south to Racine and Kenosha and north to Sheboygan. Buyers and sellers are both core to his practice, along with relocation and property management, and he holds the Accredited Buyer's Agent, Certified Senior Specialist, Power Listing Agent and RBC® Cross-Border Certified designations. He is licensed in Wisconsin as a real estate broker, license 56238. Chris stays active in the industry beyond his own brokerage. He works with the Greater Milwaukee Association of REALTORS®, the Ozaukee Association of REALTORS® and the Kettle Moraine Association of REALTORS®, and serves on the board of the REALTOR® Political Action Committee. The Slinker Team describes itself as your next door neighbor, fellow pickleball player, community volunteer and local PTA president, and that is roughly the register Chris works in. He is a gay REALTOR® and has been a member of the National Association of Gay and Lesbian Real Estate Professionals since 2014.

Tom Wolf Team at RE/MAX

Wilton Manors, FL

Tom Wolf is a South Florida REALTOR® and Broker Associate with RE/MAX Experience, serving Wilton Manors, Fort Lauderdale, Oakland Park and surrounding communities. With decades of real estate experience and over $200 million in career sales, Tom brings deep market knowledge, professionalism and a personal approach to every transaction. He is especially proud to serve LGBTQ+ buyers and sellers throughout South Florida, helping clients make confident decisions about where they live, invest and build their future. Tom’s approach is simple: listen carefully, give clear and honest advice, and make sure every client feels respected, informed and comfortable throughout the process. For Tom, inclusivity is not a marketing slogan. It is part of how he has built his business and relationships over the years. Whether someone is buying their first home, selling a longtime residence, relocating to South Florida or investing in real estate, Tom believes everyone deserves experienced representation in an environment where they can simply be themselves. Learn more about Tom and LGBTQ+ real estate in Wilton Manors at TomWolfTeam.com.

The People People

Seattle, WA

We cater to two types of people: friends who become clients and clients who become friends. Beyond that, our clients are first time buyers and sellers, seasoned real estate investors, lifelong Pacific Northwesterners, transplants and new arrivals. We welcome everyone in the Black & Brown, LBGTQ and TBD communities – we like the way you look and welcome who you love, so long as you love working with us.

David Schuringa, Coldwell Banker Realty

Schaumburg, IL

Lindsey Cooke + Shore to Shore RE Group

Newark, DE

Lindsey Cooke is an Associate Broker with Real Broker, LLC and the owner and team lead of the Shore to Shore Real Estate Group, working with buyers and sellers across Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. She is a Delaware native, lives in Newark, and has built her practice around the state she grew up in. She came to real estate from human services and drug and alcohol counseling, with more than fifteen years of customer service behind her, and that background still shapes how she works. A house move is rarely just a transaction. It usually sits on top of something else, a new job, a separation, a growing family, a first home after years of renting, and she treats it that way. Clients consistently describe her as persistent, patient, and genuinely easy to talk to. Lindsey serves as President of the Delaware chapter of the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance, and she has helped many LGBTQ+ buyers relocate to Delaware and Maryland specifically because they were looking for somewhere safe and affirming to land. That work is not a marketing line for her. She is an out lesbian REALTOR and a NAGLREP member, and she is candid with clients about which neighborhoods will feel welcoming and which will not. Her transaction record covers seventy-seven closed sales and roughly thirty million dollars in volume over the past five years, at prices from around two hundred and twenty thousand to one point two million. That range is deliberate. She works with first-time buyers using state and federal assistance programs just as readily as she works with move-up buyers, investors, and sellers of larger homes, and she ranks in the top fifteen percent at her company. On the listing side she is hands-on about preparation and pricing, and her recent sales have run close to or above asking with short days on market. On the buying side she is a useful guide to how different parts of the state actually differ, from New Castle County suburbs like Newark, Bear, and Middletown, through Dover and Smyrna in Kent County, out to the Sussex County beach towns of Lewes, Rehoboth Beach, Bethany Beach, and Millsboro, and across the line into Cecil County, Maryland. She is licensed in all three states she serves, holds a Delaware associate broker license, and leads a team of six agents. She is a graduate of Alexis I. duPont High School and Delaware Technical Community College.