Current Employment: Nora Monahan, owner, CEO, and co-founder of America's Real Estate Academy, Inc. is responsible for the school administration and financial operations. She is also responsible for developing a new series of practical computer-based and marketing courses designed to assist real estate professionals in every facet of their business activities. |
Licenses Held: Georgia Real Estate Salesperson, Georgia Real Estate Appraiser, Georgia Real Estate Instructor, Georgia Real Estate Appraisal Instructor. |
General Information: Ms. Monahan previously worked for a computer education company and an international software firm before moving to Georgia. Her marketing talents assisted in the raising of over 2 million dollars for a non-profit capital construction campaign in less than six months. She formerly directed administrative and certain financial operations of a commercial engineering and construction firm with over 17 million dollars of annual sales in public and private sector commercial construction.
Active in her community, Ms. Monahan was an original founding member and past board chairman of a local recreation association, which successfully raised sufficient capital to develop and build a youth sport facility consisting of seven ball fields and associated amenities. She also was a member and past chairman of the Cherokee County Board of Education. |
Education: B.S. degree in Marketing/Economics from C. W. Post Long Island University, NY and an A.A.S degree in Merchandising and Buying from NCC State University of NY. |
Hobbies and other interests: Movies, reading, traveling, computers, time with family. |
Favorite Books: I enjoy so many authors it would be hard to narrow this down but one that I consider my favorite is The Talisman, by Stephen King and Peter Straub. I was reading this just before my son was born. |
Favorite Movies/Plays: Have enjoyed so many hard to list just a few, at the top would have to be: Harvey, The Phantom of the Opera, My Fair Lady, The Quiet Man, most any Disney movie. |
Favorite Indulgence: Eating chocolate chip cookies with my son while watching a movie. |