Shelia Piazza

Born in Atlanta, Sheila Piazza has lived in San Anto­nio since fifth grade, when bet active-duty military rather relocated the f.unily hete. Piazza was a jewelry designer for 12 ye=, holding two utility patents on her jewelry de­sign. After her parents became ill when she was a single parent> Piazza decided on a more sustaining career. She started as a licensed mortgage broker in 2006. Soon after1 Piazza became a real estate agent and then acquired her reaJ estate broker license .. In 2016, she launched her own insurance company and now runs Pi­azza Realty Property Management. The property man­agement company's tag line says it all: "We know so much about space, even NASA is worried." Piazza is a business owner who understands the mon­gage broker process of assessing a borrower's ability to se­cure financing and has the real estate broket skills needed to match up sellers with buyers. Because Piazza trained as an insurance agent, she can also spot issues during an in­spection that could raise a red flag for investment clients interested in a house to be flipped. "Being a mortgage broker is powerful because you have at your disposal tons of finanda) products you can leverage and search to find the best one for your client1" Piazza said. Piazza Realty has offices in Dallas to serve real es­tate clients there and works with investors who make up a large portion of her client base. Many people are coming to San Antonio from California, Dallas, Hous­ton and Austin to buy affordable housing as invest­ments, according to Piazza. "I call it the 'five-year frenzy,' like the big surge of development that's happen­ing in Austin," Piazza said. "I predict the same will hap­pen in San Antonio." There are opportunities for investors and house flippers who want to venture into this business sector in San Antonio, buying well-priced houses and holding them as the market values for homes rise.1 creating eq­uity for buyers. "If you draw a perimeter around San Antonio's core, anyt