Michael Fine is known for his experience in marketing more categories of real estate at auction... in more states and countries than possibly any other individual. Fine, has personally participated in real estate auction programs for a spectacular array of companies including Pritzker Realty, Hartz Mountain Industries, Alcoa, Intrawest, American Skiing Company and financial institutions including The Northern Trust Company, Wells Fargo, Citicorp, Bank of America-LaSalle and many others. He has represented private sellers from first time home sellers to chairmen of Fortune 50 corporations. Through structured accelerated marketing campaigns, Mr. Fine focuses on achieving quality results using innovative structured marketing techniques. His experience in understanding of unusual and unpredictable real estate situations has led to extraordinary results for his clients. His wide-ranging experience encompasses selling condominiums to first time homebuyers to selling the most expensive and important estates in the country. His experience and expertise in selling industrial, commercial, and development properties is unparalleled. Notable sales include commercial spaces from 2,500 to 800,000 square feet, the largest single piece of land in the U.S., as well as dozens of types of special use properties. Mr. Fine was the founder CEO of a real estate auction subsidiary for Hilco Global, an international asset advisory and disposition firm and was a partner and served on the Board of Directors of Sheldon Good & Company, a national real estate auction firm for nearly a decade. He also served as its Director of Project Management for over twenty years, leading the training, management, and administration of its national operations division. He participated in the tactical and strategic planning of the firm's innovative auction programs. Professionally licensed in twenty states, he has been personally responsible for the sale of thousands of properties in 30 states, four provinces of Canada, Mexico, Central America, and throughout the Caribbean before he and his partners sold the company in 2009. The Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute awarded Mr. Fine the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation. This designation is earned upon completion of a graduate-level curriculum and attainment of a qualifying level of experience. CCIMs are recognized experts in commercial real estate brokerage, valuation, investment analysis, and form a business network encompassing 1,000 markets throughout the world. Mr. Fine is one of fewer than two dozen auctioneers accredited with this coveted designation. He has earned the prestigious CAI designation from the National Auctioneers Association, representing three years of coursework for the auction industry. He was confirmed by the National Auctioneers Association as an Accredited Auctioneer of Real Estate (AARE). Less than two percent of all auctioneers in the United States have earned this accreditation. He is a member of the National Auctioneers Association, and is presently serving a four-year term as an Education Trustee. He has served as chairman of a number of NAA's education committees including the AARE Designation Committee, the Bi-Annual Real Estate Auction Summit, NAA's Annual Conference and Show and is a principal writer and editor of every real estate-related auction course offered by either the NAA or NAR as well as a certified instructor for those courses for both organizations. He is a certified auctioneer from the Missouri Auction School. He presently serves on the Commercial Forum Committee for the Chicago Association of Realtors(r). He has served as a member of the National Association of Realtors(r) Auction Committee. Mr. Fine has authored numerous articles regarding real estate auctions and is quoted and interviewed frequently where he shares his insight and opinions with many prominent newspapers, magazines, television news and digital media throughout the country. He is has been a guest lecturer at the Keller Graduate School of Management, Reppert's School of Auctioneering, and the National Auctioneer's Association, as well as numerous state Auctioneer's Associations. He is active in a number of civic and charitable organizations.