Craig Ackerman

Craig Ackerman is a top-producing San Francisco Realtor with a specialty in trust home sales. He sees the traditional as-is sale as an injustice to the estate. Instead, he designed a system to prep the home, relieve the trustee’s stress, speed up the process and produce a great return.

Craig offers a dynamic presentation for Bay Area legal and financial professionals based on his 2016 book, Selling Grandma’s House – Streamlining trust home sales for San Francisco attorneys and trustees.

The 40-minute MCLE trust home curriculum

This no-fee seminar helps attorneys, advisors and trustees streamline the trust property sale and get results they can be proud of. Drawing on 300+ successfully closed transactions, Craig covers topics that include:

• Embracing Pre-sale Inspections – The beauty of contingency-free offers and a fast sale
• High ROI Updates – Before and after photos of the most critical prep steps
• Financing Denied – 5 overlooked reasons trust properties can’t qualify for a mortgage
• So Much Stuff – Securing and distributing the home’s valuable contents in days (not months)
• Resale Inspections – Meeting today’s rigorous state & local requirements

Contact us with questions or to get on Craig’s seminar schedule.

Speaking Engagements

November 16, 2017
Trust Administration: Elders in Transition
Alma Via Care Center
San Rafael
Panel presenter

October 25, 2017
Sacramento Estate Planning Council
 Trust Administration Sale Innovations 2.0

Sacramento
Guest speaker

September 26, 2017
Small Business Administration (SBA)
The Psychology of a Real Estate Transaction – Key insights on 
 avoiding litigation and encouraging cooperation
San Francisco
Guest speaker

June 12, 2017
Bar Association of San Francisco – Barristers 
 Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Section
Trust Administration Sale Innovations 2.0
San Francisco
Panel presenter with attorney Jay O’Neil of O’Neil & Rueppel and appraiser Allan Saghi

May 8, 2017
East Bay Estate Planning Council

Best Practices and Innovations to Smooth Trust Administration 
and Speed Real Property Sales
Oakland
Guest speaker

March 16, 2017
Attorney Action Club
Real Property Sales
San Francisco
Guest speaker

March 7, 2017
Bar Association San Francisco – Litigation Subcommittee, 
 Estate Planning, Probate & Trust Section
Traps for the Unwary Fiduciary: Real Property Risks and Liabilities in Trusts and Estates
San Francisco
Panel presenter with attorneys Alex Weyand and Alicia M. Gámez