MARIA AFSHARIAN

• Assist buyers, sellers, renters, landlords, and investors with traditional or distressed sales e.g. first-time home buyers, luxury, foreclosures, short sales etc.
• Experienced working with budgets ranging between $150K- $1.6M+
• Provide transaction guidance, buyer and seller representation, contract preparation, negotiations, marketing and promotion
• Have completed 100’s of Broker Price Opinions and Marketing Analyses for lenders based on various neighborhoods and townships across Northern NJ
• Research properties, public records, deeds, liens, titles
• Assist investors with property valuations
• Provide housing-related resources including lenders, contractors, inspectors, attorneys
• Create educational materials to assist clients
• Certified by the National Association of Realtors:

-Short Sales & Foreclosure Resource (SFR)

-Military Resource Professional (MRP)

-e-Pro

-Senior Residential Specialist (SRS)

• Business communications, social media, PR, marketing, video production
• Part of President Obama’s Call to Action of the Private Sector to help refugees.

• Founder, MAHAK Charity for Children with Cancer, Shiraz, Iran. Proposed and developed the first branch of the award-winning Tehran-based NGO MAHAK Charity Organization to serve Southern Iran. To date, the MAHAK Shiraz Social Worker's Office has processed over 1,000 patient files and is the MODEL for other MAHAK offices in Iran
• Organized fundraiser to collect supplies for a children’s hospital ward
• UNICEF, UNHCR, Child Foundation, MAHAK, Omid Cancer Charity, Amir Oncology Hospital
• Created literacy classes for children and adults from Afghanistan

• Produced or served as Associate Producer on 60+ segments for a prime time tv news magazine
• Specialized in investigative and consumer journalism but also reported on topics related to crime, politics, entertainment, health, environment and breaking news
• Recognized with nine national awards related to my work
• Known for my persistence, attention to detail, strong ethics, and trusted research
• Accomplished with hidden camera work and reporting
• Managed story development, budgeting, logistics, scheduling, interviewing, scripting, fact checking, footage management, logging, correspondent duties and camera crews
• Worked closely with NBC publicity to promote reports
• Consulted with NBC Network legal and standards lawyers and management
• Managed intern program for the bureau
• Segment Producer: Insider Reports, NBC News, Washington, DC
• Pitched and produced network quality consumer or investigative news reports for use by local NBC News affiliates across America.

• Assistant Producer, NBC Universal, Inc., Dateline NBC, Washington, DC

• Newscast Assistant, NBC News, WRC4 local news, Washington, DC

• Marketing Department Assistant, USA TODAY Newspaper, Newington, VA