Inspectors & Ancillary Services Episodes

Tammy Legette is a Charlotte-based real estate broker licensed in NC, SC, and Ghana with 26 years of experience and 14 years in mortgage. She founded Inherited Property Navigator and holds the CIPN designation. Her entire platform was born from personal experience — not theory. Her story: After her mother died in 2015 leaving 15 properties, Tammy navigated every inherited property scenario firsthand — heir disputes, foreclosure, minor heirs, tenant complications, and a niece who refused to sign four days before closing, costing the family the property entirely. The deed fraud case: Her grandfather passed September 2024. His second wife opened the estate fraudulently claiming he had no children — erasing eight grandchildren from the record. A deed was then prepared January 2025, held until March 2025, and filed with a notarized signature of a man already deceased. That triggered a criminal conviction. The property record still wasn't corrected. Key education points covered: -…

Episode 327 | Megan Lopez | Fidelity National Financial Most buyers walk away from closing thinking they're protected. They're not — at least not fully. In Episode 327 of the Real Estate Excellence Podcast, Tracy Hayes sits down with Megan Lopez, Agency Account Manager for Fidelity National Financial — the largest title insurance company in the United States. Megan grew up in the title industry, spent years as a licensed title agent in South Florida, and now works directly with title companies and law firms across Northeast Florida to make sure deals close correctly, buyers are fully protected, and fraud doesn't win. The conversation covers what title insurance actually is, why the owner's policy is the most overlooked protection in a real estate transaction, and how title insurance rates are set in Florida. Megan breaks down the difference between a lender's policy — which protects the bank — and an owner's policy, which protects the buyer from hidden risks including unknown heirs…

Episode 318 — Karan Khanna | ListedKit AI: Meet Ava, the AI That Runs Your Transactions What if you could upload a contract and have every deadline, every party, every contingency extracted and organized automatically — in under 60 seconds? That's exactly what Karan Khanna built. Karan is the Product Lead of ListedKit AI, a platform powered by an AI assistant named Ava that reads real estate contracts — including handwritten ones — and builds out your entire transaction timeline in minutes. What used to take an agent or TC 35 minutes now takes under five. The platform has processed over 2,100 transactions across all 50 states and was named a 2025 Inman Innovators Award Finalist. In this episode, Karan walks us through how ListedKit came to be, what Ava actually does inside a live transaction, and why TCs using the platform are doubling and tripling their deal volume. He also shares what's coming next — Agentic Ava — a major upgrade where Ava stops waiting for prompts and starts man…