Milli Cannata is a California-licensed Broker-Associate and REALTOR® with Vanguard Properties, DRE #01990936, serving Sonoma County, Marin County, San Francisco, the Russian River, Wine Country, the Sonoma Coast, and the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Her real estate career began in mortgage lending in 2001, giving her approximately 25 years of experience in real estate finance, housing counseling, marketing, negotiation, home rehabilitation, probate, relocation, investments, distressed properties, and complex transactions.
From the coastal redwoods and Russian River communities to Sebastopol, Marin County, and San Francisco, Milli is known as a City to Country Realtor®. She represents residential buyers and sellers, country properties, acreage, rural estates, cabins, second homes, investment properties, fixer-uppers, inherited homes, and properties involving wells, septic systems, private roads, permits, zoning, access, or land-use questions.
Clients often call Milli “The Fixer” because she does more than open doors or list homes. She helps clients identify the real issue, understand their options, assemble the right team, and negotiate with a clear strategy. Own Your Dreams is the promise. The Fixer is the method. Strategy, advocacy, negotiation, and stewardship are the tools.
For buyers, Milli provides planning, market research, off-market networking, relocation guidance, comparable-sales analysis, disclosure and inspection review, rural-property investigation, competitive offer preparation, negotiation, and professional coordination. Her goal is to help buyers understand what they are purchasing, what the property may require, and how it supports their long-term plans.
For sellers, Milli creates an individual strategy based on the property, the seller’s priorities, and buyer behavior. Some sellers wait for their price and the right buyer. Others position more competitively to increase exposure, urgency, and negotiating opportunities. Milli explains each approach so the seller remains in control.
Seller services include pricing analysis, pre-sale preparation, contractor coordination, professional photography and video, digital marketing, SEO-focused descriptions, social media, agent outreach, targeted buyer campaigns, offer comparison, negotiation, and transaction management. Her job is not to reduce the price simply to make a sale. It is to explain the market honestly, protect the client’s position, and help the seller know they did not leave money on the table.
Before becoming a REALTOR®, Milli worked as a Certified HUD Housing Counselor with a San Francisco-based nonprofit. She educated consumers, trained counselors, worked with mortgage lenders and servicers, and helped more than 5,000 homeowners understand credit, loan modifications, foreclosure alternatives, and homeownership decisions. That experience helps clients compare selling with holding, repairing, refinancing, renting, or restructuring.
Milli earned her California broker license in 2024 and has been licensed in real estate sales since 2015. Recognition includes RealTrends Verified — America’s Best, Top 1.5% nationwide 2026 and RealTrends Verified Top 10 where Milli ranked #8 in Sebastopol by sales volume; Vanguard Properties Top Producer for 2025 production (YOY); Marquis Who’s Who, 2024; the Women’s Diamante Award with Congressional Recognition, 2023; and American Dream TV’s Selling the Bay Area, 2023.
Milli brings practical market knowledge, creative problem-solving, strong negotiation, and a commitment to protecting each client’s goals.
Own Your Dreams
Home Types:
House, Mobile Homes, Condo, Lot/Land, Multifamily, Townhouse
Years of Experience:
11
Education:
California Real Estate Broker, 01990936 , Advance Counseling Skills , Housing and Urban Development Escalations, Foreclosure Prevention, Probate Transactions, DIssolution of Marriage (Divorce) Transactions, and Global Relocation Specialist
