Steve Hoffacker Is Your Real Estate & Construction CAPS Instructor
Steve Hoffacker CAPS has been a licensed Florida Real Estate Broker since 1986 and a licensed real estate salesperson before that. He has a long history of working with real estate sales agents, Realtors, home builders, real estate land developers, lenders, general contractors, remodelers, kitchen and bath remodelers and designers, and others in the construction and home modification industry. Steve has sold homes or land or been consulted on real estate activities, from inexpensive 5-figure properties to 9-figure land parcels in all parts of the United States, many places in Canada, and elsewhere. He has extensive real estate and new construction experience and knowledge.
In addition to selling real estate, Steve has been a city planner helping to analyze housing conditions and land use patterns, a new home sales trainer, a new home sale manager, a real estate consultant, an amateur remodeler, and wearer of many other hats involved in the sale, design, and use of real estate and homes. He has written several books on selling real estate and new homes.
While not a contractor, Steve has completed many of his own remodeling projects, including a new roof from deck replacement to finished product on more than one building, bathroom remodels from the shell (including demolition to get to that point) to completion, kitchen remodels, and many other handyman-type projects, including lighting, electrical repairs, hanging pocket doors, reversing door swing, installing electronic locks, replacing windows and cabinets, and more.
Because Steve understands real estate so well from a market position, product, and consumer standpoint, he can help you appeal to what your clients are looking for in a long-term investment and residence where they can remain indefinitely. Paying attention to mobility, sensory, and other functional needs and uses within the design is quite important for addressing your customer’s needs and demonstrating to them that you understand their desire to have a home that can grow with them over the years.
Entertaining visitors and guests (“visitability”) and being able to use controls, switches, cabinets, appliances, and fixtures throughout the home for all who reside in it (“universal design”) are strategies that Steve will share with you and an insight he delivers when you attend his classes.
Whether it’s helping someone find an existing home that they can acquire and move into that addresses most of their needs (but can be modified with you knowing how to approach it) or building a new home to get what they need from their builder, you have the ability to understand what needs to be in a home for people get the most enjoyment from it as they age and remain in place in that residence.
Steve has been an active member of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) since 1983 and served on the Board of Directors. He is a member of the Remodelers Council and has received several sales and educational achievement awards from the National Sales & Marketing Council.
Become a Certified Aging In Place Specialist (CAPS) to gain the credentials that will help you engage the marketplace more effectively with your real estate sales or development knowledge.
What My Students Have to Say:
Fuzzter 572024-01-05Steve was great and the courses delivered completely. I highly recommend jumping all in!Design Accent Renovation2023-11-28“I continue to be amazed at how useful your CAPS I, II, III courses have been for me. It has completely changed how I do interior design. I am doing a lot of work with seniors who need everything you taught and more!” MichelleGrizzly Bear2023-11-06This is an outstanding course and organization. Steve's industry expertise is very helpful. His classes are also an excellent forum to meet other people in the industry who share the same goals of improved home accessibility for everyone, regardless of the user's age and mobility level. I highly recommend.Steve Miller2023-05-30Great class taught by Steve Hoffacker! A lot of good information that considers all of the transitional points of movement about individual homes. People access at various points, and this class offers new ways of thinking about those spaces where a different action is required to transition from one space to the next within a home, in particular. We're used to seeing the home as a whole, but it is actually a series of spaces with different functions. The transition from one to the next can present challenges that this class helps the student to see in a new light.Michael Feeney2023-05-25The Transition Feature - Phenomenal class that creates thought about Ingress/Egress into the Home, and other very important transition enter/exit point throughout the home, etc. Great Class Recommend it to anyone.Michael Gibson2023-03-22Steve was excellent. Very knowledgeable.Kevin Kaiser2023-03-01I really liked how Steve Hoffacker made this class interesting and enjoyable. I will be looking to take more classes with. Steve in the future.Marian Berman2022-10-07I just completed the Beyond Your Caps class and I feel as empowered and as energized as I was when I got my certification. Steve is an instructor who is committed o the success of his students and to the health, safety and comfort of everyone! It would be worth twice the price,Michelle2022-10-07Steve's classes are fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed taking CAPS I, II, III with him. I also found the follow up class Beyond CAPS is critical for implementing this new knowledge.
