Courtney Poulos

Founder + CEO
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ACME Real Estate’s visionary founder Courtney J.E. Poulos has been making her mark on the industry since 2005, and each year, she either breaks another record, earns another award, or smashes another glass ceiling. But like many dynamic leaders, Courtney’s success has grown in proportion to two things: her dedication to her craft and her devotion to others. Whether pairing people with the perfect buyer or seller, mentoring her team, or sharing her insights with the world, Courtney turns real estate into a life-transforming experience.

When Courtney founded ACME Real Estate in 2011, she set out to create something unique — a design-savvy lifestyle firm. Backed by a nine-year career in marketing and PR, she began offering a comprehensive service, replete with remodeling, staging, and a full suite of marketing solutions. ACME quickly grew into a phenomenon, attracting top Los Angeles talent and earning Courtney numerous industry awards. She has since become one of the most in-demand Realtors® in the country. And now, in partnership with Broker Heather Unger, ACME has expanded her LA-based brokerage into the Florida market, ACME Florida.

Poulos has been making her mark

Courtney currently co-hosts the real estate podcast Under All is The Land, hosts Season 2 of The American Dream: Los Angeles, is a former member of the Forbes Real Estate Council, and a recurring panelist at Inman Connect, Awesome Females in Real Estate, and the California Association of Realtors® WomanUP!® initiative (where she also emcees). She has even appeared on television—both as the host of FYI’s “My City’s Just Not That Into Me” and in season 12 of Bravo’s “Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles.” In 2024, Courtney was named an Inman Person of the Year recipient.  In 2020 and 2023, Courtney was recognized with the HousingWire Woman of Influence Award. She is a member of Harvard University AMDP Class of ‘26.

In addition to running ACME’s powerhouse teams in Los Angeles and Florida, Courtney focuses on her main mission, which is empowering women to achieve financial independence through real estate. If she has her way, every woman on the planet will have the tools they need to do just that. Courtney maintains a full slate of speaking engagements and has written the premier book on the subject, “Break Up! With Your Rental: The Professional Woman’s Guide to Building Wealth Through Real Estate,” available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and reputable booksellers nationwide.

Courtney is available for speaking engagements.

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Join us if you are in the Atlanta area for some extraordinary discussions on the state of lending and exciting developments in the real estate industry from a market intelligence perspective with Barry Habib, CEO of MBS Highway (products like ListReports and Agent Intel) and Glenn Stearns, CEO and Founder of Kind and star of Undercover Billionaire, and so many more!

April 1, 2025
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Welcome to the real estate definition series!

Banks like Chase, Wells Fargo and Citi all reward their clients with discounts on mortgage loans when a client has multiple accounts with the bank, and those accounts don’t have to be long-standing accounts. For example, you can apply for a regular mortgage and get a 6.5% rate, but if you move money into a checking account or open a new savings account and make a deposit, that rate may be “discounted” .25 or .5. If you set up auto pay out of that account, you might get an additional reduction. 

In the days of better rates, I used to only recommend brokers, but now that rate seems to be the determining factor for most buyers, I recommend that buyers reach out to institutional lenders such as Chase, Wells Fargo, and Citi, in addition to mortgage brokers.

You only need one prequal letter to write an offer, but if you know your credit score, it’s a good idea to start making some calls. Let me know if you’d like some recommendations and I will send!

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