Michael Schneider
Realtor®
Michael Schneider- Christians was born in Wuppertal, Germany, and has a 1974 Master’s degree in business. Michael and Verena are married for 36 years. Verena was born in Cape Town, South Africa. They have two daughters, Vanessa and Valerie, who are both university graduates. Michael and his family moved to the United States in 1985.Michael commenced working as a realtor for Barbara Watt, owner of Century 21 Sunbelt Realty, Inc. in February of1986.
Throughout his 25 years with Barbara Watt at Century 21, Michael has epitomized what a true professional stands for: honesty, integrity, and dedication. With over $260 Million sold in real estate, Michael and his team have achieved the honor of being awarded Centurion” and “Grand Centurion” status many times. Michael’s team was #10 in the nation in 2001, and #1 in the south Florida region for 2000 and 2001. Michael is one of the only 20 US Realtors interviewed for the REALOGY training book.
Michael Specialized in the Cape Coral real estate market and is very involved in the community. He is a graduate of Leadership Cape Coral, Class of 1999, was the first Chairman of the “Cape Coral Chamber Foundation“, was a director of the Cape Coral Council for Progress”, was the 2002 Chairman of the Realtor Association of Greater Fort Myers and the Beach International Committee, was a board member of the Cape Coral Community Foundation and, is the past president of the European Chamber of Commerce of SW Florida for 2002 and 2003, and a director of the Realtor Association of Greater Fort Myers and the Beach for a two year term (2003-2004). Michael is also a Cape Coral Community Trustee. In the spring of 2005 he attended Advanced Leadership Cape Coral with the training firm. For 3 years Michael was appointed to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Southwest Florida Symphony. Since early 2008 Michael is the Chairman of the SWFL Symphony Endowment Foundation. On July 1st 2006 Michael’s Team joined the team of Koffman & Associates in the Century 21 Sunbelt office. Reason: “To enable me to spread SW Florida real state to foreign countries, like the Caribbean, the Middle East, Central America, mainly Costa Rica and Panama, Germany, South Africa and Australia”.
Michael and Verena love to travel.One of their favorite places is Eastern and Southern Africa. They have climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, traveled by 4×4 through Botswana to Victoria Falls in 2001and 4×4 for more than 10,000 miles along the coastal areas of Australia in two different trips. In 1997 they did the “Silk Road” from Beijing to Rawalpindi in Pakistan in 21 days by bus, train and plane. In April 2007 Michael and his 2-team members finished the “Heroes Legend” rally from Paris to Dakar in first position. Michael hiked for 23 days, covering 300 miles, on the West Australian Bibbulmun track in the fall of 2007.
Michael loves to listen to music as well. Michael and Verena also are very fond of art. You have to see their home. Over the years they have supported Arts for Act many times, even purchasing an original Darryl Pottorf. Some of their latest acquisitions are two Darryl Pottorf’s out of the special artwork series in support of the local trauma center in January 2003 and in 2004 and “Baby, you are the Violin by local artist Leoma Love grove in 2007.
For 2009 Junior Achievement (JA) of SW Florida awarded Michael the honor of “Educator of the Year” and the Cape Coral Chapter of Women’s Council of Realtors (WCR) awarded Michael the honor of Humanitarian of the Year.”
Professional Experience
- Graduate, Leadership Cape Coral, Class of 1999
- Chairman, Cape Coral Chamber Foundation
- Director, Cape Coral Council for Progress
- Chairman, Realtor Association of Greater Fort Myers and the Beach International Committee, 2002
- Board member, Cape Coral Community Foundation
- President, European Chamber of Commerce of SW Florida, 2002 and 2003
- Director, Realtor Association of Greater Fort Myers and the Beach for a 2-year term, 2003-2004
- Realtor, 20 years
Education
- Master’s degree, Business, 1974
