Francesca attended the University of Southern Maine before becoming an underwriter at MEMIC in Portland. Her real estate career began in 2001, when she worked as an Asset Manager for Northern New England Housing Investment Fund, a private, non profit corporation providing equity capital and consulting to affordable housing developers throughout Maine and New Hampshire. In 2005, she acquired her real estate license and worked at two of Portland’s largest real estate agencies as a buyer agent and broker assistant. Recently she joined First Financial Mortgage Corp as a Mortgage Consultant.