Cody operates at the intersection of real estate, finance, technology, and media. He attended the University of Tennessee at Martin, where he studied finance on a rodeo scholarship, and has spent more than a decade in the mortgage industry. That background gives him a working command of interest rates, lending strategy, buyer qualification, affordability, and the financial forces that shape real estate demand. He applies that financial perspective to every transaction. For buyers, it means clearer guidance on price, leverage, financing, and long-term cost. For sellers, it means understanding the size and behavior of the qualified buyer pool, anticipating financing objections, and positioning a property to compete in the market that actually exists, not the one people wish existed.