Craig Venezia

Craig Venezia is a video and television marketing executive with over 25 years of expertise. He is the founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Visual Rivet, an ad agency/production company that creates, produces and distributes video and TV narratives that persuade audiences to do something, like buy a product/service, ask for more information, or further engage with a brand. In his free time, Craig is a nationally-recognized real estate journalist and author of the best-selling book Buying a Second Home: Income, Getaway or Retirement originally published by NOLO. As a contributing real estate writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, Venezia helped homebuyers understand and navigate the complexities of one of the most expensive housing markets in the U.S., the San Francisco Bay Area. An authority on private mortgages. Venezia has appeared on CNN Money's "Open House" and been quoted by hundreds of media outlets including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and Men's Health to name a few.