Creative strategic thinking combined with impeccable implementation distinguishes Spitzer and Associates from its competitors. The professionals at Spitzer & Associates are the basis of our success. Our team possesses a depth of expertise and skill that is complimentary and varied, which allows us to understand every facet of a project while remaining focused on the larger picture.

The Leadership Team of Spitzer & Associates is comprised of Candy Spitzer, the President, Donna Roche, Vice President, and Ann Catlin, Vice President. Their experience encompasses all aspects of governmental real estate and is complemented by a variety of private sector real estate work. The Leadership Team of Spitzer & Associates works together to provide results-oriented solutions that are tailored to the needs of each client.

Candy Spitzer, President
Ann Catlin, Vice President

Candy Spitzer, President
Known for her candor, humor, and her unique ability to bring forward cooperation and real solutions in the most challenging and complex projects, Candy is considered one of the most visionary and skilled leaders in the industry.

The majority of her experience has focused on governmental and quasi-governmental real estate services, yet it includes extensive brokerage and private sector real estate work as well. Candy is a nationally recognized expert in relocation assistance and land acquisition for public entities.

Candy has successfully completed numerous high profile governmental real estate projects under the requirements of the Uniform Relocation and Real Property Acquisition Act. Services she has provided for these include:

• Project management
• Acquisition
• Relocation services
• Local public agency work

This valuable public sector real estate experience includes multiple transportation projects, transit projects and notable aviation projects, such as the new Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Candy created and implemented the first real estate segment of a Project Management Oversight Contract for the Federal Transit Administration. She also has managed and completed due diligence, easement acquisition, permitting, site selection, and site acquisition projects for governmental and quasi-governmental agencies. Her utility experience includes water clients and implementing new fiber optic routes for a telecommunications company.

Candy is involved in many professional organizations on a local and national level. She is an active member of the International Right of Way Association’s National Relocation Committee and has been a national speaker on relocation assistance and related topics.

Ann Catlin, Vice President
Ann Catlin started working for Spitzer and Associates in 2004 immediately after her retirement from Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Washington, D.C., where she had been FTA's real estate program manager for ten years. She also teaches 2-day seminars for Baltimore County Community Colleges, who are developing a college curriculum for right-of-way majors.

She is a graduate of Oklahoma Central State University, majoring in journalism with a minor in business administration. She completed postgraduate work, studying international business, at the Institute for American Universities, Aix en Provence, France. Early in her career she assisted in her ex-husband's general aviation businesses and was an active private pilot, flying several rally-type airplane races, even winning a few!