Nokomis' Dina Dallas recently joined the Venice office of Michael Saunders & Company. Originally from Michigan, Dallas first got her real estate license in Colorado in 1986. She was then hired by a real estate appraiser, assisting him in setting up and managing a new Aspen office. Moving to Southern California in 1990, she became a state certified appraiser and worked for a regional bank, and then in 1994, her work in banking continued as an area mortgage officer in Boston.