Tiffany Nicole Tona, MS, EP
PRINCIPAL · ENVIRONMENTAL PROFESSIONAL
Tiffany Nicole Tona is an Environmental Professional as defined at 40 CFR § 312.10, with 13 years of environmental due diligence experience across multifamily residential, commercial, and industrial real estate under ASTM standards, and the signatory of approximately 3,600 technical environmental reports on properties spanning all 50 states.
True North Terra was founded on a single focus: delivering well-researched, defensible environmental due diligence on your timeline. Real estate moves fast. Transactions are built around deadlines (rate locks, contingency windows, loan committee calendars, closing dates) and every day of delay carries cost. National firms often treat the rural Northeast as a low-priority travel outlier, producing slow and uncertain turnaround. True North Terra is built to close that gap, with reports delivered on a schedule you can plan around, in a consistent format that credit, compliance, and special-assets staff can review the same way every time.
As loans mature into a harder rate environment, lenders and investors increasingly need an environmental answer quickly — on workouts and modifications, foreclosures and deeds-in-lieu, REO holdings, note sales, and portfolio dispositions. True North Terra supports these files with rapid Environmental Database Reviews for multi-property triage, Transaction Screen Assessments, and full Phase I ESAs where the file warrants one. The objective is a clear read on whether an environmental concern exists, early enough to inform reserve decisions, bid strategy, and whether to foreclose, hold, or release.
On development sites, this work equips clients to:
Identify recognized environmental conditions before acquisition, while price and terms are still open
Anticipate regulatory attention early rather than mid-permitting
Incorporate site risk into valuation and negotiation strategy
Resolve open questions inside the diligence window instead of after closing
True North Terra conducts no drilling, sampling, laboratory testing, or remediation. Reports state the Environmental Professional’s opinion on whether additional investigation is warranted.
The practice also serves transaction counsel, brokers, and title professionals who need a name they can refer with confidence, and is available for qualified environmental professional lists and publicly funded program work.
Assessments delivered on a schedule you can plan around, because Vermont’s housing, jobs, and future wait on the other side of these deals.
“True North Terra provides environmental due diligence that equips clients with defensible, liability-protecting assessments foundational to sound transactions and lending decisions, drawing upon regional regulatory depth and professional rigor to deliver accurate reports within critical timeframes to keep Vermont growing.”
CREDENTIALS
Environmental Professional, 40 CFR §312.10 qualified
13+ years · 3,600+ reports
All 50 states & US Virgin Islands
ASTM E1527-21 and E1528-22
40 CFR Part 312 (All Appropriate Inquiries)
SBA SOP 50 10 lender requirements, 7(a) and 504
HAZWOPER 40-Hour Certified