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Kristy Valdez can help you sell your home and/or find you the perfect home. She focuses on the greater Savannah area. Her hard work ethic and dedication to making her customers’ dreams come true will ensure that your selling or buying experience with her will be a positive one. Whether you are looking for a bungalow, traditional, waterfront, historic, or income-producing home she can help navigate you through the process to ensure that you find just what you are looking for in a place to call home. Prior to entering real estate, Kristy worked in corporate America for 12 years as a Sales Manager for a fortune 500 handling their largest national and international clients. Through her prior career she excelled in building relationships with her clients, negotiation, and customer service. She is thrilled to now be in real estate and applying the skills she learned from her past to her passion of helping others. Kristy is originally from the Atlanta area, and moved to Savannah in 2006 with her husband, Christian, on his job transfer. They came for two years, and have since turned down multiple offers to move back to Atlanta. After falling in love with the low country they decided to make it their permanent home. Kristy graduated magna cum laude from the University of Georgia with a BBA in International Business - Marketing. Kristy is involved in her church, Wesley Monumental, as well as The Next Generation, a volunteer organization for the local Children’s Hospital at Memorial University Medical Center. Kristy and her husband have two sons and spend their free time boating and enjoying the low country life. Kristy is a member of the National Association of Realtors, the Georgia Association of Realtors, and the Savannah Board of Realtors. Less
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Passive Income Strategies To Avoid Paying Interest On Your Home Loan
To pay interest means to work twice for the same money. In other words, it reduces your productivity. When you are paying interest, you are simply treading water, that is you’re not making any progress. Despite this fact, most passive income opportunities rely on interest and especially on compound interest. There are many different definitions of interest, but in ...
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6 Types Of Land Surveys You Should Be Aware Of
Land is a precious resource because it is very limited and nobody’s going to make any more of it. As you already know, about 70% of the Earth is covered by water and the rising sea level is threatening. Then, not all the dry land is suitable for construction or even habitable - 33% is dessert while mountains occupy another 24%. This means there are only 15.8 ...
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Should Friends And Family Hire You As Their Real Estate Agent?
Haven’t you ever been told to keep friendship and business apart? Real estate could be the ultimate test for friendships because money and greed bring out the true character of a human being. The United States of America is the third largest country in the world by surface area, and currently in the third place by population - more than 331 million people. 32% of ...
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9 Unusual Ways In Which Water Increases The Value Of Your House
What really increases the price of the house is its location. So, if your house is not on an exotic beach, we will tell you how to bring the sea to your house. Stay with us as we look at the friendly side of the water - the miraculous liquid that makes our planet habitable. Water is both a friend and an enemy in real estate. Leaking faucets, burst pipes, and floodings ...
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What Makes A Good Real Estate Agent?
Do you remember what you wanted to become when you were just a child? Boys would say they wanted to become police officers, firefighters or pilots, while the girls would become nurses, teachers or ballet dancers. For kids, the concept of becoming a real estate agent didn’t even cross their mind, unless they have a parent in that field! Many of them, though, possess ...
Real Estate Glossary Terms
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Betterment
Replacement of a major component of property by another component that will result in better performance capability. Increases overall efficiency of the property. ...
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Multifamily Housing
Residential structure designed to house more than one family. Smaller multifamily housing units include duplexes, triplexes, and quadriplexes. Larger multifamily housing is normally termed an apartment house. Multifamily housing can be tenant owned individually or as a condominium or cooperative or ...
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Assignment Clause, Life Insurance
Feature in a life insurance policy allowing a policyowner to freely assign (give, sell) a policy to another or institution. For example, in order to secure a loan, a bank asks to be assigned the policy. If the insured dies before repayment of the loan, the bank would receive a portion of the death b ...
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Employment Practices Liability Coverage
Plan that provides protection in the event of legal actions resulting from charges of harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination of employment, defamation, and invasion of privacy. ...
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Percentage Participation
(coinsurance) plan where a portion of medical expenses are paid by an insured. Some health insurance policies provide that the insured shares expenses with the insurer according to a predetermined ratio. For example, many group health plans provide that, after paying a deductible amount, the insured ...
Real Estate FAQ
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What Is A Commitment Letter?
A commitment letter is a formal offer of a loan by a lender. The letter states the terms under which ...
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How To Get A Job In Real Estate?
If you’re looking into how to get a job in real estate and arrived at this page: congratulatio ...